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Global energy technology company SLB (NYSE: SLB) announced that its SLB OneSubsea joint venture was awarded a contract by Beacon Offshore Energy (BOE) Exploration and Production LLC to deliver a high‑pressure, high‑temperature (HPHT) multiphase boosting system for the Shenandoah field in the Gulf of America.

 

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The award reflects continued investment in deepwater developments, where advanced subsea systems are being applied to improve recovery. SLB OneSubsea’s HPHT multiphase boosting system is engineered to operate reliably above 15,000 psi, addressing operating conditions that exceed the limits of conventional subsea solutions.

 

“Our engagement with BOE began in January 2025, enabling us to design a subsea boosting solution tailored to the field’s operating conditions,” said Andreas Fjellbirkeland, vice president, Processing Systems, SLB OneSubsea. “As operators continue to invest in deepwater projects in the Gulf of America, this type of technology plays a critical role in accelerating production and improving recovery.”

 

 

 

 

 

Key points

 

• SLB OneSubsea has been awarded a contract by BOE Exploration & Production LLC to deliver a multiphase boosting system for the Shenandoah field in the Gulf of America
• The system is engineered to reliably operate above 15,000 psi, surpassing conventional subsea solutions and addressing advanced HPHT field demands
• SLB OneSubsea’s processing technology supports enhanced oil recovery, faster production, and increased field value for BOE

 

About SLB

 

SLB (NYSE: SLB) is a global technology company that has driven energy innovation for 100 years. With a global footprint in more than 100 countries and employees representing almost twice as many nationalities, we work each day on innovating oil and gas, delivering digital at scale, decarbonizing industries, and developing and scaling new energy systems that accelerate the energy transition. Find out more at slb.com.

 

 

About SLB OneSubsea

 

 

SLB OneSubsea is driving a new subsea era leveraging digital and technology innovation to optimize our customers’ oil and gas production, reduce emissions in subsea operations, and unlock the large potential of subsea solutions to shape a sustainable energy future. SLB OneSubsea is a joint venture backed by SLB, Aker Solutions, and Subsea7 headquartered in Oslo and Houston, with 10,000 employees across the world. Find out more at onesubsea.slb.com.

 

 

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Moody’s Corporation (NYSE: MCO) and Anthropic today announced that Moody’s Agentic Solutions (MAS) will be available natively in Anthropic’s Claude environment – including Claude Desktop, Claude.ai, and Claude Enterprise – through a purpose-built Model Context Protocol (MCP) application. Together, the companies are bringing Moody’s decision-grade risk intelligence into Anthropic’s frontier AI environment, delivering trusted, auditable outputs at the scale and speed regulated institutions demand.

 

“The institutions that will lead in an AI-driven world are those that build on intelligence that can be trusted, defended, and acted upon,” said Cristina Pieretti, Head of Digital Content and Innovation at Moody’s. “Moody’s provides that intelligent layer – connected, decision-grade, and now available directly in the Claude environment where our customers are already working.”

 

 

Separately, Moody’s is deploying Claude Enterprise, Claude Code, and Claude Desktop in its own operations to accelerate the product development lifecycle that powers its AI roadmap.

 

 

“Claude is built for work where the stakes are high and the outputs need to be defensible, and that’s exactly what credit and compliance teams face every day,” said Kate Jensen, Anthropic Head of Americas. “Moody’s is going all in by bringing Moody’s Agentic Solutions natively into Claude for their customers and deploying Claude in their own operations.”

 

 

At launch, Moody’s purpose-built agents will support credit analysis for financial institutions – including memo generation, peer comparisons, and scorecard assessments – as well as compliance workflows spanning entity profiling, ownership structure mapping, adverse media screening, and sanctions checks. All will be rendered as interactive reports directly within Claude through a dedicated MCP integration that connects Moody’s intelligence at the protocol level, enabling agents to run natively in the Claude environment and produce outputs inline without requiring customers to move between systems.

 

 

For a credit analyst at a financial institution, workflows that previously required hours of data gathering across multiple platforms – assembling ratings, research, and financial data into a defensible memo – can now be executed conversationally inside Claude, with outputs that carry the same sourcing, explainability, and audit trail that regulated environments require. For KYC and compliance professionals, entity screening workflows that span ownership structure mapping, adverse media analysis, and sanctions checks are available as a single, integrated workflow rendered directly in the Claude interface.

