Life and health underwriting teams are slower to put artificial intelligence into daily use than their property and casualty counterparts, yet a new survey suggests conviction is running well ahead of rollout. AI underwriting firm Sixfold reports that 45% of life and health organisations use AI regularly today, against 60% across insurance underwriting as a whole, while every leader and every underwriter who has adopted it says it has made them faster, better, or both. The fi

Nuvei has embedded payment acceptance directly inside BlackLine's invoice-to-cash platform, letting enterprise finance teams collect on an invoice the moment it is issued and have the payment matched and reconciled without manual keying. The partnership, announced on 5 August 2026, is already live with enterprise customers and targets one of the most persistent inefficiencies in corporate finance: the gap between digital invoicing and the payment rails that settle it. For fin

As of this week, sustainability is no longer a marketing sticker on the side of a chequebook. From Florida to Nairobi, the money is actually moving, and it is bringing millions of previously unbanked customers along for the ride. The week climate banking got institutional For years, the story of green fintech has been half evangelism, half wishful thinking. That story shifted in early June, and the ripples are still spreading through the sector this week. Climate First Bancor

The Western Union Company has launched Stablecard, a digital wallet and Visa card that lets customers hold and spend its dollar-backed stablecoin, USDPT, positioning the 175-year-old remittance operator to defend a retail money-transfer business that is shrinking under digital and regulatory pressure. Announced on 4 August 2026 with stablecoin infrastructure firm Rain, the product went live in 37 markets, with the company targeting more than 60 by year-end. Stablecard combine

Norm AI's $120M raise, NextReg's stealth launch, and Hush Security's non-human workforce play — how July 2026 became the month agentic AI ate the compliance stack.

FinanceX Magazine is proud to announce its media partnership with IMPACT Funders & Founders 2026, the first-ever event dedicated exclusively to connecting fintech startups and scaleups with the investors who can fund their next stage of growth. Taking place on 11 September 2026 at the New York Marriott Marquis in New York, the inaugural gathering bridges capital and innovation in the financial services arena. Designed for a focused community of venture capitalists, investors,

The clearest evidence yet that the Bullish-Equiniti tokenisation thesis works in practice is not a pilot or a roadmap slide. It is a dividend cheque paid in gold tokens. On or about 15 July 2026, Equiniti and Bullish completed a quarterly dividend distribution for Elemental Royalty Corporation (TSXV: ELE; NASDAQ: ELE) in which eligible registered shareholders could elect to take their payout as Tether Gold (XAU₮), a token backed one-to-one by physical bullion, rather than cas

Three weeks after the DTCC processed its first live tokenized trades, Wall Street's plumbing is being quietly rewired — and the exchanges are racing to catch up.

Solertia Insurance, a Lloyd's Coverholder specialising in high-value transaction tax risk, has selected London insurtech Optalitix to replace its underwriting systems with a single cloud-based workbench, a technology bet landing at a point when the tax liability market it serves is softening and pricing discipline is under pressure. The managing general agent chose Optalitix Quote after reviewing several workbench providers, and the implementation is running ahead of a planne