MAS Pathfinder Programme listing reflects Finnate’s governance-focused design and real-world deployment maturity across regulated financial services

MELBOURNE, Australia, June 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Centelon announced that Finnate, its enterprise automation platform for financial services, has been officially listed on the PathFin.ai Knowledge Hub — the primary AI solution registry under the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Pathfinder Programme. The listing follows a structured independent review and verification process assessing Finnate’s submitted materials, technical capabilities, and real-world deployment performance in regulated financial environments.

The MAS Pathfinder Programme is designed to accelerate safe and responsible AI adoption across financial institutions in the Asia-Pacific region. Inclusion in the PathFin.ai registry requires vendors to pass a multi-stage vetting process encompassing technical architecture reviews, production case study analysis, and direct verification with existing enterprise clients.

What the Review Examined

The review focused on three operational domains where AI-driven automation carries high regulatory risk:

Lending and credit decisioning — underwriting velocity, risk transparency, and deterministic audit trail integrity for regulatory reportingDigital customer onboarding — end-to-end compliance across identity verification, KYC, and secure data handlingDocument intelligence and workflow automation — extraction, validation, and transformation of unstructured data into governed back-office workflows

Across all three domains, Finnate demonstrated the ability to reduce manual back-office overhead by up to 70% while maintaining full audit traceability — a key requirement for institutions operating under APRA, RBNZ, and equivalent Pacific and Southeast Asian regulatory frameworks.

Why This Listing Matters for Financial Institutions

For compliance officers and technology leaders evaluating AI vendors, PathFin.ai registry status provides a reference point for independent third-party review rather than solely self-reported capability claims. Financial institutions operating in ANZ, Pacific Island markets, and Southeast Asia can reference the listing when conducting internal AI governance due diligence on Centelon’s platform.

The Pathfinder Programme review process also considered Finnate’s architectural approach to Responsible AI — specifically its use of deterministic processing logic alongside generative AI models to ensure predictable, auditable outputs in regulated workflows.

“For C-suite executives and board directors, this listing is a signal of operational trust,” said Ajit Stephen, Group CEO, Centelon. “It demonstrates that Finnate offers a governance-aligned framework for institutions that need to adopt AI with confidence — legally, safely, and at scale.”

What Comes Next

Following the review engagement, Centelon will participate in upcoming PathFin.ai knowledge-sharing initiatives and industry webinar series, contributing to cross-industry frameworks for responsible AI deployment in financial services.

The PathFin.ai Knowledge Hub is publicly accessible at https://pathfin.ai.

About Centelon

Centelon is an Australian-headquartered digital product and services company serving enterprise clients across banking, non-bank financial institutions, insurance, telecom, and manufacturing in Australia, Fiji, the Pacific, and Southeast Asia. The company is recognised by Gartner and Everest Group for excellence in digital transformation and banking technology services.

About Finnate

Finnate (www.finnate.ai) is Centelon’s next-generation enterprise platform for financial services, delivering Lending Management Systems (LMS), Loan Origination Systems (LOS), and AI-driven Business Process Automation for high-velocity regulated environments.

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From soupmaxxing to foodstalgia, these emerging trends – drawn from billions of timely F&B data points – reveal Gen Z’s desire for comfort, experience, well-being, and individuality.

TEL AVIV, Israel, June 7, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Tastewise, the agentic intelligence system for food and beverage, has revealed five emerging Gen Z food trends set to shape menus and drive product innovation in the years ahead.

Already accounting for 40% of global consumers, Gen Z is on track to become the largest and most influential consumer group in history. With their preferences changing faster than traditional market research can track, brands require real-time intelligence to keep pace, or risk losing relevance with the next generation of consumers.

Drawing on the industry’s most comprehensive F&B data – and trained AI agents built to spot emerging patterns in real time – Tastewise has identified a fundamental shift in how these young consumers view food; not solely for its nutritional value or as a means of indulgence, but for the comfort, experience, functional benefits, and expression of identity it provides, which is shaping emerging trends such as:

1. Chinamaxxing puts Malatang on the map

Chinese culture has gone mainstream among Gen Z, with the young generation tapping into traditional wellness, clothing, and cuisine. One dish capitalizing on this momentum is Malatang – a choose-your-own-bowl Sichuan street food – with consumer interest up 88% year-over-year (YOY). Aligning with broader demand for customizable dishes (+144%), intense flavors (+304%), and warming foods (+42%), Malatang has all the ingredients for sustained, long-term growth.

2. Nostalgia: Gen Z’s most in-demand ingredient

Uncertainty is fueling ‘foodstalgia’, with Gen Z turning to familiar childhood foods for emotional comfort. Consumer interest in Diet Coke (+235% YoY), strawberry milk (+226% YoY), instant noodles (+224% YoY), and chocolate chip cookies (+173%) has surged in the past year.

Likewise, comfort food is driving 3.3x more engagement among Gen Z (YoY) – turning yesterday’s staples into today’s most talked-about foods.

