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    Jarryd Russell

    Jarryd is an experienced Investment Adviser at Emerald Financial Group

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  • Number of allied health professionals rising

    It is no secret that labour shortage has been a prominent issue within the healthcare industry. Queues of idle ambulances everywhere, weeks and weeks of waitlists just for a general  check-up, and the decline in care standards across the board are no stranger to our ears. This leaves us with the question, where did all

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  • International Bank of Australia approved to launch Australia’s newest payments bank

    The International Bank of Australia has taken its first steps to becoming a household name, having been granted a restricted banking licence.  This segment has been ignored within Australia’s banking sector yet contributes more than $100 billion per annum to the Australian economy.  Securing the RADI (Restricted Authorised Deposit-taking Institution) has been a three-year process

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  • Novatti partnership allows more businesses to accept payments on the go

    Rapidly growing fintech company Novatti (ASX: NOV) has landed a major coup with the addition of point-of-sale (POS) payments technology, enabling merchants to accept digital payments from Visa and Mastercard without additional hardware.  A new partnership with MYPINPAD allows merchants to simply download software for their Android device (mobile or tablet) and enable customers to

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  • Big Five tech company engages Crowd Media for digital avatars and conversational AI

    Sick of sitting on hold waiting for someone to provide the assistance that you called up for? Those days could soon be over after a Big Five tech company engaged artificial intelligence company Crowd Media (ASX: CM8) for their digital avatars that interact with humanised responses in real time.  Crowd Media’s newest client, which they

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  • AUDD launch confirmed as Novatti adds stablecoin to digital payments ecosystem

    Businesses looking to move money overseas instantly and without incurring significant foreign exchange fees will soon be turning to blockchain technology with digital payments company Novatti Group (ASX: NOV) announcing the launch of their highly-anticipated AUDD stablecoin.  Backed 1:1 against the Australian dollar, the Novatti-issued AUDD stablecoin will go live on 1 November 2022. Users

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  • Crowd Media generates $150k revenue from media search partnership, extends AI marketing agreement

    More business is being conducted online than ever before, and with such a trend has come major increases to online marketing budgets. Identifying an opportunity to provide businesses with better returns on their online advertising, artificial intelligence company Crowd Media (ASX: CM8) has developed a solution to reduce customer acquisition costs using conversational AI.  In

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  • Big financial swing as Crowd Media eyes profitability with major turnaround

    When they appointed a former Israeli Air Force Captain as their CEO 12 months ago, artificial intelligence company Crowd Media (ASX: CM8) knew they were going to see discipline instilled and the financial results of that appointment have begun bearing fruit through a $1 million upswing in FY22 earnings. For the year ended 30 June

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  • Institutional investors back Novatti to expand payments ecosystem with $10.5m in funding

    Fresh from reporting a bumper June quarter result which rounded out their FY22 with a 97% increase in revenue to $32.5 million, digital payments company Novatti Group (ASX: NOV) may have something even bigger brewing having just secured $10.5m in funding by leveraging their assets to issue a bond.  While other listed companies tend to

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  • More AI products to be launched soon as Crowd Media report positive FY22 cash flow

    One week on since launching two AI-powered consumer products, artificial intelligence company Crowd Media (ASX: CM8) has their sights on more as the Company progresses through its growth phase where they have generated positive cash flow for the financial year.  Although that positive operating cash number is only $21k from $6.4 million in customer receipts

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  • Crowd Media launches children’s entertainment app Bedtime Stories with AI-generated storyteller

    Parents around the world will soon have a handy new app to keep their children entertained for hours-on-end thanks to artificial intelligence company Crowd Media (ASX: CM8) which has confirmed the launch of their Bedtime Stories application. Families of Portugal and the United Arab Emirates will be the first to gain access to Bedtime StoriesRead More
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  • Why this artificial intelligence company is locked in on the ‘S’ word that will drive margins

    If you look at the most successful tech companies over the past 20 years, they all have one fundamental element in common – their ability to scale quickly. It’s the underlying principle that saw Facebook explode when users flooded to create accounts, Apple (via iTunes) soared when music turned digital, and most recently TikTok emerged

