Wealthtech got right down to business after Labor Day.
We know it’s not a very creative way to kick off this Advisor Tech Talk, but coming off a week of news that was kept afloat by Vanguard’s Altruist acquisition, the past four business days had so much packed into them that they didn’t need to be buoyed by a big financial advisor technology announcement.
We got one anyway.
Envestnet agreed to acquire Vestmark, a transaction that brings together two of the industry’s largest and most established wealth technology infrastructures and illustrates just how quickly the competitive ground beneath financial advisors is shifting. To put numbers to our words, Envestnet claims to support $8 trillion in assets, while Vestmark supports about $2 trillion.
So, Envestnet’s now a $10 trillion TAMP, but the deal also involves a marriage of wealth management technologies. Vestmark brings institutional-grade trading, rebalancing, tax-transition technology and engineering capabilities that deepen Envestnet’s ability to serve sophisticated RIAs, broker-dealers, banks and other large wealth organizations. Envestnet has traditionally had particular strength among independent broker-dealers, RIAs and hybrid firms, while Vestmark has substantial experience serving wirehouses and other large institutions. So Envestnet’s already broad offerings are broadened even further.
Elsewhere, FMG Suite introduced FMG Connect, an integration and orchestration layer intended to connect advisor tools, data and workflows. FMG’s premise is straightforward: advisors already have meeting notetakers, lead-generation platforms, planning systems and other capable applications, but the advisor too often remains the human middleware moving information between them. FMG Connect is designed to let those systems trigger workflows and exchange information automatically.
SS&C announced Black Diamond AI, a collection of AI capabilities embedded within Black Diamond Wealth Solutions. Black Diamond Assist helps users navigate the platform and access workflows, while Black Diamond Insights proactively analyzes platform information. Natural-language querying allows users to ask questions about client and business data without navigating traditional reports and screens.
Also on the AI front, we’d be remiss if we did not mention that Conquest Planning is now just Conquest in a rebrand which describes its Strategic Advice Manager, or SAM, as a “verifiable AI financial advice engine.” So, the change is more than branding. It reflects the growing ambition of planning technology providers to move beyond producing episodic financial plans toward systems capable of continuously evaluating client circumstances, modeling strategies and helping advisors deliver advice at scale. Conquest says SAM combines a calculation engine with a proprietary AI expert system and has added agentic capabilities as the company broadens its focus beyond conventional financial planning software.
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Acrisure
Acrisure today unveiled AurisSM AI, its applied AI platform designed to connect data, workflows, and AI-assisted decision-making across its portfolio of services. Developed by Acrisure using Palantir’s platforms, Auris AI brings together client, carrier, contract, and operational intelligence into a common operating framework and AI engine that is intended to help insurance professionals identify opportunities, coordinate work, and serve clients more effectively, with access governed by applicable permissions and controls.
Insurance is one of the world’s oldest and most essential industries, yet much of the work behind it still relies on coordination across fragmented data and disconnected systems. Acrisure built Auris AI to address that challenge from inside the industry, using its scale, industry experience, and operating footprint to develop a platform intended to support more connected, efficient, and informed insurance workflows.
Built on Palantir’s Ontology and developed by Acrisure’s technology team and business operators, Auris AI is designed to organize operational data, business logic, and workflows. The platform brings client intelligence, growth opportunities, risk insights, placement activity, service needs, and carrier relationships into a shared environment, with the goal of helping teams coordinate more effectively and support informed decision-making for clients.
Altruist
Altruist, the wealth technology and custody platform for independent advisors, announced that Arca, an AI-native wealth management company, has selected Altruist as its preferred custodian and technology partner. Despite just emerging from stealth in June 2026 with $64 million in funding, Arca already manages more than $1 billion in client assets and continues to redefine wealth management at scale.
Arca pairs expert advisors with purpose-built AI to deliver more personalized advice that aims to improve client outcomes. By automating the operational complexity behind wealth management, Arca empowers advisors to focus on what matters most – providing proactive and personalized guidance, fostering deeper relationships, and delivering a higher standard of service to their clients.
As part of the partnership, Arca has embedded Altruist’s Realtime Custodial API directly into its proprietary AI native platform, with Altruist serving as its preferred custody partner. The integration enables Arca’s dedicated wealth management AI agents to streamline core client and operational workflows, so advisors can spend less time on manual administration and more time delivering proactive, personalized advice.
Aqua
Aqua, a next-generation alternatives infrastructure solution, today announced the launch of the industry’s first turnkey alternative investments platform(TAIP), along with $18.8 million in total funding.
The company raised a $3.8 million seed round backed by Google’s AI Fund, Y Combinator, and others, followed by a $15 million Series A led by Arthur Ventures with participation from Alumni Ventures. Aqua plans to use the funding to accelerate business and platform development, expand its engineering and partnership teams, and deepen integrations across custodians and fund sponsors.
