Insurance technology firm Sixfold has launched Narrative, an AI capability designed to compress the pre-decision review phase of Life & Health underwriting, addressing a workflow problem that still consumes underwriter time even after a decade of automation investment across the sector. The tool generates structured case summaries from medical records, attending physician statements, MIB reports, and lab results, giving underwriters a configurable starting point rather than a

Latvia's central bank has authorised Paybis Europe to operate as both a crypto-asset service provider and a payment institution, the first time a single Latvian firm has secured the two permissions in tandem. Latvijas Banka confirmed the decision on 12 May 2026, positioning the country as one of the more active jurisdictions implementing the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). The dual licence allows Paybis Europe to custody crypto-assets, execute exchange orders

AMLA's findings and supervisory RTS land alongside Bretton AI's $75M raise. Inside RegTech's shift to perpetual KYC and agentic compliance.

FinanceX Magazine is proud to announce its official media partnership with the World Financial Innovation Series (WFIS) Vietnam 2026, one of Southeast Asia's most influential gatherings for banking, insurance, and fintech decision-makers. The summit will take place on 19–20 May 2026 at Meliá Hanoi, Vietnam, convening the most senior voices shaping the country's financial services future. Hosted by Tradepass and supported by the Vietnam Banks Association (VNBA), WFIS Vietnam 2

Paymentology, the global issuer-processor serving clients in 68 countries, has secured a $175 million investment co-led by Apis Partners and Aspirity Partners, capital earmarked to accelerate expansion into credit, stablecoin and tokenisation services. The London-headquartered company, announced on 12 May 2026, will deploy the funding against a backdrop of a payments market projected to reach $49 trillion by year-end, where the issuing layer remains one of the last segments s

Inside Wall Street's tokenization sprint: DTCC's October launch, NYSE's Securitize bet, BlackRock's onchain treasuries. The new market plumbing is here.

iFAST Global Bank has become the first UK-licensed bank to plug into Alipay+, Ant International's cross-border wallet gateway, giving its Digital Personal Banking clients the ability to pay by QR code at more than 150 million merchants across 220-plus markets. The Alipay+ partnership, launched on 11 May 2026 and branded "Worldwide Scan & Pay," routes transactions directly from clients' multi-currency current accounts at iFAST Global Bank, removing the need for a physical card

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has granted conditional approval to Augustus to establish a full-service US national bank purpose-built for stablecoin settlement and machine-initiated transactions, marking one of fewer than ten full national charters issued since 2010. The decision positions the New York-based firm, formerly known as Ivy, to become the first US clearing bank engineered around programmable money, with 25-year-old co-founder Ferdinand Dabitz set t

Between Corgi's $1.3 billion valuation, Gallagher Re's record AI funding share, and parametric carriers paying flood claims in under four hours, InsurTech 2026 looks nothing like the InsurTech that IPO'd in 2021.