CARY, N.C., Oct. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Financial institutions are increasingly integrating their fraud and anti-money laundering (AML) systems, but intelligence and governance gaps remain. New fraud and AML convergence research from Datos Insights, commissioned by data and AI leader SAS, finds 86% report missed links between fraud activity and money laundering.
SYDNEY, Oct. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Australian retailers could face growing pressure to win over price-conscious shoppers this Black Friday and Christmas shopping period, with 85% of Australians willing to switch retailers if artificial intelligence (AI) found the same product for a better price elsewhere, according to new research commissioned by supply chain and commerce technology leader Manhattan Associates Inc. (NASDAQ: MANH).
LONDON, Oct. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- China is pulling ahead on electrification, while the US risks losing momentum and some of Europe's biggest economies have yet to translate policy into delivery, according to new analysis. The Electrification Competitiveness Index assesses progress in 16 countries, measuring electrification delivery on the ground and the conditions needed for further progress. These enabling and deployment factors indicate...
CUPERTINO, Calif., Oct. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Airports face a capacity challenge that new construction alone cannot solve, with global passenger traffic expected to nearly double by 2045 while opportunities to add runways and terminals remain limited. Total airport management (TAM), the practice of linking airside, landside, passenger and resource data into one coordinated operation, is moving from a conceptual framework to an operational...
CUPERTINO, Calif., Oct. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The technologies required to electrify industrial process heat are no longer the obstacle. Resistance heating, electric boilers, electric arc furnaces, industrial heat pumps and induction heating have all reached commercial readiness, with improved thermal efficiency, digital controls and power electronics integration. The constraint has moved off the equipment and onto the infrastructure that...
CUPERTINO, Calif., Oct. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Wood coatings have long followed the rhythm of housing starts and furniture demand, and construction activity still sets the pace for overall volumes in every major application. What is changing is where the value sits, as tighter rules on volatile organic compounds (VOCs), the spread of engineered wood and rising expectations around finish quality push manufacturers toward higher-performing and...
SINGAPORE, Oct. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Emerging destinations across Asia-Pacific are seeing strong booking growth this autumn, as travellers explore a wider range of cities across the region. New data from Trip.com Group, a leading global travel service provider, reveals Chiang Mai (+84.3%), Surabaya (+63.1%) and Busan (+62.7%) among the fastest-growing cities, while Japan dominates the world's autumn foliage spots, securing 11 of the top 12...
SINGAPORE, Oct. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- According to Forrester's (Nasdaq: FORR) 2027 Asia Pacific predictions, one in three large Asia Pacific (APAC) enterprises will uncover at least 10 employee-built shadow AI agents for every officially sanctioned agent. The rapid proliferation of shadow AI, combined with embedded SaaS capabilities, business-funded experiments, and locally selected AI platforms, will outpace institutional controls and...
SINGAPORE, Oct. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- According to Forrester's (Nasdaq: FORR) 2027 B2C marketing, customer experience, and digital predictions, rising AI costs will force B2C marketing leaders to scale back a third of AI initiatives. As AI usage grows and martech vendors increasingly adopt usage-based pricing models, every agent interaction, generated asset, and automated workflow becomes a billable event. As a result, leaders will need to...
SINGAPORE, Oct. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- According to Forrester's (Nasdaq: FORR) 2027 B2B go-to-market predictions, business buyers will increasingly deploy AI agents to handle tasks across the buying process, from supplier discovery and information gathering to contract-renewal analysis. While truly autonomous buying will remain concentrated in high-volume, low-risk, and repeatable purchases, the ubiquity of these agents will require...
LONDON, Oct. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The global market for AI-powered in-car assistants is entering a new phase of innovation as automakers increasingly adopt generative AI, intelligent voice interfaces and personalised digital experiences to differentiate their connected vehicles. Frost & Sullivan's latest Frost Radar™: AI-Powered In-Car Assistants, 2026, benchmarks nine leading technology providers against their growth performance and...
MILPITAS, Calif., Oct. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Electronic System Design (ESD) industry revenue increased 12.2% to $5,710.8 million in the second quarter of 2026 from the $5,089.4 million registered in the second quarter of 2025, the ESD Alliance, a SEMI Technology Coalition, announced today in its latest Electronic Design Market Data (EDMD) report. The four-quarter moving average rose 11.2%, based on a comparison of the most recent four...
ABU DHABI, UAE, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Binance today announced that bStocks, its tokenized 1:1 U.S. securities, have become the fastest tokenized equity product to surpass $1 billion in assets under management (AUM), reaching the milestone roughly four months after launching on June 11, 2026 (per on-chain data from Dune Research as of October 15).
MUTSAMUDU, Comoros, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- MEXC, a global cryptocurrency exchange, released its AI Trading Report, based on a survey of 3,708 crypto traders. The report examines how respondents use AI, how much trading authority they would delegate, and what protective measures they expect from platforms. Blockchain security firm Hacken contributed technical analysis of risks associated with AI agent trading and the controls designed to...
GROENLO, Netherlands, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ --Key pointsRevenue increased by 7% in the third quarter of 2026 compared with the third quarter of 2025.Revenue in the key markets grew by 9% in the third quarter of 2026 compared with the third quarter of 2025, bringing year-to-date growth to 12%.In the first nine months of 2026, recurring revenue increased by 17% compared with the same period in 2025, outpacing total revenue growth and...
