DWN Publisher Notes For 11/18/25

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Cindy Taylor
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Greetings from Digital Wealth News™

Friends – fintech, AI, and digital wealth keep accelerating as capital pours in and platforms scale. Advisors chase smarter automation, VC deals jump, and—like the feral chickens Bill and I found in Oahu—the week’s trends showed up everywhere we turned.

AndOahu Chicken speaking of showing up everywhere—Oahu’s chickens were the real breakout stars of our Hawaii anniversary trip. After a dozen+ trips of visiting Hawaii and never noticing a single one, suddenly Bill and I were surrounded. Parks, sidewalks, highways (yes, we saw one cross with a light and the “why did the chicken cross the road” joke came to mind), café patios—it felt like we’d discovered an ancient feathered empire that had quietly been running the island the whole time. Turns out they’ve been there for centuries; they were simply plotting their big reveal.

Fintech works the same way. These trends aren’t sudden—AI infrastructure, decentralized rails, and next-generation advisor tech have been compounding in the background for years. Then one week, you look up and realize everything has shifted, and the “new” market forces have actually been there all along.

This week’s coverage captures that kind of quiet-but-powerful momentum:
Our Top 5 VC Deals featured headline rounds including Ripple’s US $500 million strategic raise, Pine Labs’ US $210 million pre-IPO placement and Kiwi’s US $100 million credit facility — underscoring investor focus on payments, credit access and blockchain infrastructure. The Week in Digital Wealth highlighted newly announced alliances across custody, data and trading technologies; Decentralentralized Diaries tracked fresh stablecoin activity and DeFi ecosystem movements; and Advisor Tech Talk surfaced a set of wealth-platform rollouts and AI-driven workflow enhancements for advisor practices.

Momentum everywhere—just like those chickens.

Chicken 1
Chicken 2

Let’s dive in.

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NEWS | MARKETS

THE LEAD: The Week and BEYOND

With shutdown over, data floods in, Bitcoin drops, and markets brace for a bumpy year-end filled with uncertainty

The Week in Digital Wealth (11/17/25)

This week’s column on digital wealth the world over covers news from Microsoft, T. Rowe Price, BofA, Intuit, Chubb, Equifax, and others

Advisor Tech Talk (Week of 11/17/25)

In our weekly Advisor Tech Talk column, we cover the latest wealthtech industry news from Nitrogen, OneVest, TIFIN, Zocks & Pontera

Top 5 VC Deals of the Week in Fintech (11/17/25)

FNZ leads with $650M as Rippling $500M, Pine Labs $440M, Aspora $53M and Finnable $30M drive global fintech funding for Nov 11–17, 2025

Decentralized Diaries for the Week of 11/17/25

FDIC Mulls Tokenized, Stablecoin Insurance, BNY Unveils Stablecoin Reserves Fund, SoFi Enables Crypto Trading, Visa Pilots USDC Gig Economy

DWN AI Index™

DWN AI Index™ | Daily Report (no updates for week of 11/3/25)

The DWN AI Index™ is a new benchmark stock index of the artificial intelligence (AI) sector, comprised of a diversified group of stocks deriving a significant percentage of their revenue from AI applications, and is updated Monday-Friday. 
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THOUGHT LEADERSHIP 

The Taylor Market Report (11/18/25)

Bill Taylor analyzes year-end market volatility, fading rate-cut hopes, and neutral stances on stocks, gold, Bitcoin, and ETH

The Al & Ivy (AI) Podcast, Ep. 53 | US Debt Crisis & Crypto as Financial Plan B

America’s $38T debt is hitting a breaking point. This week’s Al & Ivy Podcast explores whether crypto could emerge as a long-term alternative

Whitepaper Spotlight: AI, Active Management, and the End of Alpha — How Matt Tuttle and Tuttle Capital Are Reimagining Investing

Matt Tuttle redefines active management with AI, unveiling the H.E.A.T. Formula and a new model for intelligent, adaptive investing

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