We say it a lot, but boy, was it a busy week for wealthtech. We hope you enjoy this edition of Advisor Tech Talk, which seemingly has a little bit of everything, like announcements regarding crypto and fixed income, financial planning software and estate planning modules, and even some M&A activity and major wealth management-wealthtech partnerships.
Of course, there’s also a lot of some specific things, mainly AI, which seems to be everywhere these days. We’ll throw in a line of caution here that it’s difficult for us, as an editor and journalist, to determine whether an AI-related announcement is the genuine article or an example of so-called “AI washing.”
Anyway, since there’s a lot for us to get to this week, we’re just going to run through some recent studies and surveys, starting off with findings that advisors expect access to comprehensive planning services to continue to expand, according to Cerulli’s latest industry survey, its Cerulli Edge—U.S. Advisor Edition. In that survey, advisors expected 54% of their clients to receive comprehensive, ongoing financial advice by 2027, up from 48% who currently receive those services.
From our perspective, it’s difficult to divorce the expectation of expanding planning services from two other ongoing trends in wealth management, the first being struggles to expand the industry’s advisor headcount, which this news would seem to exacerbate. Who’s going to provide all these plans? Technology is. Our second trend, of course, is the acceleration of wealthtech, as many advisors in Cerulli’s report cited the importance of their technology stacks in expanding the availability of comprehensive financial planning. However, technology can also pose difficulties for advisors, according to the report, as 58% of respondents said that their financial planning technology lacks key features, functionalities, or integrations.
Speaking of that wealthtech acceleration, a recent report on fintech fundraising from FinTech Global Research found that overall funding in Q1 2026 grew 16% on a year-over-year basis. The biggest deal in FinTech Global’s analysis? Vestwell’s $385 million Series E back in February.
There’s a potential dark side to the huge glut of technology, both ongoing and to come, and that is that technology becomes so efficient, skilled and trusted that it really does displace advisors. According to a CreditOne Bank study surveying over 1,000 U.S. adults, around 1-in-four are already consulting artificial intelligence for financial advice. Around half—51%–believe AI will replace most advisors by 2036.
These numbers sound familiar. We actually checked to see if we published the CreditOne survey before and couldn’t find it in a past column. Perhaps their familiarity is because a growing number of client and consumer sentiment surveys are finding a growing percentage of households embracing AI and other technologies for their advice needs, and a growing skepticism among consumers that human advisors are adding value beyond that which technology can offer.
Next week we’ll talk more about why we, too, are ambivalent about the human future of wealth management.
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55ip
55ip, a tax-smart investment technology platform and a fully-owned subsidiary of J.P. Morgan, today announced an expansion of its investment platform through a new collaboration with T. Rowe Price, a global leader in investment management and retirement solutions, to provide custom models to advisors.
Working with T. Rowe Price and 55ip, advisors can design and implement custom model portfolios using T. Rowe Price strategies, powered by 55ip’s ActiveTax Technology℠. Advisors can now benefit from T. Rowe Price’s investment expertise and 55ip technology to enhance portfolios for their clients through tax-smart transitions, ongoing tax-loss harvesting, and tax-smart withdrawals. 55ip and T. Rowe Price will jointly support the distribution and servicing of these models, which are now available to all interested advisors.
Model portfolios have become a cornerstone of the modern wealth management ecosystem, offering scalable benefits for advisors, asset managers, and their clients.
Advisor360
Advisor360°TM, the AI-native operating system for the advisor experience, and Conquest Planning, a technology platform modernizing financial planning with customized advice across the wealth spectrum, today announced a new partnership to embed financial planning capabilities directly within the Advisor360° platform. The Advisor360° Planning solution reflects a continued focus on unifying the advisor’s thread of work across planning, execution, and client management, helping families reach their financial goals.
Financial planning has become central to modern advice. Yet for most firms, it remains disconnected within the advisor’s workday. Advisors move between systems, re-enter data, and manually carry insights from plan creation into execution and service. This fragmentation slows decision-making, introduces operational risk, bifurcates the client experience, and limits the ability to deliver consistent client outcomes.
Advisor360° is addressing this challenge by embedding financial planning within its advisor and investor experience, where data, workflows, and client context remain intact from discovery through ongoing advice.
