NEW DELHI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#AI--ChargebackZero is partnering with Ethoca, a Mastercard company, to help merchants minimize chargebacks, lower consumer transaction confusion, and share details of confirmed fraud and dispute information. As part of the integration, we would prevent chargebacks using an alert mechanism. These Chargeback alerts are like a warning signal of an impending chargeback. The alerts enable merchants to identify and resolve customer disputes via near real-time communication with the customer's issuing bank. Businesses receive notifications through the ChargebackZero dashboard that combines multiple forms of alerts from various card issuers with unique Chargeback zero dispute management tools.
GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Metals Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: MTAL.U): Metals Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: MTAL.U) (“MAC”) is pleased to announce that it has mandated Barrenjoey Markets Pty Ltd (“Barrenjoey”) and Canaccord Genuity (Australia) Limited) (“Canaccord”) as Joint Lead Managers for a proposed dual listing of MAC on the Australian Securities Exchange (“ASX”) following the closing of its acquisition of the CSA Mine from Glencore
52% of Australians surveyed were concerned about making credit card repayments given cost of living concerns.60% of Australians surveyed said they’d used credit cards to make ends meet in the last 12 months.67% of Australians surveyed in 2022 reported using a Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) service, up 12% from 2021.MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Actively rising inflation rates and continued consumer uncertainty are denting Australian consumer confidence and raising awareness of credit and BNPL options, according to a new survey published today from Marqeta
SAB comprised of leading experts in ophthalmology to provide strategic support for the advancement of Azura’s first-in-class Ophthalmic KeratolyticsTEL AVIV, Israel & MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Azura Ophthalmics Ltd., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a new therapeutic class of Ophthalmic Keratolytics for ocular surface diseases, today announced the formation of its scientific advisory board (SAB), comprised of leading academic and industry innovators. Bringing decades of expertise across ophthalmology, the SAB members will collaborate closely with the Azura team to support the company’s clinical development and advance the company’s pipeline to address the full spectrum of lid margin and ocular surface diseases.
New Senior Vice President of Capital Projects and Vice President of Corporate Communications add experience, expertise, and depthBELMONT, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--$PLL #Lithium--Piedmont Lithium (“Piedmont”, “Company”) (Nasdaq: PLL; ASX: PLL), a leading global developer of lithium resources critical to the U.S. electric vehicle (“EV”) supply chain, today announced the addition of two new senior leaders as part of its growth strategy to support the increasing demand for domestic lithium hydroxide. Nick Fouche, a Rio Tinto veteran with a global resume, has been named the Senior Vice President of Capital Projects; and Erin Sanders, an award-winning integrated communications strategist, has been named the Vice President of Corporate Communications.
GEO’s Outstanding Debt Maturities Due Prior to 2026 Reduced from $2 Billion to $23 MillionBOCA RATON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The GEO Group, Inc. (NYSE: GEO) (“GEO” or the “Company”) announced today that it completed the sale of its equity investment interest in the government-owned Ravenhall Correctional Centre in Australia for approximately $84.4 million in gross proceeds, pre-tax. GEO will use the proceeds, along with available cash on hand, to repay all of the remaining $146.9 million outstanding principal of its Term Loan B and its Tranche 3 Term Loan, both due March 23, 2024 (the “2024 Term Loans”).
SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#Cfd--IC Markets, one of the world’s largest Forex CFD brokers has unveiled its new global marketing campaign in front of an audience of thousands of rugby fans at the Rugby World Cup Sevens tournament held at the DHL Stadium Cape Town, South Africa last week. The advertisement will air in 10 countries over the next few months and was created by South African creative agency and filmmaker Silver Bullet Films. The advert plays on the renewed interest in the 1986 movie Top Gun, following the release of the sequel Top Gun: Maverick, and encourages traders to ‘trade up’ and experience the superior benefits of IC Markets.
MASON, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#AI--Good processes are at the heart of maintaining customer trust. There is however a key factor holding back the speed of insurance: trust. Therefore, FRISS today announced the launch of their Trust Automation Platform. While trust is important in any industry, it’s of ultimate importance in ours – it’s the very concept insurance is built on. The conditions that shape the landscape have brought trust directly to the forefront of conducting good business. Trust is hard to maintain in service-based businesses, in part due to the volume of interactions.
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HarbourVest Partners, a global private markets investment specialist with over $100 billion in AUM, today announced the opening of its office in Sydney, Australia. The new office comes as a response to the firm’s success in the region as institutional and private wealth clients in Australia and New Zealand increased their demand for the innovative investment solutions offered by the firm.
