Banking stories - Page 27

The Xero Small Business Index fell three points in November to 116 points, driven by a slowdown across three sub-metrics.

The Xero Small Business Index fell three points in November to 116 points, driven by a slowdown across three sub-metrics.

Zain Cheng named Chief Technology Officer at Horizen Labs. Cheng oversaw product teams, including sidechains and smart contracts, and EVM development.

Bob McKinnon, a veteran of the financial services industry, has become the new chairman of Cloudfloat, a platform providing cash flow for small businesses.

Technology advancements are continuously reshaping not only the way we work but how organisations fundamentally operate across nearly every industry.

Xero reports strong financial results, with revenue growing 30% to $658.5m and subscribers up 16% to 3.5 million. New CEO also announced.

Bendigo Bank, Macquarie Bank, and Suncorp are the only brands to provide good customer service this year, with the rest in the OK and poor categories.

UOB, one of Asia's largest banks, has successfully deployed Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) across 14 markets.

The Index fell 13 points in October to 115 points, driven by four sub-metrics: sales, wages, jobs, and time to be paid.

Xero this week hosted key government and business leaders in its Sydney office to discuss the benefits of accelerating eInvoicing adoption.

Techcombank's partnership with Adobe will make it the first bank in Vietnam to deliver hyper-personalized banking experiences to customers in real-time.

TrafficGuard appoints Elie Shuggi as Chief Product Officer to scale product offerings and support global growth against rampant ad fraud.

Open banking is being introduced in New Zealand, with the government saying it will increase competition and benefit consumers.

Payment HSM-as-a-Service reduces cost, complexity, time to market and also provides access to deep expertise in Payment HSMs and payments-related cryptography.

Software provider Apptio appoints Mark West as Regional VP for Australia and New Zealand to help firms manage cloud costs and budget waste.

BlackLine has announced the BlackLine Accounting Studio, a platform designed to transform and modernise Finance and Accounting operations.

The company says this positions it as the best integrated construction management software in the market with cloud accounting packages.

Julia Bearzatto promoted to Chief Product Officer at Zepto, responsible for business operations, engineering, and pioneering the future of payments.

Favourite clothing + footwear brands Review, Shoes & Sox, Superdry, Shoe Warehouse, Replay, to deliver Slyp smart receipts nationwide.

The modelling showed for SMEs with low digitisation levels, digitising just one or two activities could provide a benefit-cost return of 2.4 - 3.1 to 1.