If finance were one of Jim Henson’s Muppets, it would be Sam the Eagle.
It’s ironic that the financial services industry, and wealth management in particular, has such a stodgy, old fashioned, even conservative reputation and image.
Because things are changing so quickly. Particularly in wealth management.
Welcome to another Advisor Tech Talk where this week we’re serving up more than 5,000 words of news items that serve as testimony to the increasing rate of change in the wealth management industry, change that is being driven in part—in large part, actually—by technology.
And of course we’ll offer some evidence here in our introduction, first courtesy of the analysts and consultants at F2 Strategy who in their Q1 2026 Trend Report found that nearly four out of five of the wealth management firms in their survey are planning to change their operating models within the next 12 to 24 months. Not just bolt on a new piece of wealthtech. Not just add or reduce headcount. They’re going to change the way they do business.
That sounds like the business version of renovating your house by demolishing it down to the studs.
And perhaps wealth management firms should bring out the old wrecking ball, but revising a business’s operating model requires careful thought, according to F2 Strategy. For example, while most advisors say they want the freedom to operate as they choose, granting them such freedom may cost firms the ability to scale and automate their operations easily. Advisor freedom generally means less coherence and less integration. That seems to run counter to the prevailing industry trend of maximizing advisor independence.
Results of an informal poll published by WealthManagement.com found that only one-in-four advisors were completely satisfied with their firm’s technology. Three-quarters of the respondents said that their firms were going to prioritize technology investments this year.
Recent research from Kitces.com found that the biggest driver of advisor wellbeing—a fair stand-in for satisfaction—at the firm level is the technology stack itself, with dissatisfaction with technology a major component of financial advisor turnover. The Kitces research suggests that firms should target areas that are major advisor pain points, like compliance.
F2’s research, on the other hand, identifies client onboarding as the biggest source of technology friction for financial advisors.
Then again, maybe firms should look at technology and operating model changes that address other concerns. For example, we would suggest that firms adopt the proven, already existing technology that can help address what Ezra Group’s Craig Iskowitz identified as the wealth management industry’s “proactivity deficit.”
“… it’s endemic across the industry at every AUM tier. Advisors wait for the client contact. Firms build portals and reporting dashboards but don’t build the trigger logic that turns data into outreach. When a client files taxes in April, nobody flags the mortgage interest deduction opportunity. When equity compensation vests in Q3, nobody runs a concentration analysis. The data is there. The workflow isn’t.”
We’ll definitely return to the idea of Iskowitz’s “proactivity deficit” in a future column.
For now, though, let’s get to your headlines…
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Advisor360°
Advisor360°™ today announced that King Financial Network (KFN), a New Jersey-based wealth management firm, has adopted its AI-native operating system as its strategic platform, unifying CRM, reporting, client portal, document management, and an integration with RightCapital.
Managing approximately $1.2 billion in assets with 14 advisors, King Financial Network sought a solution capable of delivering workflow continuity, unified household reporting, and a modern client experience as the firm continues its growth trajectory.
After learning Advisor360° was a viable option during its transition, KFN elected to move forward with the platform to support its long-term operational and client experience objectives.
AdvisorSEOMax
AdvisorSEO Max, an AI-powered SEO and visibility platform built for financial advisors and RIAs, is now available at advisorseomax.com. The platform gives independent advisors the ability to run website audits, generate compliant meta tags and schema markup, track Google Search Console performance, and monitor AI-search visibility, all without technical expertise or an outside agency. The platform includes a 14-day free trial with plans starting at $199/month or $1,990/year.
The platform was created by Shaun Melby, CFP®, who runs Melby Wealth Management in Nashville. Melby has spent more than seven years using organic search as his firm’s primary client acquisition channel. In 2025, he attempted to systematize his SEO workflow using Custom GPTs. They fell short almost immediately. They couldn’t access real search data, lost context between sessions, and couldn’t generate compliance-aware recommendations. Rather than accept those limitations, Melby built a full platform from scratch, first for his own firm and then for the industry.
At the center of the product is Commander, an in-platform AI assistant powered by Claude (Anthropic). Commander knows the advisor’s site data, generates multi-week strategy plans, remembers what it recommended in prior sessions, tracks whether those recommendations improved performance, monitors competitor websites for changes, and sends follow-up nudges when it is time to act. It operates as a strategic intelligence layer, not a chatbot.
