Kathmandu. Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation Nepal (CSRI Nepal), an artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity research organization, has announced the Global AI Research Grant 2026 targeting the Bank, Financial Institution and Insurance (BFSI) sector. <\/p>\n
This research grant program aims to systematize and mitigate new types of cyber risks, complex challenges to data privacy, and compliance with regulatory standards, arising from the rapid use of AI in modern times. <\/p>\n
During a recent program in Kathmandu, the organization made public the objectives and priorities of this grant. <\/p>\n
The organization establishes strong trilateral collaboration among research, regulatory bodies, and financial industries with a vision to develop Nepal as a regional hub for safe, ethical, and robust AI technologies. Dr.<\/p>\n
Shaligram Parajuli, President, CSRI Nepal, said, “This research grant has given high priority to four main dimensions of the financial sector. <\/p>\n
According to him, advanced AI models will be developed to reduce financial risk, control digital fraud, prevent digital identity theft of customers, and make automated financial transactions completely secure. Likewise, promoting modern AI technologies such as ‘Federated Learning’ to maintain customer privacy as per the existing regulatory framework of Nepal, producing skilled manpower indigenous by providing practical opportunities to Nepal’s young data scientists, researchers and cybersecurity experts through research, and providing research-based recommendations to regulatory bodies like Nepal Rastra Bank for factual policy-making. The conceptual framework of the Global Research Grant 2026 has been jointly prepared by CSRI Nepal’s founder president Chiranjibi Adhikari, CARE Nepal’s senior vice president Prof. Dr. Gajendra Sharma, secretaries Sarala Karki and Bandana Sharma, working committee member Shanti Kala Subedi and member Sangam Neupane. <\/p>\n
The organization has also clarified the four main research areas under this grant and the expected achievements of them. First, an automated threat detection system will be developed for banks by monitoring AI-based cyber threats in real time through ‘AI Threat Intelligence’. Second, under ‘Data Governance’, a secure and privacy-friendly financial data processing framework will be developed to meet national and international standards. Third, in the area of ‘Financial Fraud Control’, the goal is to prevent potential financial losses by predicting suspicious transactions and increase customer confidence. Fourth, AI systems will be made transparent, fair, and accountable in loan evaluation and banking services through ‘Ethical AI’. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kathmandu. Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation Nepal (CSRI Nepal), an artificial intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity research organization, has announced the Global AI Research Grant 2026 targeting the Bank, Financial Institution and Insurance (BFSI) sector. This research grant program aims to systematize and mitigate new types of cyber risks, complex challenges to data privacy,Continue reading “Global Research Grant Announced to Combat AI Risks in Banking and Financial Sector”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":124918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-samachar-en"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/photo_f081c093-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124947,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124946\/revisions\/124947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/124918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}