Designed to help wealth managers, RIAs, banks, trust companies, and fund sponsors build, manage, and scale institutional-quality alternatives programs, Aqua replaces the disconnected marketplaces, manual workflows, and spreadsheets most firms rely on today.
Broadridge
Broadridge, (NYSE: BR) today announced the expansion of its next-generation digital assets platform for wealth management firms to the U.S. market. The platform provides wealth managers a unified way to offer cryptocurrencies and tokenized securities alongside traditional investments. Building on the platform’s availability in Canada, Broadridge enables U.S. broker-dealers, registered investment advisers and wealth managers to incorporate digital assets into their existing wealth offerings through a unified operating model.
Supported by a growing ecosystem of providers, initially Anchorage Digital and Galaxy Digital, the platform supports both cryptocurrencies and tokenized securities issued and serviced through new and established market infrastructure, enabling firms to add new assets and transaction types to systems and workflows they already use.
Beginning with Anchorage Digital and Galaxy, the platform’s growing ecosystem of custodians, wallet infrastructure providers, liquidity providers, and compliance partners gives firms flexibility as their digital asset strategies, client needs and market connectivity requirements evolve.
Cognicor
CogniCor, the intelligence and orchestration platform for RIAs and wealth management enterprises, today announced the expansion of its Advisory Board with the addition of a distinguished group of industry leaders who will help guide the company’s next phase of growth.
The expanded Board brings together executives with deep experience building and scaling RIAs, advising the leading wealth management firms, developing and commercializing wealth technology and investing in financial technology.
The expansion follows the recent appointment of Shannon Eusey, Chairman and Co-Founder of Beacon Pointe Advisors, to CogniCor’s Advisory Board and reflects the company’s growing momentum as wealth management firms look beyond standalone AI tools to platforms capable of turning fragmented data into intelligence and coordinated action.
Conquest
Conquest, an award-winning global fintech company that delivers the industry’s leading verifiable AI financial advice engine to power continuous advice at scale, today unveiled a refreshed brand and visual identity that brings the company’s new positioning and innovations to life.
The repositioning signals the broader role that Conquest’s engine plays beyond traditional financial planning software, so the company has shortened its name from Conquest Planning to Conquest.
The engine, Strategic Advice Manager® (SAM), has been the intelligent core of Conquest’s offerings since its founding in 2018, and has evolved to include agentic capabilities announced earlier this year. SAM comprises a calculation engine and proprietary AI expert system that work together to evaluate and rank financial strategies, model life events and respond to client questions in a fraction of the time traditionally required to build and update a financial plan.
Conquest
Conquest, an award-winning global fintech company that delivers the industry’s leading verifiable AI financial advice engine to power continuous advice at scale, today announced a new self-serve offering that gives independent advisors and registered investment advisors (RIAs) direct access to the full Conquest platform — including its proprietary planning engine, Strategic Advice Manager® (SAM) — without going through a traditional sales process.
Conquest has historically focused on enterprise firms requiring custom delivery, but sustained demand from independent RIAs prompted the company to build a path for these advisors to access its platform directly. Designed for firms with 10 advisors or fewer, the new self-serve offering enables advisors to purchase a subscription directly through the Conquest website or sign up for a free trial to explore the platform.
The new model avoids the nuance of an enterprise implementation by delivering a digital purchase, setup and onboarding experience designed to get independent advisors and smaller firms up and running in days. Key integration partners available at launch include Jump, Morningstar, Schwab Advisor ServicesTM, TradePMR by Robinhood and Zocks.
Ebix
Ebix, Inc. today announced the launch of Ebix Meridian, a new operating platform for independent U.S. advisory firms built on the foundation of Ebix MoneyWare, the company’s wealth and asset management platform used by more than 300 financial institutions across 17 countries.
Ebix Meridian brings client management, financial planning, private markets and insurance advisory into a single environment, supported by a new AI layer designed specifically around advisor workflows. The platform is being introduced with pricing intended to make capabilities traditionally used by larger financial institutions accessible to independent advisory firms and smaller practices.
Independent advisors typically run their practice across multiple systems for CRM, planning, private markets, insurance, document management and client servicing. Ebix Meridian brings those functions onto one client record, one document vault and one audit trail, with white-labeled client and investor portals included at no additional cost.
Envestnet
Envestnet, a leading Adaptive WealthTech company serving more than a third of all advisors across all its platforms and $8 trillion in platform assets, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Vestmark, a premier provider of portfolio management technology, institutional-grade trading, and outsourced investment management services for some of the industry’s largest wealth firms. Vestmark supports more than $2 trillion in assets and five million-plus accounts.
