Don’t forget to save room for the baby in the bathtub.
We watch a lot of Sesame Street in our house, especially classice Sesame Street, and there’s a great clip of Ernie and Bert preparing to give Bert’s nephew, Brad, a bath. Bert has the tub all ready to go when Ernie points out that there are no toys for little Brad to play with. What follows is classic kid’s comedy as Ernie piles toy, after toy, after toy into the tub as Bert gradually becomes more and more exasperated, finally noting that there’s no room for the baby in the tub.
Welcome to Advisor Tech Talk, where we’re not only going to save room for the baby—in this case being an advisor’s financial expertise—but we’re not going to throw it out with the bathwater and toys of technology and services.
We imagine financial advisors and wealth management leaders feel a little like Bert when other professionals, including ourselves, start piling on the technology like Ernie throwing toys into the tub. Technology to make projections. Technology to balance portfolios. Technology to keep track of clients and prospects. Technology for marketing. Technology for billing. And on, and on, and on.
In fact, we’ve gotten to the point where a lot of commentators are arguing that technology is so advanced, and holistic, that financial advisors can start to shed some of their technical and domain related skills and knowledge.
Those skills and that knowledge are like Bert’s little nephew Brad. That’s what the bathtub of wealth management is really for—not the technological toys—but professional expertise, knowledge, and guidance.
Don’t throw them out. Clients come to wealth managers for answers to their financial questions, not for the technological bells and whistles that make delivering those answers easier. The question that brings leads and prospects through the funnel to becoming regular clients is: “what should I do with my money.”
Advisors still need to be able to answer this question directly and coherently without consulting the equivalent of Siri or Alexa. Even if this question is often raised in the context of life transitions and occurrences, the immediate need is to be able to answer the question, not solve for the entire event.
Even in investing, which has been significantly outsourced, despite all the offloading to platforms, vendors, processes, rules and technologies, advisors need to be informed and educated to the point where they can competently provide answers. Technology isn’t going to take that away.
Perhaps that’s why one of the paradoxes we’ve recently discussed, that advisors are adopting AI and other technologies at a pace we didn’t initially anticipate, but are not yet gaining back significant time in their workday, persists, as confirmed by a Morningstar study released this week.
The 2026 Morningstar Investor Perspectives Advisor Study attributes this paradox, deemed “The Advisor Treadmill Paradox,” to heavy administrative burdens, complex modern investments, and escalating client communication demands… but we think that the need for informed, competent professionals behind all the technology helps explain the paradox as well. Advisors in the study continue to spend about 27% of their time evaluating investment strategies, even as other demands compete for their attention.
Also on the AI front, we have more research that feels like it confirms the belief that AI will at least temporarily expand the demand for ongoing financial advice. Vanguard found that roughly one-third of its surveyed investors had used AI for personal finance, investing or retirement planning, but those users were far more likely to say AI increased rather than decreased the value they placed on human financial advice. Among Vanguard advised clients, 41% said AI made them value their advisor more, while just 2% said it reduced that value. Morningstar similarly found that only 2% of U.S. investors rely on AI for most investment decisions, while 63% do not currently use it for investment decisions.
Anyway, let’s get to your headlines…
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Adhesion Wealth
Adhesion Wealth, a UMA administration and managed account platform, today announced the launch of Custom Model Solutions (CMS) on the Adhesion platform. The new portfolios feature Fidelity model portfolio expertise with Adhesion’s UMA technology platform, helping RIAs outsource portfolio construction to a leading institutional asset manager while leveraging Adhesion to efficiently implement and administer more tailored, multi-sleeve portfolios at scale.
Through Custom Model Solutions at Adhesion, advisors can collaborate with Fidelity Investments to develop professionally managed model portfolios around their firm’s investment preferences, including managers, investment vehicles, asset allocations and other portfolio preferences. Fidelity brings portfolio construction, open architecture investment research and model portfolio expertise, while Adhesion powers implementation and administration at scale through its UMA technology, including complex multi-sleeve portfolios, ongoing trading and rebalancing, and integrated Tax Management Services (TMS) for automated daily tax optimization and tax-efficient portfolio transitions. Advisors can access these Adhesion capabilities, including integrated Tax Management Services, with no Adhesion platform or TMS fee*.
Advisory firms have traditionally faced a tradeoff between using off-the-shelf third-party models, which may not fully reflect their investment preferences, and building their own bespoke portfolios, which can create operational complexity. Custom Model Solutions bridges that gap by bringing together an advisory firm’s investment preferences, Fidelity model portfolio expertise, and Adhesion’s scalable UMA implementation infrastructure. This combination helps firms address increasingly sophisticated client needs while maintaining operational efficiency and creating greater capacity for growth.
