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Employers face a growing insider threat as suspected North Korean operatives used fake identities to land remote roles at more than 1,100 firms.
The award highlights rising pressure on identity vendors to stop fraud that now slips between login checks, account recovery and contact-centre calls.
Banks could use the new tool to give branch staff a fuller customer history, reducing repeated questions and improving advice on complex issues.
The funding will help more enterprises shift older data systems onto Databricks tools as demand for AI deployment services accelerates.
The close gives Northleaf fresh firepower to back specialist receivables and royalty deals as private credit firms hunt for new income sources.
Banks face tighter scrutiny as Deutsche Bank's Google Cloud-backed system ties resilience tests to live operational data and audit records.
Organisations using Microsoft automation can now keep credentials out of scripts, reducing the risk of exposed secrets in cloud workflows.
The funding will help the Mumbai-based lender software maker push AI across collections and lending workflows for banks and NBFCs.
Businesses will be able to search charts, tables and images in Box content using Gemini Multimodal Embeddings 2, reducing missed context in files.
It could help hospitals, banks and councils keep staff working within minutes when a Windows outage or cyberattack locks them out.
Banks could keep customers on their own apps more easily as Personetics and Plaid combine account data to flag savings and debt moves.
Investors could gain access to political trading and options data through a proposed ETF range, though strategy details and filings are still undisclosed.
The hire signals Tokenovate's push to make its post-trade automation platform easier for institutions to deploy at scale.
Rack-level power monitoring is being pushed further into edge and branch sites as demand rises for cloud, AI and distributed workloads.
Nearly a million Malaysian firms took up AI in the past year, but most are still using basic tools rather than scaling them.
Growing employer demand has pushed the AI leadership apprenticeship to six cohorts, with 71 learners now in the pipeline.
Singapore banks and telcos face a narrower window to stop AI-assisted attackers chaining small flaws into major breaches.
South Korean businesses could see faster overseas payments as Jeonbuk Bank adopts Ripple Payments, cutting delays and fees on remittances.
A skills gap in critical systems is widening as veteran mainframe engineers near retirement, pushing firms to train new recruits with AI support.
Mid-market customers grappling with AI governance and data risk may gain a more practical partner as Source Technology expands its services.