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US Stock Futures Recover as Investors Reassess Fed Rate Outlook

Sep 17, 2026 by Neel Achary 0 Comments

New York, Sep 17: US stock futures moved higher on Thursday as investors returned to the market after the Federal Reserve’s latest interest-rate increase triggered a sell-off in the previous session.

Futures linked to the S&P 500 and Nasdaq were trading in positive territory in early dealings, while Dow futures also pointed to a stronger opening. The recovery reflected renewed buying interest as investors assessed the Federal Reserve’s updated outlook for interest rates and the broader US economy.

The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points in a unanimous decision, marking its first rate increase since 2023. The move has shifted attention towards the central bank’s future policy direction, particularly its assessment of persistent inflation pressures.

The updated projections also remained a key focus for investors. According to the market report, 16 of the Fed’s 18 officials indicated that they expect at least one further rate increase before the end of 2026. The signal has reinforced expectations that borrowing costs could remain elevated for longer than previously anticipated.

Technology and growth stocks remained in focus as traders looked for opportunities following the recent decline. Shares of Nvidia gained in premarket trading, while stocks including Nebius, Snap, SPAC-related company SPCX, Bloom Energy and Generac Holdings were also among those attracting market attention.

The latest market move highlights the continuing sensitivity of equities to changes in US monetary policy. Higher interest rates can increase borrowing costs for companies and consumers while also putting pressure on valuations, particularly in sectors where investors place greater importance on future earnings growth.

Investors are also turning their attention to upcoming US economic data, including weekly jobless claims and housing starts. These figures could provide further insight into labour-market conditions and the health of the broader economy, potentially influencing expectations around the Federal Reserve’s next policy decisions.

For global markets, developments in the US remain important as investors assess the impact of higher interest rates on economic growth, corporate earnings and capital flows. Asian and European markets are also likely to take cues from movements in US Treasury yields, the dollar and Wall Street equities.

With the Federal Reserve signalling that another rate increase remains possible this year, market participants are expected to remain watchful. The immediate rebound in US futures suggests renewed buying after the sell-off, but investors continue to weigh the prospect of higher borrowing costs against corporate growth expectations and incoming economic data.

News

HUAWEI eKit Launches Intelligent Office Solution 2.0, Making Intelligent Office Accessible to All

Sep 17, 2026 by Sai Krishna 0 Comments

SHANGHAI, Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Sept 16, 2026, at the 2026 HUAWEI eKit Launch Event in Shanghai, Leon Wang, President of Huawei’s Data Communication Product Line, delivered a keynote unveiling the upgraded HUAWEI eKit Intelligent Office Solution 2.0, which targets digital transformation pain points for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

Leon Wang, President of Huawei's Data Communication Product Line, unveiled the HUAWEI eKit Intelligent Office Solution

“Digital and intelligent transformation is essential for the high-quality growth of SMEs,” said Leon Wang. “Featuring superior quality, simplicity, and full-scope security, the lightweight, highly adaptable, and secure solution lowers the barrier to intelligence for SMEs—bringing the intelligent world within reach and making intelligent office accessible to all.”

For startups, Huawei introduced a minimalist solution in 2025, which required only one device and one screen. This year, HUAWEI eKit has upgraded its aesthetics and performance.

Aura10: Featuring three-color ambient lighting, four proprietary folding antennas, and an industry-first dual-polarization desktop design, the router doubles signal strength and boosts Wi-Fi speeds by 40%.
IdeaHub B3 Base Smart Screen: Powered by a decoupled screen-compute architecture, it supports one-click switching between Android and Windows. Integrated with the DeepSeek LLM, its smart search and generation capabilities quickly organize fragmented information to enhance workplace productivity and decision-making efficiency.

For SMEs, Huawei introduced a Wi-Fi 7 + 2.5GE high-performance networking solution with comprehensive security protection in 2025. This year, HUAWEI eKit AR281 was launched to simplify networking and O&M. A single device does the work of five by integrating routing, NVR, WAC, private line access, and online behavior management. SuperCoding 3.0 achieves up to 85% video storage compression (one disk, six times the capacity), significantly cutting enterprise storage costs. In addition, the solution supports one-stop unified deployment and O&M, minimizing deployment cycles and costs.

In office security, HUAWEI eKit applies its full-scope security philosophy to protect business secrets from hidden recording. The new DF10 premium handheld spycam detector features a new meeting guard mode. Paired with the iGuard mobile app, it enables one-touch automated scanning with a 1.5-hour battery life for silent, continuous meeting protection. With the multi-dimensional AI identification model, false alarms are reduced to 5%.

