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Bajaj Life Offers an Industry First Solution with Living Benefits to fulfil your Health, Wellness & Fitness goals

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Chandigarh, Apr 23: Bajaj Life Insurance, one of India’s leading private life insurers, has introduced Bajaj Life Care Plus Rider, an industry first solution that offers living benefits across health, wellness, and fitness with life insurance policies. Designed to go beyond traditional coverage, this rider reflects Bajaj Life Insurance’s commitment to enabling customers to lead healthier, more confident, and fulfilling lives – while staying financially secure.

As consumer expectations evolve, there is a growing demand for holistic solutions that combine protection with proactive well-being support. Addressing this need, the Bajaj Life Care Plus Rider brings together health, wellness, and fitness benefits in an industry first, single offering, empowering individuals to actively manage their well-being alongside their long-term financial goals. Available with eligible life insurance plans, the rider offers five variants – Prime, Pro, Ultra, Prestige, and Optima – allowing customers to choose an option aligned with their lifestyle and financial protection needs.

Tarun Chugh, MD & CEO, Bajaj Life Insurance, said, “At Bajaj Life, we believe true protection goes beyond covering life’s uncertainties to enabling healthier, fuller lives. The Bajaj Life Care Plus Rider reflects this vision by bringing together health, wellness, and fitness benefits with financial protection, in a single solution; redefining what a health rider can deliver for our customers.”

The Bajaj Life Care Plus Rider goes beyond traditional riders by offering a comprehensive solution that combines health and mental well-being with financial safeguards, with living benefits worth up to ₹2,00,000 per annum at ₹1,911 per month. Benefits vary by selected variant and eligible plan combination.

Key benefits include:

  • Health Benefits: Customers get access to in-clinic doctor consultations across a 1.3 lakh+ doctor network along with unlimited health tele-consultations across specialties through video, audio, or chat channels.
  • Fitness Benefits: Depending on the variant, Policyholders can support their fitness goals with complimentary annual gym memberships across 8100+ centres, along with unlimited diet and nutrition consultations through digital platforms.
  • Wellness Benefits: Customers can take preventive steps towards better well-being with health check-ups across 7800+ diagnostic centres, along with unlimited psychologist consultations and emotional wellness support.
  • Accidental Total Permanent Disability (ATPD) Benefit: In case of accidental total permanent disability, a lump sum amount is paid out to ensure financial security during challenging times.
  • Waiver of Future Rider Premiums on ATPD: If ATPD occurs, all future premiums under this rider are waived off for the remaining premium paying term, while Care Plus rider benefits continue uninterrupted.

With Bajaj Life Care Plus Rider, the company aims to bridge the gap between traditional insurance and evolving lifestyle needs by supporting customers not just during medical emergencies, but also in managing their day-to-day health, wellness, and fitness goals.

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There Was No Roadmap for Me. There Still Isn’t One for Her.

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By Dr. Stella Vnook 

When I started in biotechnology, there was no clear path into leadership. You learned by doing, by watching, and often by making mistakes that could have been avoided if someone had simply explained how the system actually works. What surprises me is how little that has changed.

Today, I work with founders, scientists, and early-career professionals across oncology, regenerative medicine, and complex biologics. The talent is there—exceptional, driven, highly capable. But many of them, especially young women, are still trying to navigate an industry where the path forward is largely invisible. Women make up roughly half of the biopharma workforce and nearly half of bioscience graduates, yet fewer than one in five biotech CEOs are women. Even more striking, less than 3% of venture capital goes to companies led by women. Across STEM fields, women earn a growing share of advanced degrees, but remain significantly underrepresented in leadership roles and continue to earn less than their male counterparts in comparable positions. This is not a talent issue—it’s a visibility and pathway issue. We are training exceptional scientists, but we are not showing them how to become founders, operators, or leaders. The gap became even more visible during COVID, when millions of women left the workforce as childcare systems collapsed. At one point, an estimated 7 million women stepped out of employment due to school and daycare closures.

