The concept of using technology to help save money is not new, with Acorns and INGs apps rounding each purchase you make to the nearest dollar and sending the spare change to your investment or savings account. But theres a new kid on the block putting their own spin on the concept to help…
A SENATE inquiry into primary production financial lending has made 27 recommendations aimed at enhancing farmers powers and rights in sensitive areas like debt mediation and farm foreclosures. The six-month examination by the Senate select committee was Co-chaired by One Nation Queensland Senator and party leader Pauline Hanson, former One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts and…
CONTAINED in the newly-discovered crypt is a man with a life story littered with difficulty. Joseph Fleming was born in New South Wales in 1811 before moving to Queensland in 1848. In September 1850 at Ipswich he bought town lots on which he established a boiling-down works, sawmill and flour mill. Mr Fleming was also…
NYRT is a publicly traded real estate investment trust listed on the NYSE that owns income-producing commercial real estate, including office and retail properties, located in New York City. NYRT’s shareholders recently adopted a plan of liquidation pursuant to which NYRT is liquidating and winding down and, in connection therewith, is seeking to sell its…
Leading debt counselling organisation Christians Against Poverty is now offering its free debt help service in Cessnock, thanks to the collaborative efforts of five local churches. New Vine Vineyards Church, the Salvation Army Church, The Vines Community Church, Cessnock Congregational Church and Beyond Church (formerly Hope Valley) have partnered form Cessnock Region Care, which will facilitate the debt…
Precedent Communications, the contractor behind Australia’s biggest-ever data breach, has been liquidated 13 months after the incident went public. It was revealed in October 2016 that the personal records of 550,000 donors to the Red Cross Blood Service were exposed online, including names, gender, physical and email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and countries of birth.…
Mining shell Ausroc Metals has received shareholder support for a reverse takeover of unlisted public company Woomera Exploration, which has a portfolio of projects prospective for lithium, cobalt and nickel. Shareholders this week approved the acquisition as part of a recapitalisation proposal aimed at pulling the company out of liquidation. In its past life, Ausroc…
Republican Rep. Mark Sanford (R-SC) voted for the Republican tax plan, but he says the GOP isnt telling the truth about what this tax bill is. It isnt a middle-class tax cut, he said; its a corporate one. Fundamentally the bill has been mislabeled, Sanford told Washington Post reporter Erica Werner. From a truth in…
Image copyright Getty Images Banks should end all unauthorised overdraft charges because they are trapping people in persistent debt, the financial charity StepChange has said. The organisation also wants banks and regulators to do more to identify people caught up in a “vicious cycle of borrowing”. Even where customers have admitted they are in trouble,…
(MENAFN – Asia Times) The suicide of a young man in Tuen Mun in Hong Kong’s New Territories on Tuesday may have been linked to gambling debts. The 22-year-old man died after jumping from a building in a public housing estate. He was found lying unconscious outside Mun Yu House of Sam Shing Estate…