Sharesies: growing pains for pineapple platform

Sharesies: growing pains for pineapple platform
Sharesies has crossed the Ditch, where it faces greater competition. (Image: supplied)
David Chaplin
Online trading platform Sharesies kicked off its Australian marketing campaign this week, dropping the Kiwi ‘shares made easy’ slogan for the new-twangled, ‘let’s get growing’.Back in home territory on the very same day, Sharesies, which inexplicably has a pineapple as a logo, was hit with its first serious regulatory infringement notice after growing a little too quickly for the firm’s compliance systems.In handing down the formal warning to Sharesies for multiple breaches of the Anti-Money Laundering a...

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