Long committed to SME intelligence, HUAWEI eKit continues to address real enterprise pain points and lowers the barrier to digital transformation—making intelligent office accessible to all SMEs.

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STARPRIME Responds to Diverging Gold Market Demand with AM/PM Fixing and XAU24/7

Sep 17, 2026 by Sai Krishna 0 Comments

New offerings address two distinct market needs: fixing-related exposure management and continuous quote-driven gold access.

PORT LOUIS, Mauritius, Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — STARPRIME is expanding its gold offering with AM/PM Fixing and XAU24/7, giving market participants two distinct ways to manage and access gold exposure. Both offerings will be available in time for Forex Expo Dubai 2026, where STARPRIME will showcase its expanded liquidity offering as a Platinum Sponsor.

STARPRIME Responds to Diverging Gold Market Demand with AM/PM Fixing and XAU24/7

The additions complement STARPRIME’s existing gold suite, including Spot XAUUSD, with contract variations for Top of Book and Order Depth, as well as XAU Futures. Together, they respond to increasingly different client requirements across physical and electronic gold markets.

AM/PM Fixing is designed for physical hedgers and other market participants managing exposure around fixing prices. Clients can trade fixing contracts directly with the STARPRIME Trading Desk, with orders subsequently converted into spot contracts. This enables exposure to be offset against other positions and may reduce margin requirements associated with maintaining separate exposures.

XAU24/7 addresses a different shift: growing demand for quote-driven products beyond conventional market hours. As continuous access becomes increasingly familiar across financial markets, the product provides around-the-clock gold trading while operating as a distinct instrument with its own pricing environment and contract specifications, including pricing generated outside traditional reference-market hours.

“Physical gold participants increasingly need efficient ways to value and hedge inventory, while another segment is seeking continuous, quote-driven access. These are very different requirements, and liquidity solutions need to evolve around both,” said Jay Mawji, CEO of STARPRIME.

STARPRIME will showcase its expanded liquidity offering as a Platinum Sponsor of Forex Expo Dubai 2026, taking place 22–23 September at Dubai World Trade Centre. Visitors can meet the team at Booth 152. STARPRIME will also contribute to the event programme through a Liquidity Panel and fireside chat, exploring how liquidity requirements are evolving across brokers, institutions and professional trading businesses.

About STARPRIME

STARPRIME is an institutional CFD liquidity provider and market maker, combining multi-asset liquidity with pricing technology, low-latency execution and dedicated client coverage. Its solutions are shaped around each client’s flow, scale, and market requirements, with a focus on transparency, consistent service, and long-term partnerships.

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Business

Balaji Anant Raj Ventures (BARVL) Lays Foundation for Astraya Experience Centre in Gurugram

Sep 17, 2026 by Neel Achary 0 Comments

Mumbai, September 17, 2026: Balaji Anant Raj Ventures Ltd. (BARVL) today marked a significant milestone in its built-environment technology vision with the Bhumi Pujan of the Astraya Experience Centre in Sector 63A, Gurugram.

Balaji Anant Raj Ventures (BARVL) Lays Foundation for Astraya Experience Centre in Gurugram

Foundation laid at the site of the Astraya Experience Centre in Sector 63A, Gurugram

Spread across approximately 30,000 sq. ft., the Astraya Experience Centre is being developed as knowledge infrastructure for the built environment, bringing robotics, 3D concrete printing, material innovation and applied research together under one roof. The Centre itself will serve as Astraya’s first physical exhibit, combining a modern steel frame and reinforced-concrete base with a robotically fabricated printed lounge. Its surrounding display gardens will showcase robotically fabricated elements, including seating, planters, screens, water features and paving.

Inside, an immersive corridor will lead into a double-height fabrication hall, where robotic printing will take place in open view, complemented by a first-floor observation gallery and an adjoining materials laboratory for testing and experimentation. The Centre will provide architects, developers, consultants, material specialists and technology partners with a space to experience, test and explore emerging approaches to construction.

The foundation-laying marks an important step in taking Astraya from a knowledge and technology platform into a physical environment where its ideas can be experienced, tested and demonstrated. Robotic fabrication technology for the Centre is being supplied by European technology partners, while architecture and design are by Concept Planners International, an award-winning architectural firm.

