{"id":196925,"date":"2026-03-18T03:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/stanchart-ai-chief-david-hardoon-exiting-less-than-a-year-after-joining\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T05:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:05:16","slug":"stanchart-ai-chief-david-hardoon-exiting-less-than-a-year-after-joining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/stanchart-ai-chief-david-hardoon-exiting-less-than-a-year-after-joining\/","title":{"rendered":"StanChart AI chief David Hardoon exiting less than a year after joining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesstimes.com.sg\/companies-markets\/banking-finance\/stanchart-ai-chief-david-hardoon-exiting-less-year-after-joining\">StanChart AI chief David Hardoon exiting less than a year after joining<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesstimes.com.sg\/companies-markets\/banking-finance\/stanchart-ai-chief-david-hardoon-exiting-less-year-after-joining\">https:\/\/www.businesstimes.com.sg\/companies-markets\/banking-finance\/stanchart-ai-chief-david-hardoon-exiting-less-year-after-joining<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-18 03:50:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.businesstimes.com.sg\">www.businesstimes.com.sg<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>David Hardoon&#8217;s Departure<\/strong>: The executive in charge of Standard Chartered&#8217;s artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, David Hardoon, is leaving the bank less than a year after his appointment.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Gardening Leave<\/strong>: Hardoon, who joined in April 2025 as global head of AI enablement and is based in Singapore, has been placed on gardening leave, according to sources familiar with the situation.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Bank&#8217;s AI Ranking<\/strong>: Standard Chartered ranked 26th among global banks for AI maturity in the 2025 Evident AI Index.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Banks&#8217; AI Experimentation<\/strong>: Banks, including StanChart, have increasingly been experimenting with AI by re- Training staff to incorporate the technology into their daily work.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Hardoon\u2019s Experience<\/strong>: Before joining StanChart, Hardoon had extensive experience in data and AI having previously served as the Monetary Authority of Singapore\u2019s first chief data officer.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Official Silence<\/strong>: A spokesperson for Standard Chartered declined to comment on Hardoon&#8217;s departure.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>StanChart AI chief David Hardoon exiting less than a year after joining https:\/\/www.businesstimes.com.sg\/companies-markets\/banking-finance\/stanchart-ai-chief-david-hardoon-exiting-less-year-after-joining Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cassette.sphdigital.com.sg\/image\/businesstimes\/b5efd0f8978cbc8da85c33c408b8b1e70cc8c466fec21fedcac9893dd83645bd?w=1200&f=webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-196925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196927,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196925\/revisions\/196927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}