They don’t always know what roles exist beyond the lab. They don’t understand how a company is actually built. And they’re rarely given insight into how decisions are made at the leadership or board level. So they stay where the path is defined, even if it’s not where they ultimately want to go. We’re not losing talent because it isn’t there. We’re losing it because we’re not showing people the full picture.

One of the biggest gaps I see is the space between good science and a real company.

Most early-career professionals are trained deeply in the science, but almost never exposed to how that science becomes a product, a company, or a funded platform. They don’t see how capital shapes strategy. They don’t see how regulatory decisions drive value. They don’t see how leadership teams think about risk, timelines, or outcomes. And without that visibility, it’s difficult to imagine yourself in those roles. This is where mentorship matters, but not in the way we often talk about it. Mentorship isn’t about encouragement. It’s about context, skills and showing the path.

The most impactful mentorship I’ve been able to provide is not advice—it’s helping people see what’s actually happening behind the scenes. How companies are structured. How decisions get made. Where inflection points occur. What creates value—and what destroys it.

Once someone understands that, their thinking changes.

They start asking different questions.

They start seeing paths that were previously invisible.

There are more opportunities in biotech today than ever before. The industry is broader, more interdisciplinary, and more dynamic than most people realize. There are roles in strategy, development, operations, regulatory, finance, and leadership that extend far beyond traditional scientific tracks. But opportunity alone isn’t enough. If people can’t see the path, they won’t take it.

If we want to bring more women into leadership in biotech, we need to start earlier and we need to be more explicit. We need to show how companies are actually built. We need to expose how capital and strategy shape outcomes. We need to give people visibility into leadership thinking, not just technical execution. And we need to do that before they’ve already chosen a narrower path.

The next generation is ready. The talent is already there. What’s missing is clarity.

And until we make the path visible, we shouldn’t be surprised when people don’t follow it.

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Children Who Undervent Liver Transplants Unite at KIMSHEALTH

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Children Who Undervent Liver Transplants Unite at KIMSHEALTH

 

When Alin Sherin Abraham’s parents met eight-month-old Dhriya, the recipient of Alin’s liver, for the first time.

Thiruvananthapuram, Apr 23: In a tribute to the life-saving act of organ donation, KIMSHEALTH, organised a special gathering of organ donors and children who underwent liver transplant. The event also witnessed  a deeply emotional moment, as the family of the ten month old donor Alin Sherin Abraham, met Dhriya, the eight month old who received Alin’s liver, for the first time. More than 100 people participated in this special gathering. 

Dr. M I Sahadulla, Chairman and Managing Director of KIMSHEALTH, said that organ is the noblest message of love and sacrifice. He emphasized that it not only conveys a powerful message to society, but also plays a vital role in raising awareness about this crucial cause. Dr.Sahadulla, also lauded the tireless efforts of government systems, doctors in the liver transplant department, and other staff members.

Dr.Nobel Gracious, Executive Director, K-SOTTO said that the cooperation of organ donors’ families in Kerala, government systems including the police, public, media and above all, the untiring efforts of the doctors and the medical team performing the transplants is a great model to follow. Being an organ donor is a generous and worthwhile decision that can be a lifesaver, he added.

Dr. P K Jabbar, Principal, Government Medical College Thiruvananthapuram; Dr. Ragi Krishnan, South Zone Nodal Officer K-SOTTO; Dr. Basil, Joint Director, K-SOTTO; Dr. Praveen Muralidharan, Director, Multi Organ Transplant, KIMSHEALTH; Liver Transplant surgeons Dr. Shiraz Ahmad Rather, Dr. Shabeerali T U, and Pediatric Hepatologist Dr. Anu K Vasu where also part of the program.

KIMSHEALTH performed its first liver transplant on July 23, 2013. Since then, nearly 250 liver transplant surgeries have been successfully completed. The hospital has also achieved several significant milestones, including Kerala’s first combined liver and kidney transplant, the state’s first split liver transplant, the successful liver transplant on a lowest weighing baby.