 

 

Today’s launch is the first in a series of Moody’s agentic workflows planned for the Claude environment, with additional capabilities across risk monitoring and portfolio intelligence to follow.

 

 

Each agent is grounded in Moody’s connected intelligence – a unified architecture spanning 600 million entities, 2 billion ownership links, and interconnected risk intelligence across credit, compliance, and operational domains. Outputs are valid, explainable, and auditable to meet the standard required for high-stakes decision-making in regulated environments.

 

 

To learn more, visit http://moodys.com/agenticsolutions.

 

 

About Moody’s Corporation

 

 

In a world shaped by increasingly interconnected risks, Moody’s (NYSE:MCO) data, insights, and innovative technologies help customers develop a holistic view of their world and unlock opportunities. With a rich history of experience in global markets and a diverse workforce of approximately 16,000 across more than 40 countries, Moody’s gives customers the comprehensive perspective needed to act with confidence and thrive.

 

 

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INNIO Group today announced the signing of a strategic gas engine framework agreement with Rehlko, securing 1.25 gigawatts (GW) of engine capacity over the next three years. This agreement formalizes and expands Rehlko’s existing firm reservation of 700 MW, which is included as part of the secured multi-year allocation. It is designed to support rapidly growing demand from data center and flexible generation projects across key global markets.

 

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Dr. Olaf Berlien, President and CEO of INNIO Group, commented: “With this framework agreement, we are strengthening our partnership with Rehlko and creating long‑term planning certainty in a market with rapidly growing demand. It ensures that our customers can continue to rely on proven technology and dependable execution, even in highly critical applications such as data centers and grid‑stabilization projects.”

 

“This agreement strengthens our ability to support customers making long‑term investments in data‑center infrastructure and flexible power generation. Securing multi‑year supply enhances visibility and confidence in delivery at a time when demand is being driven by structural, rather than cyclical, market forces,” said Brian Melka, President and Chief Executive Officer of Rehlko.

 

 

Rehlko will deliver these projects through Clarke Energy, its in-house engineering, delivery, and lifecycle solutions platform. Clarke Energy brings more than 30 years of collaboration with INNIO and supports a global installed base of over 10 GW, much of it covered by long-term service agreements.

 

 

The framework agreement provides Rehlko and its customers with long-term access to supply at a time of unprecedented growth in both data center development and grid resilience investment. A significant portion of the secured capacity is intended to address continued demand from hyperscale, colocation, and enterprise data center operators undertaking rapid and multiphase expansion.

 

 

About INNIO Group

 

 

INNIO Group is a leading energy solution and service provider that empowers industries and communities to make sustainable energy work today. With its Jenbacher and Waukesha product brands and its AI-powered myplant digital platform, INNIO Group offers innovative solutions for data center power infrastructure, distributed power generation, and compression applications. With its flexible, scalable, and resilient energy solutions and services, INNIO Group enables its customers to drive the energy transition across the energy value chain and helps ensure reliable energy supply even where the grid is not available.

 

 

For more information, visit INNIO Group’s website at innio.com. Follow INNIO Group on X and LinkedIn.

 

 

INNIO, Jenbacher, Waukesha, and myplant are trademarks or registered trademarks of the INNIO Group, or one of its subsidiaries, in the European Union, the United States and in other countries. For a list of INNIO Group trademarks, please visit innio.com/trademarks. All other trademarks and company names are the property of their respective owners.

 

 

 

 

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NIQ (NYSE: NIQ), a global leader in consumer intelligence, announces the launch of NIQ Growth Pathways, a next-generation insights and analytics offering that modernizes traditional research and gives business leaders and marketers a clearer and structured route for category and brand growth. By integrating qualitative and quantitative research with NIQ’s industry-leading performance data, Growth Pathways delivers a connected view of how consumers think, feel, and act.

 

In today’s shifting consumer landscape, where global CPG volume growth has stagnated at under 1% annually, brand marketers need clarity on where to source demand, which opportunities matter most, and how to focus resources that will accelerate penetration and strengthen brand preference. Traditional strategies no longer meet the needs of today’s environment, as consumer behavior evolves and market dynamics grow increasingly complex.

