Day: August 24, 2026

Melio, which Xero bought last year, will expand into expense management and open up its payment API, allowing anyone to access its payment capacities. They are also testing a client admin AI.

Xero announced a wide variety of AI enhancements centered around its agentic system JAX.

Xero CEO Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, at the Xerocon event in Denver, announced new integrations with OpenAI, as well as deepened Microsoft integrations.

The 2026 Fastest-Growing Firms rely heavily on mergers and acquisitions — and they’ve worked hard to develop strong playbooks.

With artificial intelligence, a ‘human in the loop’ is a speed bump; a ‘human in the lead’ is a leadership model.