BEO Investments
BEO Investments LLC (“BEO”), a private equity firm based in Miami, today announced the launch of SERA Capital Intelligence. The platform identifies who is raising private capital, who is deploying it, and how fast capital is moving, delivered as analyzed intelligence to professionals weekly.
Every week, thousands of Regulation D filings hit the SEC. But filings alone only tell you who is raising. They do not reveal which advisers are behind the capital, how raises are progressing, or where momentum is building. That requires connecting multiple regulatory databases, layering in macroeconomic signals, and analyzing the result. Most firms do not have the infrastructure to do this internally. SERA does it automatically.
SERA tracks 14,900+ qualified Form D filings and cross-references them against 1.6 million SEC Form ADV fund vehicle records and 29,000+ registered investment advisers. It integrates data from seven government feeds: SEC EDGAR, Form ADV, FRED, U.S. Treasury, CME, CBOE, and IAPD. Every filing receives a proprietary AI capital assessment evaluating raise momentum, raise momentum and capital positioning, and capital status.
Broadridge
Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR), a global Fintech leader, today announced a strategic partnership and minority investment in CENTRL, a leading provider of AI-powered due diligence solutions for financial institutions. The partnership enhances Broadridge’s data and analytics solutions for the asset management and retirement advisory industries with leading due diligence technology and expands its AI-enabled capabilities, helping modernize counterparty due diligence and RFP processes through data-driven, innovative technology.
The financial services industry continues to face increasing regulatory scrutiny, fragmented counterparty oversight processes and a growing volume of manual and duplicative due diligence requests. By integrating Broadridge’s trusted data and market infrastructure capabilities with CENTRL’s AI-driven due diligence platform, firms can reduce manual touchpoints, eliminate redundant data gathering, improve accuracy and consistency, and strengthen regulatory audit trails.
Through the partnership, Broadridge will integrate CENTRL’s AI-powered workflow and automation capabilities across solutions serving asset managers, retirement recordkeepers, and retirement advisors. The collaboration includes modernizing Broadridge’s Fi360 RFP Director, embedding Broadridge data into CENTRL’s workflows, and expanding access to AI-driven tools that automate due diligence, RFP responses, and counterparty oversight processes.
Broadridge
Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc. (NYSE: BR) today announced the launch of its next-generation digital asset platform for wealth management enabling all Canadian wealth managers to accelerate their offering of crypto currencies and other tokenized assets.
Designed to help Canadian wealth management firms meet rising investor demand, the new capabilities unify traditional and digital assets within a single operating model. The platform enables firms to deliver a seamless client experience across trading, custody, asset servicing, communications, and proxy voting, all through one integrated environment. The Broadridge platform includes a growing ecosystem of partners – including Galaxy for wallet capabilities and a multi-custody model, including Anchorage / Tetra, with interoperability to additional custodians.
As digital assets become an increasingly important part of investor portfolios, wealth managers face a practical challenge: how to support them without creating operational silos or a fragmented client experience. Broadridge’s platform has solved that challenge by taking out the complexity of digital asset processing behind the scenes, enabling wealth managers to deliver a streamlined front-end experience across the full investment landscape.
Brown Plus
Leading accounting and advisory firm, Brown Plus, is excited to announce that it has expanded its Advisory Practice to include outsourced Chief Information Officer (CIO) services.
Brown Plus’ outsourced CIO services are designed to help organizations that lack in-house, executive-level IT expertise align their technology strategies with overall business objectives while navigating increasingly complex IT environments. Through this new service offering, Brown Plus can provide strategic IT leadership, including technology maturity assessments; IT roadmap development; cybersecurity and risk management guidance; vendor selection and oversight; and support with system selection and implementation. The Firm’s outsourced CIO services help address common challenges such as outdated systems, inefficient processes, cybersecurity risks and limited internal resources, enabling clients to optimize technological investments, strengthen controls and make more informed, forward-looking decisions.
Leading the Outsourced CIO Services is Seth Nolt, IT Director at Brown Plus, who has more than 25 years of experience evaluating, implementing and administering IT systems. Seth is responsible for providing specialized outsourced CIO services to clients, as well as overseeing the strategic direction and operational support of all technology systems within Brown Plus. He has a proven track record of helping organizations align technological solutions with business needs and long-term goals.