Advyzon
Today, Citi Wealth announced a strategic agreement to partner with Advyzon Enterprise Solutions and Advyzon Investment Management (Advyzon) to deliver a Global Unified Managed Account (UMA) Program for Citi Wealth clients.
The development of Citi Wealth’s Global UMA Program, for our Citi Private Bank, Wealth at Work and Citigold & Citigold Private Client groups, across our global footprint spanning North America, LATAM, EMEA and APAC, is an important step forward to achieving Citi’s business growth objectives through the delivery of personalized advice to our clients. This offering will further modernize and deliver industry-leading, personalized advice-driven solutions to our clients, while simplifying the investments experience for clients, bankers and advisors.
Citi Wealth currently offers a broad range of industry competitive Investment Advisory solutions which include a wide universe of Exchange Traded Funds, Mutual Funds, Separately Managed Accounts, alternative investments and other solutions. This enhanced offering brings all of these investment solutions together into one UMA, delivering client choice and flexibility, while incorporating views from our Chief Investment Office.
Alpaca
Alpaca, a global leader in brokerage infrastructure APIs, today announced the completion of its acquisition of European fintech WealthKernel, marking its expansion into Europe. The company also announced the initial rollout of its API-first equities trading services in Europe, enabling cross-border investing through a single integration.
WealthKernel will now operate as Alpaca Europe. The acquisition gives Alpaca licensed brokerage and custody infrastructure in the UK and EU, supporting its ability to deliver investment services and expand its wealth management capabilities across the region.
Built on WealthKernel’s regulatory and operational foundation, Alpaca Europe includes UK and EU licenses and local brokerage and custody infrastructure supporting products such as ISAs and SIPPs. Combined with Alpaca’s US-headquartered, licensed and regulated full-stack brokerage infrastructure, it creates a unified infrastructure layer for fintechs and financial institutions building investment products across Europe.
BetaNXT
BetaNXT, a leading provider of wealth management technology solutions with real-time data capabilities and an enhanced advisor experience, announced today that it has rolled out Val, an intelligent validation platform designed to apply consistent, rules-based intelligence across documents, data, and workflows to ensure predictable outcomes at scale. The solution enables financial services firms to deploy automated validation logic across high-volume processes, improving accuracy, consistency and operational efficiency. Val is the first release from BetaNXT’s new AI Innovation Lab, created to apply AI in focused, practical ways to solve high-impact operational challenges.
Initially focused on validating client communications prior to delivery, Val supports documents such as broker statements, trade confirmations, and tax forms by automating reviews that have traditionally relied on manual, reactive processes. By consistently applying client-defined rules across document populations, Val enables firms to identify issues earlier, reduce rework, accelerate processing and scale validation coverage.
For financial services firms, this strategy delivers tangible impact by increasing confidence in the communications they deliver to clients at scale, while also establishing a foundation for broader operational validation across enterprises.
BeyondWill
BeyondWill today launched a new way to start an estate plan using a document most Americans just finished assembling: their tax return. Starting today, anyone can upload their completed return at beyondwill.co/tax-return and instantly see how much of their plan can be pre-filled before they type a single character. On average, users save over an hour of data entry.
The capability is powered by WiseFill, BeyondWill’s AI document scanning engine. It reads the return, extracts key data, and shows people their projected time savings upfront. No account required.
Only 24% of Americans have a will. Put another way, roughly 200 million American adults have no estate plan, which translates into millions of future family conflicts and years of compounded stress for loved ones after a loss. The most commonly cited reason for delay is not cost, not fear, not indifference. It is that 43% of people simply have not gotten around to it. BeyondWill’s position is that the blank page is the real barrier, and tax season, when financial documents are already in focus, is the best moment in the year to eliminate it.
Bitwise Asset Management
Bitwise Asset Management, the global crypto asset manager with more than $11 billion in client assets, and RFG Advisory, the award-winning RIA platform for financial advisors, announced today the rollout of diversified crypto model portfolios to RFG’s 150+ advisors and their clients. For RFG advisors, who collectively manage more than $8 billion in assets, the new offering provides a curated framework for accessing the $2.5 trillion digital asset class on behalf of their clients.