Mr. Aashman Sarin, Founder, BARVL and Astraya, said, “The built environment is at the beginning of a paradigm shift, and the Astraya Experience Centre is our way of creating a place where that future can be seen, explored and imagined. We want the Centre to bring the wider ecosystem together, encourage curiosity and make new ways of building feel real. We see it as a starting point to reimagine how the built environment can evolve and shape the way we live in the years ahead.”

Currently under construction in Sector 63A, Gurugram, the Experience Centre is envisioned as a hub for technology demonstration, material experimentation, robotic fabrication and collaboration across the built-environment ecosystem.a is shaping the next generation of intelligent, resilient and data-driven building systems for India and beyond.

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GpCC: New Operating Framework Enables Global Capability Centers to Extend Their Mandate into Global Payroll

Sep 17, 2026 by Sai Krishna 0 Comments

Neeyamo introduces the Global Payroll Capability Center (GpCC) framework, with its Neeyamo Payroll platform as the technology layer that lets a GCC run payroll for 160+ countries as a single enterprise function

CHENNAI, India, Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Global Capability Centers (GCCs) now have a defined operating framework for taking on global payroll, the function that has largely stayed outside their expanding mandate. Neeyamo, a technology-enabled provider of global payroll and Employer of Record (EOR) solutions, today introduced the Global Payroll Capability Center (GpCC), a framework that lets a GCC own and run payroll across every country where the enterprise operates.

GpCC Framework by Neeyamo: A guide for GCCs to enable Global Payroll Excellence

A GpCC is a unit within a GCC that holds enterprise-wide ownership of payroll, combining global governance, a single payroll technology platform, and standardized processes with in-country execution and statutory compliance. It replaces the country-by-country structure through which most multinationals still run payroll with separate vendors, systems, and owners in each market with one accountable function, one platform, and one consolidated view of payroll data across the enterprise.

This is being released as an open industry framework, according to Neeyamo, and can be adopted by any GCC. It was first outlined at N’gene, Neeyamo’s GCC Conclave held in Hyderabad earlier this year.

India’s 2,117 GCCs have expanded their mandates well beyond their original technology and back-office scope, with an increasing number now holding global ownership of finance, HR, analytics, and transformation functions, according to the NASSCOM–Zinnov India GCC Landscape Report 2026. Global payroll has been a notable exception. Because payroll is governed by local statute in every country, it has typically remained outside GCC consolidation programs even as adjacent finance and HR processes have moved in, with the constraint being less about talent than about technology: no single system could run payroll natively across the full country footprint.

GpCC addresses that gap by defining what a GCC needs in place to take payroll on. The framework specifies four components:

Ownership and Governance: a single global payroll owner within the GCC, with a defined operating cadence, service levels, and escalation path across all markets
Technology and Data: One payroll platform and data model, native to every operating country and integrated with the enterprise HCM and finance systems
Standardized Process: A common end-to-end payroll process framework, with variation permitted only where local statute requires it
In-country execution and Compliance: Local statutory capability in every operating market, connected to the global framework rather than operating independently.

These four components together enable GCCs to operate one global process, one data model, and one set of controls, while country-specific calculation, filing, and compliance are handled in-house rather than through separate local vendors. Integrations with leading HCM systems and Neeyamo’s own legal entities in 45 countries extend the framework to markets where the enterprise has no local presence.

“GCCs have already taken ownership of technology, data, and transformation. Payroll is the capability that hasn’t made that journey yet; it still sits across dozens of countries, dozens of vendors, and dozens of spreadsheets,” said Samuel Isaac, CMO & President, Neeyamo. “A GpCC gives the enterprise one owner, one standard, and one view of payroll, without pretending that payroll in Brazil works the way payroll in Japan does. The platform is what makes that possible; the GCC brings the ownership.”

For GCC leaders, the model defines a new function that fits the capability-center profile: high volume, compliance-intensive, and data-rich. For global HR and finance leaders, it provides a structured route to consolidating a function that has historically resisted consolidation, without trading local compliance for global consistency.

Neeyamo’s GpCC framework is available here.

About Neeyamo

Neeyamo is a technology-enabled provider of Global Payroll and Employer of Record solutions for multinational and micro-multinational organisations, processing payroll natively across 160+ countries with legal entities in 45. Learn more at www.neeyamo.com.

Media Contact

Irene Jones – irene.jones@neeyamo.com

Editor’s note: Global Payroll Capability Center is styled GpCC — capital G, lowercase p, capital C, capital C.

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Business

New UPI MDR Framework: How Key Sectors Could Be Affected

Sep 17, 2026 by Neel Achary 0 Comments

New UPI MDR Framework: How Key Sectors Could Be Affected

The new Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) framework for UPI transactions will bring different fee structures for different sectors, with essential services and capital-market transactions receiving concessional treatment.