Docupace
Docupace (the “Company”), a leading provider of AI-enabled back-office and compliance software for wealth management firms, today announced the appointment of Mike Conlon as Chief Revenue Officer. Conlon will oversee Docupace’s end-to-end revenue strategy, aligning sales, marketing, client experience and partnerships behind a single growth agenda.
Conlon joins Docupace at a pivotal juncture as the Company continues to scale its AI-enabled platform and expand its market presence. In his new role, he will lead the Company’s unified go-to-market strategy, optimize revenue operations, support client engagement, and drive increased adoption of Docupace’s integrated platform across the wealth management ecosystem.
Conlon brings deep knowledge of modernizing go-to-market models and driving sustained growth in complex enterprise SaaS environments. Prior to joining Docupace, he spent nearly two decades at Dun & Bradstreet, where he held multiple senior revenue-focused leadership roles. Most recently, he served as SVP, Head of Sales for the Technology, Media and Communications vertical, leading a comprehensive reset of the North America go-to-market model. He also oversaw North American Strategic Accounts and global Alliances and Business Development, where he co-developed and operationalized enterprise-wide growth strategies.
Envestnet
iCapital1, the global fintech company shaping the future of investing, and Envestnet, the leading Adaptive WealthTech company, today announced an expanded strategic partnership that further enables access to iCapital’s alternative investments capabilities within Envestnet’s Unified Managed Account (UMA) platform.
Advisors can now access iCapital’s technology platform through Envestnet and utilize UMAs to incorporate alternatives and structured investments alongside traditional public market holdings within a single account structure. Through workflows connecting iCapital’s technology into Envestnet’s advisor-traded sleeves, advisors gain access to a seamless experience across portfolio construction, implementation, and ongoing oversight as alternatives play an increasingly central role in diversified portfolios.
Through this expanded capability, advisors can leverage single sign-on (SSO) functionality to access iCapital’s platform experience, helping reduce friction across key stages of the investment process. Advisors will be able to access alternative investments and structured investments through iCapital’s platform experience within Envestnet, while maintaining consistency with broader portfolio management and reporting workflows.
FINNY AI
FINNY AI Inc. (“FINNY”), the AI-powered growth and marketing platform built specifically for financial advisors, today announced the launch of Hunter, a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence (AI) growth engine designed to think, guide and act on behalf of advisors to drive scalable growth. Hunter’s introduction builds on FINNY’s recent $17 million Series A round and represents an evolution of the platform from a tool advisors operate to an intelligent partner that operates for them.
Founded by AI experts with deep experience in machine learning and autonomous systems, FINNY leverages its technical expertise to create a platform that brings AI-grade intelligence directly into advisor marketing workflows. Hunter gets to know each advisor’s value proposition, specialties, differentiators and niche, and continuously translates that context into marketing strategy and execution.
Until now, FINNY provided powerful prospecting tools while advisors acted as the marketers to use them effectively. Hunter eliminates that requirement by proactively suggesting, guiding and executing campaigns across channels, creating deeply personalized outreach and marketing content—including blog posts, LinkedIn content and website copy—without requiring any marketing expertise from users. This shift enables a firm to build its growth engine from the ground up or to supercharge what’s already in place.
Gridline
Gridline, the turnkey platform wealth management relies on to manage the private markets lifecycle, announced today the appointment of Chris Crawford as chief operating officer (COO). Crawford joins Gridline at a pivotal moment in the firm’s growth, as the platform continues to expand its capabilities and adoption among Registered Investment Advisers (RIAs), multi-family offices, and private banks seeking a centralized solution for scaling private markets offerings.
Previously, Crawford spent more than six years at CAIS, where he served as managing director, overseeing its fund management platform and serving as COO of its investment management subsidiary, CAIS Advisors. His career spans more than 25 years building and leading operations, finance, compliance and risk functions across alternative investments, wealth management and financial technology. At Gridline, Crawford will lead platform operations and infrastructure, focusing on scaling the systems and workflows that power custom funds, data management and the platform’s AI-powered compliance and diligence suite, AltComply.