McLaren Racing, TIME, Convergint, and INNOCEAN share how Smartsheet has enabled them to test the limits of what’s possibleBELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Smartsheet, the enterprise platform for dynamic work, today revealed new product innovation and customer achievements during ENGAGE, its annual customer conference. More than ever before, organizations must unlock the potential of their people who are trying to do more with less. Teams need to adapt quickly, work together effectively, and scale confidently. Today, ENGAGE attendees heard from Smartsheet executives and global brands about new ways to use the Smartsheet platform across an organization to inspire anyone to do more than previously thought possible.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & BRISBANE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vaxxas will receive an AU$8.2 million second round grant as part of the Australian Federal Government’s Modern Manufacturing Initiative (MMI) to support the manufacturing scale-up of its potentially game-changing technology that enables vaccines to be applied to the skin using a small patch.In 2021, Vaxxas received AU$4.4 million first round MMI funding to support the specialised infrastructure necessary to manufacture its high-density microarray patch (HD-MAP) device at its state-of-the-art biomedical facility currently under construction at Northshore, Brisbane.
Finance company integration on OpenSolar provides a competitive sales edge for solar professionals to speed up sales success SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OpenSolar Pty Ltd, a software company focused on empowering solar installers with an extremely accurate and entirely free solar design and sales platform, and Dividend Finance, LLC (“Dividend” or the “Company”), a leading FinTech point-of-sale lender to home improvement and solar contractors, have entered a strategic relationship to offer solar professionals competitive and convenient financing options that enhance their sales workflow and help deliver an exceptional purchasing experience for their customers.
This transaction will provide customers with expanded product and technology offerings, along with supply chain securityPORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Global energy storage platform provider Powin LLC (Powin) today announced the acquisition of EKS Energy (EKS), a leading provider of advanced power electronics and energy management solutions for energy storage and renewables. This transaction ensures new and existing Powin customers will receive enhanced product and technology offerings, enabling Powin to deliver a fully integrated grid-scale energy storage experience with supply chain security.
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Mawson’s installed operational capacity at 3.7 Exahash as at the end of August across Bitcoin Self-Mining and Hosting Co-locationApproximately $1.8 Million generated from Mawson’s Energy Market Program in August, in addition to the approximately $1.8 Million generated in JulyATLANTA & SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mawson Infrastructure Group Inc. (NASDAQ:MIGI) (“Mawson” or the “Company”), a digital infrastructure provider, announces unaudited Bitcoin production and operational update for August 2022.
Step-out and expansion drilling of the Fortin Sill Ni-Cu-PGE Zone continues as plannedVANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--$QNI #nickel--Québec Nickel Corp. (CSE: QNI; FSE: 7lB; OTCQB: QNICF) (“QNI” or the "Company") is pleased to announce a second drill rig began operating this past week at the Company’s Ducros Ni-Cu-PGE property, located approximately 80 kilometres northeast of Val-d’Or, Québec. This second machine will see the completion of approximately 3,000 metres of drilling in the central portion of the Company’s Ducros property, at the Ducros Ultramafic Sill Complex (DUSC) target area, on the west side of Provincial Highway 113 (Figures 1 & 2).
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. & SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Twist Bioscience (Nasdaq: TWST) and the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology (CoESB) today announced a partnership that will enable CoESB members and partners to order a wide range of Twist products that facilitate research and development. Australia’s commitment to the growing market of synthetic biology is made clear by the long-term funding commitment from the ARC in synthetic biology. ‘Australia has all the hallmarks required to enable a successful and sustainable synthetic biology future,’ says Dr Emily Leproust, Ph.D., CEO and co-founder of Twist Bioscience. ‘The partnership will provide researchers access to our industry leading DNA synthesis products. We gain access to the capabilities and availability of CoESB members to shape new products, while they are able to gain early access to upcoming products within Twist’s synthetic biology product program.’
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rio Tinto today announced it will join the First Movers Coalition, a global initiative to help commercialise zero-carbon technologies by harnessing purchasing power and supply chains. More than 50 companies with a collective market value of about $8.5 trillion across five continents now make up the coalition to create early markets for innovative clean energy technologies.
Following Successful Launch of $500 Strike 5MS Cap Power and Domestic Gas Contracts the regulated Australian derivatives exchange market operator FEX Global to launch Large-Scale Generation Certificate (LGC) Futures and Options Contract subject to all requisite regulatory permissions. SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FEX Global, which operates a licensed Australian Futures Exchange this week successfully launched its $500 Strike 5MS Cap Power Quarterly Futures and Options contracts. The contract adds to the existing FEX Global energy futures offering and has been listed in response to persistent higher prices and increased volatility in Australian wholesale power markets. It is anticipated that the new contract will give energy market participants an additional targeted risk management tool in addition to providing risk margin efficiencies.