As wealth management firms grow, their operating models change along with what they require from technology. Adding Vestmark enables Envestnet to solve more complex wealth management challenges for more firms and advisors. With Vestmark, the Envestnet adaptive wealthtech platform scales more effectively to support all firms, from emerging RIAs to the largest advisory firms in the industry, across their wealthtech needs.
The result is one connected ecosystem across the full wealth management lifecycle — from understanding an investor’s needs to constructing, personalizing, implementing, trading, and managing portfolios at scale.
Feathery
Feathery, the AI operating and decisioning system for financial services, today announced the launch of Robin, the first AI operations assistant for financial services. Robin enables insurance, wealth management, and banking firms to build and adapt workflows using plain English, while helping teams surface insights and support decisions.
When teams want to build something new, they describe what they want to accomplish, and Robin turns that intent into a structured workflow using Feathery’s pre-tested, compliant building blocks. Teams can review and modify the workflow in Feathery’s visual builder, then adapt it conversationally as business requirements change.
Once workflows are running, Robin draws on data, documents and context across connected systems to answer questions, identify what needs attention, surface opportunities and recommend next-best actions. In wealth management, Robin can support workflows such as client onboarding, account opening and advisor transitions. In insurance, it can support submission intake, proposal generation, policy comparisons, and renewals.
FINNY
Affiliated Advisors, a leading advisor service and support platform, announced today the launch of a new organic growth initiative for its financial advisors, powered by FINNY, an AI-driven growth and marketing platform. The initiative gives advisors in the Affiliated Advisors network access to FINNYs technology at a discounted rate, along with a dedicated peer community designed to help advisors sharpen and scale their marketing efforts.
FINNY helps advisors build and execute targeted marketing campaigns using artificial intelligence, giving them a more efficient way to reach prospects, build their brand, and generate new business opportunities. As part of the initiative, Affiliated Advisors has formed a cohort of participating advisors who meet regularly to share best practices, discuss results, and learn from one another’s experience with the platform. FINNNY’s leadership also takes part in these sessions, offering advisors direct access to the team behind the technology.
Since launching the initiative, participating advisors have reported early signs of traction, including increased appointment activity and stronger brand recognition in their local markets. Advisors pay a straightforward monthly subscription fee for access to the FINNY platform, with Affiliated Advisors affiliated representatives receiving a preferred rate.
FINTRX
FINTRX, the leading provider of private wealth intelligence for asset managers and other investment professionals, today introduced an AI agent called Fin that provides access to FINTRX data and intelligence within email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Outlook and Google Calendar on top of existing AI within the FINTRX platform.
Unlike AI tools that wait to be asked, Fin continuously monitors the private wealth industry and proactively pushes alerts, prospect lists, and meeting preparation suggestions straight into a user’s inbox or internal team channels. The rollout includes data and intelligence covering more than 850,000 financial firms and contacts, containing 45,000 registered investment advisor (RIA) and broker-dealer firms, 790,000 registered reps, over 4,600 family offices, and 1,900 banks and trust institutions.
Fin builds on the response FINTRX received from its recent Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations, which allow clients to pull live FINTRX data into Claude, ChatGPT and Perplexity. Where MCP is reactive — answering when someone starts a conversation — Fin is proactive, learning what matters to each client and pushing relevant intelligence to them automatically. Together, they give clients more flexibility for hands-on search or do-it-for you research.
FinTurk
FinTurk, an AI-first CRM built specifically for financial advisors, today announced the launch of PortfolioSolver™ and Vigil, two new platform capabilities designed to help registered investment advisors (RIAs) manage portfolios and stay ahead of critical tasks across their practices. The latest enhancements build on FinTurk’s growing suite of advisor automation tools, moving the CRM beyond a traditional system of record to one that actively helps advisors run their business.
PortfolioSolver™ simplifies personalized portfolio construction by allowing advisors to enter client-specific investment constraints in their own words, from realized-gain limits and cash requirements to target allocations and securities that should not be sold. FinTurk translates those instructions into structured rules for advisor approval before a deterministic optimizer builds a proposed set of trades that accounts for the client’s requirements together. Each trade includes a clear explanation of the rationale, while the client’s rules remain attached to their record for future allocations and ongoing monitoring. By translating client needs into actionable investment instructions, PortfolioSolver™ creates a more direct path from client conversation to portfolio construction.
Vigil extends that proactive approach across the advisor’s broader practice, continuously monitoring connections, portfolios and accounts, tasks and inboxes to identify items that need attention. The system can flag issues including failed data syncs, cash thresholds, stalled workflows, upcoming deadlines and client emails requiring a response, while also running recurring checks automatically. Rather than requiring advisors to continually monitor separate systems and dashboards, Vigil surfaces pressing items as they arise.
