6 April 2026. Global InsurTech funding surged nearly 20% in 2025, three-quarters of it chasing AI. As Qover celebrates a decade of embedded insurance and Corgi rewrites the startup coverage playbook, the industry is moving from pilot mode to production at breakneck speed. There's something poetic about an industry built on risk assessment becoming one of the biggest risk-takers in fintech. InsurTech has entered 2026 with a swagger it hasn't shown since the heady days of 202

6 April 2026. From Anthropic's plug-ins to Altruist's meteoric Hazel rollout, WealthTech is sprinting into the age of agentic AI. Here's what happened this week and why it matters for your money. The wealth management industry has spent decades perfecting the art of the reassuring handshake and the leather-bound portfolio review. But as of this week, the transformation from mahogany desks to machine learning dashboards isn't just accelerating, it's fundamentally reshaping who

FinanceX Magazine is delighted to announce its official media partnership with Insurtech Insights USA 2026 , the world's largest insurtech community conference, taking place on 3 - 4 June 2026 at the Javits Center, New York. The event brings together more than 6,000 senior insurance and financial services executives, entrepreneurs, and investors for two days of high-impact learning, networking, and deal-making at the heart of the industry's transformation. Insurtech Insights

Cash App has extended its pay-over-time functionality to peer-to-peer money transfers, making it the first major U.S. finance app to apply installment-plan logic to everyday P2P transactions. The move - live as of April 2, 2026 - allows eligible customers to convert a recent P2P payment of $25 or more into a short-term repayment plan, immediately recouping the sent amount into their Cash App balance in exchange for a transparent, fixed upfront fee. The feature is not a line

Australia's primary securities exchange has been ordered to hold $150 million in additional net tangible assets and submit to a comprehensive governance restructure after a nine-month independent inquiry found t hat ASX compromised the resilience of critical market infrastructure to sustain high shareholder returns. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission published the Inquiry Panel's Final Report on April 2, 2026, following an interim report and a strategic r

Bitget has launched a Visa -branded debit card across the Asia-Pacific region, giving users in eligible APAC jurisdictions the ability to spend cryptocurrency directly from their exchange accounts at tens of millions of merchants worldwide, without manual conversion or withdrawal steps. The card, built in partnership with payments infrastructure provider DeCard , went live on April 2, 2026. The product arrives as crypto-linked spending cards become an increasingly contested

Merchants operating across multiple payment rails have long faced a stubborn trade-off: breadth of payment options or depth of transaction intelligence. A new integration between Yaspa , the UK-based open banking specialist that raised a $12M Series B in July 2025, and Paysecure , which connects merchants to more than 500 acquirers and alternative payment met hods globally, is designed to eliminate that choice entirely. The two companies announced the partnership on April 2,

FinanceX Magazine is proud to announce its official media partnership with Dublin Tech Summit 2026 (DTS26), Europe's premier technology conference, taking place on 27–28 May 2026 at the RDS, Dublin, Ireland. Celebrating its 10th anniversary, DTS26 promises to be the most ambitious edition yet, and FinanceX Magazine will be there to bring the highlights, insights, and analysis directly to our readers. Attracting 8,000 attendees from 70 countries, alongside 200 international s

Revolut has cleared a pivotal regulatory hurdle in Latin America's sixth-largest economy, receiving an Organisation Authorisation from Peru's Superintendency of Banking, Insurance and AFP (SBS), the first of two formal approvals required to launch as a fully licensed bank in the countr y. The clearance positions the London-based fintech, which serves over 70 million customers globally, to become Peru's first entirely digital bank once a subsequent Functional Authorisation a