iTWire Thursday, 15 April 2021 12:22 Square to roll out lending program for Australian market
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Card payments company Square is set to roll out Square Loans in Australia, a program designed to help small businesses grow by giving them quick and simple access to funds.
Square says Australia will be the first global market, outside of the US, where it will launch its lending product.
“It’s no secret that small businesses in Australia have historically faced huge hurdles when it comes to accessing formal forms of funding,”
said Samina Hussain-Letch, Head of Industry & Payments at Square Australia
. “They’re often forced to pour over piles of paperwork, provide years of financial information, and put up personal guarantees that can be riddled with red tape.”
iTWire Wednesday, 14 April 2021 10:37 Telcos want more Federal Govt action on ‘improving’ funding of financial counselling, says Communications Alliance Featured John Stanton, CEO Communications Alliance
Australia’s telcos have urged the Federal Government to to do further work on the Sylvan Review’s recommendations for improving funding of financial counselling.
According to telecoms industry peak body Communications Alliance that’s the position of telcos following Financial Counselling Australia’s (FCA’s) report on their recent survey of financial counsellors, with CA CEO John Stanton noting that financial counselling is a vital service for many Australians, and the FCA report shows that “financial counsellors have had some mixed experiences when working with telcos on behalf of their clients”.
iTWire Wednesday, 14 April 2021 18:26 Call for telecoms industry to ‘improve response’ to customers experiencing financial hardship Featured
Financial Counselling Australia’s comments follows release of its
Telcos and Financial Hardship: Feedback from the Frontline.
Commenting on its own report, which has two parts - a survey of financial counsellors and desk top research on other relevant studies and data - Financial Counselling Australia says every financial counsellor who took part in the survey said they have more than 50% of their clients struggling to pay their telco bills.
According to Financial Counselling Australia, telcos refer their customers to financial counsellors and benefit when the customers get back on track.
iTWire Wednesday, 14 April 2021 12:56 Gigamon, Riverbed partner on hybrid cloud deployment, monitoring and management
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Cloud visibility and analytics provider Gigamon is partnering with Riverbed in support of the recent launch of Gigamon Hawk, the first elastic visibility and analytics fabric for all data-in-motion across the hybrid cloud.
Gigamon says with the partnership, mutual customers can leverage Riverbed’s network performance management (NPM) solutions to deliver unified packet, flow, and device visibility across branch offices, data centres, hybrid and multi-cloud environments to optimise network and application troubleshooting.
Described by Gigamon as an intuitive, data-driven network traffic visibility solution,
Gigamon Hawk optimises traffic across cloud platforms, dramatically reduces manual steps required to manage evolving workloads, and provides both on-premises and cloud tools with contextualised network information otherwise not poss
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