Earlier in his career, Crawford held COO and senior leadership roles at Mizuho Alternative Investments, Traxis Partners, Vegasoul Capital Management and R.G. Niederhoffer Capital Management. His deep experience spans the wealth ecosystem and the end-to-end lifecycle of alternative investments, which will help further enhance Gridline’s platform capabilities, streamline day-to-day client workflows, and better enable the wealth management industry to manage private markets investments. He will also support the rollout of new capabilities, including Gridline’s planned liquidity and credit marketplace, and help expand the firm’s presence in key markets such as New York.
iCapital
iCapital1, the global fintech company shaping the future of investing, today announced that Coatue Innovative Strategies Fund (CTEK) is now available on iCapital Marketplace, expanding access for eligible advisors and their clients to an innovation‑focused investment strategy spanning public and private markets with responsible risk management.
CTEK is a tender offer fund designed to provide exposure to innovation‑driven companies, reflecting Coatue’s legacy of investing in technology and innovation. The strategy invests across public and private markets and includes exposure to artificial intelligence and future‑defining technologies, drawing on Coatue’s research‑driven investment approach and decades of experience across market cycles.
By making CTEK available on Marketplace, iCapital continues to expand the range of alternative investment solutions available through a single, integrated platform, supporting advisors as portfolios increasingly incorporate both public and private market exposures.
Intention.ly
Intention.ly, the growth engine design firm serving financial services and fintech companies, today announced the opening of its Omaha, Nebraska office, marking a significant expansion ahead of its five-year anniversary next month.
The Omaha office will serve as the central hub for Intention.ly’s Event Strategy and Multimedia teams, reinforcing the firm’s commitment to delivering integrated, high-impact marketing experiences that drive measurable growth. The location was intentionally selected to create a more accessible, centralized meeting point for employees and clients nationwide, complementing the firm’s headquarters in the Philadelphia suburbs.
The Omaha office is led by Joe Steuter, Partner at Intention.ly, who is working alongside Waltrich to build the location into a critical hub for the firm’s next phase of growth.
IRALOGIX
IRALOGIX, a leading fintech retirement provider, today announced a partnership with Capitalize, the industry’s leading infrastructure for 401(k) rollovers, to integrate Capitalize’s Embedded Rollover API directly into IRALOGIX’s platform. The integration gives advisors a fully digital way to capture and consolidate retirement assets at the pivotal moment when clients are deciding where their savings will be held and managed.
Rollovers represent one of the largest growth opportunities in wealth management, yet manual steps, limited transparency, and operational back-and-forth have long slowed the process. Through this integration, retirement savings spread across former employers can be located, consolidated, and transferred through a single digital workflow, reducing the delays and frustration that have historically caused many rollovers to stall or go unfinished.
Advisors gain real-time visibility into status updates, significantly reducing administrative workload while keeping the focus on client guidance. The solution is powered by IRALOGIX’s real-time, API-driven infrastructure and Capitalize’s widely-used Embedded Rollover API, delivering a seamless experience from start to finish.
Jump
Jump, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) operating system for financial advisors and other financial services providers, today announced an expanded partnership with Perennial Financial Services (“Perennial”), a next-generation registered investment advisory (RIA) platform built to attract and empower the industry’s top independent advisors across the country. As part of the expansion, Perennial has adopted Jump’s ‘Operate’ solution firmwide, extending its use of the platform to include AI Intake Forms, Document Intelligence and pre-meeting preparation capabilities.
Perennial, a Jump customer since 2024, has increasingly leveraged the platform as a core component of its advisor value proposition – using AI-powered workflows as a key differentiator in recruiting advisors from larger firms. The expanded deployment reflects a broader shift across the industry, as firms move beyond AI-powered insights to fully integrated operational automation. The platform enables advisors to automate key workflows across the client lifecycle – from pre-meeting preparation to post-meeting follow-up – reducing administrative burden and improving consistency across the firm.
The announcement follows Jump’s recent launch of Operate, a new extension of its AI operating system designed to help firms move from insight to execution across the advisor workflow. While many firms have begun capturing data from client conversations, fewer have been able to operationalize those insights at scale. Early adoption from firms like Perennial signals strong demand for integrated AI solutions that streamline back-office processes, automate follow-through and enable advisors to act more efficiently on client needs.
