Amazon Web Services said it has not been able to restore services and data access at parts of its cloud facilities in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates damaged by drone strikes early in the Iran war. AWS said damage at several Bahrain facilities exceeded what its services were designed to withstand and that resources and data stored only in the region cannot be recovered. In the UAE, one of three availability zones also remains unrecoverable.

KB Kookmin Bank said on Saturday it will launch next month a corporate payment service for import and export firms using JPMorgan Kinexys\' blockchain-based payment network. The service follows a memorandum of understanding on blockchain remittances for cross-border payment innovation. The bank said it is the first time a South Korean financial company has used Kinexys for payments to import-export firms. The service will be available at domestic branches and its Singapore branch, initially supporting U.S. dollar remittances to 10 countries.