The rollout marks the latest milestone in Bitwise’s entrance into the model portfolio space. Model portfolios have become an increasingly important tool for financial advisors looking to capitalize on third-party expertise in developing client allocations, providing a seamless and scalable way to invest in emerging themes. From 2023 to 2025, assets tracking third-party model portfolios grew from $400 billion to more than $645 billion, a 62% increase.1
Bitwise’s model portfolios leverage the research and specialist expertise of Bitwise to select crypto-themed ETPs for different investor profiles and risk preferences. “Core” models offer broad exposure to the crypto ecosystem, while “thematic” portfolios give investors the ability to fine-tune their positioning by emphasizing specific themes, such as risk-managed exposure or crypto assets beyond bitcoin. The models are monitored and rebalanced systematically to mitigate target portfolio asset-allocation drift.
Broadridge Financial Solutions
Today, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR), a global Fintech leader, announced the launch of its Central Risk and Liquidity Optimization Solution, powered by Tbricks. The new solution provides banks, broker-dealers, market makers, and trading firms with an integrated front-office platform to coordinate trade execution, risk, and liquidity management across products, desks, and venues through a single unified system.
Built on Broadridge’s market-leading front-office technology, the solution brings together smart order routing and execution, multi-asset market making, internalization, centralized risk management, automated hedging, systematic IOI generation, and Request for Quote (RFQ) capabilities.
The launch also marks an important milestone in Broadridge’s next-generation platform vision: a global, multi-asset, multi-execution-channel trading infrastructure designed to support the evolving needs of the sell side, today and in the future.
CapIntel
CapIntel, a pioneer in financial technology solutions transforming how wealth professionals communicate investment insights, today announced the launch of its new tax analysis feature, a built-in capability that allows financial advisors to evaluate and communicate the tax impact of portfolio changes directly within the proposal process, eliminating the need for advisors to rely on separate tools and disconnected workflows.
The launch comes as advisors face growing pressure to address tax implications earlier and more transparently in the investment decision-making process, particularly for high-net-worth clients with complex portfolios. Now live in the United States and Canada, CapIntel’s latest release addresses this challenge by bringing tax insight into the same workflow where investment decisions are evaluated and presented.
With the tax analysis feature, advisors can input key tax data, including cost basis and purchase dates, and analyze the estimated impact of transitioning from a current portfolio to a recommended one. Using tax-efficient logic, the platform calculates projected gains and losses and estimates associated tax costs, incorporating factors such as carryforward losses and year-to-date activity. These insights can be embedded into digital and PDF proposals, equipping advisors with client-ready materials that enhance transparency and support more informed investment decisions.
Citi Wealth
Citi Wealth today unveiled Citi Sky SM, an always-on AI-powered member of the Citi Wealth team that was built using technology from Google Cloud and Google DeepMind. Citi Sky is aimed at reshaping how clients in the U.S. access market insights, act on opportunities, and engage with their financial advisors. Over time, the new capability will create a more intuitive, responsive, and personalized wealth experience – elevating the Citi Wealth client journey while empowering advisors.
Announced at the Google Cloud Next 2026 conference, it will be made available to Citigold® clients beginning this summer in a phased roll-out in the U.S. Citi Sky was developed using the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and will be integrated over time into Citi Wealth platforms in the U.S. to work alongside financial advisors in helping clients make confident financial decisions.
The development of Citi Sky involved Google’s full AI stack, from Cloud infrastructure to Google DeepMind. This included using Gemini models on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, a unified environment for building, scaling, governing and optimizing enterprise-grade agents. To power the Citi Sky virtual persona and multimodal capabilities, Citi collaborated closely with Google DeepMind’s Applied team and Google Cloud Forward Deployed AI Engineers, using Google DeepMind’s real-time avatar technology and Gemini’s Live API to enable seamless, low-latency audio and video conversations. Interactions are being built on a secure, grounded data foundation and designed to be in compliance with regulatory standards. Citi Wealth and Google will continue to partner in expanding the capabilities of Citi Sky to support colleague and client needs and ensure best-in-class service.
