2019年6月17日
UK based neobank Revolut has launched in Australia 英国数字银行Revolut已登陆澳大利亚
UK-based neobank Revolut has launched in Australia, bringing the beta version of its app to the country on Thursday 13 June. It joins an emerging stable of Australian digital-only banks including Xinja, Volt Bank, 86 400 and Up.
Revolut, which has selected Melbourne for its Australian headquarters, will become a local employer in the fintech space as it plans to bring in 30 jobs by the end of the year. The company is currently valued at $US1.7 billion. The company refers to itself as an “electronic money institution”, meaning it has no physical branches.
With the Revolut app, users can send and request money from other Revolut customers and add GIFs to make paying back your mate more interesting. It also lets users track the amount they are spending on things like food delivery, socialising and everyday necessities. Revolut can also round up card payments to the nearest dollar, putting the change in the “Vault” to save for a rainy day.
Revolut doesn’t have plans to take deposits, instead it will provide a pre-paid transaction account. It will roll out its services to the first 20,000 people on its waitlist, with more to be added over the coming weeks. In the UK, Revolut is heading towards a total of five million customers, but there have been some concerns raised with the company’s compliance.
In addition, Wired.co.uk highlighted claims of the company’s ‘toxic’ work culture. Following the claims, CEO Nik Storonsky penned an open letter that stated, “We haven’t always gotten things right” and “we are not the same company that we were 12-18 months ago, when these mistakes were made”.
A successful executive explains why staying ahead of the 'culture curve' is important CPA高管解释了为什么保持领先于“文化曲线”非常重要
Jacquetta is CFO for Australian Industry Standards, the Deputy President of CPA Australia’s Victorian Divisional Council, and recent chair for the Small-To-Medium Enterprise Committee. Jacquetta reflects on her career to date and the importance of professional development in helping her remain relevant in today’s competitive business world.
“[Professional development] is crucial to success. You really need to continuously improve your understanding of your own behaviours and what you’re learning, and how that impacts others. It’s important particularly as time goes on, because who you are as an accountant at twenty looks very different to who you are as an accountant at forty." “As processes are automated, accountants need to engage in new technology and embrace change. Professional development allows you to understand what you want to learn, [helps you] identify your knowledge gaps, and flexibly manage the outcome.”
"For me, the most useful professional development has occurred when I have sought to understand how an organisation operates, understand its strengths and weaknesses, and how it fits into the industry." “What’s always been really important for me in any role I’ve worked in is looking for better experiences and getting mentors along the way. A mentor can be someone from a different department, someone who can help us understand more about the business, about the industry, and everything that we do as accountants."
Facebook took down a bunch of political Huawei adverts in the latest blow to the Chinese tech firm 在对中国科技公司的最新打击中，Facebook取消了一系列华为政治广告
Facebook has cracked down on Huawei adverts for being too political. The embattled Chinese smartphone maker was blacklisted by the Trump administration last month. The US has been lobbying its allies to reject Huawei’s 5G network proposals on these grounds, with mixed success.
Huawei has been running ads online trying to convince people it’s trustworthy, but Facebook has taken down several of these ads for breaking its policies. One of the adverts, archived on Facebook’s Ad Library, ran from May 24 until last week. It warns against “mixing politics with technology,” and features a quote from Huawei chairman Ken Hu.
This ad reached over a million users and was shown predominantly to regions in India. The Ad Library said that the advert ran without a disclaimer about who paid for it, which is required from ads “about social issues, elections or politics.”
Huawei hasn’t constrained its PR push to social media. In February, it took out a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal to publish an “open letter the US media.” It also ran full-page ads in New Zealand newspapers after the country blocked its 5G ambitions, saying “5G without Huawei is like rugby without New Zealand.”
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