The first six months of FY27 brought a wave of interest in Xero and the work we’re doing to support small businesses and their advisors. Here’s a look at the stories that put our product, XSBI data and thought leadership in the spotlight across global print, broadcast, podcasts and social feeds.
September
- CNBC Fortt Knox | Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Xero CEO: A Fortt Knox Conversation
- Wall Street Journal | Making the AI Math Work
- BusinessDesk | Why Xero’s US boss wants to end America’s love affair with cheques (paywalled)
- Salesforce Earnings Call Featuring Xero | This Month at Salesforce — Xero, Legora and Replit
- Thomson Reuters | Payroll compliance and cash flow pressures
- Intersekt | Taking Global Risks: Sukhinder Singh Cassidy on Scaling Xero & AI Bets
- Forbes | AI and the New Speed of Finance
- The Post | The sniff test for small business policy: does it give owners more time? (paywalled)
- Accountants Daily | Xero’s ANZ head on where accountants should spend their energy with AI adoption
- Business Leaders | How to Drive AI Adoption in the Workplace
- Elite Business | From curious to confidence: making AI work for small businesses
- Business News | Malaysian accounting firms turn to AI and advisory services to lift profitability, Xero finds
- Digicon Asia | Agentic AI for SMEs: Understanding benefits, risks, and cyber/regulatory responsibilities
August
- Bloomberg Intelligence | Xero CEO on AI as a Massive Growth Driver for Small Businesses and the Competitive AI Landscape
- The Wall Street Journal | The Leadership Lesson Xero’s CEO Learned From a Tennis Legend
- Australian Financial Review | I’m Xero’s CEO. Here’s what Australia’s next tech giant must do (paywalled)
- The Peak | Sukhinder Singh Cassidy Isn’t Worried About a SaaSpocalypse
- Forbes Council, Kate Hayward | Building Financial Confidence Is Key To Unlocking Small Business Potential
- Run The Numbers podcast | Xero’s CFO: Why Finance Is Taking On More of the Business
- BusinessDesk | Xero doesn’t need to beat Intuit to win in US, Singh Cassidy says (paywalled)
- ABC News | National taskforce launches to improve financial literacy rates for small business owners
- The Guardian | ‘It’s not taught to us in school’: how small business owners are taking charge of their financial fitness
- Courier Mail | Financial literacy crisis leaves a third of small business owners unsure of profit (paywalled)
- ITBrief Australia | Xero wins Canstar award for small business software
- interest.co.nz | How to adopt AI in the workplace and how lack of AI confidence is holding businesses back
- Tech Times | Xero Payroll Launches as QuickBooks Desktop Leaves 3.4M Workers Unpaid
- SME Web | Xero UK managing director Kate Hayward on Making Tax Digital, late payment, AI, financial literacy and cash flow tips for small businesses
- Beyond the Balance Sheet | Kate Hayward on Xero, AI and why good advice still matters
- Classic Business | Entrepreneurship Provisional tax deadline approaching: five habits to make tax time easier for SA SMEs
- Fintech Finance News | Xero Research: AI Adoption Doubles Profitability for Top UK Accounting Firms
- Radio New Zealand | Many businesses using AI to save time, but do they know what they’re doing?
- The Citizen | SA’s tax deadline approaching: 4 habits to make tax time easier for SMEs
July
- SMB Tech, Angad Soin | FY27 Is The Year Aussie Small Businesses Make AI Work For Them
- CNBC Squawk Box Europe | AI is a macro tailwind for small businesses, says Xero CEO
- AccountingWeb | Xero CEO on AI, the builder class and Xero at 20
- Australian Financial Review | Xero CEO shrugs off $14b rout with new Microsoft AI pact (paywalled)
- Entrepreneur | UK Small Firms Face Third Straight Quarter of Decline
- Dynamic Business | Australian small business sales cool off in the June quarter
- Radio New Zealand | Small firm sales up, but jobs and pay are not
- Irish Times | Ireland’s small businesses are ready for their next chapter, but they need the tools to unlock it
- Newstalk ZB | Bridget Snelling: Xero Country Manager on small business sales growing 8.6% year on year, led by agriculture
- New Zealand Herald | Small business sales surge 8.6% in June quarter, Xero data shows (paywalled)
- News24 | Australian small businesses suffer sales growth decline in the June quarter as economic shocks rattle industries
- My Duvet Flip | UK Managing Director at Xero: How to Build a Network When You Know Nobody
- Giti-Tools in Accrual World | Xerocon London special: Are accountants and the ecosystem still important to Xero?
- Dynamic Business | Which admin tasks should your small business automate first? Our experts weigh in
- Accountancy Today | Xerocon 2026: the AI revolution and the human accountant
- News 24 | South African small businesses are thriving, but playing it safe
- New Zealand Herald| Bay of Plenty trails national average in small business productivity – report (paywalled)
- Tech Radar | “It’s never been a more exciting time to imagine what’s possible with software’: Xero CEO outlines how AI could transform the finance industry as we know it
- Smart Company | Xero launches Ultra, its ERP alternative for growing Australian businesses
- Acuity Mag | The rise of Accountable Intelligence
June
- BNN Bloomberg | Canadian small business growth weakest among peers: Xero
- LBC, Kate Hayward | We need to help young people create their own opportunities, not just find jobs
- Wall Street Journal | Xero CFO on Navigating Investors’ AI Concerns
- The Australian | AI CEOs being cloned to front investor calls in any language (paywalled)
- Radio New Zealand | Small business productivity continues to lag
- New Zealand Herald | NZ small businesses lag Australia and UK in Xero productivity report (paywalled)
- Australian Associated Press | Small business, payments system brace for payday super
- New Zealand Herald | The SME AI opportunity is real, but so is the confidence gap – Bridget Snelling (paywalled)
- Forbes Australia | New ‘payday super’ changes come into effect today. Here’s what you need to know
- Fortune | How to run a company when the AI agents vastly outnumber the humans (paywalled)
- Business Insider | The AI boom is giving these execs more power — and headaches — than ever (paywalled)
- Dynamic Business | LogiWork 2026: How can our work tools do more for us?
