Financial Updates – Page 13 – Financial Updates

How Smart Stores & Cashless Payments Are Transforming Unattended Retail

Unattended retail is shifting from low-value ...

Smart stores and micro-markets drive larger b...

Cashless and especially contactless payments ...

Key challenges and opportunities center on ma...

Why Payments Technology in 2025 Is Your Competitive Edge: Real-Time Pay, Fraud & Trust

Global FYI Fintech

In 2025, payments tech like automation, virtu...

Real-time, multi-rail payments and mature emb...

Fraud prevention evolved into strategic fraud...

These shifts raise urgent questions around AI...

How Clear Street’s Cloud-Native Infrastructure Is Reinventing Capital Markets Post-Trade

Global FYI Fintech

Clear Street is a non-bank prime broker found...

Its real-time, event-driven platform targets ...

The firm claims to process about 2.5% of U.S....

Scaling this model faces challenges including...

How FinTech Must Rebuild Trust Amid Rising Breaches, Fraud & Weak Transparency

Global FYI Fintech

The article proposes a research framework on ...

Rising cybersecurity threats, including costl...

Consumers show a widening trust gap, driven b...

Regulatory developments such as open banking ...

U.S. Homeowners Insurance Stabilizes in 2025: Premiums Up, Profitability Still Elusive

Americas Markets Insurance

Triple-I sees the U.S. homeowners insurance m...

Despite improvement, the 2025 net combined ra...

Q2 2025 delivered the strongest second-quarte...

Profitability remains constrained by sharply ...

When Travel Insurance Denies Then Approves: Misrepresentation, Policy Gaps & Consumer Rights

Americas Firms Insurance

A traveler with a 25-hour flight disruption h...

After months of stalled communication and doc...

The case highlights common travel insurance t...

Rising claim denial rates and alleged misrepr...

Oklahoma Insurance Reforms: Faster Claims, Fairer Coverage & Consumer Protections

Americas Policy Insurance

Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Glen Mulready...

The plan shortens complaint and claim deadlin...

Reforms include a Homeowner Bill of Rights, m...

Mandatory Eagle Mediation and a bar on awardi...

What Colorado’s HB25-1182 Means for Homeowners: Wildfire Risk, Mitigation & Insurance Costs

Americas Policy Insurance

Colorado’s new HB25-1182 law will require ins...

If mitigation efforts are not reflected in an...

Experts say the law may improve fairness and ...

Insurers warn of modeling and actuarial chall...

NCM Funds Boost Year-End Distributions—Dividend Champions Up ~32%, Global Equity Over 100%

Global Firms Asset Management

NCM Asset Management announced significantly ...

For 2025, NCM Dividend Champions, Global Inco...

The increases represent roughly 32%, 88%, and...

The sharply higher payouts raise questions ab...

HoldCo’s Push in COLB: Governance, Growth & the Case for a Big Buyback

Americas Firms Commercial Banking

HoldCo Asset Management has built a large $14...

COLB’s post–Pacific Premier acquisition resul...

Despite these operational gains, COLB’s share...

HoldCo is taking a watchful activist stance—f...