5. Community First

Published: Feb. 6, 2020, 7:47 a.m.

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  • Congratulations to Amreeta and the Nowinfinity team. $25m sale to Class. Interesting that Class’s head of sales moved on. Does that open the door to Ben Gill taking on the role? Do the sales cultures align? Time will tell. 
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  • SMSF platform makes $25m acquisition 
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  • Dilatory accounting cost Dixons £1.8m. For 8 years this business kept amounts open as accounts receivable. Not great year end accounting procedures not to write off earlier. 
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  • Dilatory accounting cost Dixons £1.8m 
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  • Afterpay, Zip Co get in first with code of practice. It’s a good start with some practical protections for consumers. One wonders what’s missing since there is no independence given the rules are written by those abiding by them. I’d like to write my own views.  
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  • Afterpay, Zip Co get in first with code of practice 
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WORST ON GROUND

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  • Open Banking - What will be the outcome? Predicted to “...“That completely takes the friction out of applying for a mortgage,”. Anyone who has applied for a mortgage knows that the more info you give the more issues come up in the application. I think Open Banking is a poisoned Chalice. 
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  • Open banking and rise of fintechs to disrupt big banks\' \'rivers of gold\' 
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  • Canberra urged to join the data sharing action - CBA displays a typical protectionist strategy against having to give up data by greedily demanding more. 
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  • Canberra urged to join the data sharing action 
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  • Chat about football or cricket in the workplace should be curtailed, a management body has warned.
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  • Chartered Management Institute head Ann Francke said sports banter can exclude women and lead to laddish behaviour such as chat about sexual conquests.
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  • "A lot of women, in particular, feel left out," she told the BBC\'s Today programme.
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  • Nanny state gone mad. What would the reaction be if this was to be excluding men? 
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  • Firms urged to crack down on office football chat 
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