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Westpac will maintain a presence in the South Pacific after the federal government indicated it wants to see Australian companies playing a role in the region.

The banking sector is undergoing revolutionary change. The number of banks is growing, buoyed by the emergence of neobanks, and the sector faces increased competition as non-banking institutions are offering banking services such as mortgages and credit cards.

Polygon Labs has officially proposed a technical upgrade for Celo, suggesting its transition from an independent EVM-compatible L1 to an Ethereum L2. This proposal was made public on September 21, just 9 hours after its initial announcement by SandeepN.

As the world of finance undergoes rapid digital transformation, the introduction of novel payment methods, including cryptocurrency and the much-anticipated Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC), is reshaping the industry. Prakash Pattni, in his recent analysis, highlights the challenges and opportunities this presents, especially for traditional banking institutions.

EJF Capital LLC, a global alternative asset management firm based in Arlington, Virginia, has successfully closed its EJF Ventures Fund LP with capital commitments amounting to approximately $104 million. The fund garnered support from both new and returning investors.

WisdomTree, Inc. (NYSE: WT), a prominent global financial entity, has declared its intention to close and liquidate five of its ETFs. The ETFs in question will cease accepting creation orders after October 20, 2023, marking the same day as their final trading day on their respective exchanges.

Artha Venture Fund, which has backed startups such as Agnikul and LenDen Club, has partially exited Mumbai-based fleet operator Everest Fleet for $2 million (around Rs 16.5 crore). Since 2019, the firm has invested a total of Rs 10 crore in Everest Fleet, which recently closed a $20 million funding round led by ride-hailing platform Uber. The partial exit from Everest marks the first exit for Artha Venture Fund-I, which has a corpus of Rs 225 crore.

Octopus Investments Australia, a renewables player backed by superannuation big-wigs Hostplus and Rest Super, has acquired Queensland’s largest proposed battery project, which is expected to have an $800 million enterprise valuation when it is up and running.

Complementary medicines and dietary supplements are becoming more advanced and increasingly formulated to meet specific health goals, leading Australians to better recognise the role they can play in supporting wellbeing challenges and improving overall health.

With over 20,0000 downloads in its Open Alpha stage, Haven's Compass is revolutionizing the gaming landscape and invites all gamers to join, play for free, and share their invaluable feedback.

Press Release: Two high-profile influencers sign for the world’s favorite crypto sportsbook through ‘Join the Crypto Experience’ ambassador scheme.

At the Temple of Apple, the sins sought to be redeemed are those committed by all industries and businesses: environmental degradation. But unlike other companies, especially those simultaneously consuming and producing on a planetary scale, Apple is keenly aware of its sins. And it is keen to show that it is aware.

Mumbai: MicroVC firm Artha Venture Fund-I has clocked 19x return on its partial exit from its investment in Everest Fleet, a fleet management company. The fund bagged $2 million from its part stake sale in the company. The stake sale is part of the Series B funding round of $20 million that Everest Fleet raised from investors led by Uber and Paragon Partners.

Money management firms launched new exchange-traded funds at a rapid pace last month, shaking off fears that the $7 trillion industry is already overrun with low-cost investment vehicles.

For many consumers, dealing with certain industries — including finance and real estate — is a frustrating experience due to the vast amount of paperwork and red tape that comes with carrying out a transaction. Not surprisingly, the crypto industry has a tech-forward solution: tokenization. By representing real-world assets such as real estate, art, stocks and bonds — essentially, anything — as tokens on a blockchain, transactional parties can more easily trade, transfer and manage assets. The percentage of tokens owned by an individual represents their percentage stake in the underlying asset. 

Bengaluru: In the 2009 Bollywood movie 3 Idiots, Aamir Khan, who plays an engineering student named Rancho, guides a drone with four rotors to the window of a classmate’s hostel room and catches him unguarded… and unclad. The drone, technically known as an unmanned aerial vehicle or UAV, was an early vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) prototype manufactured by Mumbai-based startup ideaForge Technology. The company has come a long way in the years since and is now India’s largest drone startup.

The world of cryptocurrency is again in the spotlight as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently postponed its decision to approve a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF). This delay marks the third such postponement and raises questions about the regulatory future of digital assets. 

Saraswati Saree Depot, Exicom Tele Systems, and Vibhor Steel Tubes — have filed their draft prospectus papers with Sebi to launch their respective IPOs. Saraswati Saree Depot The IPO of Saraswati Saree Depot includes a fresh issue of 72.45 lakh shares and an offer for sale (OFS) of 35.5 lakh shares. Under the OFS, promoters Tejas Dulhani, Amar Dulhani, Shevakram Dulhani, Sujandas Dulhani, Tushar Dulhani, and Nikhil Dulhani will offload shares. The offer is being made through the book-building process where 75% of the issue is reserved for qualified institutional buyers, 15% for non-institutional investors, and 10% for retail investors. Saraswati Saree Depot is a key player in the sarees wholesale (B2B) segment, and its origin in the sarees business dates back to 1966. It is also engaged in the wholesale business of other women’s apparel wear such as kurtis, dress materials, blouse pieces, lehengas, bottoms, etc. On average, more than 90% of the company's total revenues are generated from the sale of sarees.

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Innovations tend to be, by their very nature, disruptive. Governments tend to be, by their very nature, wary of disruption. Satisfying the primary objectives of these fundamentally different stakeholders in a single piece of legislation is, therefore, requires a nigh-on impossible balancing act.