Looks like more and more people are lawyering up as law firm Slater and Gordon (ASX: SGH) have delivered shareholders a net profit of $2.2 million in FY22. The second half in particular proved a highly litigious few months following a poor first half where it suffered losses worth $7.5 million. Compared to FY21, when
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Cash. It’s all about cash. And retail investors are playing safe by holding cash instead of equities as online brokerage company SelfWealth (ASX: SWF) progresses through a business transformation which has seen its growth slow, and profits fall. As previously acknowledged by SelfWealth, the surge of retail investors entering equity markets during the pandemic was
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As the BNPL fad continues deepening into irrelevance, market leader Zip Co (ASX: ZIP) insists profitability is on its horizon. You just have to overlook any timelines for such to be achieved, and their $1 billion loss for FY22 which includes $276m in customer delinquency write offs. Consumers have been happy to utilise Zip’s BNPL
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Australian airline Qantas (ASX: QAN) has been in the news for a myriad of reasons lately. And none of them have been positive. Most recently, the Company reported its third major loss following Covid-19, with the underlying loss before tax amounting to $1.86 billion and statutory loss being over $1 billion. According to the Company,
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Australians have witnessed the birth of a service that allows them to access their payday ahead of time via an advancement, bypassing banks with a service striving to operate similar to payday lenders but with fewer fees and shorter repayment timeframes. With several ‘pay advance’ companies popping up recently, it was only a matter of
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Among her first orders of business, EML Payments (ASX: EML) CEO Emma Shand is tasked with explaining to shareholders how the digital payments company fell prey to fraud, amounting to losses of $7.9 million. The fraudulent activity occurred with its Sentenial business some time in August 2022 but only came to EML’s attention on Tuesday
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