 

 

NIQ’s Growth Pathways creates a growth relevant roadmap relevant for your brand and your market context, by linking your current performance reality – your actual sales performance, with consumer insights and future performance projections, into an expedited and actionable roadmap to achieve market growth. Fast AI enabled qualitative research at scale reveals the real, lived human Jobs to Be Done and behavioral context that sit behind category and brand choice. This provides an accurate starting point for sizing and prioritizing the high-value strategic spaces where your brand has the right-to-play. This all comes together as a strategic playbook for either category, or brand growth, or both.

 

 

“When brands look beyond familiar boundaries and consider the full range of choices consumers actually weigh in and beyond your category, new growth possibilities come into view,” said Stacy Bereck, NIQ Global Practice Leader. “Growth Pathways helps teams notice opportunities in places they may not have explored previously, which inspires new ways of thinking about growth. As brands innovate and enter new spaces, they can energize the entire category.”

 

 

The launch of Growth Pathways reflects NIQ’s ongoing transformation and commitment to delivering AI-enabled, open-data, client-first solutions. With more than 23,000 clients across 90+ countries, 22.2M store coverage, 220M product categories and collaboration programs across more than 50 retailers worldwide, NIQ continues to build a faster, smarter, and more connected insights ecosystem—empowering leaders with predictive intelligence that fuels growth across the global marketplace.

 

 

“More than ever before, companies need to make fewer but bigger brand bets in order to grow, and those bets must be consumer driven, evidence-based, and scalable,” said Gillian O’Sullivan, NIQ Global Sub-Practice Leader. “Growth Pathways takes validated marketing methods and applies them in a structured scientific KPI framework to determine the right pathway to sizeable and sustainable brand growth.”

 

 

To explore NIQ Growth Pathways or request a demo, click here.

 

 

FAQs

 

 

1. What is NIQ Growth Pathways?

 

 

NIQ Growth Pathways is an AI-enabled consumer insights and analytics solution that helps brands identify, prioritize, and activate new sources of growth. It combines consumer research, retail measurement data, and advanced analytics to deliver a structured growth strategy for brands and categories.

 

 

2. What does NIQ Growth Pathways do?

 

 

NIQ Growth Pathways helps companies:

 

 

• Identify untapped growth opportunities
• Understand consumer behavior (what consumers think, feel, and do)
• Prioritize high-value demand spaces
• Build actionable growth strategies based on data

 

 

It translates complex data into clear, decision-ready growth pathways.

 

3. How does NIQ Growth Pathways use AI?

 

 

NIQ Growth Pathways uses AI to scale qualitative research and uncover deep consumer insights, including motivations, unmet needs, and “Jobs to Be Done.” AI accelerates insight generation, improves accuracy, and enables faster identification of growth opportunities.

 

 

4. What makes NIQ Growth Pathways different from traditional market research?

 

 

Unlike traditional market research, NIQ Growth Pathways:

 

 

• Integrates qualitative insights, quantitative data, and sales performance
• Connects past performance with future growth projections
• Uses AI to analyze consumer behavior at scale
• Delivers a structured, actionable growth roadmap instead of static reports

 

 

5. What problem does NIQ Growth Pathways solve for brands?

 

NIQ Growth Pathways helps brands solve the problem of low growth and unclear demand signals in modern markets. With global CPG growth under 1%, brands need better tools to identify where to grow, how to win, and which investments will deliver the highest return.

 

 

6. Who should use NIQ Growth Pathways?

 

 

NIQ Growth Pathways is designed for:

 

 

• Brand managers
• Marketing leaders
• Consumer insights teams
• Strategy and innovation teams

 

 

It is especially useful for organizations making large, strategic, data-driven growth decisions.

 

7. What industries can use NIQ Growth Pathways?

 

 

NIQ Growth Pathways is primarily built for FMCG and CPG companies but can be applied to any consumer-focused industry that relies on understanding buying behavior, demand drivers, and market dynamics.

 

 

8. What are “growth pathways” in NIQ Growth Pathways?

 

 

“Growth pathways” are data-driven, prioritized routes to growth. They are based on:

 

 

• Current brand and category performance
• Consumer needs and behaviors
• Competitive and market dynamics
• Future growth potential

 

 

Each pathway represents a strategic opportunity that a brand can act on.

