BENEFIT to showcase credit awareness and digital financial services at Innovation Summit 2026

BENEFIT to showcase credit awareness and digital financial services at Innovation Summit 2026

عبدالواحد الجناحي، الرئيس التنفيذي في شركة بنفت: صورة مرفقة مع البيان الصحفي The summit will take place at Exhibition World Bahrain from 29 September to 3 October 2026 Press Release BENEFIT, Bahrain’s leading fintech and electronic financial transactions services company, is set to participate in the second…

RBC wins IDC CIO Awards Canada 2026 for AI-driven credit underwriting transformation

RBC wins IDC CIO Awards Canada 2026 for AI-driven credit underwriting transformation

Recognition reinforces RBC’s leadership in intelligent financial services, backed by a decade of innovation investment TORONTO, Aug. 13, 2026 /CNW/ — Royal Bank of Canada (TSX: RY) (NYSE: RY) has been named an IDC CIO Awards Canada 2026 winner for retail credit underwriting, an artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted digital transformation program. The initiative is one of…

In Small-Business Credit, The AI Question Isn’t Settled And The Operators Disagree

In Small-Business Credit, The AI Question Isn’t Settled And The Operators Disagree

After more than a decade of putting AI to work on small-business loans, the verdict is split. New 2025 Federal Reserve data and a regulatory rewrite are forcing the industry to pick a side. getty Walk through a working-capital file at any non-bank small-business lender today. Almost nothing in it has been read by a…

Blue Owl leader bets private credit will survive a ‘SaaSpocalypse’

Blue Owl leader bets private credit will survive a ‘SaaSpocalypse’

Blue Owl has been the face of private credit’s redemption rush and software fears. The firm is confident that lending rather than buying software companies is the right strategy. It is still working to reduce its software exposure, but expects lending fears to be overblown. Fears of a looming software crisis in the age of generative AI…