Standard Chartered says features that once took months to deploy are now achievable in weeks on AI Factory, its centralised enterprise artificial intelligence platform launched in July 2025. The platform brings data scientists, engineers and business teams together in a unified environment to develop, deploy and govern client-centric and responsible AI solutions across the bank, aiming to accelerate innovation while maintaining regulatory and security standards. It was developed in response to growing fragmentation in AI projects across the organisation. By consolidating tools, infrastructure and governance under a single framework, the bank seeks to eliminate inefficiencies, reduce duplication of effort and enhance oversight of AI initiatives. AI Factory standardises functions such as governance, infrastructure management, architectural design and security control implementation. It introduces a development workspace, a central model registry and a secure deployment pipeline, supported by a dedicated Responsible AI team within the Chief Data Office. Solutions moving into production go through governance checks in the deployment pipeline. The platform integrates enterprise-grade generative AI tools with banking-specific guardrails, and its machine learning operations (MLOps) features provide full lifecycle management of AI models, including monitoring, retraining and optimisation. Pre-built accelerators and reusable components further reduce the time required to deliver solutions. The bank says the platform improves personalisation for clients, with digital wealth tools providing tailored recommendations and customer interactions across web, mobile and branch channels drawing on unified behavioural insights from a single customer view built on previously siloed data. AI Factory is also expected to support risk assessment tools for credit, market and operational risk, customer insight engines, and intelligent document processing powered by natural language processing and computer vision. Standard Chartered has outlined a roadmap that plans to expand generative AI capabilities with enhanced reasoning and domain knowledge and to offer no-code and low-code development tools to business users, with longer-term initiatives including federated learning and secure partner integration. AI Factory won Best AI Powered Platform - Asia at the Global AI Innovation Awards 2025.
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