LONDON, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- New research by IBM (NYSE: IBM) finds that AI-related incidents are reaching boardrooms across Europe and the Middle East among the organizations surveyed, but governance capabilities and risk accountability are not keeping pace with adoption of the technology.Eight in ten executives surveyed say an AI-related incident – including an agent failure, data exposure, AI-driven decision error, or AI security...
HONG KONG, SINGAPORE and SHANGHAI, Oct. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- China's outbound travellers made 4.44 million mainland departures during Golden Week 2026, up 9.3% year on year, according to EternityX's new Golden Week 2026 Chinese Outbound Travel Insights Report.The headline number tells only half the story. Three days of annual leave bridged the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day into a 13-day travel window (25 September to 7 October), and...
CLARK, N.J., Oct. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- GEP Global Supply Chain Volatility Index — a leading indicator tracking demand conditions, shortages, transportation costs, inventories and backlogs, based on a monthly survey of 27,000 businesses — showed global manufacturers ramping up purchases of raw materials and components in September as underlying demand strengthened.
The Reserve Bank says small businesses are expected to benefit the most from its card surcharge reforms, but restaurant and cafe owners say they are losing out.
BEIJING, Oct. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- ROBOTERA's World Action Model (WAM), VPP2 (Video Prediction Policy 2), has ranked No. 1 on RoboDojo without additional data or agent-based reinforcement self-improvement (Agent RSI). Developed by the University of Hong Kong's MMLab in collaboration with nearly 20 leading academic institutions worldwide, RoboDojo is a rigorous benchmark for general-purpose robot manipulation that evaluates performance...
SINGAPORE and SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Within two weeks of Meta's Sep. 8 launch of its Muse personal AI agent, Cequence Security found traffic matching Muse at more than half of the customers it studied. Most of those businesses would not have known. Muse presents itself as an ordinary Chrome browser rather than identifying as an AI agent, so to standard security checks it looks like a person.
SYDNEY, Oct. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- New global research from Thoughtworks, a global technology consultancy that integrates design, engineering and AI to drive digital innovation, finds that 89% of Chief Information Officers (CIOs) agree they are now more responsible for redesigning workforce workflows and labour models than for managing core IT infrastructure.
SCHÖPPINGEN, Germany, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Shopware is pleased to announce the launch of Agentic Commerce Maturity Index (ACMI), a new tool designed to help merchants measure their AI readiness and offers a structured view of their current position in the global agentic commerce market. Armed with detailed feedback, ACMI enables commerce leaders to make timely decisions and adjust their strategy.Marketers fill out a questionnaire,...
ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Infor, a leading enterprise provider of cloud software solutions specialized for how industries actually work, today unveiled its Infor Industry AI™ architecture and the next evolution of Infor Velocity Suite, which includes personalized adaptive user experiences, new governance models across customers' entire enterprise, and more Industry AI agents.
LONDON, Oct. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Uncertainty has added an average 12.4% to construction project pipeline costs globally over the past year. Applied to forecast global construction spending, that equates to almost US$2 trillion in 2026.The findings come from Currie & Brown's annual Construction Certainty Index, based on a survey of more than 1,300 construction and infrastructure decision-makers across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
DALLAS, Oct. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Sekisui Specialty Chemicals announced today that it will increase the price of Selvol® Polyvinyl Alcohol, Selvol Ultiloc®, Selvol Ultalux®, and Selvol Premiol® products up to the amounts shown in the table.RegionIncrease:North America$220/mtLatin America$220/mtAsia$220/mtEMEA200€/mtSekisui Specialty Chemicals remains committed to meeting customers' needs with high quality products. The increase will take...
MILWAUKEE, Oct. 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK), the global leader in industrial automation and digital transformation, today released "The New Operating Model for Life Sciences Manufacturing: Moving from Compliance to Continuous Readiness," an industry insights report based on input from manufacturing and industrial operations decision-makers in the life sciences industry. The new report examines how...
ARMONK, N.Y., Sept. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- A new global study from the IBM (NYSE: IBM) Institute for Business Value finds that as AI becomes more integrated into enterprise operations and decision-making, CFOs are taking on a larger role in shaping enterprise priorities around AI, helping turn strategy into execution, and determining how investments and capital allocation support them.
MUTSAMUDU, Comoros, Sept. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, led the exchanges studied in order book liquidity at the market price for both SOL and DOGE in CoinGecko Research's 2026 Crypto Liquidity on CEXes Report. The report measured order book depth for the top five non-stablecoin assets, BTC, ETH, XRP, SOL and DOGE, across eight exchanges over 60 days from July 6 to September 3, 2026.MEXC Records...
DUBAI, UAE, Sept. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Bybit, the New Financial Platform trusted by more than 80 million users worldwide, has added new 10 tokens to its Proof-of-Reserves (PoR) coverage with the release of its 40th PoR report, which reflects asset balances as of September 23, 2026. The report shows the reported value of mainstream assets reaching $19.6 billion, up from $18.1 billion in the 39th report in August.The tokens joining Bybit's...
SINGAPORE, Sept. 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Ampace, a provider of advanced lithium-ion battery solutions, today launched its "AIDC Battery Solutions White Paper" at a dedicated event during Data Centre World Asia 2026. The launch included an in-depth presentation of the paper's key findings, examining how rising compute density and rapidly fluctuating AI workloads are changing the requirements for data center power infrastructure.
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