3. Adding froth and function to Gen Z’s coffee

Gen Z is topping their daily coffee with cold foam – a thicker, sweeter froth – with consumer interest up +57% YoY and related menu items up +161%. However, its appeal goes beyond indulgence. In particular, protein cold foam is gaining traction, tied to the growing demand for functional benefits, such as hormone balance (+55% YoY), stress relief (+30% YoY), and metabolism support (+24% YoY).

4. Food that reflects Gen Z’s individuality

Gen Z is ditching set menus for meals that satisfy their appetite for self-expression. DIY formats – build-your-own bowls, poke, and noodle bars – are up +35% YoY, while savory dish customization has grown +24% YoY. With individuality baked into Gen Z’s identity, this isn’t a passing trend.

5. Soup for breakfast – a break from tradition

With Gen Z consumer interest up 273%, silky texture descriptors up +68%, and Japanese cuisine up 15% YoY, Asian-inspired soups are appealing to the Gen Z palette. However, not in the way most would expect. In contrast to mild, easy-on-the-stomach morning staples, hot, intense soups are growing in popularity in the Gen Z breakfast segment. Pho orders up +28% YoY, and breakfast ramen menu inclusions have surged +43% – making it one of the fastest-growing additions of 2026.

Methodology

Tastewise identified these trends using its real-time F&B data foundation, containing billions of data points covering retail, foodservice, home cooking, social, delivery, restaurant menus, and more. Within minutes, its agents – trained exclusively on F&B, not adapted for it – spot patterns and reveal emerging trends.

About Tastewise

Trusted by PepsiCo, Kraft Heinz, Nestlé, and over 80% of the world’s leading food and beverage brands, Tastewise is the agentic intelligence system for food and beverage that turns the industry’s most comprehensive data into custom agents that work where you work to expand distribution, accelerate innovation, and drive demand. Built on proprietary data covering retail, foodservice, home cooking, social, delivery, menus, K-12, and c-stores, and more, Tastewise agents deliver bespoke evidence, in-depth narratives, and complete assets – condensing innovation cycles into days, cutting research costs by 65%, and improving conversion rates by 25%.

Media Contact

Miriam Aniel Oved, Tastewise, 1 +1 704 991 5597, press@tastewise.io, https://tastewise.io/

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TORONTO, June 3, 2026 /CNW/ – PUDO Inc. (“PUDO” or the “Company”) (CSE: PDO) (OTCQB: PDPTF), today announced that it will report its year end financial results on June 9, 2026, after market close. The Company will issue its audited consolidated financial results via a news release at approximately 4:00 PM ET.

Management will host a live webcast at 4:30 PM ET on June 9, 2026, to discuss the results. The webcast will include a presentation by Elliott Etheredge, CEO, followed by a question-and-answer session.

The live webcast can be accessed at https://meetings.lumiconnect.com/200-394-186-590 or on the Company’s website at Company News – Pudo Point Counters. 

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For more information, please visit www.pudopoint.com.

About PUDO Inc.
PUDO Inc. is North America’s only independent parcel pick-up and drop-off counter network. 

PUDO has created a Network of more than 1,950 storefront partners known as PUDOpoint Counters, strategically located very near to where people live, work and play.

PUDO partners with retailers and logistics providers to offer a last-mile pick-up and returns network for ecommerce shoppers that reduces cost, increases convenience and provides package security to the last-mile of package logistics. Visit: www.pudopoint.com.

Information in this press release that is not current or historical factual information may constitute forward-looking information within the meaning of securities laws, such as statements regarding estimated revenues from new contracts, increased parcel volume, activation and implementation of PUDO’s technology and possible future expansions of PUDO’s operations. This information is based on current expectations and assumptions of management, including assumptions concerning PUDO’s ability to integrate its new customers into its network and successfully execute on its new and existing contracts. The use of any of the words “anticipate”, “believe”, “expect”, “plan”, “intend”, “can”, “will”, “should”, and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Since forward-looking statements are based on assumptions and address future events and conditions, by their very nature they involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Risks, uncertainties, and other factors involved with forward-looking information could cause actual events, results, performance, prospects, and opportunities to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Although the Company believes that the expectations and assumptions on which the forward-looking statements are based are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on the forward-looking statements because the Company can give no assurance that they will prove to be correct. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward-looking information include, without limitation, uncertainties with respect to service implementation, the economic results of the relationship on the operations of the Company, changes in general economic, market, or business conditions, and those risks set out in the Company’s public documents filed on SEDAR. This press release, in particular the information in respect of estimated revenues, may contain future-oriented financial information or financial outlook within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Such future-oriented financial information or financial outlook has been prepared for the purpose of providing information about management’s reasonable expectations as to the anticipated results of its proposed business activities. Readers are cautioned that reliance on such information may not be appropriate for other purposes.

The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date hereof and the Company undertakes no obligation to update publicly or revise any forward-looking statements or information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, unless so required by law.

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