Dubai (UAE), July 23, 2026: Intellect Design Arena Ltd., a global leader in AI-First, enterprise-grade financial technology, today announced that a leading Sharjah-based financial institution in UAE driving regional economic growth, has officially signed a strategic partnership with Intellect to completely modernise its corporate banking value proposition. The transformation will replace product-centric legacy silos with a unified, digital-first transaction banking experience designed specifically to scale corporate operations across the region.

Through this collaboration, the bank will deploy Intellect’s comprehensive front-to-back transactional banking framework. The future-ready implementation includes end-to-end Digital Onboarding, advanced Cash Management (CBX), Virtual Account Management (VAM), Collections, and Liquidity Management. Built on composable, microservices-based eMACH.ai architecture, this infrastructure enables the bank to capture sustainable liabilities and significantly accelerate year-on-year corporate portfolio growth.

The transformation will help the bank deliver a seamless digital experience for corporate clients while strengthening its ability to support the UAE’s rapidly evolving business ecosystem.

Manish Maakan, Group Chief Revenue Officer and CEO – Wholesale Banking, Intellect Design Arena Ltd., commented, “This partnership reflects a fundamental shift in how banks are reimagining corporate banking for the next decade. Today’s leading financial institutions are moving beyond digitising existing processes to building intelligent, composable platforms that continuously adapt to evolving customer expectations and business opportunities. We are proud to partner with one of the UAE’s leading financial institutions as it transforms its transaction banking capabilities into a strategic growth engine, enabling greater agility, deeper client relationships, and sustainable value creation for businesses across the region.”

About Intellect Design Arena Limited
Intellect Design Arena Ltd is a global leader in AI-First, enterprise-grade financial technology, architected from first principles to deliver measurable business impact at scale. With three decades of domain expertise, Intellect delivers composable, intelligent platforms across Wholesale Banking, Consumer Banking, Central Banking, Wealth, Capital Markets, Treasury, Insurance and Digital Technology for Commerce. Applying First Principles Thinking and Design Thinking, Intellect has elementalised financial services into a finite set of Events, Microservices and APIs, enabling faster, modular transformation with predictable and measurable outcomes.

At the heart of this AI-First architecture are eMACH.ai, the world’s most comprehensive, composable and intelligent open finance platform; Purple Fabric, the world’s first Open Business Impact AI platform; and iTurmeric, a composable integration and configuration platform. A pioneer in applying Design Thinking at enterprise scale, Intellect’s 8012 FinTech Design Center, the world’s first Design Center dedicated to Design Thinking principles, underscores its commitment to continuous, outcome-driven innovation. Intellect serves over 500+ customers across 62 countries, supported by a global workforce of domain, solution and technology experts. For more information, visit www.intellectdesign.com