Macquarie chief executive Shemara Wikramanayake is one of a small number of women heading up an ASX200 company.(File image)

Business

Cracks in glass ceiling as women dominate economic roles

Women are still woefully under-represented in top jobs but female leaders are becoming more common in Australia’s economic and financial institutions.

Business

After year in hell, EML plans radical move to new markets

Brisbane financial technology company EML said it had to fundamentally transform following one of its toughest ever years that included regulatory action in Ireland and the UK over anti-money laundering and terrorism financing breaches.

Business

Slow-moving EML hit with sell-off after UK issues emerge

EML Payments shares dropped 34 per cent today after it revealed it had stopped bringing in new customers, agents and distributors in the UK after that nation’s financial regulator raised concerns about its subsidiary Prepaid Financial Services.

Business

Big end of town teams up to drive Brisbane's profile as finance hub

A new financial services power group has been formed in Brisbane to develop the city into a financial hub.

Statewide

Farmers rack up the debt, but it's quality that counts more than quantity

Total debt held by Queensland farmers has jumped more than 25 per cent in two years, prompting calls to focus on the ‘quality’ of the deficit, not the overall number.