Standard Chartered Bank has signed a multi-year collaboration agreement with A*STAR’s Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore’s national information and communications technology research institute. The agreement will enable Standard Chartered and A*Star’s I2R to jointly work on data science research and experimentation by leveraging the institute’s expertise in information technology, communication and media and tap their vast network of world-class data scientists and software engineers. StanChart CIO Michael Gorriz said the partnership with A*Star’s I2R creates a unique opportunity for to explore the latest in data science and conduct new research to ramp up the Bank’s innovation initiatives in order to deliver more value to the clients with better engagement, improved service offerings and new business models for a new generation of clients.