 

 

 

 

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Accenture and WaveMaker Announce Strategic Intent to Help Growth-Focused Organizations Scale with Agentic AI Platform

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Companies to leverage hybrid agentic AI platform with industry-first 2-pass code generation architecture and built-in guardrails for enterprise-grade outcomes
 
NEW YORK and DALLAS; April 22, 2026 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and WaveMaker, a leading agentic platform provider for enterprise-grade application generation, today announced strategic intent to help organizations – particularly those pursuing high growth with annual revenue of up to US$3 billion – modernize applications faster, reduce development complexity, and deliver new digital experiences that drive measurable business outcomes.
 
The companies will combine Accenture’s deep software engineering expertise and global reach with WaveMaker’s industry-first 2-pass code generation architecture, a proven platform enabling organizations in highly regulated industries to quickly build secure, scalable web and mobile applications. Together, the companies will help organizations accelerate innovation while maintaining cost control and operational resilience.
 
The collaboration comes as many organizations look for practical ways to adopt agentic AI that deliver clear business value without introducing unnecessary risk or complexity. Many are grappling with aging systems, SaaS tool sprawl, outdated skillsets and rising competitive disruption in increasingly volatile markets. While they are ready to grow and compete at a higher level, they often lack the resources, expertise or budget typically required for large-scale transformation.
 
“In today’s competitive landscape, organizations need to modernize and innovate quickly to keep pace, yet many still face constraints around cost, complexity and in-house expertise,” said Kishore P. Durg, senior managing director in Reinvention Services at Accenture. “This collaboration enables our clients to accelerate application modernization and deliver new digital capabilities while maintaining control over costs and reducing operational risk.”
 
“By combining WaveMaker’s platform with Accenture’s engineering and industry offerings, we are enabling a more scalable and repeatable approach to application development,” said Senthil Ramani, chief offerings and products officer at Accenture. “This allows organizations to accelerate delivery while maintaining consistency, quality, and control across their application landscape.”
 
By integrating a hybrid agentic AI platform into the modern application development process, organizations can reduce development time, increase productivity, lower implementation costs, and reduce technical debt through more efficient, scalable delivery models.
 
“Being in the business of creating a developer focused agentic AI platform means we have always believed in delivering sound architecture, and modern, scalable digital experiences for our enterprise customers,” said Vijay Pullur, CEO of WaveMaker. “I’m very bullish on the potential of our Accenture collaboration as we empower organizations to innovate with confidence, modernize their legacy systems faster and compete more effectively in a rapidly changing marketplace.”
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Bona Fide Actress, Sonequa Martin-green, Graces the Cover of Sheen Magazine

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GREENVILLE, SC (APRIL 22, 2026)—Progression comes by first getting in the game.  To start advancing, you gotta grind towards your goals and stay disciplined.  Not having peace of mind during the process can cost you a lot, but once you master it, you’ve hit an oasis, regardless of the circumstances. In this issue dubbed the tranquil edition, we discover the true journey of self and life. Our illustrious cover star, Sonequa Martin-Green, takes on a leadership role in the film.  One of the many milestones of Sonequa’s career includes making history as the first Black female captain in the Star Trek Universe.
 
“If you’re standing on someone else’s shoulders, then you better stand.”  –Sonequa Martin-Green

Bona Fide Actress, Sonequa Martin-green, Graces the Cover of Sheen Magazine

 
 
This issue promises to bring an abundance of peace and relaxation.  For Our Beauty Spotlight, Miss Black USA, Naiylah Archer, is shaping her oasis by stepping away from anyone creating her narrative, “I’m not waiting for representation. I’m creating it.”  For The Foundation, Influencer, Wendu Ejim, shares how she redefines motherhood through self-care and beauty.  Notable barber Aaron Burks discusses how he found out that barbering was his calling. The Beauty Tour has healthy hair and skin for the win, and our #hairgoals are ponytails and twists that are modern musts!
 
