Organic growth has been the wealth management profession’s stated problem for years. Referrals slow when advisers stop working their networks, and purchased leads stop the moment the payments do. VastAdvisor, which launched in March 2026 at Future Proof Citywide and closed a $1 million SAFE round in August, describes itself as an organic growth operating […]
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Insurers have spent the last two years experimenting with AI at the edges of their business. Diego Devalle, Chief Product Development Officer at Guidewire, believes the foundations are now strong enough to put AI agents inside the workflows that matter most: claims and underwriting. Diego Devalle, chief product development officer at Guidewire What has changed, […]
Explore MoreLloyds Banking Group has completed three live tokenised deposit transactions under Project Agorá’s Real-Value Testing programme, marking a step beyond prototype demonstrations toward transactions that carry actual settlement risk and value. The three transactions covered sterling, euro and Swiss franc scenarios. The most technically significant was a cross-currency trade in which Lloyds’ Corporate Markets business […]
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The following showcases the 2026 developments of fintech and wider digital landscape of Ukraine as presented by The Fintech Times. There are few harsher tests of digital finance than a missile attack. Electricity can disappear. Telecommunications networks can be damaged. Millions of people can suddenly move to another city or another country. Businesses close, government […]
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As artificial intelligence shifts rapidly from passive conversational tools to autonomous, multi-step execution agents, regulated financial institutions face a crucial balancing act: deploying high-velocity AI capabilities while satisfying strict security, governance, and audit requirements. Addressing this operational challenge, Google Cloud has officially launched Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services, a purpose-built agentic AI solution engineered specifically […]
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Passkeys have spread through consumer and enterprise authentication on one argument above all others: there is no password to phish. For banks and other regulated firms that argument has been persuasive enough that passkeys are now treated in some quarters as a complete answer to account takeover. Conor White, president, strategic initiatives at Daon Conor […]
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Prediction markets let people trade on whether a real-world event will happen. Each contract asks a yes-or-no question and settles at one dollar for yes or nothing for no. According to CertiK‘s 2026 Skynet Prediction Markets Report, global trading volume rose fourfold from 15.8 billion dollars in 2024 to 63.5 billion dollars in 2025, and […]
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When Flex for Good passed $1 million in emergency rental assistance delivered, the milestone said less about new technology than about old rails pointed somewhere new. The charity, a separate 501(c)(3) built alongside rent-payment platform Flex, moves emergency grants across the same infrastructure that moves rent. Ryan Metcalf, VP of public affairs at Flex Ryan […]
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Ecommpay has gone live as a direct acquirer and payment method provider within PayControl‘s enterprise payment orchestration platform, the two companies confirmed on 30 July 2026. The integration means merchants already using PayControl can route transactions through Ecommpay’s gateway and acquiring network without adding a separate integration. PayControl, founded in 2025 and headquartered in London, […]
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Bitget Wallet has launched Assetback, a rewards programme that converts eligible spending on its Visa and Mastercard-backed card into Bitcoin, gold (via the XAUT token), or tokenized US equities and ETFs. Users select their preferred asset once inside the app and the conversion happens automatically at the point of settlement, with no brokerage account or […]
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