 

9. How does NIQ Growth Pathways identify growth opportunities?

 

 

NIQ Growth Pathways identifies growth opportunities by combining:

 

 

• Retail and sales performance data
• Consumer research (qualitative and quantitative)
• AI-driven insight generation
• Advanced analytics

 

 

This creates a holistic view of where demand exists and where it can be expanded.

 

10. How does NIQ Growth Pathways help brands grow beyond their category?

 

 

NIQ Growth Pathways analyzes the full set of consumer choices, not just those within a single category. This helps brands discover adjacent markets, new use cases, and emerging white spaces where they have the right to compete and grow.

 

 

11. What are the key benefits of NIQ Growth Pathways?

 

 

Key benefits include:

 

 

• Identification of new and untapped growth opportunities
• Faster, AI-powered insights
• Clear prioritization of strategic investments
• A structured, repeatable growth framework
• Alignment between insights, strategy, and execution

 

 

12. How does NIQ Growth Pathways fit into NIQ’s capabilities?

 

NIQ Growth Pathways is built on NIQ’s global data, AI, and analytics platform, including:

 

 

• Retail measurement and consumer panel data
• AI modeling and advanced analytics
• Global coverage across 90+ countries
• Insights across $7.4 trillion in consumer spend

 

 

13. When was NIQ Growth Pathways launched?

 

NIQ Growth Pathways was announced on April 9, 2026, as part of NIQ’s continued investment in AI-enabled, client-first innovation.

 

 

14. How can companies access NIQ Growth Pathways?

 

 

Companies can access NIQ Growth Pathways by contacting NIQ or requesting a demo through www.niq.com.

 

 

About NIQ
NielsenIQ (NYSE: NIQ) is a leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete and trusted understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. By combining an unmatched global data footprint and granular consumer and retail measurement with decades of AI modeling expertise, NIQ builds decision systems that help companies turn complex data into confident action.

 

 

With operations in more than 90 countries, NIQ covers approximately 82% of the world’s population and more than $7.4 trillion in global consumer spend. Through cloud-based platforms, advanced analytics and AI-driven insights, NIQ delivers The Full View™—helping brands and retailers understand what consumers buy, why they buy it, and what to do next.

 

 

For more information, please visit www.niq.com.

 

 

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According to the latest research from Omdia, total shipments of desktops, notebooks, and workstations in 1Q26 increased by 3.2% year-over-year to 64.8 million units. Notebooks (including mobile workstations) saw a modest year-over-year increase of 2.6% in Q1 to 50.8 million units. Meanwhile, desktops (including desktop workstations) performed slightly better, up 5.4% to 14.0 million units. Growth was supported by vendors and channel partners pulling orders forward ahead of a widely anticipated increase in component costs, the continuation of the Windows 10 replacement cycle that is still driving commercial refresh budgets, and by a heavier than usual slate of spring product launches across both Windows OEMs and Apple.

 

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“With supply-chain pressures still building, Q1’s modest growth is likely to mark the high point for the year,” said Ben Yeh, Principal Analyst at Omdia. “Memory and storage costs are expected to rise further and more steeply than previously assumed from Q2, squeezing PC vendor gross margins and forcing them to pass costs through to channel partners and end-customers. AI data center build-outs are crowding consumer categories out of memory and storage supply, which have already seen roughly five-fold and three-fold cost increases respectively since Q1 2025. CPU prices are a smaller but compounding pressure, with Intel and AMD projecting increases of 10-25% into Q2.”

 

With costs set to rise across the bill of materials, vendors have every incentive to protect shipments, revenue and gross margin by pulling deliveries forward, and Omdia’s regional analysis is consistent with that behavior across most of Q1. Preliminary regional data suggest that channel partners in North America have already absorbed as much as they can before end‑user prices rise. In Japan, the market has begun to show a more pronounced downturn, weighed down by the high shipment volume base in 1Q25 and by more severe cost and component supply pressures in the education segment. Given the education-driven surge throughout 2025, fading policy momentum could also become one of the main drivers of contraction in 2026.