Find out how luxury designer Denzel Parris is transforming the fashion industry through modern class and elegance in our exclusive Designer Spotlight. Celebrity Fashion Stylist, Leah Taylor, dishes on strategic image-building, and for our Red Carpet Flashbacks, we channel the sultry sophistication, fearless glamour, and timeless beauty of the iconic Toni Braxton.  Give your wardrobe the refresh your life’s style deserves!
 
LuvaBoy TJ unfolds the study of modern romance, self-discovery, and the heart behind his music and everyday rituals in Mandate, while Baritone Davóne Tines brings depth to a production that reimagines Black storytelling on the opera stage in Music Spotlight.  For our Art Feature, Atlanta music artist Dri Jack reflects on grief, gospel roots, and the discipline that shaped her into a compelling storyteller.  Get the answers to your burning dating questions in “Dear Troy,” and seek your next destination in a poetic travel feature with Kira J.
 
In our Fitness feature, Chef Kymmis is transforming wellness into a movement that strengthens communities and breaks generational cycles. The final note is the inspirational words of excellence from WNBA star Angel McCoughtry, who is now expanding her impact far beyond the court. In our tantalizing food feature, a story of family, faith, and food comes together through Tiffany Mack’s heartfelt cooking venture. 
 
SHEEN Magazine’s May/June ‘Oasis’ issue hits stands on Tuesday, April 21, 2026.

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L&T Technology Services Reports 14% (INR) Growth in Revenue From Continued Operations for FY26

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  • Sixth straight quarter of consecutive ~$200mn large deal bookings
  • Divests SWC business To Focus on Engineering Intelligence, Core Segments
  • Proposed Final Dividend of Rs 40 per share

L&T Technology Services Limited (BSE: 540115, NSE: LTTS), a global leader in AI, Digital & ER&D Consulting Services, announced its results for the fourth quarter and annual year ended March 31, 2026.

 

Highlights for FY26 include:

  • Revenue at Rs 1,09,959 million; growth of 14%
  • USD Revenue at $1,233 million; growth of 8.3%
  • EBIT margin at 14.5%
  • Net Income at Rs 12,818 million, growth of 7.4%
  • Final dividend of Rs 40 per share recommended by the Board

 

Highlights for Q4FY26 include:

  • Revenue at Rs 28,579 million; growth of 8.3% YoY and 2.5% QoQ
  • USD Revenue at $306 million; growth of 0.3% YoY
  • EBIT margin at 15.2%
  • Net Income at Rs 3,467 million, growth of 23.6%YoY and 8.9% QoQ

 

LTTS’ FY26 TCV large deal bookings crossed $850 Mn. The Company continued its large-deal momentum, marking the sixth consecutive quarter of ~$200 million in TCV. This includes one $75 Mn deal, two deals valued at $20+ Mn, one deal at $15+ Mn and three deals valued at over $10 Mn+ each.

 

“Anticipating the business landscape and technology shifts over the next 5 years, we recalibrated our portfolio to focus on profitable growth business, driven by forward looking technologies. Our continued operations (excluding divested business) posted FY26 growth of 8.3% at $1,233 million.

 

We are also seeing encouraging momentum across key segments. Sustainability continues to scale strongly, supported by a robust pipeline of deal wins, while Mobility has stabilized with new deal wins and is poised for growth.

 

This overall performance is driven by a sharper, more focused organization, anchored in our approach to Engineering Intelligence (EI), where engineering converges with AI and digital technologies to deliver higher-value solutions and differentiated outcomes for our clients. We surpassed the 235 count in AI patents, taking our total patent portfolio to over 1,700.

 

As part of our 5-year Lakshya 31-Plan, we aspire to deliver 13–15% CAGR over the next five years. We believe we will continue to grow faster than the industry supported by strong core capabilities and execution discipline,” said Amit Chadha, CEO & Managing Director, L&T Technology Services Limited.

