Banking group extending its strategic collaboration with Google Cloud to implement Google Workspace with Gemini, supporting daily operations and enhancing customer service
$9 billion-asset holding company standardizes operations and enhances client and employee experiences
NCR Atleos Corporation, a leader in expanding self-service financial access for financial institutions, retailers and consumers, has collaborated with Kuwait Finance House (KFH) to transform the in-branch customer experience through the deployment of a hyper-realistic conversational AI-powered avatar. This groundbreaking initiative introduces AI-driven video avatars at account service kiosks across KFH branches, offering customers real-time, personalized assistance. These avatars are designed to answer frequently asked questions about KFH services, provide branch-specific information, and—beginning in the second...
QNB Group, the largest financial institution in the Middle East and Africa, has announced a strategic partnership with TransferMate, the world’s leading provider of embedded B2B payments infrastructure as a service, to expand global receivables and local accounts solutions for QNB customers worldwide. This partnership enables QNB to integrate TransferMate’s award-winning technology directly into its platform, providing corporate clients with access to a broader network of international multicurrency collections and local accounts capabilities.Through this collaboration, QNB customers will...
This powerful industry collaboration highlights how mobile networks, APIs, and AI can transform banking
During the 2025 IMF–World Bank Annual Meetings in Washington, D.C., the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) convened a strategic fintech roundtable — part of Nigeria’s wider engagement at the Meetings. As the Bank reviews insights from the session, it has reaffirmed its commitment to a collaborative, innovation-driven approach to financial system development. The session took advantage of the cross-sector presence of policymakers, investors, and fintech leaders gathered for the global convening. It provided an opportunity for the CBN to...
YouHodler Onboards Martin Lisy as Chief Operating Officer
The final of three reports from Grant Thornton’s Digital Transformation survey, which gathered insights from more than 550 cross-functional senior executives across industries, revealed that embedding cybersecurity, resilience, and real-time compliance into technology strategies can help organizations stay agile and innovate. According to the data from the final installment of the survey, the positive impact of compliance and resilience isn’t lost on business leaders. When respondents were asked to rank the top priorities for their organizations’...
New research commissioned by global S&P500 corporate payments company, Corpay, finds that 99% of UK finance leaders surveyed have experienced payments-related cyber incidents in the past two years, exposing the fragility of legacy systems and an urgent need for change. With finance functions now a frontline target, the research saw ‘cybersecurity threats’ attract the largest percentage of responses (42%) from surveyed CFOs when asked what operational risk they were most concerned about over the next...
