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Xero unveils its AI vision to reimagine small business accounting

Xero unveils its AI vision to reimagine small business accounting

At its inaugural Investor Day, global small business platform, Xero, unveiled its AI vision which the business says has the potential to reimagine accounting and improve the lives of small businesses. This...

Deel acquires people development platform

Deel acquires people development platform

Global payroll and HR company, Deel, announced that it has acquired German-based people enablement platform, Zavvy. All of Zavvy’s team members are joining Deel. Founded in 2021 by Mehmet Yilmaz and Joshua...

Smaller businesses, don’t be left behind

Smaller businesses, don’t be left behind

Mark Freeman, Offer Manager Digital Buildings, Anglophone Africa at Schneider Electric, offers his advice on how SMEs can save money on their energy bills. Larger businesses are undoubtedly leading the charge when it...

Cross-border payments FinTech hits profitability after year of rapid growth 

Cross-border payments FinTech hits profitability after year of rapid growth 

Neo, a cross-border payments and FX FinTech, has announced that the firm is now profitable as an increasing number of SMEs explore alternatives to banks for managing their international business needs.  The...

Growth initiative for SMEs launched in Dubai

Growth initiative for SMEs launched in Dubai

His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of The Executive Council of Dubai, has launched the ‘Dubai International Growth Initiative’, allocating...

SMEs feeling the squeeze with rising costs the top concern

SMEs feeling the squeeze with rising costs the top concern

According to a new survey, 84.2% of SMEs list rising costs as their top business concern. Peninsula Group conducted a survey of 79,000 SMEs across five countries –...

Almost half of SMEs are uninsured

Almost half of SMEs are uninsured

The current economic environment means SMEs need to look at every area of their business to explore where they can cut costs. But business insurance isn’t one area which should be cut, according to money.co.uk...

A quarter of small business owners unable to pay bills in 2023 

A quarter of small business owners unable to pay bills in 2023 

Small businesses in the UK have had to cope with an onslaught of challenges throughout the last year and as a result, many do not have high hopes for the new year. A survey of 600 small business owners carried out by...

Real-time rails can unlock new value creation opportunities for UAE financial organisations  

Real-time rails can unlock new value creation opportunities for UAE financial...

With new digital payment trends on the rise, a new set of impactful use cases are now possible. Craig Ramsey, Global Head of Real-time Payments, ACI Worldwide, talks about this and how real-time rails can create new...

Optimus Cards uses Temenos to scale business 

Optimus Cards uses Temenos to scale business 

Optimus Cards is an Electronic Money Institution, based in the UK. The company chose Temenos’ open platform for composable banking and to grow its banking portfolio. Lindsay Robertson, CEO, Optimus Cards, tells...

Are we really helping SMEs with more recovery loans?  

Are we really helping SMEs with more recovery loans?  

Despite COVID-19 restrictions subsiding in the UK, many SMEs are living off an ever-increasing debt burden. Douglas Grant, CEO at Manx Financial Group, offers insight into this and how SMEs can remove themselves from...

Financially planning for the year ahead

Financially planning for the year ahead

With issues ranging from supply chain disruptions to cybersecurity threats and continued business uncertainties due to the pandemic, 2021 was a difficult year for CFOs across the globe. These challenges were...

XTransfer delivers faster, more efficient cross-border payment collection for SMEs

XTransfer delivers faster, more efficient cross-border payment collection for...

XTransfer is a FinTech company that offers one-stop, cross-border financial and risk management services to SMEs. To reduce the barriers and costs of global expansion for SMEs, XTransfer expanded local collection...

Loans2Go cements itself in the FinTech industry with the help of Node4

Loans2Go cements itself in the FinTech industry with the help of Node4

A database and IT infrastructure modernisation project helped Loans2Go move from a high street operation to an almost entirely online business. The personal loans company chose a suite of solutions from Node4 to...

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