- ABC News | Small business owners concerned for personal savings amid payday super changes
- AI Impact | Xero unveils new AI-powered tools to help South African accountants move from paperwork to proactive action
- Fintech Times | The TikTok Treasury: Why the UK’s Next Generation of Founders is Turning to Social Media and AI for Financial Literacy
- Forbes Council, Kate Hayward | How To Prepare For A Future Where Tax Is Digital
- Courier Mail| Australian businesses face $6 billion cash crunch due to new Payday Super rules (paywalled)
- The West Australian | WA small businesses top nation for productivity, Xero data shows (paywalled)
- Yahoo Finance | Australian economy slows as exports, government spending drag on growth
- Capital Brief | Small business productivity rises for second consecutive quarter: Xero
May
- The diginomica network podcast | Xero CP&TO reveals the accountants lessons for agentic AI success
- TechAisle, Anurag Agrawal | Xero’s AI Evolution: Architecting the Autonomous Financial OS
- Intelligent Investor | Xero: AI an Opportunity, Not a Threat (paywalled)
- Switzer Podcast | Xero CEO Sukhinder Singh Cassidy on Claude, Melio and the US challenger play
- CNBC Changemakers| Standout Lessons in Leadership
- The Bear and The Bull | Building the AI financial engine for small business growth in today’s economy
- Elite Business, Kate Hayward | Making Tax Digital is here – what small businesses need to know now
- Dynamic Business | The emotional cost of running a small business has never been higher
- The Straits Times | Saving lives, protecting families, enabling companies in need: How home-grown SMEs are creating impact beyond profits
- TechEDT| Xero Lite brings lower-cost finance tools to Malaysian small businesses
- New Zealand Herald | AI seen as biggest opportunity since internet for small businesses – but fear holds many back, Xero research finds (paywalled)
- The Straits Times | Saving lives, protecting families, enabling companies in need: How home-grown SMEs are creating impact beyond profits
- Dynamic Business| Federal Budget 2026: Who wins, who loses?
- ITBrief Australia | Xero launches XeroForce AI agent builder for finance
- Corporate Competitor Podcast | Sukhinder Singh Cassidy: Why FOMO Beats Fear
- Wall Street Journal | Xero Lifts Annual Earnings 18%, Flags More Growth Ahead
- SBS On the Money | Xero CEO on the SaaSpocolypse, AI integration and impact on the economy
- Fear & Greed Podcast | Afternoon Report | ASX up as miners, banks climb
- ITBrief Australia| Xero launches live Claude integration for customers
- Forbes | Free AI Training Available And Other SMB Technology News This Week
- The West Australian | Federal Budget 2026: Bigger write-offs and fuel support is what small business wants from Jim Chalmers
- The West Australian | New analysis finds WA workers were short-changed $2.8b in unpaid super (paywalled)
- Dynamic Business | Australian small businesses outperformed the US, UK, Canada and New Zealand in Q1
April
- LinkedIn News Australia | LinkedIn Top Companies 2026: The 25 best employers to grow your career in Australia
- LBC, Kate Hayward | Digital tax shake-up hits small firms, MTD for IT is a mindset shift, not just more admin
- Fast Company | Entrepreneurship was never easy, but it doesn’t need to be relentless
- Forbes | The $100 Billion Bet On Modernizing Your Finance Team
- First Round Capital podcast | AI killed the product roadmap | Diya Jolly
- Radio New Zealand | Small business sales continue upward momentum, but Iran war uncertainty lingers
- news.com.au | ‘Solid start’: Australian small businesses coping with Middle East crisis despite warning worst is yet to come
- NewstalkZB | Middle East conflict expected to dampen small business sales’ momentum
- Smart Company | Stressed about payday super? ATO says the underlying tech is ready (paywalled)
- Techcouver | Xero Opens a Technology Hub in Vancouver to Accelerate AI Roadmap
- Fintech Times | Accounting Moves to the Age of the Agent with Xero & Anthropic partnership
- CTV News | Haven’t filed your taxes? These last-minute tips are for you
- ITBrief New Zealand | Xero launches AI-native operating system for small firms
- Yahoo Finance | How Xero is using AI to stay ahead of the SAAS-pocalypse
- Human In The Loop, James Bergin | A Positive & Practical Take on AI with James Bergin from Xero – Human In The Loop
- CNBC Africa | How South African SMEs are adapting in volatile conditions
- Forbes Council, Kate Hayward | How To Use AI To Amplify Your Entrepreneurial Spark
- Business Brief, Colin Timmis | SME stress burden – the real cost of global turbulence
- Smart Company | From ambition to strategy: How the founders of Love Tea and Bread Beauty Supply are building legacy brands
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