The revised framework, which will come into effect from October 15, is designed to introduce charges within the merchant payment ecosystem while keeping UPI free for consumers. Payments between individuals and eligible merchant transactions up to ₹2,000 will continue without MDR.

Railways: Lower Cost for High-Value Payments

Railway transactions above ₹2,000 will attract a flat MDR of ₹5 instead of the standard rate applicable to other eligible merchant payments. The fixed charge could provide greater predictability for digital ticketing and other higher-value railway transactions as UPI usage continues to expand.

Telecom: Greater Predictability in Digital Collections

Telecom payments above ₹2,000 will also come under the ₹5 concessional MDR structure. For telecom companies handling large volumes of digital bill payments and service-related collections, a fixed charge can make payment-processing costs easier to estimate and manage.

Fuel: A Flat Fee for Larger Transactions

Eligible fuel payments above ₹2,000 will attract an MDR of ₹5. The sector-specific treatment is particularly relevant for petrol pumps and fuel retailers, where UPI has become an increasingly common payment option. The fixed charge limits the impact of the MDR on larger digital fuel payments.

Insurance: Concessional Rate for Premium Payments

Insurance transactions above ₹2,000 will also qualify for the flat ₹5 MDR. The concessional structure could help insurers manage the cost of collecting higher-value premiums through digital channels while encouraging continued use of UPI for policy-related payments.

Utilities: Keeping Essential Payments Affordable

Payments for designated utility services, including electricity, water and other notified essential services, will attract the ₹5 MDR for eligible transactions above ₹2,000. The separate treatment is aimed at keeping payment-processing costs relatively contained for essential-service providers.

Capital Markets: Lower MDR for Investment Payments

Capital-market transactions will have a separate concessional MDR of 0.02%, subject to a maximum of ₹300 per transaction. The category covers payments linked to mutual funds, securities, stockbrokers and dealers.

For the investment industry, the lower rate could help keep UPI-based fund transfers and investment payments cost-efficient as digital transactions become more closely integrated with financial-market services.

A Different Cost Structure for Different Sectors

The sector-wise approach means the impact of the new MDR framework will vary across businesses. Essential services such as railways, telecom, fuel, insurance and utilities will have a flat ₹5 charge on eligible payments above ₹2,000, while capital-market transactions will follow the 0.02% concessional rate.

At the same time, the framework does not make UPI a paid service for consumers. The MDR is applied within the merchant payment ecosystem, and merchants are not permitted to pass the charge on to customers. This allows consumers to continue using UPI for everyday payments without a separate transaction fee.

Overall, the differentiated structure gives sectors with large-value digital payments a more predictable cost framework while retaining UPI’s role as a widely used payment channel across India’s consumer and business economy.

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OCI N.V. statement regarding an open letter from shareholders

Sep 17, 2026 by Sai Krishna 0 Comments

AMSTERDAM, Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — OCI Global N.V. (“OCI” or the “Company”) (Euronext: OCI) confirms that on 16 September 2026 it received from Oceanwood Capital Management LLP the attached open letter, written on behalf of a group of three shareholders in the Company. OCI is publishing the letter for information purposes only, without comment or endorsement.

Annex – Open letter to the Board of OCI Global N.V., 16 September 2026

ABOUT OCI GLOBAL

Learn more about OCI at www.oci-global.com. You can also follow OCI on LinkedIn.

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Health

Ganesh Chaturthi: Refreshing and Hydrating Beverage Choices for the Festive Season

Sep 17, 2026 by Neel Achary 0 Comments

Sep 17: Ganesh Chaturthi is a time of celebration, togetherness and long days filled with visits, festivities and community gatherings. From attending pandals and participating in celebrations to meeting family and friends, the festive season often means being on the move for long hours. Amid the excitement, staying refreshed and hydrated can easily take a back seat, making mindful beverage choices an important part of enjoying the celebrations.

A chilled coffee break between celebrations

Festive days can be packed with activity, leaving little time for a proper pause. For those looking for a convenient pick-me-up between errands, pandal visits or social gatherings, a chilled coffee can offer the perfect break. Tata Coffee Grand Cold Coffee brings together the familiar appeal of coffee with a chilled, indulgent experience. Convenient and easy to enjoy, it can fit naturally into busy festive schedules, whether it is a quick afternoon break or a refreshing drink after stepping out or a moment of relaxation between celebrations. And with its “Too Cool To Have It Solo” spirit, it is made for those festive moments that are better when shared with friends and family.

