@Barcode:$XERO LTD(XRO.AU)$ Cash-flow gravity shifts when cloud ledgers buy payment rails. Xero has compressed half a decade of US expansion into a single, audacious move. 🚨📈🚀 Xero’s Big Leap: Betting A$3.8 Billion on US Fintech Disruption 🚀📈🚨 Xero’s US$2.5 B (A$3.8 B) swoop on Melio is its loudest statement yet, vaulting the Wellington, New Zealand 🇳🇿 -born cloud giant into 🇺🇸America’s hyper-fragmented SMB payments jungle. The sticker price looks steep at ~13 × FY25 revenue, yet synergy maths drags that down to ~9.7 × by FY28. Translation: Xero is buying time, distribution, and a payments flywheel it could never spin this fast in-house. 🧠Why Melio, Why Now? Melio’s 127 % CAGR, US$30 B TPV, and US$250 ARPU across ~700 K monthly transactions give Xero in