K1x
K1x, an AI-native private markets tax data platform, today announced the closing of a $175 million growth investment led by Sumeru Equity Partners (“Sumeru”), with additional investment from current investor Edison Partners. Sumeru will become the majority shareholder as part of the transaction, while Edison’s participation represents its third investment in the business since 2022, as K1x enters the next chapter of its growth journey and accelerates its mission towards digitizing the K-1 ecosystem.
The investment comes at a pivotal moment as private markets expand beyond traditional institutional investors, driving a sharp increase in the volume and complexity of tax reporting—an estimated $27 billion annual burden on the industry. The rapid growth of pass-through entities, including LLCs and S corporations, has intensified demand for Schedule K-1 creation and reporting, exposing long-standing infrastructure gaps. As expectations for timely, accurate, and compliant reporting rise, pressure is mounting across accounting firms, general partners, limited partners, and technology platforms alike.
K1x was purpose-built to solve this challenge and serve the firms that manage, report, advise, and facilitate private investments at scale. The company’s patented, AI-native platform automates the extraction, aggregation, and standardization of complex K-1 data—eliminating manual processes and enabling a fully digital, scalable approach to tax reporting. By transforming fragmented workflows into a unified, intelligent system, K1x empowers professionals to operate with greater speed, accuracy, and confidence, defining the modern infrastructure for private markets tax reporting.
Lettuce Financial
Lettuce Financial, the AI-powered all-in-one platform built for solopreneurs, today announced its intention to acquire Carry’s Retirement and Investing platform. The acquisition gives Lettuce customers access to tax-advantaged retirement accounts and alternative investment accounts traditionally reserved only for those with access to institutional wealth management. Carry’s self-directed and managed retirement and investment accounts give independent professionals access to a broad range of traditional and alternative investments, from stocks and mutual funds to crypto and startups, all designed to maximize tax savings and build long-term wealth. These investment products complement the suite of automated financial services and healthcare benefits Lettuce already provides.
The acquisition brings over $225 million in assets on platform and thousands of members to Lettuce, along with Carry’s established compliance infrastructure. A long-standing partner, Carry has been a trusted resource for Lettuce customers seeking retirement and investing solutions. Carry will continue to operate as a standalone brand, managed by the incoming Carry team, ensuring continuity for existing customers. Carry customers will see no changes to their fees, investment strategy, or custody arrangements. They will also have opportunities to access the full Lettuce platform, including Lettuce Pro for managing and automating finance, taxes, and accounting, and Lettuce PEO for premium healthcare benefits.
For many solopreneurs, retirement planning has been one of the most fragmented and least accessible parts of running a business. Carry has built the compliance infrastructure, investment accounts, and customer trust that make a Solo 401(k) or IRA genuinely accessible to self-employed individuals. The acquisition marks a significant milestone in building out SoloHQ™, Lettuce’s integrated suite of services designed to give solopreneurs the same systems, protections, and advantages as the world’s best businesses. Following its recent healthcare benefits launch, Lettuce now covers the core pillars of what it means to run a financially sound solo business: accounting, taxes, payroll, healthcare, and now retirement.
Lido Advisors
Lido Advisors, a nationally recognized wealth advisory firm with over $42 billion in regulatory assets under management, today announced the appointment of Ruben Lusinyants as Chief Technology Officer. In this role, Ruben will lead Lido’s technology strategy and execution, delivering a forward-looking and scalable wealth management platform that supports the firm’s continued growth through both organic expansion and strategic acquisitions across its offices nationwide.
Ruben brings more than two decades of financial technology leadership to Lido. Most recently, he served as Managing Director and Head of Technology for Alternative Assets at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, where he led front-to-back platform transformations, modernized data and analytics capabilities, and drove enterprise adoption of cloud and technology solutions across Investment Management, Prime Brokerage, and Wealth Management divisions during his 21-year tenure. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Ruben served as Vice President at Bank of America.
Ruben holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Yerevan State University. Outside of work, he is an avid science fiction reader, skier, pilot, and scuba diver, and actively leads a nonprofit dedicated to delivering inquiry-based STEM education to underserved children.