Making room for wellness with Tetley Kombucha

Festivals are also an opportunity to balance indulgence with choices that align with evolving wellness preferences. As awareness around digestive health grows, functional beverages are finding greater space in everyday routines, particularly among consumers looking to make more considered beverage choices. Tetley Kombucha offers a refreshing, flavourful option for those looking to incorporate a probiotic beverage into their festive routine. Available in flavours such as Ginger Lemon and Peach, it provides an alternative to conventional refreshments while fitting into the broader shift towards wellness-led consumption.

When the day calls for quick hydration

Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations can involve considerable movement, from travelling between venues and pandals to spending extended periods outdoors or simply navigating a packed festive schedule. On such days, quick hydration, energy and refreshment can become especially important. Tata Gluco+ caters to these moments with convenient hydration and glucose-based energy replenishment, making it a refreshing choice for consumers with active schedules. With the simple thought of “Piyo Goodness, Karo Greatness,” Tata Gluco+ fits naturally into busy festive days, helping consumers stay refreshed and energised as they keep up with the celebrations.

As festive routines become more dynamic, consumers are looking beyond simple refreshment for beverages that suit different needs and occasions. Ganesh Chaturthi, with its mix of celebrations, social gatherings and travel, naturally calls for varied beverage choices.

Business

Stronger US Growth Complicates the Fed’s Path Back to 2 percent Inflation

Sep 17, 2026 by Neel Achary 0 Comments

The Fed’s first-rate rise since 2023, and Chairman Kevin Warsh’s focus on persistent inflation, has markets weighing the risk that policy stays restrictive for longer, according to EBC Financial Group.

LONDON, 17 September 2026 — The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate on Wednesday, lifting the target range for the federal funds rate by a quarter point to 3.75% to 4.00%. It was the first increase since 2023, and the decision was unanimous. The move followed five meetings on hold this year and came as inflation stayed above the Fed’s 2% target, pushed higher in recent months by rising energy costs.

Chairman Kevin Warsh used the press conference to stress that price pressures remain the committee’s main concern. He said he would be hard-pressed to describe broad financial conditions as restrictive, a signal that the Fed sees little reason to reverse course soon. Markets repriced quickly. The dollar firmed, short-dated Treasury yields rose and US equities gave up ground as traders weighed the prospect of at least one more increase this year.

Why Stronger Growth Matters

The updated projections help explain the shift in tone. Fed officials now see the economy growing 2.3% in 2026, a little faster than they expected in June, and they lowered their unemployment forecast to 4.1%. They also raised their inflation forecasts, with headline PCE seen at 3.7% and core PCE at 3.4% for the year.

Taken together, the figures describe an economy that is holding up rather than slowing, which is the opposite of what usually pushes the Fed to ease. When activity is firm and joblessness is low, the case for keeping policy tight to bring inflation down is easier to make. The committee’s own rate projections point the same way. A majority of officials, 16 of 18, pencilled in at least one more quarter-point rise this year, with four allowing for two. Two saw no further move, and Warsh again declined to submit his own forecast.

What EBC Is Watching

Filipe Mendoza, Global Markets Analyst at EBC Financial Group, said the decision matters less for the quarter point itself than for what it changes in the market’s assumptions.

“Stronger growth has made the last stretch of the inflation fight harder,” said Mendoza. “When the economy keeps expanding and the labour market stays firm, the Fed has more room to hold policy tight and less reason to cut quickly. That is part of why Treasury yields and the dollar have moved the way they have. Markets are repricing how long rates might stay elevated rather than reacting to a single hike. If inflation stays sticky while activity holds up, participants may have to keep adjusting to the possibility that rates remain restrictive for longer. If growth cools or price pressures fade, that calculus changes.”

Dollar and Treasury Reaction

The market response was clearest in currencies and short-dated bonds. The dollar firmed after the decision, with the ICE Dollar Index trading near 100 in the hours that followed, its strongest single-day move in about three months. Two-year Treasury yields, which track expectations for Fed policy most closely, rose more than seven basis points to around 4.73%. The 10-year yield hovered near 5% and was little changed on the day.

The pattern is worth reading carefully. Short-term yields climbed while longer-term yields did not, which suggests traders raised their expectations for near-term rate rises without shifting their longer-run view by as much. The moves reflect a mix of the Fed’s message and positioning that was already in place before the meeting, so it would be wrong to treat every tick as a direct response to Wednesday’s statement. These figures are as of the close of US trading on 16 September and change continuously.