 

Highlights and Recognitions:

  1. LTTS was felicitated with the Creative Partnership Award for Engineering & Innovation at the Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) Awards.
  2. LTTS received the Engineering Innovation Award from Newmar Corporation, recognizing excellence in delivering high-impact engineering solutions.
  3. Awarded ‘Partner-level Supplier’ status in John Deere’s Achieving Excellence Program for the sixth time, the highest recognition for quality and service.
  4. Fourth Edition of Digital Engineering Awards: LTTS, in association with ISG & CNBC-TV18, hosted the fourth edition of the Digital Engineering Awards in Boston, USA. The event saw 250+ nominations from 17 countries, spanning Physical AI, Digital Engineering, Sustainability.

Patents

At the end of Q4FY26, the patents portfolio of L&T Technology Services stood at 1,706, out of which 1,033 are co-authored with its customers and the rest are filed by LTTS.

 

Human Resources

At the end of Q4FY26, LTTS’ employee strength stood at 23,830.

 

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Global Turbine Asia Advances Aerospace Growth, Capabilities and Talent Development Through Strategic Partnerships

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KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 22 - Global Turbine Asia Sdn. Bhd. (“GTA” or the “Company”), a Malaysian-based engine maintenance, repair and overhaul (“MRO”) and support service provider serving military and civil operators in Malaysia, and a Certified Maintenance Centre (“CMC”) for Safran Helicopter Engines, today exchanged two Memorandum of Understanding (“MoU”) with Airbus Defence and Space (“Airbus DS”)and Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia (“UPNM”), as well as a Note of Understanding (“NoU”) with Perbadanan Hal Ehwal Bekas Angkatan Tentera (“PERHEBAT”). The signings were witnessed by Yang Berhormat Dato’ Seri Haji Mohamed Khaled bin Nordin, Minister of Defence, Malaysia. 
 

Global Turbine Asia Advances Aerospace Growth, Capabilities and Talent Development Through Strategic Partnerships

 
 
MoU exchange between Global Turbine Asia Sdn. Bhd. & Airbus Defence & Space, witnessed by YB Dato’ Seri Haji Mohamed Khaled bin Nordin, Minister of Defence, MINDEF, Malaysia. 

Global Turbine Asia Advances Aerospace Growth, Capabilities and Talent Development Through Strategic Partnerships

 Note of Understanding between Global Turbine Asia Sdn. Bhd & Perbadanan Hal Ehwal Bekas Angkatan Tentera, witnessed by YB Dato’ Seri Haji Mohamed Khaled bin Nordin, Minister of Defence, MINDEF, Malaysia accompanied by YBhg. Datuk Lokman Hakim bin Ali, Secretary General, MINDEF, Malaysia.

Global Turbine Asia Advances Aerospace Growth, Capabilities and Talent Development Through Strategic Partnerships

 MoU exchange between Global Turbine Asia Sdn. Bhd. & Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia, witnessed by YB Dato’ Seri Haji Mohamed Khaled bin Nordin, Minister of Defence, MINDEF, Malaysia. 
 
 The MoUs reflect GTA’s strategic focus on strengthening the aerospace and defence ecosystem through cross-border commercial cooperation, talent development, research partnerships and long-term capability building, aligned with evolving regional industry needs. 

GTA’s MoU with Airbus DS will evaluate opportunities to develop Malaysia’s military aircraft MRO capabilities and assess GTA as a potential Industrial Collaboration Programme (“ICP”) beneficiary, which will advance local aerospace self-reliance, facilitateknowledge and capability transfer, and supply chain integration, pending approvals. 

Through its MoU with UPNM, GTA aims to strengthen industry-academia collaboration in research, innovation, talent development, and technical services. Areas of cooperation may include joint R&D, training and postgraduate pathways, technical advisory services, workshops and centres of expertise, as well as potential industry-on-campus initiatives, subject to approvals and separate agreements where required. 