Luma Financial Technologies
Luma Financial Technologies (“Luma”), a global provider of technology solutions for structured products and annuities, today announced that its life insurance platform is now live, with Financial Independence Group (FIG), serving as launch partner and initial live client. The platform gives financial professionals and distribution firms a more unified way to manage life insurance across product discovery, quoting, illustrations, e-applications, submission, policy placement, and ongoing lifecycle management.
The launch marks Luma’s expansion into live life insurance transactions and extends the firm’s insurance capabilities beyond annuities. Built for advisors, distributors, and home offices, the platform is designed to reduce operational friction by bringing key life insurance processes into a more streamlined workflow within the Luma ecosystem.
Life insurance has long been managed through a patchwork of systems, manual steps, and disconnected processes that create inefficiencies for advisors and added burden for operations teams. Luma’s platform is designed to simplify that experience by helping firms manage life insurance business more efficiently from intake through post-sale support.
Motive Partners
Motive Partners, a private investment firm and leader in financial technology investing, today announced the appointment of Paul Compton as an Industry Partner, further strengthening the firm’s network of senior industry operating leaders as it continues to define the next generation of financial services. Compton also joins the board of directors of wealth management technology leader BetaNXT, a Motive Partners portfolio company, where he will actively contribute to advancing the company’s strategic priorities.
As the Chairman of Investment Banking at Barclays, Compton brings decades of experience at the highest levels of global financial services to the Motive ecosystem. He previously held various senior leadership roles at Barclays, including Global Head of the Corporate & Investment Bank and President of Barclays Bank PLC. In these roles, he oversaw investment banking, markets, and corporate banking activities, supporting a broad client base that includes financial institutions, governments, and corporations. Prior to that, Compton served as Barclays’ Group Chief Operating Officer and CEO of Barclays Execution Services, where he led global operations and technology. Before joining Barclays in 2016, he spent nearly two decades at JPMorgan Chase in a variety of senior roles, including Group Chief Administrative Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer of the Investment Bank. Earlier in his career, he spent over a decade at Ernst & Young in both Australia and the United States.
As an Industry Partner, Compton becomes a key operator in the firm’s proven and repeatable Investor, Operator, Innovator (IOI) model and will work closely with Motive’s investment and portfolio teams to drive strategic value creation, support portfolio company growth, and deepen relationships across the financial ecosystem. In addition to his role as an Industry Partner, Compton joins the board of directors at BetaNXT, a WealthTech leader focused on powering the next generation of frictionless, end-to-end wealth management solutions. This reflects Motive’s distinct IOI model and the firm’s approach of actively engaging Industry Partners across its portfolio. In addition to his new roles with Motive, Compton will remain Chairman of Investment Banking at Barclays.
MyVest
MyVest, a leading provider of enterprise wealth management technology, today announced a strategic partnership with bondIT, a global innovator in fixed income technology, to deliver more precise fixed income models and trading. Together, the firms aim to expand access to fixed income markets by streamlining portfolio construction and execution for institutions, wealth management organizations, and their advisors.
Through this partnership, MyVest and bondIT will provide a robust suite of capabilities to modernize fixed-income portfolio construction and trading for wealth firms and advisors. The integrated solution will also deliver automated portfolio optimization, producing tailored trade proposals based on real-time market conditions and each client’s existing holdings and stated goals.
Directly held fixed income assets among U.S. households now exceed $6 trillion and continue to rapidly rise. This trend coincides with the acute need for money managers to offer personalization. Managing personalized fixed income allocations at significant scale addresses this need at a critical inflection point, expanding the accessibility of fixed income investing and leveraging the accelerating electronification of fixed income trading.
Northern Trust
Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) today announced it has entered into an agreement with Digital Asset Holdings (Digital Asset) to support the development of custody capabilities for tokenized financial assets. This integration will advance Northern Trust’s broader digital asset strategy as the firm continues to evolve its asset servicing model in response to changing market structures.
The Canton Network is a public blockchain designed for regulated financial market participants, with a focus on privacy, compliance, and interoperability. The network is being utilized by financial institutions and market utilities to support tokenized assets and on‑chain financial workflows within regulated environments.
