New Firm Location Marks Second in Australia and 20th WorldwideSYDNEY & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BTIG Australia Limited announced today the opening of its new Melbourne location. The Melbourne office will allow the firm to increase its client reach and better position itself to support the objectives of clients in the region. Drew Forrest and Joe Mahony join BTIG in Melbourne as Managing Directors, and Lee Mitchell joins as a Director.
SYDNEY & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--$AUD #crypto--Mercari, which operates a Tier 1 wholesale Australian financial exchange for the trading of derivatives, announced today the closing of a fundraising round to enable it to further expand its current activities and, additionally, to develop new institutional product solutions, including crypto-assets. Investors in the round include Digital Currency Group
SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--This month Fair Go Casino turns five and to mark the occasion the best online casino in Australia is throwing an absolutely legendary party. The good news – you are invited to join the celebrations, too. So, grab your party hat because for the next five weeks Fair Go Casino is offering more than $30,000 in cash to be won across some incredible tournaments and raffles.Over the last five years, Fair Go has become renowned for its generous promotions, fast payouts and amazing customer support. It is always looking to add more value for players, and recently introduced Freeroll Tournaments.
MUNICH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Box (NYSE: BOX), the leading Content Cloud, today announced an expanded partnership with Mast-Jägermeister SE, the producer and marketer of top-selling premium liqueur brand, Jägermeister. Based in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, and operating in more than 150 markets worldwide, Mast-Jägermeister SE uses Box as its secure, integrated platform to manage content in the cloud. “Creativity and connection are key to the Jägermeister brand and corporate culture. We care deeply about providing our employees with an agile working experience, and our choice of technology providers reflects this,” said Klaus Gerke, Director of Global IT for Mast-Jägermeister SE. “Our continued work with Box ensures that our team can seamlessly collaborate and execute, from anywhere. This was of particularly huge importance in maintaining business continuity over the past several years.”
Key Findings: One third of finance industry workers store their work passwords in a personal journal.52% of finance workers say security policies restrict the way they work and 49% admit to finding ways to work around security policies.46% of finance workers allow their family members to use their work devices for personal usage.NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#EndpointEcosytem--The pandemic forced a digital transformation like never before, making the balancing act between security and employee experience more important than ever. While the financial industry fairs better at endpoint security than other industries studied, there are significant gaps between employers’ preventative actions and employees’ actual behaviors. According to a new study, more than 52 percent of financial industry employees say security policies restrict the way they work and 49 percent admit to finding ways to work around security policies.
DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Australia Gift Card and Incentive Card Market Intelligence and Future Growth Dynamics (Databook) - Q1 2022 Update" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. According to the Q4 2021 Global Gift Card Survey, gift card industry in the country is expected to grow by 11.3% on annual basis to reach US$6060.3 million in 2022.Despite near-term challenges in 2022, medium to long term growth story of gift cards in Australia remains strong. The gift card industry in Australia is expected to grow steadily in H1 2022 and record a strong growth in H2 2022. The growth momentum is expected to continue to grow over the forecast period, recording a CAGR of 8.8% during 2022-2026.
New Digital Asset Management Capabilities Enable End-to-End Content WorkflowsBrandfolder Named a Strong Performer in Digital Asset Management Report by Independent Research FirmBELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Smartsheet, the enterprise platform for dynamic work, today announced enhancements to its solution for marketers including new integration capabilities with Brandfolder, Smartsheet’s digital asset management platform. Enhancing the functionality between Smartsheet and Brandfolder helps marketers better manage their work, content, and people—from ideation to execution.
PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rio Tinto and peak mining unions spanning its global operations have held their biannual Steering Committee in Pittsburgh. The Steering Committee represents a partnership between the mining and metals company and the largest mining unions in the world, including:United Steelworkers, United States and CanadaMining and Energy Union, AustraliaIndustriAll Global Union
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Study Demonstrates Positive Economics for a Second Plant Supplied with Spodumene Concentrate from Existing PartnershipsBELMONT, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Piedmont Lithium Inc. (“Piedmont” or the “Company”) is pleased to report the results of a Preliminary Economic Assessment (“PEA”) for a proposed merchant lithium hydroxide plant (“LHP-2”) to expand Piedmont’s planned U.S. manufacturing capacity to 60,000 metric tons per year of lithium hydroxide. The PEA results for LHP-2 demonstrate the potential for Piedmont Lithium to expand its lithium hydroxide manufacturing business using spodumene concentrate secured under existing supply agreements with Sayona Mining (ASX: SYA) and Atlantic Lithium (AIM: ALL) as well as other sources. The PEA assumes that Piedmont Lithium’s LHP-2 is located on one of several sites under consideration that share similar physical and operating characteristics with respect to capital costs, acreage, infrastructure, rail access, proximity to transportation routes, potential customers, and available workforce.
TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Teijin Limited announced today that its highly nutritious super barley BARLEYmaxTM has been adopted for use in a new healthful MOS Rice Burger to be sold by MOS Burger chain in Taiwan from March 11. This is BARLEYmaxTM’s first entry into the Asian food-service industry outside of Japan. BARLEYmaxTM will be used in the buns of the new MOS Rice Burger Red Oolong-tea Flavored Grilled Chicken. The
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Advanced Clinical, a clinical development and strategic resourcing organization committed to providing a better clinical experience across the drug development journey, is pleased to announce that Dr. Andreas Amrein has joined the Executive Team as Senior Vice President of Asia-Pacific (APAC) and Japan as well as Managing Director for Europe and Canada. Dr. Amrein will be instrumental to the organization’s continued expansion and strengthening of Advanced Clinical’s current operations into the APAC region, which include offices in Singapore, Australia and Japan. He’ll also oversee development and expansion opportunities for additional locations across Europe and Canada, complementing the company’s existing footprint inclusive of 10 office locations in Europe as well as an office in Toronto, Canada.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. & MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Newfold Digital, a leading web and commerce technology company backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. and Siris Capital Group, LLC, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement with Deluxe (NYSE:DLX), a Trusted Payments and Business Technology™ company, to acquire Deluxe’s Australia web hosting business (Hostopia Australia). The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2022 subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
Melbourne-based Scott Bennett Named to Lead TeamMELBOURNE, Australia & HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Northern Trust Asset Management, one of the world’s leading investment managers, has created a team of quantitative specialists focused on Asia-Pacific, based in Melbourne and Hong Kong. Leading the newly created team, from Melbourne, is Scott Bennett who has been named as head of quantitative investment solutions, Asia-Pacific, and joins Northern Trust Asset Management’s Asia-Pacific executive group.
Jim Brinksma joins Megaport as Chief Technology Officer after senior IT leadership roles at Ciena BluePlanet, Goldman Sachs, and InnovoEdgeBRISBANE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Megaport Limited (ASX: MP1) ("Megaport"), a global leading Network as a Service (NaaS) provider, announced today the addition of Jim Brinksma to the executive team in the role of Chief Technology Officer. Brinksma will lead Megaport’s global technology and engineering organisations and have responsibility for the company’s innovation roadmap.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#cleantech--Ideon Technologies is pleased to announce that Dr. Alan Bye, PhD has been appointed as an advisor to the Company. Ideon is a world pioneer in cosmic-ray muon tomography, providing x-ray-like imaging up to 1 km beneath the Earth’s surface. Alan is the co-founder and a director of Imvelo Pty Ltd, an Australian company focused on leading a system-wide, technology-driven business transformation of the mining industry. He is also a professor and Director of Digital Value Chains at Curtin University, leveraging more than 20 years’ experience in operational and strategic roles in the global mining industry.
New brand reflects Company’s vision to leverage software and data to power smarter assets and sustainable communities with intelligent asset management solutionsCARY, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dude Solutions, the leading SaaS provider of cloud-based operations management solutions, today announced it has rebranded to Brightly Software (“Brightly” or the “Company”). Offering a complete suite of intelligent asset management software solutions that address the evolving needs of clients, Brightly has transformed over 12,000 global clients’ operations and managed more than $300 billion of assets over the last 20 years. The Brightly brand propels the Company forward, establishing a new vision that combines computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) and operations management, with enterprise and strategic asset management solutions for a future where efficient operations and smart assets power sustainable communities.
Energy Fuels has completed laboratory evaluation of IperionX’s rare earth minerals, including monazite and xenotime, from the Titan Project in west Tennessee.Energy Fuels’ evaluation indicates that IperionX’s rare earth minerals are suitable as a high quality feedstock to supply Energy Fuels’ ongoing commercial production of mixed rare earth carbonate, an advanced material ready for rare earth separation.
SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#Covid19--Australian clinical-stage drug development company Noxopharm (ASX:NOX) has announced its Phase 1 CEP-2 sarcoma trial is underway with a first patient enrolled and dosed at City of Hope in Los Angeles, California. “We are delighted to have dosed the first patient in the CEP-2 trial,” said City of Hope CEP-2 Principal Investigator Mark Agulnik, M.D. “The study investigates the use of Veyonda® in combination with the chemotherapy drug doxorubicin for first-line treatment of approximately 30 patients with soft tissue sarcoma, which is an aggressive cancer in urgent need of new treatment options.”
As the leader in data for the AI lifecycle, Appen is investing in emerging training data sources.SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Appen Limited, the global leader in data for the AI Lifecycle, announced the investment in Mindtech, a synthetic data company specializing in the creation of high-quality training data for AI computer vision models. As part of the investment, Appen has formed a commercial partnership agreement with Mindtech.
Staff assessments help leaders form a more agile culture NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#Questionmark--Firms are facing an “agility gap” as they struggle to quickly adapt to changing circumstances. Questionmark, the online assessment provider, is encouraging employers to check that their people have the skills and attitudes they need to create an agile culture.Some 90% of business leaders believe that agility, the ability to move and respond quickly, is critical to their future success. However, just 10% are confident that their organization is as agile as it needs to be.
MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pulled together in home offices over the past 18 months, the Unhedged team hadn’t all met in person until the strict covid restrictions in Australia lifted. A true gig economy start-up, they are taking a huge swing at an industry dominated by global funds and institutional banks. Their app launched this week to the public after onboarding an enormous 8,000 waitlist with some bold expectations, claiming AI robots “beat humans at investing.” Led by co-founders
Quantum cybersecurity leader raises additional funding to tap multibillion-dollar quantum-safe crypto solutions and services market CANBERRA, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--QuintessenceLabs, a pioneer and leader in quantum cybersecurity solutions, announced today that it has recently raised additional capital in a round led by Chevron Technology Ventures. This investment further underwrites QuintessenceLabs’ commitment to providing quantum-safe solutions and services to support security communities worldwide. The Canberra-based company will use the funds in its mission to deliver advanced quantum-enhanced cybersecurity solutions to large enterprise customers worldwide.
MELBOURNE, Australia & ST. GALLEN, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: AD HOC ANNOUNCEMENT PURSUANT TO ART. 53 LRCSL Behring AG, Berne, Switzerland, a wholly-owned subsidiary of global biotechnology leader CSL Limited (ASX: CSL; USOTC: CSLLY), today announced the definitive notice of the Interim Result of its public tender offer to acquire all publicly held shares of Vifor Pharma Ltd. (SIX:VIFN; ISIN:CH0364749348) for USD 179.25 per share as indicated in the offer prospectus of 18 January 2022.
Global reach of Pegasus continues to expand with Avetta One, offering a single-source solution for managing health & safety, ESG & contractor/supplier needs and other risks, plus lowering costsNEWCASTLE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pegasus, an Avetta® company and the world’s largest provider of workforce and supply chain risk management (SCRM) solutions, today announced the addition of Avetta One
The feature-rich Polonious product will improve FRISS Investigations capabilities worldwide, closing the loop by bringing in more data, fraud schemes and trendsMASON, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#AI--FRISS, the most widely implemented fraud, risk and compliance solution for P&C insurers worldwide, is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Polonious, the expert software for special investigations and case management. The acquisition better enables FRISS to support claims departments, special investigations units and private investigations firms. The feature-rich Polonious product will improve FRISS Investigations capabilities worldwide, closing the loop by bringing in more data, fraud schemes and trends. With the acquisition, FRISS welcomes the 40 current Polonious insurance industry customers in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to the FRISS family.
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ricardo plc, a world-class environmental, engineering, and strategic consulting company, has today signed an agreement to acquire Inside Infrastructure, a privately held consultancy business based in Adelaide, Australia, for an undisclosed consideration. The agreement includes the acquisition of the entire business, operating assets, and employees, and will expand Ricardo’s environmental capabilities across Australia.
MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rio Tinto has reached a settlement with the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) regarding the disclosure of the impairment of Rio Tinto Coal Mozambique (RTCM), which was reflected in Rio Tinto’s 2012 year-end accounts. As part of this court approved settlement, Rio Tinto will pay a A$750,000 penalty for a single contravention of its continuous disclosure obligations in the period 21 December 2012 to 17 January 2013, immediately preceding the impairment announcement. As part of this court approved settlement between ASIC and Rio Tinto, there were no findings of fraud or any systemic or widespread failure by Rio Tinto.
MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rio Tinto has donated A$1.5 million to disaster relief and recovery efforts supporting people affected by widespread floods in Queensland and New South Wales. The funds will help provide vital support to impacted communities and comprise of:A$750,000 to the Australian Red Cross’ Floods Appeal which enables volunteers and staff to help with evacuation and relief centres, as well as supporting people and communities to recover and build resilience to disasters;
New 12 megawatt hosting customer to have first mining hardware units online end of Q1, 2022SYDNEY & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mawson Infrastructure Group Inc. (NASDAQ:MIGI) (“Mawson”), a digital infrastructure provider, is pleased to announce it has signed a new 12 megawatt (MW) hosting co-location agreement with Foundry Digital LLC (“Foundry”), bringing total hosting co-location under Mawson’s Luna Squares LLC (“Luna Squares”) business to 114 MW, up from 2 MW as at 31 December, 2021.
TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The island of Shikoku was ranked sixth in the Top 10 Regions category in Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel 2022 lists. Japan’s fourth largest island, Shikoku lies southwest of Japan’s main island of Honshu, and is reachable by plane in under two hours from Tokyo. It consists of four prefectures: Kagawa, Ehime, Kochi and Tokushima. In addition to the attractions Shikoku is best known for—the remote Iya Valley and the ancient pilgrimage route—Lonely Planet's selection also acknowledged destinations that have made efforts to promote sustainable tourism.