FMG Suite
FMG Suite, the leading marketing and growth platform for financial advisors, insurance professionals, and enterprises, today introduced FMG Connect, an integration and orchestration layer that brings advisor tools, data, and workflows together in one connected system. Work that once required the advisor to act as the middleman can now happen automatically, compliantly, and at scale.
Most advisors already use strong tools. A notetaker captures the meeting. A lead platform scores the prospect. A planning tool holds the client’s financial picture. The problem is that these systems rarely talk to each other, leaving the advisor in the middle, moving information from one place to the next by hand. Tools meant to reduce workload instead create friction, slow follow-up, and cap growth.
FMG Connect closes those gaps. A meeting ends and the follow-up is already in motion. A new prospect enters the system and personalized outreach begins automatically. Client context stays current across planning tools, contact records, and communication workflows without anyone copying it over. The next best action surfaces inside the work advisors are already doing. FMG maintains the integration layer so advisors don’t have to.
Focal AI
Focal AI, the agentic AI platform purpose-built for Canadian financial advisors, today launched a set of AI agents that complete administrative work beyond meeting automation. The new Focal AI platform introduces new agentic AI capabilities which autonomously read and fill forms, read and draft emails, build client deliverables, and update your client data across advisor CRMs.
The launch addresses a critical bottleneck in Canadian wealth management. Advisors spend more than half their working time, over 20 hours a week, on non-revenue-generating administrative manual tasks across too many tools.
Focal AI is already used by advisors across major Canadian wealth networks like Financial Horizons and integrates with CRMs they rely on, including Equisoft, Maximizer, Laylah, Cloven, and more. The new agentic capabilities extend those integrations from moving information between systems to helping complete the workflows themselves.
FutureVault
FutureVault, the category-defining leader in AI-powered Digital Vaults and intelligent document infrastructure for banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI), today announced the launch of FutureVault AI Agents, which execute multi-step document workflows across the systems a firm already runs on, with governance and human oversight designed into every step.
Most AI in financial services answers questions. FutureVault AI Agents orchestrate end-to-end task and workflow execution. Each agent owns a defined operational mandate, sequences every step, and escalates only what requires human judgment. The launch is FutureVault’s third major AI infrastructure release in six months.
FutureVault is building its agent library against measured failure points, not generic use cases. Operational assessments of advisory firms surface the same pattern: one client record keyed by hand into seven or more systems, onboarding that runs three weeks, and no exception reporting anywhere, so missing documents are found by searching rather than surfaced.
Grantd
Grantd Equity, Inc. (“Grantd”) and Collective Liquidity, Inc. (“Collective”) today announced a partnership that will bring Collective’s private market data, analytics, and wealth products to the Grantd platform. The integration will give advisors the insights and wealth management solutions they need to turn their clients’ pre-IPO shares into the foundation of a smart, long-term financial plan.
Grantd will provide access to Compass, Collective’s proprietary private market toolset, within the Grantd platform and make available the Collective Exchange Fund, which offers employees of pre-IPO companies tax-deferred diversification. As a result of the partnership, advisors using Grantd will have access to a broad range of private-market-specific planning tools and wealth solutions — including company valuations, waterfall analysis, tax planning, and side-by-side comparisons of actionable liquidity and wealth solutions — and be able to address their clients’ concentration risk, all from within their Grantd dashboard.
The partnership also significantly enhances Grantd for Work, Grantd’s platform for private and public companies. Private companies using Grantd to strengthen their equity compensation programs will be able to offer employees wealth planning tools and education regarding company-approved liquidity solutions as a meaningful employee benefit. This full-stack solution — from equity issuance and planning through company-approved liquidity — substantially increases the value of equity compensation to employees, making private companies more competitive in attracting and retaining top talent.
Hamachi.ai
Hamachi.ai (“Hamachi”), a regulatory-first, AI-powered Wealth Intelligence Platform built for investment advisors and asset managers, today announced it has been awarded U.S. Patent No. 12,641,064, covering agentic artificial intelligence systems and methods for secure, compliant, multi-agent LLM-assisted networked communications. The newly issued patent reinforces Hamachi’s position as a privacy-first AI platform for regulated financial communications.
Generative AI adoption is accelerating across financial services, but most general-purpose AI tools were not designed for the realities of wealth management. Advisors and firms routinely work with account statements, tax forms, trust documents, CRM records, portfolio holdings, household information, notes and other highly sensitive client data – exactly the kind of information Hamachi believes should not be uploaded directly into general-purpose AI tools without a purpose-built privacy, redaction, compliance and audit layer.
Hamachi built its platform around a clear principle: client personally identifiable information (PII) should not be the price of using AI. The company’s architecture is designed to identify and redact PII and sensitive financial data before it reaches downstream LLMs, while preserving enough context for the AI to generate useful, personalized and compliant communications. Hamachi then supports secure restoration, compliance review, audit logging and workflow integration inside the advisor’s existing environment.