 

 

Worldwide desktop and notebook shipments (market share and annual growth)   Omdia PC Market Pulse: 1Q26
Vendor	1Q26 shipments	1Q26 market share	1Q25 shipments	1Q25 market share	Annual growth
Lenovo	16,529	25.5%	15,205	24.2%	8.7%
HP	12,142	18.7%	12,761	20.3%	-4.9%
Dell	10,291	15.9%	9,548	15.2%	7.8%
Apple	7,112	11.0%	6,750	10.7%	5.4%
Asus	4,622	7.1%	4,014	6.4%	15.1%
Others	14,149	21.8%	14,570	23.2%	-2.9%
Total	64,844	100.0%	62,848	100.0%	3.2%
Note: Unit shipments in thousands. Percentages may not add up to 100% due to rounding.   Source: Omdia PC Horizon Service (sell-in shipments), April 2026

 

Lenovo remained firmly in the top spot in 1Q26, further expanding its market share with year-over-year growth of 8.7%. Shipments reached 16.5 million units, and its share surpassed 25%. HP remained in second place, but weak performance in Europe and the United States resulted in a 4.9% decline, with shipments falling to 12.1 million units. Dell continued its strong momentum from 4Q25, posting 7.8% year-over-year growth as shipments reached 10.3 million units. Apple reached a market share of 11% with shipments growing 5.4% due to solid MacBook Air sales performance and the initial sell-in of the MacBook Neo. Asus maintained its double-digit shipment growth, with shipments climbing to 4.6 million units and market share reaching 7.1%.

 

ABOUT OMDIA

 

 

Omdia, part of TechTarget, Inc. d/b/a Informa TechTarget (Nasdaq: TTGT), is a technology research and advisory group. Our deep knowledge of tech markets grounded in real conversations with industry leaders and hundreds of thousands of data points, make our market intelligence our clients’ strategic advantage. From R&D to ROI, we identify the greatest opportunities and move the industry forward.

 

 

 

 

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Christoph has played a pivotal role in shaping the Company’s strategic transformation since his appointment as Chief Business Officer in January 2025

 

Company Founder Jacques Lemmens, PhD, remains as Chairman of the Board

 

Byondis B.V., an independent biopharmaceutical company creating innovative targeted medicines for patients with cancer, announces today the appointment of Christoph Korpus, PhD, MBA, as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective immediately. Christoph has served as Chief Business Officer (CBO) of the Company since January 2025. He succeeds Byondis Founder and former CEO Jacques Lemmens, PhD, who will remain on the Board of Directors as Chairman.

 

In his new role as CEO, Christoph will guide the advancement of research and development activities for Byondis’ novel antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) technology platforms. These platforms, which combine proprietary, novel payloads with state-of-the-art linker and conjugation technologies and conditional activation, include Byondis’ cytotoxic antifolate linker-drug platform, ByonGuard™ masking technology for conditional activation, and ByonBoost™ immune-stimulatory linker-drug platform. Each of these technology platforms has generated frontrunner and multiple follower drug candidates. Byondis, with its fully integrated discovery, development, and manufacturing capabilities, has the flexibility to conduct all essential development efforts for its lead candidates independently. In addition to these in-house activities, Byondis is open to partnerships around its pipeline assets and to licensing its technology for co-development opportunities.

 

 

Christoph brings more than 15 years of experience from across the biopharmaceutical industry, spanning oncology R&D, digital innovation, and global business development and licensing. Prior to joining Byondis, Christoph served as Director, Global Business Development and Licensing Oncology at Merck KGaA, where he led partnering strategies and negotiation teams for multiple oncology transactions. Throughout his tenure at Merck, Christoph drove cross-company innovation through the management of global commercial- and development alliances across different therapeutic areas.

 

 

Jacques Lemmens, PhD, Chairman of Byondis’ Board of Directors, said: “Since joining as CBO last year, Christoph has been instrumental in driving Byondis’ strategic transformation into a focused, fully-integrated biotech company with multiple proprietary ADC technology platforms and a wealth of clinical and manufacturing expertise. His extensive experience in global business development and strategic partnerships, combined with a deep understanding of how our platforms can address high unmet medical needs in oncology, makes him ideally suited to guide Byondis through its next phase of growth. I am confident that, under his leadership, the Company will continue to advance its innovative pipeline to deliver breakthrough solutions for patients as quickly as possible.”