Envestnet
Forum Investment Group (“Forum”) today announced that its Forum Real Estate Income Fund (FORAX) has been selected for inclusion on Envestnet’s Unified Managed Account (UMA) platform. Forum is among a select group of asset managers included as part of Envestnet’s expanded interval fund initiative, enabling financial advisors to incorporate alternative investment strategies directly into UMA portfolios alongside ETFs, mutual funds, and separately managed accounts.
The Forum Real Estate Income Fund (FORAX) is an interval fund designed to provide investors with access to institutional-quality real estate credit investments across both public1 and private markets—opportunities that are typically not available to individual investors. The fund’s primary objective is to generate current income while preserving capital, with a secondary focus on long-term appreciation.
FORAX employs a diversified credit strategy spanning commercial mortgage-backed securities, private real estate loans, and other real estate-backed debt instruments, emphasizing senior positions in the capital stack and asset-backed collateral to support income generation and risk management. Structured as an interval fund, FORAX provides periodic liquidity through quarterly redemption windows, allowing access to less liquid, higher-yielding investments within a regulated framework.
F2 Strategy
F2 Strategy (“F2”), the leading business and digital transformation services firm to the global wealth and asset management industries, today announced it has acquired Meradia, a North American leader in investment management operations and technology consulting.
The move marks F2 Strategy’s sixth and largest acquisition to date since the June 2023 majority investment from Renovus Capital Partners, and builds on continued momentum, including more than 80% year-over-year growth in 2025 and the recent additions of Aliter Investment Services and HBMJ Consulting. The transaction represents a significant evolution for F2 and ushers in the next phase of the firm’s strategic plan to enhance its capabilities across the broad investment management landscape, coming on the heels of Ryan Beach’s appointment as CEO.
Founded in 1997 by President and CEO Scott A. Wybranski, CFA, Meradia is a strategic advisory and implementation consultancy that serves investment managers, asset owners, pensions, family offices and wealth managers across the U.S. and Canada. The firm specializes in operations and technology consulting across trading and investment operations; investment performance, risk and analytics; and data and digital transformation. Meradia offers clients deep expertise spanning the full investment operations lifecycle. Its team brings decades of experience delivering practical, high-impact solutions that improve operational efficiency and align business and technology priorities.
Fi-Tek
Fi-Tek LLC, a leading provider of wealth technology solutions, and InspereX, a tech-driven distributor of fixed income, structured products, ETFs, and alternative investments, today announced a strategic partnership aimed at transforming the way fixed income securities are traded and managed for wealth managers and financial advisors.
Through the integration of InspereX’s BondNav® – a pioneering fixed income data aggregation platform that enables users to efficiently access, evaluate, monitor, and trade fixed income securities – directly into Fi-Tek’s GlobalWealthES (GWES) system, the two firms will deliver seamless straight-through trade processing within a single, unified environment. The collaboration addresses growing industry demand for automation and digitization in fixed income trading, reducing manual processes, improving execution quality, and streamlining workflows across the full trade lifecycle – from portfolio construction through execution and post-trade analysis.
FutureVault
FutureVault, a leader in AI-powered Digital Vaults and Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) for financial services, today announced the launch of its MCP and AI Orchestration Layer, turning insights into Automated Next-Best-Actions, giving firms a secure way to connect AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT directly to their document infrastructure without breaking governance, permissions, or data privacy controls.
Built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard for secure, context-aware data access, FutureVault MCP enables AI systems to search, read, and reason over enterprise data using natural language, connecting directly to documents across client, advisor, and enterprise vaults. MCP is becoming the “new API” and the standard connection point between a firm’s data infrastructure, AI tools and agentic orchestration layers. FutureVault MCP is built to participate within this broader ecosystem, enabling firms to connect FutureVault directly to any MCP-compatible AI agent, orchestration harness, or tool. Queries and outputs leverage private LLMs, ensuring document data stays within the firm’s own security and privacy framework and is never passed to external models or public infrastructure.
Enterprise teams leveraging AI for document workflows often face fragmented, manual processes to access relevant data, creating bottlenecks at scale. FutureVault MCP replaces these approaches with a direct, governed connection to the Vault, enabling secure and scalable AI across client, advisor, and enterprise records.
