Latest Accounting News: Finextra Research

CBA, Microsoft and KPMG team on SME business management platform

Commonwealth Bank of Australia has teamed up with Microsoft and KPMG to launch a business management platform for SMEs.

16 May 2018

Countingup launches small biz bank account with built-in accountancy tools

Countingup, a UK startup that combines a business current account with a built-in accounting package, has emerged from beta.

10 April 2018

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ING introduces Receipts & Invoices app for SMEs

ING has built a 'digital shoebox' app that lets small business clients use their phone cameras to scan receipts and bills, then link them directly to transactions.

31 January 2018

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The missing link between Revolut and Xero? Countingup raises £750,000

Countingup, a UK startup that combines a B2B banking app with a built-in accounting package, has raised £750,000 in seed funding.

23 October 2017

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RBC integrates financial management platform with online banking for SME clients

Royal Bank of Canada has teamed up with Wave to integrate invoicing, accounting and financial insights into its online business banking platform.

13 October 2017

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Curve partners Xero to automate expenses

UK startup Curve is promising to kill the dreaded job of doing expenses, letting users spend from all of their accounts on one card, sending the data straight to Xero accounting software.

02 October 2017

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RBC and NAB invest in financial management software firm Wave

National Australia Bank and Royal Bank of Canada have joined a US$24 million funding round for Wave, a Toronto-based provider of financial management software for small businesses.

30 May 2017

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PayPal launches Business in a Box service for SMBs

PayPal has unveiled a new service, called Business in a Box, which brings together a host of tools designed to help small firms start and run their online operations.

01 May 2017

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ABN Amro pilots 'touchfree' accounting platform for SMEs

ABN Amro is working with startup InvoiceSharing to pilot a "touchfree" automated accounting system for small and medium-sized enterprises.

10 February 2017

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Police arrest Sage staffer over data breach

Police have arrested a Sage employee in connection with a data breach at the accounting and payroll software provider that may have compromised the bank account details of employees at 230 UK companies.

18 August 2016

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Japan's SBI Holdings looks to raise $275m for fintech fund

Japanese financial conglomerate SBI Holdings has set its stall out as a central player in the fintech ecosystem, promising to aggressively adopt new technology and build a network of startups through a $275 million venture fund.

12 May 2016

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India's Paytm enlists Wipro for payments bank tech platform

Indian mobile commerce network Paytm has enlisted Wipro to help it build the technology platform for its forthcoming payments bank business.

02 May 2016

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Canada's D+H agrees $1.25bn Fundtech acquisition

Canadian financial technology firm D+H is to buy transaction banking vendor Fundtech for $1.25 billion in cash, subject to regulatory approvals.

31 March 2015

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Square integrates with Intuit QuickBooks

Intuit has moved to make it easier for small businesses to import their transactions from Square point-of-sale products into its QuickBooks accounting software.

25 September 2013

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Ribbit Capital raises $100m for financial innovation fund

Ribbit Capital, a new Silicon Valley-based venture capital fund focused purely on investing in innovative, tech-led financial services firms, has launched after closing its own $100 million fund.

23 January 2013

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DoJ probes Autonomy accounting claims

Hewlett-Packard says that the US Department of Justice is investigating its allegations of accounting fraud at Autonomy, the UK software house it acquired in 2011.

02 January 2013

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Cloud-based payments start-up targeting SMBs launches

MineralTree, a US start-up providing cloud-based payment services specifically designed for small and medium businesses, has formally launched after securing $1.5 million in funding.

10 November 2011

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Diebold pays $25m over accounting fraud charges

ATM manufacturer Diebold has agreed to pay $25 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges of fraudulent accounting designed to inflate earnings.

03 June 2010

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Calypso signs Denmark's Bankernes EDB Central

Bankernes EDB Central (BEC), an IT provider owned by a consortium of Danish banks, has signed for trading and risk management technology from Calypso.

30 April 2009

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Finextra launches Innovation Showcase

Finextra has launched the Innovation Showcase, a new feature on Finextra.com highlighting the most innovative financial technology developments over the past 12 months. Across a broad range of categories it showcases technologies that demonstrate uniqueness and impact, clever ways of solving a problem and projects at the leading edge of new industry trends.

11 February 2009