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Beyond Bank CIO: Balancing tradition and innovation in the digital age

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Beyond Bank Australia is one of the largest customer-owned banks in Australia and one of the leading B Corps in the country. Beyond Bank has a real focus on customers who are the members and owners of the bank. Beyond Bank has a real focus on customers who are the members and owners of the bank.

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MicroStrategy goes big on BI and Bitcoin as rebranding drops ‘Micro’

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The rebranding of business intelligence (BI) platform vendor MicroStrategy that will see the firm aggressively plug Bitcoin comes with significant risks as a result of the digital currencys volatility and the regulatory uncertainties surround the cryptocurrency market, an industry analyst said Thursday.

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PenFed to bank on gen AI for hyper-personalization

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million members, as a credit union PenFed doesn’t have the resources of a traditional bank. For years, CIOs have invested in data initiatives — data science, business intelligence, analytics — and they’ve also investing in digital channels, Thomas explains. Even with more than 2.9

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Bed Banks: Comparing Accommodation, Travel Ancillaries, Connectivity of Hotelbeds, Travco, Bonotel, HotelsPro, and WebBeds

Altexsoft

One of the ways to get a diverse inventory portfolio is to partner with a bed bank. What is a bed bank? A bed bank (also called a wholesaler ) is a B2B company that purchases rooms from accommodation providers in a bulk at a discounted, static price for specific dates and sells them to OTAs, travel agents, airlines, or tour operators.

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The customers and communities that drive Beyond Bank’s tech strategy

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As the CIO of Beyond Bank, one of the largest customer-owned banks in Australia, Stevie-Ann Dovico is at the nexus of the business, from banking and technology, to data and business intelligence, all of which fuels the person-to-person customer experience and promotes financial well-being.

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Sleek secures $14M Series A to enhance its corporate service platform

TechCrunch

Entrepreneurs and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) often struggle to deal with several siloed functions, such as company secretary, bookkeeping, banking, tax, payroll, employment services, insurance and more. Sleek recently launched Sleek Business Account that simplified opening bank accounts for SMEs.

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Cansativa Group grabs capital as Germany readies for recreational cannabis market

TechCrunch

For example, we are combining regulatory expertise with a state-of-the-art B2B customer experience including merchant ads, benchmarking and business intelligence and many other future features.”. Furthermore, because cannabis is legal at the federal level, Europe is not plagued by the same banking and payments challenges in the U.S.

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