
Primrose Riordan
Companies Reporter at Australian Financial Review
Journalist @FinancialReview covering wealthy families and their businesses. Fmr China correspondent and foreign affairs reporter [email protected]
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afr.com | Johnny Shapiro |Primrose Riordan |Joyce Moullakis
Jonathan Shapiro, Primrose Riordan and Joyce MoullakisJun 4, 2025 – 11.15am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The Australian sharemarket operator backed by investment banks, stockbrokers and lawyers have called on the corporate regulator to focus on making it easier for companies to go public rather than tightening rules around fast-growing private markets.
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afr.com | Primrose Riordan |Zoe Samios
Jun 2, 2025 – 1.25pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Perth billionaire Laurence Escalante has moved to take control of Virtual Gaming Worlds and buy out minority shareholders in a deal that would value the online gambling and gaming business at $3.2 billion.
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afr.com | Campbell Kwan |Primrose Riordan
May 19, 2025 – 11.11am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The family of a billionaire Chinese businessman is pushing for the developer behind the infamous Sirius building be wound up, putting the company run by former Macquarie banker Jean-Dominique Huynh on the brink of collapse at the same time as its other big projects are seized by lenders.
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afr.com | Primrose Riordan
May 13, 2025 – 8.17pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Billionaire Sam Arnaout’s private company Iris Capital has been able to keep its soaring gambling profits a secret by not filing annual financial reports to ASIC, a move governance experts say should be investigated by the corporate regulator.
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afr.com | Primrose Riordan
May 8, 2025 – 9.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Perth gambling billionaire Laurence Escalante told investors to sell their shares in his online gaming business Virtual Gaming Worlds if they don’t trust him, in an expletive-ridden response to concerns about diminishing disclosure. The outburst is Escalante’s second within the past few weeks.
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