GTA’s NoU with PERHEBAT supports the career transition of retiring Malaysian Armed Forces personnel and veterans by providing industrial training, workplace exposure, and potential employment opportunities. The collaboration includes job-skills alignment, programme monitoring, and joint initiatives aimed at enhancing the employability and well-being of Veteran Angkatan Tentera Malaysia (“ATM”). 

Dato’ Nonee Ashirin Dato Mohd Radzi, Executive Chairman of Global Turbine Asia Sdn. Bhd., said, “These MoUs mark an important step in strengthening GTA’s role within the aerospace and defence ecosystem, not only as an engine support and MRO provider, but also as a long-term partner in capability development, talent cultivation and strategic collaboration.” 

She added, “Together, these partnerships reflect our commitment to building a stronger, more resilient and future-ready platform for the industry. 

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ExaGrid Named a Finalist for the Storage Awards 2026

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ExaGrid®, the world’s largest independent backup storage vendor providing Tiered Backup Storage with the most Comprehensive Security and AI-Powered Retention Time-Lock for Ransomware Recovery, today announced that it has been nominated in 16 categories for the 23rd annual Storage Awards.

 

This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260422235829/en/

 

 

 

ExaGrid has become a finalist in the following categories:

 

  • Storage Innovator of the Year
  • Immutable Storage Company of the Year
  • Storage Industry Champion – Commercial
  • Storage Industry Champion – Marketing
  • Channel Excellence Award
  • AI Data Storage Innovator of the Year
  • Cyber Resilient Storage Company of the Year
     
  • Ransomware Product of the Year
  • Data Protection Company of the Year
  • Enterprise Backup Hardware Vendor of the Year
  • Object Storage Vendor of the Year
  • Storage Optimisation Company of the Year
  • Capacity Storage Vendor of the Year
  • Channel Partner Programme of the Year
  • Storage Product of the Year
  • Storage Company of the Year

 

Voting to determine the winner in each category is underway now and closes on June 4, 2026. Winners of this year’s awards will be announced at “The Storries XXIII” awards ceremony held in London on June 18, 2026.

 

“We are honored to be nominated in so many categories that highlight our unique position as the industry’s largest independent backup storage vendor, with a product that ‘just works,’ and a team that values channel partnerships,” said Bill Andrews, President and CEO of ExaGrid. “We hope that our partners and customers will take a moment to vote on the 23rd annual Storage Awards, and we look forward to the awards ceremony in June.”

 

 

About ExaGrid
ExaGrid provides Tiered Backup Storage with a unique disk-cache Landing Zone, long-term retention repository, scale-out architecture, and comprehensive security features, including AI-Powered Retention Time-Lock to recover from a ransomware attack. ExaGrid’s Landing Zone provides for the fastest backups, restores, and instant VM recoveries. The Repository Tier offers the lowest cost for long-term retention. ExaGrid’s scale-out architecture includes full appliances and ensures a fixed-length backup window as data grows, eliminating expensive forklift upgrades and forced product obsolescence. ExaGrid offers the only two-tiered backup storage approach with a non-network-facing tier (tiered air gap), delayed deletes, and immutable objects to recover from ransomware attacks.

 

 

ExaGrid has physical sales and pre-sales systems engineers in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Benelux, Brazil, Canada, Chile, CIS, Colombia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Nordics, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, and other regions.

 

 

Visit us at exagrid.com or connect with us on LinkedIn. See what our customers have to say about their own ExaGrid experiences and learn why they now spend significantly less time on backup storage in our customer success stories. ExaGrid is proud of our +81 NPS score!

 

 

ExaGrid is a registered trademark of ExaGrid Systems, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

 

 

 

 

 

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Accertify Launches Global Air Travel Fraud Report Revealing Where Booking-Stage Pressure Is Most Concentrated

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Accertify, a leading unified risk decisioning platform provider, today announced the release of its Global Air Travel Fraud Report: Q1 2026, a quarterly analysis examining how fraud risk in airline bookings varies by route origin across global markets.

