Optalitix, the London-based pricing and underwriting insurtech, has added agentic AI to its Optalitix Quote platform, letting underwriters at insurers, reinsurers and MGAs query their pricing systems in plain English rather than navigating dashboards, filters and reports. The functionality ships disabled by default and inherits the platform's existing role-based permissions, meaning only already-authorised users can reach it once a client switches it on. The mechanic is a con

The lending and PropTech story this week isn't a single deal, it's a coordinated shift toward AI-native credit, deposit-funded BNPL, and a real estate market that finally has money to spend again. Something is happening in the plumbing of credit. As of this week, the biggest name in Buy Now, Pay Later is applying to become an American bank. AI-driven credit scoring has stopped being a pilot and started becoming policy. And PropTech, the sector everyone had written off after

Hyundai Card has completed a live stablecoin remittance between two overseas subsidiaries of Hyundai Motor, moving a real intercompany payment from the United States to Mexico in roughly seven minutes and setting up a second, multi-currency test across Hyundai's European entities later this month. The pilot marks one of the first cases of a major industrial conglomerate, rather than a crypto-native firm or fintech, using a stablecoin to settle actual billing between its own f

Underwriting professionals have flipped the script on artificial intelligence: rather than fearing it, 86% of underwriters now say AI has made them more optimistic about the profession's future, according to new research from Sixfold, the AI underwriting firm that raised $30 million in a Series B round in January 2026. The finding, drawn from a survey of 543 underwriting professionals across the United States and Europe, reframes a debate that until recently centred on whethe

PSD3 hit July 1 with 61% of EU banks unready. Open USD stablecoin, Temenos-additiv, HSBC-Google Cloud reshape open banking. Full analysis inside.

FinanceX Magazine is delighted to announce its media partnership with MoneyLIVE North America 2026, one of the continent's most senior gatherings for banking and payments leaders. Taking place on 14-15 September 2026, at the Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel in Chicago, the event will convene the decision-makers shaping the future of financial services across the USA and Canada. The two-day conference is expected to bring together 900+ industry leaders, with 70% at C-level, Director, V

The Managing General Agents' Association named five winners at its annual awards on 7 July 2026, recognising the underwriting businesses and technology providers that gained ground during a softening insurance market. The winners span specialty MGAs, insurer capacity providers, insurtech vendors and training platforms, and their selection tracks a sector that now controls a meaningful share of UK general insurance premium. The awards land at a specific point in the market cyc

GCash's $1.5B IPO, Onafriq-PAPSS wallet rails and green fintech's $50B moment prove financial inclusion is scaling. Read the July 2026 breakdown.

Athens-listed Profile Software has launched ProfileOne, an agentic AI orchestration platform that lets banks and investment managers connect AI agents directly to live systems of record while keeping humans in control of every consequential decision. Announced on 7 July 2026, the platform targets the gap that has stalled most enterprise AI programmes: moving from copilots that only advise to software that can execute, without handing over authority or losing the audit trail.