Lexie is an AI-powered enterprise solution that enables businesses to securely integrate advanced AI models with proprietary data. Its platform is designed to provide real-time insights and automation, while ensuring the privacy and security of a company's internal information.

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The core of Lexie's service is its custom-built large language model (LLM) stack, which is designed to outperform popular systems such as ChatGPT while reducing the risk of "hallucinations," or inaccurate outputs. The platform can be deployed on-premise or in a hybrid cloud environment, giving businesses maximum flexibility and control over their data while ensuring data safety compliance in any operational environment. 

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Lexie's fullstack array of professional services are tailored to a variety of industries, including financial services, legal and compliance, and media and entertainment. A key product is the LEXI AI-Powered Captioning Tool Kit, which leverages the platform's advanced AI to provide live and recorded captioning, translation, and other media services.

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Standard Bank Group, located in South Africa, is Africa's largest bank by assets and among the longest operating financial institutions on the continent having been founded more than 150 years ago. The Group offers a comprehensive suite of financial products and services via the Hedera blockchain including a wide array of payment processing solutions for both individuals and businesses.

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The firm’s primary functions include facilitating transactional banking, lending, asset finance, merchant solutions, trade finance, and international payment services for its business and enterprise clients. Standard Bank also provides insurance and asset management services. 

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As a member of the Hedera Governing Council, Standard Bank provides enterprise-grade, secure transactions and digitized cross-border trade processes on the immutable Hedera distributed blockchain ledger. 

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Standard Bank is one of the leading Hedera-based service providers utilizing Hedera's Token Service (HTS) and Consensus Service (HCS). The primary focus of this collaboration is to improve transaction efficiency and reduce costs associated with international cross-border payments.

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Australian Payments Plus (AP+) is the national organization responsible for Australia's core payment infrastructure. It was formed by the merger of three key entities: BPAY Group, the operator of the ubiquitous BPAY bill payment service; eftpos, the national debit card system for point-of-sale transactions; and NPP Australia, which runs the New Payments Platform (NPP). In its infrastructure capacity, AP+ processes over 7.5 billion transactions annually and is central to the daily economic activity of the country.

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AP+ is also an active researcher organization that is constantly exploring the capabilities of distributed ledger technology and a member of the Hedera Council.

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The relationship with Hedera provides AP+ with a framework for developing and testing new solutions that could one day integrate with or enhance its established portfolio of payment services. This involvement complements its research into other future-focused technologies, including its participation in the Reserve Bank of Australia's CBDC pilot program.

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SKUx is a fintech company developing a payments solutions platform for the retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) industries. Its mission is to eliminate the fraud and inefficiency that plagues the traditional promotional offer industry by creating a secure, transparent, and real-time system for offer delivery, redemption, and settlement.

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The core of SKUx's service is its Smart Incentives platform, which transforms traditional coupons and rebates into serialized, payment-based offers. A key product is SKUPay, a patented technology that enables item-level payments, allowing brands to deliver value directly to consumers for specific products at the point of sale. The platform is designed to be seamless for consumers and requires no special integration for retailers, while providing brands with transparency and proof of ROI.

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SKUx uses the Hedera Consensus Service (HCS) to create an immutable and auditable record of all offer-related transactions, from issuance to redemption. This provides a "single source of truth" for all parties in the ecosystem. 

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