What are cyber hackers up to now? How exposed is your organisation to the activities of cyber hackers? What do you do with the ransomware claim that's frozen your system and brought your organisation to a standstill? How can you 'hide' your business so that the hackers can't find you to disrupt your operations? How can you guarantee that your teams working remotely aren't weakening your defences?...Join leaders in their field for the most practical update on how you can anticipate and respond to the cyber security challenge facing your organisation today....https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mariamacnamara_cybersecurity-global-threats-local-impacts-activity-6856021383319830528-UlMn

The Government confirmed the proposed rule changes to the Open Banking regime this week with mortgage brokers being one of the early beneficiaries.The rule changes are designed to make Open Banking data easier to access for a broader set of participants.Mortgage brokers and financial advisers will now be able to operate under the newly created 'Trusted Advisor' role, allowing them to more readily access their customers' consented financial data to speed up the mortgage application process.Minister Jane Hume said the new rules are "an important step in supporting the  development of a vibrant data economy that provides benefits to business and consumers".

Local FinTech scale-up, InDebted, has switched to a four day working week for all employees, making it one of the first local companies to adopt what has been up to now a broader (yet still nascent) global trend.Founder, Josh Foreman, is looking to bolster productivity by having fresher, less burnt-out, employees, as well as stand out from the crowd to prospective new-hires.The tech debt management business is in hyper-growth phase and recently raised $25m in its Series B funding round. Foreman hopes it can maintain this trajectory by becoming a workplace-of-choice as employees fully recharge.https://www.smartcompany.com.au/startupsmart/news/indebted-four-day-work-week/

SumUp is the leading mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) company in Europe. They started out in 2012 and built their payment service from scratch to shake up the industry and wake up the entrepreneur within anyone.https://ffnews.com/company/sumup/

For small business owners, invoicing and payments are necessary, but time-consuming.   Getting paid on time can be challenging and put stress on cash flow.  QuickaPay helps small business owners to spend more time in the business, and less time in the books.  It offers invoicing, card payments and BNPL with lots of easy tech options like shareable payment links, QR codes, SMS messages and emails.  Plus it’s integrated with Shopify and WooCommerce.  For easy reconciliations, there is a single overview of all paying customers and exportable CSV files. Customer refunds can also be processed directly through the platform.https://www.quickapay.com/

Open Banking was implemented one year ago. What's happened since? Has the landscape significantly changed? Are we lookin