 

Based on more than 180 million airline booking transactions processed between January and March 2026, the report analyzes fraud rates by departure city as a proxy for route origin, offering airlines a practical view of where fraud prevention systems are intervening most frequently at the point of booking.

 

 

The Q1 2026 findings show that fraud risk in airline bookings is unevenly distributed across markets, with meaningful differences emerging by region and by origin city. Routes originating in North America and Australia continue to exhibit consistently low fraud rates, generally remaining below one percent even among high‑volume departure cities. By contrast, several regions – including Latin America, parts of Africa, the Middle East, and South and Southeast Asia – show materially higher concentrations of prevented fraud, with certain origin cities recording fraud rates multiple times higher.

 

 

Importantly, the fraud rates presented in the report represent prevented fraud, or transactions that were denied for a fraud reason before travel occurred. As a result, the rankings highlight where fraud prevention systems are most actively intervening, rather than where fraud losses ultimately materialized.

 

 

Key findings from the Accertify Q1 2026 Global Air Travel Fraud Report include:

 

 

  • Routes originating in North America and Australia remain among the lowest‑risk globally, reflecting stable booking behavior and more mature fraud prevention environments.
  • Latin America and the Caribbean show some of the highest concentrations of prevented fraud, particularly across several Brazilian and Colombian origin cities.
  • Fraud exposure across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa varies significantly by origin city, underscoring that regional averages can mask localized risk concentration.
  • Fraud trends across Asia are mixed, with East Asia maintaining relatively low and improving fraud rates, while parts of South and Southeast Asia exhibit higher and more uneven fraud pressure.

 

 

“Understanding where fraud is being actively prevented gives airlines a clearer picture of today’s booking‑stage risk landscape,” said Theodore Esser, Director, Strategic Risk Services at Accertify. “By looking at fraud rates by route origin, airlines can better see where controls are intervening most often, and how fraud prevention maturity differs across markets.”

 

The report underscores that lower fraud rates are not accidental, but tend to emerge in markets where airlines have invested in layered, consistently applied fraud controls over time. Conversely, higher observed fraud rates reflect environments where booking‑stage fraud pressure remains more concentrated and requires more frequent system intervention.

 

 

The Q1 2026 Global Air Travel Fraud Report is accessible here.

 

 

About Accertify

 

 

Accertify, Inc., is a leading unified risk decisioning platform provider, spanning fraud prevention, chargeback management, account protection, abuse prevention, and payment optimization solutions to clients spanning diverse industries worldwide. Accertify’s platform protects digital commerce, helping clients grow their business by driving down fraud-related losses, simplifying business processes, all while upholding the consumer experience. To learn more about Accertify, visit www.accertify.com.

 

 

 

 

 

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NetApp Partners with Google Cloud to Adopt AI-Driven Operations

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NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, today announced a strategic evolution in its partnership with Google Cloud, which has enabled enterprises to drive AI innovation with their own data stored in the NetApp data platform. After seeing the productivity and innovation benefits customers experienced using Gemini Enterprise integrated with their data in Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, NetApp has adopted Gemini Enterprise to help increase productivity in its internal product development and sales operations.

 

With the adoption of Google Cloud AI technologies, NetApp is expanding its leadership in enterprise-grade AI innovation, not just enabling AI workloads but acting as an AI practitioner. NetApp customers will benefit from the AI-powered gains in productivity and innovation.

 

 

“AI is an imperative for enterprise success, and NetApp is committed to leading by example,” said César Cernuda, President at NetApp. “Adopting Gemini Enterprise to help accelerate internal sales and development workflows builds on our leadership in enabling enterprise AI innovation. Customers can rely on our expertise and experience as they adopt or build AI to achieve their own goals.”