 

 

Christoph Korpus, PhD, MBA, newly appointed Chief Executive Officer, said: “It is a great honor to be appointed to lead this company, particularly now when the path forward to maximize the value of our decades of ADC expertise is so clear. My focus now is executing our strategic vision, fostering partnerships that enhance our growth, and working with our talented team to deliver innovative ADC therapies that can overcome the critical limitations of current and next-generation therapies to make a meaningful difference for cancer patients. Under Jacques’ leadership, Byondis has built strong capabilities across ADC discovery and development and GMP manufacturing. I am committed to leveraging these strengths as we continue to maximize the potential of our platforms and advance our differentiated programs.”

 

 

Christoph holds a PhD from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and the University of Connecticut and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management.

 

 

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About Byondis

 

 

Driven to improve patients’ lives, Byondis is an independent, fully integrated biopharmaceutical research and development company creating innovative targeted medicines for cancer. The company is developing new biological entities (NBEs) with a focus on antibody-drug conjugates.

 

 

Byondis’ development portfolio leverages expertise in linker-drug (LD) technology, antibody-drug conjugation, and disease biology. Byondis’ fully integrated drug development capabilities cover all stages from pre-clinical and clinical R&D, production of clinical batches of the selected product candidates, and regulatory filings which are all done in-house.

 

 

The company has a dedicated team of more than 200 staff working in its state-of-the-art R&D and GMP manufacturing facilities in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

 

 

 

 

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Pennant Technologies, an agile and innovative financial technology company, today announced that it has been recognised with the AGBA Innovation Star Rating Certificate by the Aegis Graham Bell Awards in the category of Innovation in Fintech for its next-generation lending platform, pennApps Studio.

The AGBA Innovation Star Rating is a structured innovation assessment framework supported by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India. The certification recognises market-ready, scalable technology solutions that demonstrate measurable industry impact. This recognition further validates Pennant’s leadership in innovative financial technology solutions including AI-driven lending transformation and reinforces its positioning as a provider of enterprise-grade digital lending and credit risk technology for banks and financial institutions.

“We are honoured to receive the AGBA Innovation Star Rating Certificate for pennApps Studio, which reflects our continued focus on AI-driven innovation in financial services,” said Sireesh Patnaik, Chief Product & Technology Officer, Pennant Technologies. “We are reengineering the lending lifecycle through embedded Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI capabilities that enable financial institutions to automate intelligently, accelerate product innovation, and deliver measurable business value at scale.”

pennApps Studio: AI-Driven Digital Lending Platform for Modern Financial Institutions

pennApps Studio is a composable digital lending platform that enables banks, NBFCs, and financial institutions to rapidly design, deploy, and scale loan origination and underwriting workflows on a single unified platform, offering capabilities from no-code simplicity to pro-code flexibility. Built on an enterprise-grade lending framework with embedded compliance, security, and scalability, and supported by a seamless integration layer with pre-configured API connectors, the platform ensures streamlined connectivity across core systems and fintech ecosystems. A visual IDE with intuitive drag-and-drop UI and UX builders enables rapid workflow and interface configuration, significantly accelerating product rollout. Its embedded AI and GenAI capabilities power automated credit decisioning, intelligent document processing, predictive analytics, and workflow optimisation, while a robust DevSecOps and CI/CD pipeline ensures secure, continuous innovation. Together, these capabilities help financial institutions accelerate approvals, enhance risk management, reduce turnaround times, launch new lending products faster, and lower cost to serve.Top of Form

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Enterprise-Grade Lending at Scale

Designed to support retail, MSME, corporate, and commercial lending across multi-product, multi-entity, and multi-country environments, Pennant’s future-ready lending solutions, including its flagship loan lifecycle management platform, pennApps Lending Factory, which unifies loan origination, underwriting, disbursement, servicing, and collections within a scalable, configurable, cloud-ready framework. Built on a modular, API-first architecture, the pennApps suite delivers operational agility, regulatory alignment, rapid product innovation, and enterprise-grade resilience.

As a global financial technology company, specialising in future-ready digital lending platforms, Pennant enables banks and financial institutions to accelerate lending transformation, enhance credit risk governance, improve operational efficiency, and deliver superior borrower experiences at scale.

For more information on pennApps Lending Solutions, visit: https://www.pennanttech.com/lending-factory/.