{"id":197221,"date":"2026-03-18T04:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/stancharts-ai-chief-exiting-less-than-a-year-after-joining\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T02:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T06:00:16","slug":"stancharts-ai-chief-exiting-less-than-a-year-after-joining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/stancharts-ai-chief-exiting-less-than-a-year-after-joining\/","title":{"rendered":"StanChart\u2019s AI chief exiting less than a year after joining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theedgemarkets.com\/node\/796701\">StanChart\u2019s AI chief exiting less than a year after joining<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theedgemarkets.com\/node\/796701\">http:\/\/www.theedgemarkets.com\/node\/796701<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-18 04:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theedgemarkets.com\">www.theedgemarkets.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Leadership Departure<\/strong>: David Hardoon, the global head of AI enablement at Standard Chartered Plc, has left the bank less than a year after joining in April 2025. He is currently on gardening leave.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI Adoption<\/strong>: Standard Chartered and other banks globally are increasingly experimenting with artificial intelligence, focusing on retraining staff to integrate AI into their daily work.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Experienced Executive<\/strong>: Hardoon brought over two decades of experience in data and AI from roles in government, academia, and banking, including serving as the Monetary Authority of Singapore\u2019s first chief data officer.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Bank\u2019s AI Ranking<\/strong>: Standard Chartered ranked 26th among global banks in the 2025 Evident AI Index based on AI talent, research and patent activity, leadership communications, and transparency around AI deployment.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Reticence on Commentary<\/strong>: A spokesperson for the bank declined to comment on Hardoon\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>StanChart\u2019s AI chief exiting less than a year after joining http:\/\/www.theedgemarkets.com\/node\/796701 Publish Date: 2026-03-18 04:45:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":197222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.theedgemarkets.com\/david_hardoon_20260318153311_Bloomberg.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-197221","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\/197221"}],"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=197221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197223,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197221\/revisions\/197223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}