Haven Tower Group
Haven Tower Group LLC (“Haven Tower”), the leading full-service strategic communications firm focused exclusively on the wealth management industry, today announced the formation of its Advisory Council. The council brings together a select group of senior industry leaders who will serve as strategic resources to the firm and its leadership team.
The Advisory Council will complement the mission of Haven Tower’s Board of Advisors by further expanding the firm’s access to a unique breadth and depth of industry expertise and strategic relationships. Its members will provide guidance on the trends, challenges and emerging opportunities shaping the broader wealth management industry, while bringing perspectives and relationships that support Haven Tower’s constant focus on delivering an exceptional service experience and outcomes for the firm’s clients.
The Advisory Council brings together multi-disciplinary experience spanning leadership for RIA and dual registrant enterprises, data governance, wealthtech and growth strategy consulting. Members will engage periodically with Haven Tower’s leadership and offer insights informed by their respective roles and experience across the industry.
iCapital
Great Gray Trust Company, a leading provider of collective investment trusts (CITs) and retirement solutions, announced that it has selected iCapital1, the global fintech company shaping the future of investing, as its preferred partner for private markets manager evaluation, due diligence, and portfolio construction. Through this collaborative relationship, Great Gray® and iCapital aim to develop purpose-built private markets solutions for defined contribution plans, helping plan sponsors and advisors expand diversification opportunities and support long-term participant outcomes within professionally managed retirement solutions.
Great Gray and iCapital will work together to develop a suite of asset-class-specific CITs across private equity, private credit, and private real assets, giving retirement plan sponsors greater flexibility to incorporate private markets into professionally managed portfolios. The private markets capabilities embedded within these CITs will support manager selection, portfolio construction, liquidity management, and ongoing oversight.
With more than $13.8 trillion in defined contribution assets in the United States at the end of the first quarter of 20262, retirement plans represent one of the most important vehicles for long-term wealth creation and retirement security for American workers. At the same time, a growing share of economic growth, innovation, and value creation is occurring within private markets, driving increased interest in providing workplace retirement investors with access to both public and private market opportunities. While private markets investing in defined contribution plans remains in its formative stages, progress continues across product development, fiduciary guidance, operational infrastructure, participant education, and ecosystem readiness.
IRA Financial
IRA Financial, a leading self-directed retirement platform, today announced the launch of a new business-to-business growth channel designed to serve RIAs, capital raisers, family offices, real estate syndicators, alternative-investment platforms and other professionals who work with investors looking to put retirement capital to work. To lead the effort, the company has named Tony Unkel as Director of Partnerships, a newly created role.
IRA Financial has experienced significant growth through a primarily direct-to-consumer model. With the launch of this new channel, the company is extending that momentum into the B2B market, where demand is growing for a reliable, technology-forward custodian partner capable of supporting the professionals and platforms that connect investors to retirement-focused opportunities.
Unkel brings more than 16 years of experience across business development, strategic partnerships, alternative investments and wealth-management distribution. Before joining IRA Financial, he served as Business Development Manager at The Entrust Group, where he developed client and business-partner relationships and educated prospective clients on self-directed retirement investing and alternative assets. He previously held business-development and channel-sales roles at Colonial Surety Company and OSG Billing Services.
IRALOGIX
IRALOGIX, the retirement industry’s leading fintech provider, today announced the appointment of Geoff Gohs as Chief Technology Officer. Gohs will lead the company’s technology and engineering organization as IRALOGIX continues to scale its cloud-native platform and expand the capabilities it delivers to financial institutions and the investors they serve.
The appointment is part of a broader evolution of IRALOGIX’s technology and product leadership. Charlie Gautreaux, who has led both functions as Head of Technology and Product, will now focus exclusively on product strategy and development, reflecting the importance of each discipline as the company expands.
Gohs brings more than 20 years of technology and leadership experience spanning financial technology, banking, education technology, and commercial software. Most recently, he served as Chief Technology Officer at hh2, where he led an overhaul of the engineering organization, introduced new development and deployment processes, and reduced annual cloud infrastructure costs.
Luminary
Luminary, an AI-native wealth transfer and administration platform that turns static estate documents into structured, source-verified data powering workflows for financial advisors, trust companies, law firms and accounting firms, today announced it has raised $22 million in Series A funding led by Ten Coves Capital, a growth-equity firm focused on B2B software and fintech. BNY and 8VC — Luminary’s lead investor in its $9.5 million 2023 seed round — also participated, alongside previous investors Fin Capital, Focus Financial Partners, Rockefeller Capital Management’s FinTech Innovation Fund and a number of family offices. The round brings Luminary’s total funding to nearly $32 million.
