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• PaySauce teams with Xero as regulatory pressure builds on farmers

  ​Cloud software providers PaySauce and Xero have teamed to produce Xero For Farming, a solution for agri employers.

• Bank of New Zealand migrates to new 9 Spokes platform

  9 Spokes provides business insights service as a white-label offering for bank partners

• G7 finance chiefs pour cold water on Facebook's digital coin plans

  Group of Seven finance chiefs cast a cloud over prospects for Facebook's Libra digital coin on Wednesday, insisting tough regulatory problems would have to be worked out first.

• The anthropologist asking critical questions around AI

  AI is the 21st century steam engine, so how do we manage it? Tech-anthropologist Genevieve Bell talks about the rise of AI and its impact on the future.

• ANZ bank latest company to employ ‘digital human’

  Jamie has a human face, voice and expressions, and can answer questions on the most frequently searched for topics on the bank’s online help section.

• MPs grill Kiwibank over fitness of its core banking system

  ​Parliament's Finance and Expenditure Committee has grilled Kiwibank over the state of its core banking system after a $90M project write-off last year.

• Kiwi CFOs positive about workplace automation

  ​Ninety per cent of Kiwi CFOs believe automation will have a positive impact on finance teams, enabling employees to focus on delivering better value.

• Finance moves to the cloud “much faster than expected”

  A major shift is taking place in how enterprises select financial management applications, with a migration to cloud happening faster than expected.

• AWS unveils partner investment plans as trans-Tasman ecosystem grows

  Professional certification, solution and industry competencies key as tech giant edges channel towards SAP.

• ​Finance, telco and IT targeted as DDoS attacks rise

  “DDoS attacks have become one of the most popular weapons in the cybercriminal arsenal..."

• Software update caused NYSE suspension

  An incompatibility with a software update and subsequent attempt to fix it were the root cause of glitch that forced a nearly four hour long suspension of trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday.

• Glitch brings major disruption to NYSE trading

  The New York Stock Exchange suffered its biggest outage in more than 10 years on Wednesday when an unspecified technical glitch forced a 3.5-hour long suspension of trading.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Thursday, July 2

  Line up for IPv4 addresses... HP makes PC/enterprise split official... PayPal to buy money transfer service Xoom... and more tech news

• MtGox creditors can finally file claims for lost bitcoins

  Former customers of MtGox, once the world's largest trading place for bitcoin, can finally file claims for lost assets.

• Don't look now, but ATMs are about to get a cloud makeover

  Automated teller machines have been around for decades, but surprisingly few changes have been made to the technologies that run them. That's about to change.