Arta Finance named Best Technology Partner to Private Banks at the Global Private Banking Innovation Awards 2026

Recognition reflects Arta’s work helping wealth institutions adopt AI responsibly within regulated advisory environments

Arta Finance has been recognised as Best Technology Partner to Private Banks at the Global Private Banking Innovation Awards 2026, organised by Global Private Banker and presented in Singapore.

The award recognises Arta’s role in helping private banks and wealth managers move from AI ambition to meaningful deployment. Through its Institutional AI platform, Arta provides an AI-native operating layer designed specifically for banks and wealth managers, helping institutions modernise advisory capabilities, enhance advisor productivity, and deliver more personalised wealth experiences at scale.

This recognition reflects the kind of company Arta set out to build: not simply a technology provider, but a partner to institutions navigating one of the most important shifts in wealth management. As AI becomes more central to advisory, investment, and client engagement workflows, private banks need solutions that are not only powerful, but also practical, governed, and aligned with the standards of regulated financial institutions.

Amanda Ong, Singapore CEO and Global Head of Partnerships at Arta Finance, said:

That word, partner, matters to us. We wanted to build with banks and be part of the transformation journey, not just provide a tool that supports it. Building AI for regulated environments should be hard. The stakes are high, expectations are high, and the technology is moving fast. Our partners inherit everything we have learned along the way.

A specialised approach to regulated wealth management

Arta’s Institutional AI platform is purpose-built for wealth management workflows. It is designed to support the activities that matter most to private banks and wealth managers, from portfolio intelligence and research automation to advice, planning, product discovery, client communication, and advisor effectiveness.

The platform reflects Arta’s builder-operator perspective. Alongside its technology business, Arta operates regulated wealth businesses of its own under SEC and MAS licences. This gives the company practical experience with the responsibilities that shape wealth management, including client trust, suitability, investment governance, product complexity, and regulatory review.

That perspective is central to how Arta designs AI for institutions. In wealth management, responsible AI cannot rely on prompts or general-purpose controls alone. Arta’s platform is designed with guardrails built into the architecture, including suitability checks, concentration limits, and accreditation gating. Portfolio recommendations are generated through a deterministic quantitative engine rather than a language model, helping support consistency, auditability, and explainability.

The platform operates as an agentic AI system, with specialised agents handling defined tasks such as financial reasoning, portfolio analytics, research synthesis, and client communication within a governed orchestration layer. This allows institutions to embed AI into advisory workflows while maintaining alignment with their own investment philosophy, policies, data, and brand voice.

Recognition of institutional AI expertise

The award underscores Arta’s continued investment in institutional-grade AI infrastructure for wealth management. Arta’s platform is designed to help institutions shorten the path from exploration to production deployment, without requiring them to rebuild core systems or absorb years of internal development cost before advisors see value.

Institutions can adopt Arta’s capabilities in different ways depending on their operating model and technology environment. Banks and wealth managers can embed AI agents into existing advisor and client platforms through APIs, deploy white-labelled experiences under their own brand, or licence specific capabilities for internal teams. This flexibility allows institutions to begin with focused use cases, connect the data that matters most, and scale adoption over time.

The platform is also designed to preserve the human-led nature of wealth management. By automating research, portfolio analytics, reporting, and other time-intensive workflows, Arta helps advisors spend more time on the judgment, context, and relationship-building that clients value. For institutions, this can improve advisor productivity, enhance consistency across client interactions, and support more scalable delivery of sophisticated wealth advice.

Arta’s institutional work spans private banks, digital banks, and advisory-led wealth models, reflecting a broader industry shift from AI experimentation toward practical deployment. As wealth institutions consider how to bring AI into regulated environments, the emphasis is increasingly on trusted implementation: where to start, how to govern it, how to integrate it, and how to ensure it strengthens the client relationship rather than disrupting it.

Looking ahead

Arta will continue to invest in AI capabilities across the wealth management lifecycle, including portfolio intelligence, research automation, client engagement, product discovery, advisor productivity, and investment operations.

As the technology evolves, Arta’s focus remains on helping institutions adopt AI responsibly while preserving what makes each firm distinct: its investment philosophy, advisory model, brand, governance standards, and client relationships. The goal is not to replace the human foundations of private banking, but to give institutions better tools to deliver timely, personalised, and scalable advice.

Recognition as Best Technology Partner to Private Banks reaffirms Arta’s role as a long-term partner to wealth institutions as they modernise for the next generation of clients and advisors.

About the Global Private Banking Innovation Awards

The Global Private Banking Innovation Awards, organised by Global Private Banker, recognise excellence and innovation across private banking, wealth management, family offices, and financial technology. The awards highlight institutions and technology providers advancing the next generation of private banking through innovation, operational efficiency, scalability, and digital transformation.