Xero has named Tony Ward as the new president of Xero Americas. His hiring fills a vacancy created when Keri Gohman was named chief platform business officer in November. 

Thomson Reuters reported a good start to 2019 as it rebounded to a profit while revenue rose by 8 percent on an IFRS basis from a year ago. The company is starting its first full year without its Financial & Risk business, which was spun off to Blackline and now operates as Refinitiv.

Most CCH products were back on line as the work week ended on Friday, May 10.  Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting noted the need to scan and test each product and network as they were brought back up following this week’s malware-induced worldwide outage.