 

 

NetApp has worked with Google Cloud on NetApp Volumes, a fully managed, unified cloud-based data storage service from Google Cloud that offers advanced data management capabilities and highly scalable performance. Ongoing innovation like the NetApp Volumes data connector with Gemini Enterprise are enabling customers to build agentic AI capabilities into their applications and power them with enterprise proprietary data on NetApp Volumes directly and securely, saving them on storage costs and administrative complexities. Through this collaboration, NetApp saw firsthand the productivity and innovation benefits this combination delivers.

 

 

Based on that experience, NetApp has now adopted Gemini Enterprise internally, becoming a customer of the same AI capabilities it is helping bring to market with Google Cloud.

 

 

“Our ongoing collaboration with Google Cloud is accelerating how enterprises put AI to work with trusted, enterprise‑grade data,” said Pravjit Tiwana, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cloud Storage and Services at NetApp. “With Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, customers can bring their data on the NetApp data platform to Gemini Enterprise while maintaining the security and control ONTAP is known for. As we saw the impact on data-driven decision-making and productivity at scale that this powerful combination delivered for customers, adopting Gemini Enterprise across our own teams was a natural next step.”

 

 

Gemini Enterprise helps NetApp product teams accelerate development cycles through AI-driven insights and enables NetApp’s sales teams to leverage AI to deliver hyper-relevant solutions to customers more quickly. These teams are building intelligent agents that match customers to the right solutions faster and streamline onboarding—reducing sales ramp time by an estimated month.

 

 

In addition to Gemini Enterprise, NetApp has been using Google Security Operations for enhanced cybersecurity and threat management. By deploying the platform’s advanced AI-driven automation, NetApp can significantly enhance proactive threat prevention and free analysts from repetitive tasks. This will help to accelerate the identification and containment of breaches and minimize the likelihood and impact of a major data breach.

 

 

“Gemini Enterprise is unlocking tangible business outcomes and fundamentally reshaping how enterprises operate,” said Kevin Ichhpurani, President, Global Partner Ecosystem, Google Cloud. “NetApp is a prime example of a partner acting as an AI practitioner. By adopting Gemini Enterprise internally, they are proving how agentic AI can fundamentally reshape product development and sales operations, while simultaneously helping our joint customers do the same with their own proprietary data.”

 

 

This adoption cements NetApp’s position as a leader in AI, grounded in enterprise-grade data and responsible innovation. With a comprehensive portfolio with capabilities built to modernize, secure, transform, and innovate with confidence, NetApp helps customers build Intelligent Data Infrastructure. The expanded collaboration with Google Cloud helps extend NetApp’s commitment to advancing AI technology and shaping the future of enterprise AI.

 

 

To explore how NetApp’s experience implementing, building and enabling AI translates into capabilities that help businesses extract the most value from their data, visit: https://www.netapp.com/artificial-intelligence/

 

 

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About NetApp

 

For more than three decades, NetApp has helped the world’s leading organizations navigate change – from the rise of enterprise storage to the intelligent era defined by data and AI. Today, NetApp is the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, helping customers turn data into a catalyst for innovation, resilience, and growth.

 

 

At the heart of that infrastructure is the NetApp data platform – the unified, enterprise-grade, intelligent foundation that connects, protects, and activates data across every cloud, workload, and environment. Built on the proven power of NetApp ONTAP, our leading data management software and OS, and enhanced by automation through the AI Data Engine and AFX, it delivers observability, resilience, and intelligence at scale.

 

 

Disaggregated by design, the NetApp data platform separates storage, services, and control so enterprises can modernize faster, scale efficiently, and innovate without lock-in. As the only enterprise storage platform natively embedded in the world’s largest clouds, it gives organizations the freedom to run any workload anywhere with consistent performance, governance, and protection.

 

 

With NetApp, data is always ready – ready to defend against threats, ready to power AI, and ready to drive the next breakthrough. That’s why the world’s most forward-thinking enterprises trust NetApp to turn intelligence into advantage.

 

 

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