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KlickEx launches travel eSIM for Pacific travellers
Pacific travellers facing steep roaming bills can now buy data from $5.50 as KlickEx expands beyond remittances with a travel eSIM.
Division Zero launches continuous cyber testing platform
New Zealand firms are under pressure to spot vulnerabilities sooner as cyber attacks accelerate and annual audits leave long gaps unchecked.
Enlighten Designs becomes New Zealand's first Claude partner
For New Zealand organisations, the partnership offers a local Claude specialist with certified support for putting AI into everyday workflows safely.
New Zealand small business jobs growth rebounds in September
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Hawke's Bay council records biggest capital programme
Only NZD $347,000 was left for unexpected costs after Hawke's Bay Regional Council spent a record NZD $75.1 million on capital projects.
New Zealand housing wealth tops NZD $1.66 trillion
Despite weak prices and sales, residential property still makes up nearly half of household assets, leaving borrowers exposed to higher repayments.
Editor Interviews
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Oracle Fusion AI: Autonomy is earned, one outcome at a time
Oracle's Kaushal Kurapati says the pace of AI development is surpising even to those driving it.
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Sectigo targets ANZ growth as certificate lifespans shrink
Shorter certificate lifespans are pushing Australian and New Zealand firms to automate renewals, or face higher security and outage risks.
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Interrupted authentication journeys are costing merchants sales, with Entersekt saying its latest changes lifted success rates by up to 9 percentage points.
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The change should cut reconciliation work and payment costs for a marketplace that spans buyers and sellers in more than 100 countries.
Sectigo study: firms brace for post-quantum PKI shift
Most IT and security teams now expect public key infrastructure to need major changes as quantum-ready cryptography moves from planning to rollout.
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Yooz launches agentic AI for non-PO invoice coding
The update targets a stubborn manual task in accounts payable, letting finance teams automate line-level coding on invoices without purchase orders.
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HKEX outlines move to T+1 settlement for cash market
Market participants have been warned they will have less time for trade matching and settlement checks as Hong Kong prepares to shorten its cycle.
Yesterday
Anthropic adds 11 partners to Claude for financial advisers
Advisers should spend less time toggling between systems as the expanded service links portfolio, planning and custodial data in one interface.
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Oracle adds AI data platform tools for enterprise governance
The new tools could help businesses control AI agents more tightly as Oracle targets lower token use, stronger governance and easier scaling.
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