Shinhan Bank said on Tuesday it signed a business agreement with OCI Holdings at OCI Building in central Seoul to expand support for productive finance and joint cooperation for future growth. The agreement aims to widen financial backing for sectors such as semiconductors, advanced materials and solar power. The two sides plan to pursue financing and arranging support for facility investment and working capital, and cooperate on building a global solar value chain. It also includes green finance to support ESG management and carbon neutrality.

As enterprise computing vendors move faster to pair AI agents with both hardware and software, Oracle is stepping up efforts to optimise its core database technology for AI. Its strategy focuses on bringing AI to where data resides so it can be used securely, easily and without lock-in. Oracle has unveiled Oracle AI Database 26ai, which it says places AI at the heart of data management and integrates vector search and an agentic AI framework.