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.
Hamachi.ai
Hamachi.ai (“Hamachi”), a regulatory-first, AI-powered Wealth Intelligence Platform built for investment advisors and asset managers, today announced an integration with fpPathfinder, a leading provider of financial planning expertise through guides, checklists and flowcharts. The integration delivers context-aware, compliant financial planning guidance directly within advisor workflows through the Hamachi Command Center.
Through the integration, fpPathfinder’s planning guides, checklists and supporting materials are embedded within Hamachi Command Center, a centralized intelligence hub that connects household data, advisor context and firm policies to everyday communication and decision-making, supported by enterprise-grade security and governance, including recent SOC 2 certification.
Planning guidance is surfaced in context as advisors work, whether drafting client communications, reviewing households, or preparing for meetings, eliminating the gap between planning knowledge and execution.
iPipeline
iPipeline®, a leading global provider of comprehensive and integrated digital solutions for the life insurance and financial services industry, and Fiduciary Exchange LLC (FIDx), a leading insurance technology provider, today announced a strategic expansion of their longstanding relationship with the launch of Insurance Exchange Express (IX Express) — a jointly developed solution designed to make digital annuity distribution more accessible to small and mid-market broker-dealers and financial institutions.
An out-of-the-box offering, IX Express is a solution that extends digital distribution capabilities – once limited to larger, upper-market firms to a broader segment of the market. It delivers a streamlined, essential operating platform that enables more firms to easily adopt digital annuity capabilities and scale their business.
Through the integration of FIDx’s Insurance Exchange and iPipeline’s AFFIRM® for Annuities solution, IX Express delivers a single unified annuity experience — eliminating operational friction, reducing new business processing errors, and eliminating disconnected workflows. IX Express enables firms with more limited resources to access integrated infrastructure that has traditionally required significant customization and investment. By introducing a standardized approach, it dramatically shortens implementation timelines—from the six to twelve months typical of traditional deployments to just weeks.
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, the leading artificial intelligence (AI) operating system for financial advisors and other financial services providers, today announced the expansion of its leadership team with four key hires across product, customer experience and strategic growth, as the company scales its platform across advisory firms and financial institutions.
The company has appointed Torie Happe as vice president of business development, Hannah Springer as head of customer experience, Jarom Chung as senior vice president of product and Skyler Bloxham as vice president and head of strategic partnerships.
The hires come amid a period of rapid growth and product expansion for Jump. In February, the company raised $80 million in Series B funding led by Insight Partners, bringing total capital raised to $105 million and accelerating its vision to build the AI infrastructure layer for modern advisory firms. Jump’s platform is now deployed across a growing base of enterprise clients and independent firms, including Merit Financial Advisors, Osaic, Cetera Financial Group and LPL Financial.
Meta Comp
MetaComp Pte. Ltd. (MetaComp), today launched the StableX Know Your Agent (KYA) Framework – a governance framework for AI agents operating in regulated financial services in payments, compliance, and wealth[1] workflows authored by a licensed financial institution and believed to be the first of its kind globally. MetaComp is Asia’s pioneer in unified Web2.5 digital financial solutions bridging fiat and stablecoin capabilities across payments, treasury, and wealth[1] management through a group-level platform. The KYA framework is open for adoption by financial institutions, regulators, and network partners.
The announcement was made at Money20/20 Asia in Bangkok, Thailand, alongside the expansion of MetaComp’s AgentX agentic financial services Skill ecosystem, the first such ecosystem from a regulated financial institution, which will be available across Claude, Claude Code, OpenClaw, and other compatible AI platforms.
To the best of MetaComp’s knowledge and based on publicly available information, no licensed financial institution has published a governance architecture addressing agent identity, authorisation, action scope, behavioural monitoring, risk scoring, audit trails, and agent-to-agent governance in a single framework specifically for regulated payments, compliance, and wealth[1] workflows.
NetLaw
NetLaw, a technology-enabled estate planning platform for the wealth management industry, and Hargrove Firm, the affiliated law firm powered by NetLaw, announced today that wealth management firms overseeing more than $400 billion in client assets now use their integrated model to provide attorney-led estate planning to clients. Recent partnerships with firms including Carson Group and Merit Financial Advisors helped drive NetLaw and Hargrove Firm past the $400 billion mark.