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  • Novatti eyes blockchain partners following US tour to promote AUDD at top crypto conference

    Like all things blockchain-related, fintech company Novatti Group (ASX: NOV) has moved very quickly to expand its digital payments ecosystem, which may soon involve more pairings and networks for their compliant and secure AUDD stablecoin.  Attending the Consensus 2022 conference in Austin, Texas, Novatti’s blockchain payments team was on full show at the 4-day event,

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  • Top biotech dealmaker appointed Chairman of Crowd Media

    When one of Europe’s top executives has his previous business sold for $830 million and accepts a role to lead a microcap tech company, he’s clearly seen something behind the scenes to suggest it won’t be a microcap for much longer. That’s exactly the case with former Synlab executive Sytze Voulon who has been appointed

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  • Crowd Media enters Silicon Valley partnership for interactive NFT collection

    Flagged to be so much more than pictures of apes, artificial intelligence company Crowd Media (ASX: CM8) is set to launch a world first collection of interactive NFTs that will integrate their conversational AI technology.  Confirmation of the NFT collections comes as Crowd Media entered into a Binding Heads of Agreement with California-based Web3 company

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  • Positive cash flow leads Crowd Media to flag AI product launch of new gaming vertical

    Just months after signing the first paying client for their conversational AI platform, artificial intelligence company Crowd Media (ASX: CM8) is already flagging their next product launch, this time for the gaming and entertainment industry. Establishing a roadmap in 2019 to pivot their artificial intelligence into conversational commerce, it was somewhat of a surprise to

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  • Pure Hydrogen to build Turquoise Hydrogen pilot plant for clean energy products

    As hydrogen continues its emergence as the next frontier of clean energy, Pure Hydrogen (ASX: PH2) has confirmed plans to build a pilot plant in Brisbane that will be capable of manufacturing carbon and graphene products through the use of Turquoise Hydrogen.  Confirmation of the pilot plant comes after two years of investigative work into

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  • Why healthcare and acquisitions have been the place to be during a pandemic

    When the market crashed in March 2020, the world economy saw its biggest fall since the GFC. Few would have anticipated a recovery within just 12 months, however that’s exactly what happened with governments jumping on the front foot with stimulus packages. For Australia, it enabled the All Ordinaries to recover to its pre-pandemic levels

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  • Why Environmental, Social and Governance reporting will dictate the future of manufacturing

    ESG – it’s the three letters that business leaders around the world foresee as the most important trend for business success in the immediate future. The 2020 World Economic Forum’s push for standardised reporting has catalysed this, bringing environmental and social governance to the forefront of people’s attention. The project, which was a collaboration between

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  • Neobanks back as APRA issues first new banking licence, Judo eyes IPO

    Australians will soon have more options for their banking services with the Australian Prudential Review Authority issuing the first new banking licence since 2019 before the regulator hiatus through the pandemic. The newest license, granted to Alex Bank last week, signals a win for Australians who had tired of the Big Four’s power on the

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  • Emerge Gaming launches competitive gaming portal

    Leading eSports and casual gaming tournament company Emerge Gaming Limited (ASX:EM1) have today announced their official launch of ArcadeX in South Africa.  ArcadeX is an online gaming portal which allows users to engage in skill based competitive gaming competitions in eSports, including peer-to-peer matches and tournaments. Through ArcadeX, Emerge Gaming are aiming to capitalise on

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  • Piedmont Lithium – Taking Advantage of the Impending Lithium Shortage

    When lithium-ion batteries (LIB’s) first went into commercial production in the early nineties, few could have predicted how prevalent they would become in the ensuing decades. LIB’s are a type of rechargeable battery that are used in portable electronic devices such as laptops and smartphones as well as electric vehicles. Unsurprisingly, as production of these

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  • Wide Open Agriculture: Bringing Farming into the 21st Century

    In an area of Western Australia (WA) known as the ‘Wheat Belt’, there is an ecosystem that is under threat. In December 2015, the Australian government recognised this fact and made the Eucalypt Woodlands of WA protected as a “nationally threatened ecological community”[1];. The area was listed as ‘critically endangered’ and it is not hard

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