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Notification of cessation of securities - MQG
Appendix 3H (Notification of cessation of securities)
- Oct 9, 2023
- 4 pages
Yesterday
AirTrunk calls in boardroom heavyweight amid IPO prep
Data centre tearaway AirTrunk has drafted in Fortescue deputy chairman Mark Barnaba to chair its board, just as it begins preparations for what could be a $10 billion IPO.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
This Month
MST Financial signs veteran banking analyst Brian Johnson
Long-serving banking analyst has resurfaced six months after he left US investment bank Jefferies.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
NSW Libs learnt a lesson at the referendum – here’s how they’ll use it
The NSW Liberals are re-drawing a target seat list of the electorates they believe are now in play after the referendum
- Updated
- Samantha Hutchinson
A one-time Macquarie banker claims he found oil worth $30b in Cuba
Little-known Sydney-based company Melbana began production on Wednesday at what could be a large oil field on the north coast of the Caribbean country.
- Aaron Patrick
MacCap resurrects South32’s Eagle Downs sale
BHP’s blockbuster sale of its Queensland coal mines, Daunia and Blackwater, is already coaxing out other deals in the sector.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Exclusive
- Funding
Big money is back as space tech start-up raises $120m
Skykraft, which is building satellites to communicate with aircraft in flight anywhere in the world, has closed one of the year’s biggest investments.
- Paul Smith
Big four-backed growth fund hunts for cutting-edge investment ideas
Australian Business Growth Fund chief Anthony Healy wants to inject more capital into sectors such as technology, cybersecurity, manufacturing and defence.
- John Kehoe
Ex-Macquarie MD Stephen Darke on the move
Street Talk can reveal that he is set to take the top job at ASX-listed asset manager Navigator Global.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Macquarie’s $59b number-crunchers embrace AI to beat the market
Benjamin Leung and Scot Thompson are using advances in artificial intelligence to pick stocks and drive returns that outperform the index.
- Jonathan Shapiro
Investment bankers brace for bonus slump as fee haul shrinks
Bankers are resigned to another year of weak bonuses as a global glut in deal making slims fees at investment banks.
- Aaron Weinman
Goldman, Macquarie mandated for AirTrunk $10b-plus IPO
Goldman’s international reach and track record in offshore data centre deals helped it get the gig, sources say.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Barrenjoey, UBS, Macquarie top ECM league tables after Q3 raising rush
A trio of top-tier investment banks are angling for a top spot on the equity capital markets league table.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Macquarie director heads to Ross Garnaut’s Zen Energy
Renewable energy retailer Zen Energy has lured a Macquarie Asset Management dealmaker to its C-suite, while it lines up potential backers via Azure Capital.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Analysis
- Mergers & acquisitions
This Octopus is making Origin Energy harder to swallow
If the UK energy conglomerate’s growth prospects are as good as it claims, then the Australian company’s 20 per cent stake could be a poison pill for takeover suitors.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Macquarie girds for $1.2b takeover battle with European waste company
The target, Renewi, has knocked back the unsolicited bid, as limelight-shy Macquarie makes an atypical attempt to take a listed company private.
- Hans van Leeuwen
For $27k you too can become an analyst with Macquarie
Why go to university when you can learn the ins and outs of financial markets in just six months?
- Julie Hare
September
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Why markets are having nasty GFC flashbacks
Surging bond yields, sticky inflation and the spectre of further rate rises have investors facing a scenario that looks eerily similar to what occurred in 2007.
- Updated
- James Thomson
- Exclusive
- Build-to-rent
Build-to-rent needed to help tackle housing crisis: Lloyd-Hurwitz
Planning reform and housing targets would help speed the creation of desperately needed homes to Australia’s market, according to Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz
- Nick Lenaghan
Dividend disrupter aims to end the $9b wait
BHP and Commonwealth Bank will unleash more than $9 billion of dividends into the economy on September 28. But one start-up is offering instant gratification.
- Peter Ker
He sold his tech firm for $850m, so why did Chris Strode start again?
After making his fortune, the Aussie entrepreneur started buying up rundown motels, but a new tech idea caught his interest and he is back on the tools.
- Updated
- Tess Bennett
