Small businesses are regarded as one of the banes of being an enterprise. SMB's have their own kinds of challenges and their success majorly depends on the support received from the ecosystem or the visionary strengths of its management team.

GLAS, leading provider of finance administration services, has announced the opening of an office in Sydney, coinciding with the key senior hire of lawyer Kate White. The Sydney office expands the GLAS business in Australia following the opening of its Melbourne office in 2016.

Today’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Nordea Bank AB approved the income statement and balance sheet for 2016 and decided on a dividend of 0.65 euro per share. Accordingly, the record date for dividend would be 20 March 2017.

Bloq, enterprise-grade blockchain solutions developer, has launched BloqLabs to grow its current sponsorship and support of critical open source projects in the bitcoin and blockchain ecosystems.

“In the 1900s, Bell Labs become known as the ‘The Idea Factory’ for global telecommunications,” said Jeff Garzik, CEO and Co-founder of Bloq. “BloqLabs can set the tone for the blockchain era and ensure enterprises are tapping into every innovation from our vibrant community of developers.”

Industry private equity and real estate fund servicing leader joins SS&C team 

Guidewire Software survey finds 60% of UK renters have no contents insurance 

Guidewire Software, Inc., a provider of software products to general insurers, today announced that Generation Rent is not adequately clued up about insurance, and that the majority do not have insurance, or even know if their landlord is insured. These are key findings identified in a survey commissioned by Guidewire to help insurers understand better, and respond to how this demographic group think about protecting themselves and their possessions in rented accommodation.

ICS Financial Systems (ICSFS), the global software and services provider for banks and financial institutions, will be exhibiting at the Sub‐Saharan Africa Islamic Finance Convention & Innovation 2017 in Uganda, which is a new opportunity of Islamic finance expansion in the region, and will be held at the Sheraton Kampala Hotel, on the 6^th of April 2017.

"Accelerate" is the theme of the 2016 Integrated Annual Report of ING Groep N.V. (IAR) that is published today, together with the Annual Report of ING Bank N.V.

The theme demonstrates the accelerating pace of change in technology and other areas that are impacting our customers' lives and their expectations from financial service providers. It also expresses how we, as digital leaders in banking, are accelerating the Think Forward strategy to ensure we continue to provide customers with a differentiating experience. 

The&Partnership, m/SIX and Adloox have published a report laying out the steps the industry needs to take to reverse the rising tide of advertising fraud – as new figures from Adloox suggest advertisers could be defrauded of $16.4bn in 2017.