United Arab EmiratesFinance and insurance2023 – ongoingEmirates NBD Bank PJSC
GitHub Copilot X for software developers
Emirates NBD equipped more than 1,000 developers with a generative AI coding assistant
Problem
Emirates NBD wanted its IT teams to deliver software more efficiently.
Approach
With Microsoft's support, the bank equipped more than 1,000 developers with the coding assistant it called GitHub Copilot X. Its July 2023 announcement described IT teams already using the tool. Improvements in coding efficiency and quality remained expected benefits.
Results
Takeaway
The bank disclosed developer access at scale. It did not publish a measured change in software delivery speed or quality.
Categories
- Size
- Large enterprise
- Industry
- Finance and insurance
- Business function
- IT and R&D
- Innovation type
- Process innovation
- AI technology
- Generative AI
- Adoption
- Off-the-shelf tool or platform
- Evidence
- Company's own claim
Sources
Source summaries
The bank reported equipping more than 1,000 developers with GitHub Copilot X. It described expected software-development benefits without reporting measured productivity results. Other generative AI initiatives in the announcement were planned deployments.
Full details are in the original sources.
