December 2025 – Finance Updates

Top Payments & Financial Services Trends Tech Will Drive in 2026

By 2026, payments will be built on real-time ...

AI-driven “agentic commerce” will automate pu...

Digital identity, biometrics, and advanced fr...

Open banking, embedded finance, BNPL, and cro...

When Zillow Hid Climate Risk Scores: The Clash Between Transparency, Market Forces & Insurance Costs

Americas Markets Real Estate and Rental and Leasing

Zillow removed on-page climate risk scores fo...

Homeowners in high climate-risk areas now pay...

Escalating climate-driven catastrophes, such ...

The clash between Zillow’s retreat from visib...

2025 Insurance Shake-Up: Wildfire Losses, AI Push & Rising Regulatory Pressure

Americas Markets Finance and Insurance

2025 reshaped insurance through unprecedented...

Regulators and courts are testing new cost-sh...

Deal activity stayed strong with multi-billio...

AI rapidly moved center stage via acquisition...

Why Nonprofits Are Facing Insurance Collapse: Rising Premiums, Legal Risk & Reform Needed

Americas Risk Finance and Insurance

Nonprofits across the U.S. are being priced o...

Liability premiums have soared since 2019—ave...

Key drivers include social and legal inflatio...

Without structural fixes—legal reform, target...

Louisiana Homeowners See 7.5% Rate Cut for SURE & Elevate Amid Regulatory Reform

Americas Policy Finance and Insurance

Louisiana approved an average 7.5% rate decre...

SURE, the state’s second-largest homeowners i...

The rate cuts are driven mainly by lower rein...

Recent regulatory reforms and mitigation focu...

How 340B, ACA Subsidy Rollbacks & PBM Reform Will Reshape Strategy for Insurers & Health Providers

Americas Policy Health Care and Social Assistance

In 2025, Republicans shifted from defending A...

GOP legislative focus centered on tightening ...

A federal court halted HRSA’s 340B Rebate Mod...

With enhanced ACA subsidies set to lapse at t...

MetLife Completes $1.2B PineBridge Acquisition — $734.7B Combined Asset Powerhouse

Americas M&A Finance and Insurance

MetLife Investment Management has closed its ...

The deal, structured with US$800 million upfr...

The acquisition advances MetLife’s “New Front...

Key uncertainties center on integration execu...

Why J.P. Morgan Is Turning Four Mutual Funds into ETFs in Mid-2026

Americas Markets Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles

J.P. Morgan Asset Management plans to convert...

The funds span New York and California tax-fr...

J.P. Morgan cites intraday trading, greater p...

The move advances JPM AM’s broader ETF push, ...

MetLife Finalizes PineBridge Deal, Ushers in $734.7B Global Asset Management Scale

Global M&A Finance and Insurance

MetLife Investment Management has closed its ...

The deal totals up to $1.2 billion, with $800...

The acquisition advances MetLife’s New Fronti...

Integration will be led by new President Bria...

CI GAM’s 2025 Reinvested Distribution in ETFs: Capital Gain & Tax Consequences

Americas Markets Finance and Insurance

CI Global Asset Management announced small ad...

These non-cash distributions range from about...

The new amounts are separate from and increme...

Investors in taxable (non-registered) account...