S&P Global Market Intelligence‘s second-quarter 2026 Voice of the Customer survey paints a consumer landscape in which digital wallets have crossed into mainstream use while stablecoins and autonomous AI agents remain fringe propositions, hampered by deep-seated concerns about fraud, safety and necessity. The research, drawn from S&P’s Disruptive Experiences survey series, covers US consumer behaviour […]
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VitalityLife has gone live with Swiss Re‘s PromiseXP claims assessment platform across its term life and whole-of-life product lines, in a partnership designed to accelerate claims triage without removing human decision-makers from the process. The deployment is effective now, according to the company. The PromiseXP platform assesses each incoming claim against its complexity and risk […]
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The US Treasury published its notice of proposed rulemaking under the GENIUS Act on 17 August 2026, setting out which stablecoin issuers may operate in the American market and on what timetable. Public comments are open until 19 October 2026. Will Harborne,founder and CEO of Rhino.fi Most of the early commentary has treated the proposal […]
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The following is an overview of the fintech ecosystem and its relation to wider economic development of Venezuela in 2026. Few countries in Latin America have experienced a more dramatic economic transformation than Venezuela. Once one of the region’s wealthiest nations, its enormous oil reserves financed decades of public spending and made Caracas an […]
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The UK’s largest banks and insurers reported another year of strong profits for 2025, and the CBI‘s financial services survey for the first quarter of 2026 recorded business volumes growing at the fastest rate since December 1996. Kate Pender, CEO at Fair4All Finance Fair4All Finance, the not-for-profit set up in 2019 to improve access to […]
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A gaming licence is the document an operator spends the longest waiting for, and the one it tends to treat as the finish line. It is not. Before a licensed operator can take a single deposit it needs a bank or EMI account, one or more payment providers and a set of third-party partners, and […]
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Fraud prevention in payments has become a layering exercise. Behavioural analytics, device intelligence, velocity checks and transaction scoring sit one on top of another, and each new layer is added because the last one did not stop the losses. Paul Twigg, chief technology officer of Digital Commerce Group (DCG) The contributed piece below argues that […]
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Since 2008 the regulatory project in banking has been about capital: how much a bank holds, how liquid it is, and whether it could survive a run. The money-laundering record of the same period has been less reassuring. The Financial Conduct Authority fined Barclays a combined 42 million pounds in July 2025 over two separate […]
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Sharesight has been tracking investment portfolios since 2007, when it launched as a way to make the job simpler for users in Australia and New Zealand. It now covers more than 700,000 stocks, ETFs and funds across more than 60 markets for over 500,000 investors, recording trades, dividends and corporate actions automatically through hundreds of […]
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The following showcases the 2026 developments of fintech and wider digital of the Middle Eastern nation of Yemen. Yemen does not have one straightforward financial system. More than a decade of conflict has divided the country politically, economically and increasingly monetarily. Different authorities operate from Sana’a and Aden, banks have been caught between competing […]
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