As part of this agreement, Northern Trust will integrate with Canton Network’s infrastructure to develop and deploy applications that bridge digital and traditional markets, supporting institutional grade custody and asset servicing workflows for network participants. This move also creates opportunities with other regulated partners and financial services utilities that provide services for digitally issued assets. Northern Trust will utilize its digital assets platform to support custody and asset servicing for tokenized assets issued or transacted on the network.
OneVest
OneVest, a leading provider of next-generation wealth management technology, today announced it is partnering with Mackenzie Investments (“Mackenzie”), a leading global asset manager, as the firm advances its digital experience transformation strategy.
Through this joint initiative, Mackenzie will introduce its new digital client and advisor portals with modern, scalable infrastructure, supported by OneVest’s wealth management operating system later this year.
This collaboration with OneVest represents an important milestone in Mackenzie’s broader digital transformation and its client experience ecosystem, spanning digital platforms, data infrastructure, and servicing capabilities to reduce friction and better support advisors and investors.
Orion
Orion today announced that Jeff Schwantz has joined the company as Executive Vice President of Wealth Management Sales. In this role, Schwantz will lead Orion’s Wealth Management Sales organization, overseeing strategic growth initiatives that support continued demand as advisory firms look to scale growth, expand capacity, and serve more households efficiently.
With increasing advisor adoption across Orion’s connected wealthtech ecosystem, Schwantz will focus on deepening relationships with individual advisors and advisory firms while helping advisors leverage Orion’s technology, investment solutions, and data capabilities to grow without adding complexity.
Schwantz brings nearly 30 years of experience across fintech, wealth management, and enterprise distribution, with a proven ability to drive growth, modernize sales organizations, and deliver for advisors and their clients. He will help Orion deepen advisor partnerships and accelerate adoption of the firm’s wealth management capabilities as client expectations continue to shift toward more personalized, household-level outcomes.
Osaic
Osaic, Inc. (“Osaic”), one of the nation’s largest providers of wealth management strategies, today announced the appointment of Stacie Nabedrick as senior vice president, advisor and client technology solutions. Her hiring reinforces the firm’s continued investment in advancing its digital capabilities and delivering a more streamlined, efficient experience for financial professionals, their teams and their clients.
In this role, Nabedrick will lead the strategy and ongoing development of Osaic’s advisor- and end-client-facing technology solutions. She will define and execute on the firm’s digital product vision and oversee its multi-year roadmap, with a focus on enhancing advisor productivity, deepening client engagement and supporting long-term growth. Nabedrick will also guide the continued evolution of Osaic’s digital ecosystem, including advancement of its eQuipt platform, which supports advisor onboarding, client engagement and financial planning workflows.
Nabedrick brings more than a decade of experience leading large-scale digital transformation initiatives across wealth management and enterprise organizations. Most recently, she served as director of customer success at Microsoft, where she led teams responsible for driving cloud adoption and long-term value realization across a portfolio of strategic clients. She focused on strengthening engagement, improving retention and delivering measurable business outcomes.
Republic Capital Group
Republic Capital Group (“Republic”), a leading investment bank specializing in strategic and financial advisory services for wealth and asset management firms and their clients, today announced the appointment of Prabhakar (“Prab”) Reddy as Partner & Managing Director. With more than 30 years of experience as an executive, investor, and strategic advisor, Reddy brings deep expertise in wealth technology, AI-driven transformation, and enterprise value creation to the firm’s Advisory platform.
Reddy has spent his career advising founders, boards, family offices, and institutional stakeholders on technology-enabled growth and strategic positioning across wealth management, financial services, and adjacent technology sectors. He is known for combining hands-on operating leadership with strategic advisory, helping companies navigate digital disruption, regulatory complexity, and evolving client demands.
Most recently, Reddy was Founder and Managing Partner of Stride Growth Partners, where he advised and invested in founder-led and private equity-backed growth companies, with a focus on wealth technology, regulatory and compliance platforms, and AI-enabled financial services. His work has supported companies in accelerating growth, executing inorganic M&A strategies, and expanding into new client segments including RIAs, broker-dealers, family offices, and institutional markets.
TaxStatus
Today, one day after the April 15 filing deadline, TaxStatus, the leading provider of IRS-sourced financial data, and Advice.ai, have made 12 proven tax planning strategies available, completely free, to every advisor and CPA on the TaxStatus platform. The timing is deliberate: the best time to start saving on 2026 taxes is now, and professionals can run these strategies against their entire client base with a single click and zero additional fees.
