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WealthTech's AI Autumn Has Arrived: Inside the Week That Turned Advisers into Software Companies

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An interview with David Firth by Sean Murphy Around four in five of the calls landing in one high street bank's contact centre are not complaints, fraud or lost cards. They are people trying to make sense of a transaction they can’t recognise. The payment is almost always one of their own but a week later they have already forgotten and the transaction description is often a nonsensical collection of letters and numbers with no location and no memory to hang it on. Multiply t

The 95 Percent Problem: Why Compliance Breaks After the Alert

An interview with Kartik Dabbiru, by Sean Murphy Picture a financial crime analyst at the moment an alert lands. Five, perhaps ten systems are open across as many browser tabs: the alert itself, the customer record, the documents submitted at onboarding, the log of every conversation the firm has had with them. The analyst moves between them, following one branch and then another, until resolving the case has become an impressively convoluted decision tree. Somewhere along th

When Qualified People Can't Find Work in a Market That Needs Them

By Daniel Stoica, Founder & CEO at Skillbourg by RMT Labs Luxembourg's fintech sector keeps growing and keeps saying it can't hire. The labour data tells a more complicated story. Luxembourg's fintech story is a growth story. More than 200 fintechs have set up here since PayPal took a banking licence in 2007, and roughly 280 startups now sit in the ecosystem. The Luxembourg House of Financial Technology runs a yearly FinTech Recruits event where 80-plus fintechs, banks and in

Linxo and the Real Cost of Building Open Banking in France

An interview with Gildas Le Louarn, by Sean Murphy Linxo was connecting French bank accounts long before any regulation asked it to. Founded in 2011, two years after the launch of the iPhone, the company built what its product and marketing director Gildas Le Louarn describes as the first banking application in France: an app that used screen scraping to pull account information from different banks into one place, at a time when the banks themselves had nothing comparable on

Underwriting the Cost of AI

An interview with Will Ross by Sean Murphy Will Ross did not set out to work in insurance. He was at Stanford, between an MS in climate and atmospheric modelling and an MBA, collaborating on a wildfire modelling project in a corner of northern California, when insurers started knocking. A better model, they told him, would help them solve some real problems. He took the meetings and what he found there redirected his career. "There's a lot of good people trying really hard,"

The Next Competitive Advantage in Financial Services Is Knowledge

By Andrew Quinn, Managing Director & Co-Founder at FIDEO Global Summer is over. The inbox is full again. Meetings are back. And projects that were going to be dealt with “after the summer” have suddenly become immediate priorities. But financial services has not returned to the same industry it left in July. Before the summer, we argued in FinanceX that the second half of 2026 would belong to organisations capable of turning growing complexity into confidence. Two months l

The Shift From Experimentation to Execution

By Elena Nițu (Associate) with the coordination of Rebecca Marina (Partner), Filip & Company A Mid-Year Reflection on the Developments That Shaped Financial Services in H1 2026 in Romania Why H1 2026 Deserves Reflection The first half of 2026 produced no shortage of headlines in the financial services. Artificial intelligence continued to dominate industry discussions, regulatory frameworks entered new phases of implementation, and financial institutions accelerated investmen

Mid-year Reflection: Five Themes Defining Financial Services in 2026

By Tracy Lai, Lystar Group The first half of 2026 has moved at remarkable speed. Evolving policy, advances in artificial intelligence and continued innovation across financial services have competed for attention across news outlets, Money20/20 Europe and other major industry events. As we reach the midpoint of the year, however, it is worth stepping back from the daily news cycle to consider a more important question: What has mattered most? Many of the year's most significa

Stablecoin Payments in the UK: The Regulatory Landscape Just Changed

By Zinah Abdaki, CMO at QUBE Events The UK stablecoin framework has been in motion for years. Since April 2026, it has moved faster than at any point in that journey. HM Treasury published draft amendments in April, the Bank of England made a significant policy reversal on 19 May at CityWeek 2026, and the House of Lords added parliamentary pressure on 2 June. For payments and RegTech leaders, the picture looks materially different today than it did at the start of the year an