The following showcases the 2026 developments of fintech and wider digital in Romania. Romania’s fintech story is one of rapid transformation. Over the past decade, the country has evolved from being recognised primarily for its software engineers and IT outsourcing industry into one of Central and Eastern Europe’s fastest-growing digital economies. Unlike some European markets […]
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Dudley Building Society has completed the full rollout of a new cloud-based mortgage origination platform to all broker intermediaries, following a phased launch earlier in 2026. The platform is built on technology from Ohpen, a Dutch cloud-native lending infrastructure firm, and forms part of a broader digitisation programme at the 168-year-old mutual. The announcement centres […]
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Legal & General has released a downloadable annuity quote checklist and accompanying guide aimed at savers aged 55 and over, as the UK individual annuity market posts its strongest year in more than a decade. According to data from the Association of British Insurers, total premiums paid into individual pension annuities reached £7.4billion in 2025, […]
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The following is an overview of the fintech ecosystem and its relation to wider economic development of Panama in 2026. Few countries have built an economy around the movement of goods quite like Panama. Every day, thousands of ships transit the Panama Canal, connecting Asia, Europe and the Americas through one of the world’s most […]
Explore MoreIn the last column, we looked at the rise in expense control complexity and the subsequent increased burden for the finance team working with out-dated controls. Today, we look at how the AI threat can be turned into an ally by transforming sub-par expense control into accounting controls with AI. Tackling receipt fraud made easy […]
Explore MoreIcon Solutions, the UK payments infrastructure company, has received a King’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category. Co-founders Tom Kelleher and Darren Capehorn attended a reception at Buckingham Palace to collect the award from His Majesty The King, joining business leaders from across the UK recognised under the programme. The award specifically recognised the […]
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Monzo put two specific policy asks to MPs, industry representatives and charities at a parliamentary event hosted by Callum Anderson MP on 14 July: a mandatory 30-day pension transfer deadline, and a common digital transfer system that would span all pension providers. The neobank also called for proportionate regulation that concentrates compliance friction on higher-risk […]
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Flock, the London-based connected insurance provider for commercial motor fleets, has launched Jay, an agentic AI assistant embedded in its customer portal. Jay is available immediately to all Flock fleet insurance customers and to brokers placing business through the firm, at no additional charge. The product is designed to answer natural-language queries from fleet managers […]
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The following is an in-depth analysis of the fintech and wider digital economic development of African nation Somalia. Most countries develop their financial systems in a predictable order. Banks expand first, digital payments follow, and fintech companies eventually build new services on top of existing infrastructure. Somalia has followed almost the opposite path. Years of […]
Explore MoreFuture Alpha, the research arm of events group Alpha Events, is inviting firms to partner on The Edge Report 2026, a survey-based study of investment practices across the quantitative and systematic investment community. The announcement came via a direct sales email addressed to The Fintech Times, rather than a formal press release. According to the […]
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