PROJECT ROUND-UP
1. SINGAPORE
House of Rose Professional has announced the global launch of CEOSource, its premium leadership search business focused on CEO, board and C-suite appointments. CEOSource partners with corporations, private equity firms and portfolio companies to identify and appoint exceptional leaders who can accelerate enterprise value, lead transformation and build enduring businesses. CEOSource differentiates its approach through founder-led search, trusted access to exceptional leadership talent and the firsthand judgement of leaders who have themselves run global businesses, served on boards, appointed senior executives and coached CEOs.
2. USA
DDI, a global authority in leadership development for more than five decades, has announced three new capabilities for its CoLab Studio SM, an AI-enabled custom leadership development authoring platform announced in May 2026. The expanded platform helps L & D teams create and launch brand-aligned training programmes customised for trainee roles and business context in under an hour using DDI’ s proven leadership curriculum. CoLab Studio solves both problems, combining DDI’ s proprietary leadership research, proven development content, behaviour-change expertise and instructional design best practices with an organisation’ s strategic priorities, brand, tone and day-to-day business scenarios.
3. NEW ZEALAND
9Spokes, a leading global data platform, has announced the launch of Pulse, a new intelligence layer within its SMB Financial Hub platform that delivers small business customers answers they cannot get from their bank app, accounting software or merchant terminal alone. With AI raising the bar for how people expect to consume data, SMB owners now want plain-language answers, not static dashboards – they want insights that explain what their data means and what to do about it. Pulse is built for that shift and for financial service providers who are not yet ready to implement customer-facing AI solutions, but who recognise the shift.
4. VIETNAM
Nucleus Software, a global provider of digital lending and transaction banking solutions, and FPT Corporation, a leading Digital Transformation solutions and services provider in Vietnam and globally, has hosted the inaugural Nucleus Synapse Vietnam, bringing together more than 100 CXOs and senior leaders from the country’ s banking, financial services and technology ecosystem. The forum explored how Artificial Intelligence can help financial institutions translate technology into measurable improvements in decision-making, operational resilience, risk management and customer experience. These capabilities help institutions reduce turnaround times, identify risks earlier, improve portfolio oversight and create more responsive borrower journeys. www. intelligentcxo. com
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