ASX-listed Straker sees fertile ground in AI niches such as Japan's stock exchange shift

ASX-listed Straker sees fertile ground in AI niches such as Japan's stock exchange shift
Grant Straker says his company sees AI as a threat and an opportunity. (Image: NZME)
Rebecca Stevenson
Straker founder Grant Straker has just returned from a business trip to Japan, where he met with 28 of the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s largest companies.The New Zealand tech company is being backed by US multinational IBM to win business in Japan, as more than 1,600 listed firms there seek solutions for a new listing requirement to provide market updates in English as well as Japanese.Straker launched its answer for Japanese-listed companies, SwiftBridge AI, in March.The Auckland-headquartered company’s specialised small language model t...

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