This Month
Hartzer joins Woolworths’ Quantium Health as CEO
Former Westpac boss Brian Hartzer has taken the reins at data analytics player Quantium Health.
- Lucas Baird
September
The power of data: here’s what the Financial Review knows about you
You probably just read about house prices. If we’re doing our jobs, you’ll peruse this too.
- Lauren Vadnjal
Cisco is buying Splunk for $44b. Here’s what Splunk does
The name of the data company, just acquired in “the Moby Dick” of deals, reflects the act of burrowing deep down into the Earth to explore caves.
- Katrina Manson
Satellites that can see through smoke to fight fires this summer
Using Australian locational and building data from Geoscape Finnish satellites will give emergency responders near real-time intelligence on damage and fire path warnings across the country.
- Tom Burton
August
Treasury considers an end to bank account password sharing
A consultation paper has asked fintech start-ups and banks to describe the impact of banning screen scraping and whether the CDR is ready to replace it.
- James Eyers
Emerging leaders tackle climate and data threats
A leader in developing strategies to keep communities safe in a changing climate is one of the joint winners.
- Nina Hendy
Saudi Arabia and UAE race to buy Nvidia chips to power AI ambitions
The Gulf states’ purchases of large numbers of Nvidia chips via state-owned groups come as the world’s leading tech companies rush to obtain the scarce chips for AI.
- Madhumita Murgia, Andrew England, Qianer Liu, Eleanor Olcott and Samer Al-Atrush
- Opinion
- Investing
How sports coaches are changing the rules of investing
An English soccer team with a small wage bill is one of several examples of how devotion to data and sound decision-making can lead to remarkable results.
- Jonathan Shapiro
Companies ripping off our personal data: survey
A major survey has revealed Australians feel helpless to stop breaches of their privacy and back legislative reform to get businesses and government to do more.
- Tom Burton
July
Data brokers in ACCC’s sights as Twitter locks out AI
Competition and consumer chief Gina Cass-Gottlieb has signalled a renewed focus on the role of data, seeking to shed light on the opaque world of brokers.
- Tom Burton
May
Governments ‘lack ethics controls for data’
Australian governments should emulate university research procedures in the handling of data, says Nobel laureate and ANU vice chancellor Brian Schmidt.
- Tom Burton
April
This $10m idea aims to save taxpayers $200m in consulting fees
A new federal Treasury unit to evaluate the effectiveness of social and business programs has won budget funding.
- Tom Burton
Billions wasted in poorly evaluated community programs: CEDA
The impact of hundreds of billions of government spending is unknown according to new research, due to federal and state schemes not being properly evaluated.
- Tom Burton
KPMG turns to AI to improve its audits
It comes after the corporate regulator last October called for KPMG and its big four rival Deloitte to take immediate action to improve their audit processes
- Edmund Tadros
ACCC flags tougher enforcement on ‘open banking’
A report on the implementation of the consumer data right has called for banks to resolve “outstanding data quality incidents as a priority”.
- James Eyers
Satellite data promises to unlock fresh capital for agriculture
Spatial finance is a new buzzword in banking and insurance. Mapping rural property boundaries and crops will provide a better picture of risk and productivity.
- James Eyers
March
Push for protection against ‘intrusive tech’ such as smart glasses
Privacy Commissioner Angelene Falk says protection would require businesses and government agencies to consider upfront how foreseeable the harm to individuals was.
- Tom Burton
Regulator insists new data-sharing scheme won’t be a robo-debt repeat
A data-sharing scheme that allows government departments to share information about Australians has been explicitly designed to stop it being used to enforce laws.
- John Davidson
- Opinion
- Privacy
Privacy laws are a win for the public, but a threat to bottom lines
Companies will be busy working to understand how bad their data and privacy handling capability is, and realising how much it will now cost them to get up to speed.
- Adam Barty
February
CBA business banking boss lays down his plan to beat NAB
The bank will target up to $1b in invoice financing and tap its retail customers as it ramps up plans to expand lending in the division.
- James Eyers