The milestone reflects accelerating demand from RIAs and other wealth management firms for estate planning solutions that are embedded in the advisory experience, while remaining legally compliant and delivered through a direct attorney-client relationship.
NetLaw and Hargrove Firm also reported strong business momentum in 2025, including a fourfold increase in paid estate planning engagements between January and December, achievement of profitability, and the close of an institutional growth equity round. The company’s enterprise partners now represent more than 2,500 financial advisors.
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.
RedBlack
RedBlack, a leading provider of wealth technology and managed services, announced today that Vicus Capital has successfully migrated to RedBlack Cloud, enabling the firm to scale its sophisticated investment operations with greater operational efficiency, optimized uptime and enhanced business continuity.
Vicus Capital is an investment manager and advisory firm that serves investment advisor representatives (IARs) nationwide, operating a balanced investment model. Roughly half of its assets are managed through scalable, model‑driven strategies and the other half through highly customized, tax‑aware portfolios designed for higher‑net‑worth households. Vicus has relied on RedBlack’s powerful rebalancing and trading capabilities to support this level of customization across multiple custodians since 2019. To maintain long-term scalability, resilience and flexibility, Vicus made the strategic decision to complete a full migration from RedBlack’s desktop platform to RedBlack Cloud.
Vicus Capital took a phased migration approach, beginning with a structured trial. The process included close collaboration with RedBlack’s product and services teams to align priorities, map workflow requirements, and address enhancement requests. Since moving to RedBlack Cloud, Vicus has seen measurable efficiency gains, improved trader productivity, stronger business continuity planning and the ability to scale without adding headcount. Today, the firm’s eight‑person investment team supports more than 2,000 models across both model‑driven and highly customized portfolios.
Rossby Financial
Rossby Financial (“Rossby”), a tech-forward, open architecture, enterprise registered investment advisor (RIA), today announced its new Chief Compliance Officer Marissa Harris, CERP, who has spent nearly 20 years across the financial services industry leading business line risk and compliance teams. Her addition comes as the world’s compliance risks in the areas of cyber, AI, privacy, etc. are increasing; her knowledge will ensure that Rossby and its member advisors and firms remain ahead of regulations and potential risks.
Since Rossby’s founding about three years ago, the firm has welcomed a variety of business models under its umbrella as it offers pricing that leaves more flexibility to advisors and firms. Harris will manage compliance across this steadily growing RIA.
Before taking the compliance helm at Rossby, Harris was founder of JBD Risk & Compliance, senior director of business line risk management at Synchrony, chief compliance officer at JLA Securities, senior director of business line risk management at Ally Invest and compliance manager at LPL Financial.
Savvy Wealth
Savvy Wealth, an AI-native registered investment advisor (RIA) for independent financial advisors, today unveiled Savvy Intelligence, a new agentic AI product within Savvy’s vertically integrated platform. Savvy Intelligence gives advisors a complete, continuously updated view of all client data, including investments, financial plans, and tax information, within a unified, AI-powered environment, marking the next chapter in Savvy’s reinvention of human-centered financial advice.
Savvy Intelligence is a household-level system of record, eliminating the need for manual reconciliation or system switching, thereby giving advisors a unified, real-time view of each client’s financial life. While traditional RIAs rely on disconnected technology stacks, Savvy was built from day one as an AI-native, integrated solution, empowering its nearly 135 advisors with the context, clarity and leverage needed to deliver truly personalized advice at scale. Savvy Intelligence reinforces this commitment by making it easier than ever for advisors to find, and act upon, meaningful client data, all in one place.
Savvy Intelligence serves as the central operating environment for Savvy AI agents, all leveraging the same integrated data layer to compound the platform’s value. Its first agent, the Financial Planning Agent, gives advisors a household-level view that provides the context of clients’ financial lives. It models life-change scenarios in real time, surfaces tradeoffs and produces auditable, client-ready outputs in minutes. Advisors can run thousands of “what if” scenarios—drawing automatically from portfolios, tax data, and planning assumptions—with results displayed on a live, interactive canvas, creating flexible, personalized financial plans that continuously adapt as life events change.