Tax planning is the top requested service of financial advisors and CPAs. Yet, ongoing capacity issues, and the challenge of professionals exiting the wealth management and CPA industries, affect the ability to deliver tax planning in a timely and efficient way.
According to McKinsey, 110,000 financial advisors, 38% of the current workforce, are expected to retire in the next decade. The AICPA estimates that nearly 75% of CPAs will retire within 15 years. This means fewer professionals will need to serve more clients, and with 2026 tax planning starting now, they need tools that let them act fast across every account.
VastAdvisor
VastAdvisor today announced that Dr. Edoardo (Edo) M. Airoldi (https://www.vastadvisor.ai/team) has joined the company as Acting Chief Data Officer and Investor. In this role, Dr. Airoldi will lead the advancement of VastAdvisor’s data science and model architecture, strengthening the company’s AI-native platform for scalable, intelligence-driven growth in wealth management.
Dr. Airoldi joins at a pivotal moment as VastAdvisor continues to expand its Advisor Intelligence Loop (https://www.vastadvisor.ai/vastadvospr-advisor-intelligence-loop)—its proprietary system that integrates data, AI models, campaign execution, and performance optimization into a continuous learning framework. His appointment reinforces the company’s focus on building governed, explainable AI systems that improve over time and operate reliably in regulated environments.
Dr. Airoldi is the Millard E. Gladfelter Professor of Statistics & Data Science, Professor of Finance (by courtesy), and Chair of the Department of Statistics, Operations, and Data Science at Temple University’s Fox School of Business, where he also serves as Co-Director of the Data Science Institute. He is also a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. His research focuses on statistical learning, network science, and the design of data-driven decision systems (https://airoldi.github.io/)
Wealth.com
Wealth.com, the industry’s leading estate and tax planning platform, today announced that its proprietary AI platform, Ester Intelligence, is entering a new era, expanding from document and planning intelligence into a fully integrated intelligence layer for modern wealth management.
Ester Intelligence initially transformed how advisors interact with estate documents – extracting, structuring and summarizing complex legal information. Today, it extends far beyond that foundation, synthesizing estate documents, tax returns, balance sheets and planning logic into a unified intelligence system. Rather than delivering analysis alone, Ester Intelligence provides clear, actionable answers. Advisors can ask complex questions across a client’s financial life and receive precise, fully contextualized insights in seconds – enabling them to move from information to action with confidence.
With this release, Wealth.com is expanding how Ester Intelligence is delivered. In addition to its native experience within the platform, firms can now integrate Ester Intelligence directly into their broader technology ecosystem – bringing estate and tax intelligence into the workflows advisors already rely on. This approach allows advisors to access advanced insights without changing systems or retraining, positioning Ester as part of the infrastructure supporting modern wealth management.
Wealth.com
Wealth.com, the AI-powered platform modernizing how wealth management firms deliver estate and tax planning, today announced it has raised $65 million in an oversubscribed Series B round. New investors included Titanium Ventures, Pruven Capital, The K Fund and Dynasty Financial Partners, with participation from existing investors including Charles Schwab (“Schwab”), GV (Google Ventures), Citi Ventures, 53 Stations, Anthos Capital and Alumni Ventures. The round builds on strong prior institutional support, with GV leading Wealth.com’s Series A in September 2024 and Charles Schwab making a minority strategic investment in April 2025.
Wealth.com has built the most advanced central intelligence layer for modern wealth management, unifying estate and tax planning within a single platform designed for financial advisors and their clients. Over the past year, the company has seen 664% year-over-year growth in AI-powered workflows as firms increasingly replace fragmented, manual planning processes with structured data and intelligent automation.
Wealth.com has also expanded rapidly across enterprise, registered investment advisory (RIA) and institutional channels. In 2025, the company secured approvals from the three largest broker-dealers in the United States, unlocking access to over 50,000 financial advisors. This momentum builds on breakout performance, with the company achieving at least 3x revenue growth in each of the past four years, driven by accelerating enterprise adoption, agreements with three of the top five banks in the country, and increasing demand for integrated estate and tax planning. Wealth.com now supports advisory firms that collectively service more than $15 trillion in client assets.