Cross-Asset Implications

US equities eased as the same repricing raised the discount rate applied to future company earnings, which tends to weigh on rate-sensitive shares. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed more than 600 points lower on 16 September.

Oil sat apart from the rate story. Brent crude eased toward $106 a barrel, down more than 1% on the day, but it remains high by recent standards after supply disruptions in the Middle East, including the closure of a major Saudi pipeline. Those energy costs are part of what has kept inflation elevated, so the oil market matters more to the Fed’s problem than to Wednesday’s price action.

Firmer yields and a stronger dollar are typically headwinds for gold, which pays no income. They also tend to pressure emerging-market currencies, a point worth watching for traders across Asia-Pacific and Latin America, where a stronger dollar raises the cost of dollar funding.

What Comes Next

The next moves will depend on the data. The inflation figures that matter most are the coming CPI and PCE releases, alongside the monthly payrolls report and wage growth. Firm inflation with steady hiring would strengthen the case for a further rise. Softer readings would weaken it.

For now, interest-rate futures point to a divided view. As of the afternoon of 16 September, CME FedWatch showed roughly a 40% chance of another quarter-point rise at the October meeting, with the odds of at least one more increase by December higher still. Warsh has also pointed to business investment, including spending on artificial intelligence, as a source of the economy’s strength. Heavy capital investment supports growth now, while the Fed’s own working group on productivity is studying whether AI could ease inflation over time by lifting supply. That longer-run question sits underneath the near-term policy debate.

Closing

Markets are likely to stay sensitive to each inflation, jobs and growth release as participants judge how long policy needs to stay tight and whether the Fed follows through on the further tightening its projections allow. The bar for early rate cuts has risen. Until the data settle the question, the risk of repricing runs in both directions.

Technology

Venn Launches Blue Border for AI Governance & Security, Putting Native Claude Apps Under IT Control on Any Laptop

Sep 17, 2026 by Neel Achary 0 Comments

Regulated companies can now let remote employees and contractors run Claude, Claude Cowork and Claude Code on laptops the company doesn’t own: locked to company accounts, reachable only from trusted networks, and with no VDI or endpoint management required.

New York, New York, Sept 17. Venn, the secure remote work company, announced Blue Border™ for AI Governance & Security. The release lets organizations with remote and distributed workforces govern and securely use AI on any laptop, whether or not the company owns or manages it.

Blue Border installs on a Mac or PC and creates a company-controlled secure enclave on that laptop, isolating business activity from everything else on the same machine. Until now, its AI controls centered on data loss prevention for browser-based AI. Available today, the release adds three capabilities.

First, Anthropic’s Claude desktop apps, Claude, Claude Cowork and Claude Code, run natively inside Blue Border, on a personal machine, under the same controls that apply to browser-based AI. Second, tenant restrictions keep approved AI services to company-provided accounts, so a personal sign-in inside Blue Border is restricted. Third, IP-based access controls let organizations restrict sign-ins to those services to their dedicated Blue Border IP addresses, using the access policies they already run for Microsoft 365 and Salesforce.

The result is a secure way to adopt AI across all of a company’s workflows, in the browser and on the desktop, on every device its people use, without VDI. Unapproved AI tools stay blocked from company data, and DLP controls cover copy/paste, upload, download, screenshot, print and AI on any laptop.

Organizations in regulated industries cannot afford to fall behind on AI productivity, and cannot tolerate the data exposure that comes with open adoption. Venn found that 62 percent of all connections to browser-based AI tools inside Blue Border were made through personal, non-corporate accounts. When customers configured their tenant restriction settings, the number dropped to 5 percent.

Venn Launches Blue Border for AI Governance & Security, Putting Native Claude Apps Under IT Control on Any Laptop

“AI is the most important shift our customers have navigated since the cloud,” said David Matalon, CEO and Founder of Venn. “Blue Border was built for exactly this moment: a world where sensitive work happens on any device, and where what needs to be protected is the data itself, not the machine. Blue Border for AI Governance & Security extends that protection to every AI tool, native app or browser, and gives IT and security teams control back.”

For regulated organizations enabling BYOD and contractor programs, this changes the ceiling on AI productivity. Financial services firm StoneX uses Blue Border to meet its compliance requirements while securing its workers. Remote employees and contractors can use the most capable AI tools in their full native form, with no hardware to ship and no virtual desktop in between. Support for additional applications, including ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, is on the roadmap for later this year.