Led by founder and CEO David Barnard, Luminary was built on the idea that wealth transfer is not a one-time event, but rather a set of ongoing services that will define the future of wealth management. The platform helps wealth, tax, and legal advisors serving high-net-worth families scale ongoing guidance on tax-efficient wealth transfer strategy, trust and entity structuring and administration to keep a family’s strategic plan aligned with its generational and charitable intent. This new capital will help Luminary continue to build on its industry-leading AI capabilities and integrations, push further into administration workflows and add to its commercial team to meet strong, growing demand across the wealth ecosystem.
Luminary’s platform supports client assets totaling more than $500 billion. Its customers span the high-net-worth wealth management ecosystem, including Caprock, IEQ Capital and Wealth Enhancement Group, as well as leading tax advisory practices, AM Law 100 legal practices and trust companies, who rely on Luminary to deepen client relationships, differentiate their services and scale efficiently.
Masttro
Masttro, the global operating system for complex wealth, today announced a partnership with Truewind, the San Francisco-based AI accounting platform used by finance and family office teams. The integration offers UHNW wealth management teams the ability to transfer wealth data between investment reporting and accounting platforms. Truewind converts consolidated wealth data from Masttro, including positions, transactions, and entity details, into review-ready journal entries and delivers them to platforms such as Sage Intacct.
Family offices often use different systems for reporting and accounting, without a way to cleanly move data between the two. In fact, Simple’s 2025 Family Office Software & Technology Report identified data integration as the most requested capability, and also the most common point of failure, among family offices. Truewind meets this need by translating data from Masttro, where it is organized by entity, ownership, and asset class, into a format that is organized by account, which makes it usable within an accounting system. Instead of rebuilding the same information by hand each month, Masttro clients can use Truewind to share the data automatically.
When clients start using Truewind, they map Masttro’s data to their own chart of accounts once. From there, information flows in a structure that their accounting platform recognizes, with entity, ownership, and asset class detail preserved. Accounting teams keep final review and posting decisions. The general ledger can be kept up to date, and Masttro remains the system of record for wealth data across the full estate.
Maywood
Maywood, the first finance-compliant proactive AI built for investment banking, accounting, corporate banking, and the broader financial services industry, today announced it has partnered with PitchBook, the leading private capital market intelligence platform, to integrate its data into Maywood’s AI harness. The integration enables Maywood’s agents to leverage the breadth of PitchBook’s data to proactively track private companies, identify key signals, and help teams make more informed deal decisions.
The integration enables Maverick, Maywood’s proactive AI agent, to access and deliver best-in-class and trusted private company data covering 30+ key firmographic details through the PitchBook Essential Connector. Maverick’s suggestions and actions for private companies are now tied to the most trusted private data source, giving senior dealmakers assurance and conviction in taking action. PitchBook data will be delivered directly to Maverick users through email, Teams, and the platform.
Maverick is purpose-built for the senior professionals who drive revenue across investment banking, private equity, commercial banking, wealth management, auditing, and business development. It embeds compliant AI into the systems they already use and is built to FINRA and SEC requirements from day one, with human approval at every external boundary.
Orion
Orion today announced a significant expansion of Advisor Trading, giving individual advisors a purpose-built version of Orion’s trading and rebalancing technology inside their daily workflow, while firms maintain granular oversight and control.
As firms grow and consolidate, more of them are looking to give advisors direct trading capability by managing and implementing their investor client portfolios while preserving firm-level standards. Advisor Trading answers that with a flexible user-permissioning system that lets firms grant specific features — or portions of features — to individual advisors, with strong guardrails and clear delineation of ownership.
Advisor Trading workflows are linked to Portfolio View, placing trading alongside the AI-powered capabilities advisors already use every day. Later this year, Orion plans to add an AI Trading Assistant that uses natural language to help advisors manage trading preferences, review the prior day’s trades for anomalies and unexecuted orders, and support pre- and post-trade review.
PCM Encore
PCM Encore, a technology-forward, independent fiduciary financial advisor serving ultra-high-net-worth individuals, trusts, and family offices, today announced it has surpassed $2 billion in client assets under management as of September 2026, marking a significant milestone since opening its institutional-grade family office platform to outside families in September 2024.
PCM Encore grew out of technology entrepreneur Michael Paulus’ single family office, where he spent five years building a robust wealth management platform and a team of specialists from large and highly regarded investment firms and tech industry leaders. The firm continues to expand its advisor network and direct investment capabilities across the United States, while providing clients with complete wealth management and family office services.
The milestone follows continued investment across PCM Encore’s platform, including the introduction of PCM Tax, an affiliated entity that operates independently while providing expert in-house tax and estate planning services to PCM Encore clients who elect to utilize these services. PCM Tax complements the firm’s existing family office, direct investment and broader wealth management solutions with services such as exit and liquidity planning, tax preparation and filing, quarterly estimates, entity structuring and tax-efficient asset placement. These critical services have continued to complement PCM Encore’s unique access to private direct investments, as well as other coordinated offerings.
