Investment

Hassan Allam's development arm commits $1bn to a 303-acre Cairo mixed-use project, signalling accelerating Gulf-linked capital flows into MENA real estate.

Twelve banks including BBVA and CIBC Mellon slashed reconciliation workloads in production trials, ahead of the T+1 settlement deadline.

Vault Forge and AWS Transform combine to compress multi-year banking mainframe migrations into days using frontier AI models.

A UK simulation tool built on 500 data centres' worth of data lets operators model cost, carbon and water impacts before committing capital.

The deal targets end-to-end digitisation of proxy voting for international investors holding Korean equities.

Nasdaq embeds a governed agentic AI environment into its Calypso platform, targeting the manual-process bottlenecks that block institutional AI adoption.

Shorooq and Presight's G42-linked fund back the Santa Clara robotics startup, routing Abu Dhabi compute and capital into industrial automation.

KDDI-affiliated Altius Inspiro inaugurates a 7,400 sq m Philippines facility, hosting 2,000 staff for global retail, travel and telecoms clients.

A new Certent report exposes a widening gap between the strategic demands placed on equity teams and the fragmented technology supporting them.

Montreal-based Crowe BGK adopts Fieldguide's agentic AI platform, becoming the first Canadian accounting firm to reshape assurance delivery.

Decent Holding's SunCare targets 200,000 members with tiered AI home-care subscriptions, merging robotics and community health networks.

A $500m JIATF-401 contract puts autonomous, edge-based counter-UAS software at the centre of US domestic and overseas force protection.

America's largest shipbuilder wins a US Navy unmanned surface vessel contract, marking a pivot from experimentation to fleet-scale autonomous maritime operations.

Recombinant spider silk moves from lab to customer programme, opening paths across defence, aerospace and advanced composites.

Canada's DDI Marketplace hands Top Aces a three-stream qualification, opening a fast-track route into sovereign drone capability.

The Valencia-based storage integrator's 366 MWh industrial project anchors a turnaround that signals shifting economics in European energy storage.

The Canadian defence-drone maker bets on sovereign manufacturing capacity to serve NATO and allied markets from Québec.

Shorooq and Presight deploy Gulf sovereign-linked capital into Silicon Valley industrial robotics, signalling a new phase of physical AI investment.

HSBC's Smart Checking blends proprietary AI with specialist oversight to cut documentary trade processing times across three markets.

Circle and Volante are embedding USDC stablecoin workflows directly into the payments platforms used by most of the world's top banks.