Deployment in Australia at Academy Brand store, energized by multiple Energous WattUp PowerBridgesSAN JOSE, Calif. & SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Energous Corporation (Nasdaq: WATT) – a leading developer of RF-based charging for wireless power networks – and Flagship – a retail technology company that gives physical stores the ability to track their products in real time while unlocking detailed customer browsing insights – today announced their second retail store deployment of Wiliot Internet of Things (IoT) Pixel
Wagner Corporation and Virgin Orbit have signed an agreement to assess a potential LauncherOne demonstration mission from the Toowoomba Wellcamp Airport. LONG BEACH, Calif. & WELLCAMP, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Virgin Orbit (Nasdaq: VORB), a leading launch provider, announced today that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Wagner Corporation, one of the region’s most successful privately-owned companies and proprietor of the Toowoomba Wellcamp Airport and Business Park in Queensland, Australia. The agreement will allow the companies to begin the process of implementing a national launch capability from Australia, with the goal of providing satellite launch services from the Toowoomba Wellcamp Airport using Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne System.
SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#togetherwebuild--CrowdProperty Australia has launched a new fund for wholesale and institutional investors to invest in private real estate debt with target interest returns of up to 8.25% p.a.* after fees. The fund invests in property project loans providing Australia’s small-scale residential developers with specialist finance, a sector that builds needed homes in Australia’s cities and towns and is typically underserved by traditional finance.
New program structure and benefits will recognize partner expertise, performance, and achievement with Smartsheet’s work management platformBELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Second paragraph, second sentence of release should read: “In fact, annual bookings led by partners has grown 59% since launching the program three years ago,” said Steve Stewart, Global Head of Channel at Smartsheet. (instead of “In fact, annual bookings led by partners has grown to 59% since launching the program three years ago,” said Steve Stewart, Global Head of Channel at Smartsheet.).
BIRMINGHAM, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OneStream, a leader in corporate performance management (CPM) solutions for the world’s leading enterprises, and PwC Australia announced today they have entered into a strategic alliance for the Australian market. The alliance will leverage PwC’s expertise as a leading business and technology consulting services provider and OneStream’s unified, cloud-based CPM software to support activities ranging from project delivery to marketing and strategic business collaboration.
New program structure and benefits will recognize partner expertise, performance, and achievement with Smartsheet’s work management platformBELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Smartsheet, the enterprise platform for dynamic work, today shared how channel partners can unlock more through the Smartsheet Aligned program starting in February 2023. During the 2022 Global Partner Summit, the company unveiled the new program structure, which will recognize and reward over 800 global partners with tailored benefits allowing them to differentiate their value-add and promote the extensive investments they have made in Smartsheet.
Validation supports claim that RelyOn™ can mitigate methane emissions when fed as recommendedBELLA VISTA, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--This spring, Phibro Animal Health introduced RelyOn™ feed additive, a new solution to help support rumen health, animal efficiency and performance. Now, the alternative natural product has received validation from the Carbon Trust, a global climate consultancy, for its ability to reduce methane emissions.
Current and Future Shopping Trends survey provides retailers with insight into key factors shaping how consumers buy from brands, while findings show the Metaverse, cryptocurrency and NFTs are poised to revolutionize commerceAUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BigCommerce (Nasdaq: BIGC), a leading Open SaaS ecommerce platform for fast-growing and established B2C and B2B brands, today released its Global Consumer Report: Current and Future Shopping Trends
DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Australia B2C Ecommerce Market Opportunities Databook - 100+ KPIs on Ecommerce Verticals (Shopping, Travel, Food Service, Media & Entertainment, Technology), Market Share by Key Players, Sales Channel Analysis, Payment Instrument, Consumer Demographics - Q2 2022 Update" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The B2C market in Australia is expected to grow by 11.66% on an annual basis to reach US$52,257.4 million in 2022.
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PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technip Energies (Paris:TE) (ISIN:NL0014559478), leader of a consortium with Monford Group, has been awarded an Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning (EPCC) contract by Yuri Operations Pty Ltd, to develop Project Yuri Phase 0 project which is a green hydrogen plant in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.Project Yuri which is being developed in partnership with Yara Clean Ammonia and ENGIE includes a 10MW electrolysis plant and an 18 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) farm with its 8 MW Battery Energy System (BESS) providing the necessary energy for the electrolysis. It will produce up to 640 tonnes of green hydrogen per annum for use in the existing Yara Pilbara Ammonia Plant to produce green ammonia.