SS&C Technologies
SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSNC) today released Black Diamond AI, a series of artificial intelligence-enabled enhancements for SS&C Black Diamond® Wealth Solutions. Black Diamond AI is part of SS&C’s broader AI strategy, built on the SS&C AI Gateway governance platform and designed to interoperate with SS&C WorkHQ, the enterprise AI orchestration platform advisors and operations teams use across their SS&C footprint.
Black Diamond AI combines in-platform AI assistance, contextual insights, natural language data queries, and connected AI experiences to help advisors and operations teams reduce manual work, access relevant information, and act more efficiently.
Users can also ask questions about client and business data in plain English and receive immediate answers through natural language data queries, enabling teams to access information without searching through multiple reports or screens.
SS&C Technologies
SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSNC) today announced that Bolton Global Capital, a FINRA member broker-dealer, has selected SS&C Black Diamond® Wealth Solutions to support its ongoing growth.
Bolton’s selection reflects two accelerating shifts in wealth management: independent broker-dealers absorbing wirehouse breakaways, and rising demand for platforms that scale across sophisticated, cross-border client needs. Black Diamond’s integrated state-of-the-art platform is built to serve both.
With over $19 billion in assets under management, Bolton Global Capital provides technology and operational support to help independent advisors serve clients with complex international wealth management needs. Black Diamond’s scalable platform will help streamline portfolio management, reporting, and advisor workflows. The firm selected Black Diamond for its comprehensive wealth management capabilities and integration with Morningstar research, data, and analytics, enabling advisors to access investment insights within their daily workflows. The firm is also expanding its use of the platform through Morningstar’s Direct Advisory Suite (DAS) to deliver deeper portfolio insights to its end clients.
Savvy Wealth
Savvy Wealth (“Savvy”), an AI-native registered investment advisor (RIA) for independent financial advisors, today announced the successful close of its $100 million Series C funding round led by Halo Fund, the growth-stage venture firm co-founded by Qualtrics founder and Utah Jazz owner Ryan Smith and longtime Accel general partner Ryan Sweeney. The round was oversubscribed, with participation from existing investors including Thrive Capital, Industry Ventures from Goldman Sachs, Canvas Prime, Index Ventures, House Fund, Euclidean Capital, Alumni Ventures, and Vestigo Ventures, the venture capital firm founded by former LPL Financial CEO and Chairman Mark Casady. This latest infusion of capital brings Savvy to over $200 million in total funding.
The raise is a bet against the industry’s consolidation led by private equity aggregators buying independent practices. Advisors who want institutional-grade technology and support have mostly had to buy it by giving up ownership of their book. Savvy was built on the premise that those two things don’t have to be a package deal.
Savvy is on pace to exceed $100 million annual recurring revenue (ARR) this year, and was just named the No. 1 Fastest-Growing Financial Services Firm in America by Inc. Magazine with three-year revenue growth of 13,000%+. The firm now oversees $9 billion in client assets under management (AUM), a more than 4x increase year-over-year, and has brought on more than $4 billion in recruited assets in 2026 alone. Savvy also now supports more than 150 advisors nationwide, having doubled its advisor base over the past year.
Seeds
Seeds—the integrated investing, trading, and client engagement system for independent registered investment advisors—today announced its partnership with SyntheticFi— a fintech platform providing low-cost, securities-backed financing and liability planning strategies for financial advisors. The partnership is the first of its kind to bring box spread financing inside a Unified Managed Account (UMA), giving advisors access to a borrowing strategy once reserved for hedge funds and family offices in the same account where they already manage client portfolios.
Pioneered by SyntheticFi, box spread financing lets clients borrow against their portfolios at rates set by the options market rather than a bank. Until now, these loans required a separate account, forcing advisors to manage borrowing and investing in two disconnected systems.
The box spread loan operates as a sleeve within the client’s Seeds UMA, powered by SyntheticFi’s lending strategy. Because borrowing capacity is calculated within a single account, clients can potentially borrow more against the same assets to enhance liquidity or support advanced strategies within the same UMA. Since loan details are available in-account, this also gives advisors a more holistic view of the client’s portfolio.
Skience
Skience, a wealth management technology company, has named Starla Hendricks as the Chief Revenue Officer. Starla will lead the commercial strategy across sales, marketing and market engagement as Skience expands adoption of its platform across the wealth management industry.
The appointment reflects Skience’s evolution from individual products to a unified platform that brings together the capabilities wealth managers need to run and grow their businesses.
With the platform proven at scale, Skience is expanding its sales and marketing efforts to reach more firms across the industry. Starla will lead this work, bringing the platform to a broader market and deepening its adoption.