Scribe
Osaic, Inc. (“Osaic”), one of the nation’s largest providers of wealth management strategies, today announced it has added Scribe, an AI-powered documentation platform, to its technology ecosystem. The solution is now available to Osaic advisors, providing a new way to capture, improve and standardize workflows more efficiently across their businesses.
Scribe enables advisors and their teams to automatically document processes as they work, transforming everyday tasks into clear, step-by-step guides complete with screenshots, annotations and written instructions. The technology helps eliminate manual documentation, reduce errors and create consistent, repeatable workflows that can be easily shared across teams.
The addition of Scribe reflects Osaic’s continued commitment to equipping advisors with productivity solutions designed to improve efficiency, so advisors can focus on serving their clients and growing their business. By streamlining the creation of process libraries, knowledge guides and training materials, the platform supports faster onboarding for new team members and reduces the time required to scale operations.
SimCorp
SimCorp, a global leader in financial technology, today announced Agent Launchpad, an agentic AI ecosystem that allows investment managers to employ agents from SimCorp and curated partners securely and easily within the award‑winning SimCorp One platform.
Investment managers will be able to access a growing range of pre‑built AI agents from SimCorp and curated partners. These agents support key investment workflows such as portfolio management, corporate actions, risk analysis, and operational support. In addition, Agent Launchpad will allow clients to build their own agents, with controlled access to data from SimCorp One and approved third‑party providers.
Today, SimCorp One clients can use a portfolio management agent as a standalone solution. Building on SimCorp One’s unified data layer and platform capabilities; Agent Launchpad will enable multiple AI agents to work together across workflows within a common governance framework. By enabling specialized AI agents to collaborate, Agent Launchpad helps investment managers easily use agentic AI to automate operational workflows, accelerate market analytics, and support investment decision‑making — freeing their teams to focus on portfolio decisions and client service.
Tradestation Securities
TradeStation Securities, Inc. (“TradeStation”), the brokerage firm built for active equity and derivatives traders, today announced the addition of Tradetron Inc.* to its growing ecosystem of third parties integrated with its execution services via API — connecting automated options strategy execution directly into the TradeStation trading environment. The integration connects TradeStation’s self-clearing execution infrastructure with Tradetron’s automated trading technology, enabling traders to build, test, and execute rules-based strategies with greater speed and precision.
Through Tradetron, traders can build rules-based options strategies†, validate performance in simulated markets, and execute trades through a connected TradeStation brokerage account. The integration comes as Cboe recently reported record-breaking growth in trading of U.S. listed options.‡ According to Cboe Global Markets, it experienced record industry growth as U.S.-listed options volume topped 15.2 billion contracts in 2025, marking the sixth consecutive record year and a 26% increase over 2024.
Traders can construct strategies using a visual builder or select from a library of pre-built models available through Tradetron’s marketplace. Strategies can be forward tested in a simulated environment before going live, giving users a way to evaluate behavior under simulated market conditions prior to executing.
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/)
WealthReach
WealthReach, an organic growth platform built for registered investment advisors (RIAs) and wealth management firms, today announced the launch of Multiply, an AI-powered referral engine that gives advisory firms the systems, coaching and automation to turn existing client relationships into a consistent source of new business.
The launch follows WealthReach’s recent acquisition of the intellectual property (IP) assets of Model FA, imparting methodologies developed over decades of hands-on consulting. Previously only available through one-on-one coaching, these proven referral marketing systems are now embedded directly into WealthReach’s AI-backed platform through Multiply, automating processes that once required years of dedicated coaching.
Model FA was led by DeCelle, who remained Model FA’s CEO until its IP acquisition and who has guided more than 250 RIAs in building and scaling organic growth strategies, and drew on the expertise of Dan Allison, a referral expert whose Feedback Marketing framework has helped hundreds of advisory firms turn existing client relationships into a steady stream of new business. Model FA licensed Allison’s Feedback Marketing IP in 2019 to help build its coaching and consulting platform. This foundation is reflected in Multiply’s design, which focuses on helping firms operationalize referral behavior rather than simply encouraging it.