SMArtX Advisory Solutions
Infrastructure Capital Advisors, LLC (Infrastructure Capital), a leading provider of investment management solutions designed to meet the needs of income-focused investors, is excited to offer its strategies to SMArtX Advisory Solutions.
The Virtus InfraCap U.S. Preferred Stock ETF (NYSE Arca: PFFA), InfraCap REIT Preferred ETF (NYSE Arca: PFFR), InfraCap MLP ETF (NYSE Arca: AMZA), Infrastructure Capital Equity Income ETF (NYSE Arca: ICAP), Infrastructure Capital Small Cap Income ETF (NYSE Arca: SCAP), and Infrastructure Capital Bond Income ETF (NYSE Arca: BNDS) are strategies that are now available on the SMArtX Advisory Solutions platform.
T. Rowe Price
T. Rowe Price (NASDAQ: TROW), a global investment management firm, and Anthropictoday announced the expansion of Claude across the firm’s investment organization. Portfolio managers and analysts are using Claude to support and enhance the firm’s research process, and its developers are adopting Claude Code to build investment tools that support the investment process. This effort builds on the significant artificial intelligence (AI) enabled innovation already underway across T. Rowe Price and represents the next phase of the firm’s broader AI strategy.
As an active investment firm, T. Rowe Price builds its decisions on proprietary fundamental research. That means its analysts and portfolio managers read and evaluate large volumes of information, then apply experienced judgment to reach a view. The firm’s goal is to give its investment professionals more capacity for exactly that work.
The work runs under the AI leadership model T. Rowe Price announced in August, which places AI leaders inside Investments and Global Distribution and charges T. Rowe Price Labs, the firm’s enterprise AI innovation hub, with evaluating and scaling AI across the firm. Every application is owned by the business, governed by the firm’s standards for responsible use, and built to keep human judgment and accountability at the center of client outcomes.
Wealth.com
Wealth.com, the industry’s leading AI-powered estate and tax planning platform, today announced that &Partners has selected Wealth.com as its enterprise-wide estate planning solution. The deployment gives more than 100 &Partners advisors access to a consistent, technology-enabled way to review existing estate documents, visualize estate plans, identify gaps and planning opportunities, create client-ready reports and guide clients through the estate planning process.
One of the industry’s fastest-growing hybrid broker-dealer and RIA platforms, &Partners has built its model around advisor ownership, flexibility and concierge-level support. The firm selected Wealth.com following a competitive evaluation, citing the platform’s breadth, intuitive advisor and client experience, clear visualizations, enterprise-grade security and scalability, and commitment to implementation and long-term adoption.
Through Wealth.com, &Partners advisors can more easily understand how a client’s estate plan is structured, explain complex relationships visually and turn identified gaps or opportunities into clearer next steps. The platform also supports more connected conversations across investments, taxes, beneficiary decisions, charitable planning, gifting and legacy goals, helping advisors address a client’s financial life more holistically.
WealthStream
WealthStream, the leader in advice intelligence for the wealth management industry, today announced the addition of OpenAI’s GPT-Live-1 to Practice, its offering designed to help financial advisors prepare for client conversations. Practice will launch next week at WealthStream’s Booth 240, Zone 1, during the Future Proof Festival, September 14–17, in Huntington Beach, California.
Practice brings WealthStream’s advice intelligence into an interactive environment where advisors can rehearse before they meet with clients. The addition of GPT-Live-1 brings natural voice conversation to that experience, helping advisors practice how they communicate advice, respond to questions, and navigate discussions that require both financial expertise and a human connection.
For financial advisors, knowing what to recommend is only part of being prepared. Explaining the reasoning, understanding a client’s concerns, and responding clearly in the moment can determine whether advice leads to action. Practice is built around that critical step between developing a recommendation and delivering it with confidence.
Webull
Webull (NASDAQ: BULL), an online investment platform, today announced that eligible customers will have access to CME Group’s E-nano S&P 500 and E-nano Nasdaq-100 futures, expanding the platform’s futures offering with smaller-sized contracts. This expands Webull’s futures offering with smaller contracts that allow retail investors to manage exposure to major U.S. equity indexes in more precise increments.
CME Nano Futures are ultra-small equity index futures contracts sized at one-tenth of comparable CME Micro E-mini futures. The smaller contract size allows investors to take positions with less notional exposure and potentially lower dollar margin requirements, providing greater control over position sizing and the ability to manage risk in smaller increments.
Through Webull, eligible customers can trade Nano Futures alongside the platform’s existing futures products and use the same tools and functionality to monitor markets, manage positions and make informed trading decisions. The contracts are available to customers with an approved Webull futures account and remain subject to applicable account, margin, risk and jurisdictional requirements.