AdvizorPro
AdvizorPro, a leading wealth management and financial advisor intelligence platform for smarter prospecting, today announced new private placement data for sponsors and issuers raising capital through private offerings. These include REITs, DSTs and 1031 exchanges, opportunity zones, private equity, private credit, and oil and gas. The data shows which broker-dealers and representatives are actively placing offerings in each category, so sponsors know who to approach. Until now, reaching these professionals took years of relationship building, cold outreach and time on the conference circuit, and even then the results were uneven.
Placement activity is disclosed in Form D filings, but the filings are scattered and inconsistent, and they don’t include the contact information needed to reach the right representative. AdvizorPro has solved this. Its data engine collects Form D and Form D/A filings, registrations, firm disclosures and public records. It then structures, cleans and maps that data to the advisor and firm profiles already in the AdvizorPro platform, using a combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and a dedicated data team.
The result is a working view of who is raising money for offerings like a sponsor’s own. A live feed of filing amendments shows which firms just reported new sales. Each offering links to the specific reps who placed it. A co-placement network shows which broker-dealers regularly distribute the same deals together. Each firm’s full offering track record is available in one view.
Allocate
Evergreen Gavekal, an independent registered investment advisor managing $7.5 billion for high-net-worth individuals, families, and endowments, is scaling its private markets program through a growing relationship with Allocate, the private markets operating system for wealth advisory firms and fund managers.
What began as a technology relationship for Evergreen’s private market offerings now spans the full lifecycle of the firm’s private markets business, from sourcing new investment opportunities to launching vehicles for its clients.
Founded as an investment advisory firm in 1983, Evergreen Gavekal has evolved into a comprehensive wealth management platform offering financial planning, trust services, tax advisory, and family office solutions alongside traditional investment management. Remaining committed to evolving alongside client needs, Evergreen made private markets a strategic priority and a natural extension of its broader wealth management offerings. Evergreen chose Allocate as a partner to solve operational complexity across investor onboarding, reporting, capital call management, and fund administration, pairing private market access with the technology and operational infrastructure required to manage those investments at scale.
Apex Fintech Solutions
Apex Fintech Solutions Inc. (“Apex”), the infrastructure powering modern investing, and Range Finance, a financial platform built for high-income households, today announced a strategic alliance to power Range’s next phase of growth. Through this collaboration, Range will leverage Apex’s cloud-native AscendOS™ platform to deliver an enhanced wealth management experience for its members, including self-directed account openings and transfers, while laying the foundation to expand into broker-dealer services.
Range Finance serves U.S. households seeking to streamline and optimize their finances across investing, tax strategy, retirement planning, cash flow analysis, real estate management, and more. By collaborating with Apex, Range gains access to real-time digital infrastructure, sophisticated portfolio management tools, and the operational capabilities needed to scale.
The alliance equips Range with Apex’s AscendOS infrastructure, providing real-time account opening, digital funding, and seamless portfolio management. Range will also utilize Apex Rebalancer, enabling sophisticated investment strategies including direct indexing, custom indexing, and tax loss harvesting capabilities, all managed at scale.
Arch
Arch, the infrastructure layer for private markets, today announced Arch Investment Research (“Investment Research”), extending its platform into pre-investment due diligence for investment teams at registered investment advisors (RIAs), single-family offices, and institutional investors.
Until now, Arch’s platform has focused on the post-commitment process by automating document collection, data extraction, capital call workflows, and portfolio insight generation across private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, real estate, and other private investments. Investment Research gives Arch customers the ability to analyze investment opportunities against their own investment criteria, adding additional structure and automation to diligence processes.
The tool extracts terms from offering materials and surfaces information to review, with extracted terms fully auditable to source documents. The underlying diligence materials follow the investment post close, delivering ongoing visibility to the terms and investment thesis throughout the investment’s lifespan.
Ascensus
Ascensus, the engine at the center of America’s savings ecosystem, today announced the launch of its workplace-to-wealth platform, a new offering designed to help connect retirement savers with professional financial advisors during some of life’s most important financial moments, including job changes, retirement, and other major transitions.
Serving more than 16 million savers, Ascensus is uniquely positioned to help address one of the retirement industry’s most persistent challenges: helping individuals access professional financial advice alongside their workplace savings and as their financial needs evolve. According to Cerulli U.S. Retirement End-Investor 2025, 63% of active 401(k) participants do not have access to a financial advisor. Through its advisor-first model, Ascensus helps create connections between savers and trusted financial professionals without competing for those relationships.
Ascensus’ new platform combines participant connectivity, advisor engagement capabilities, referral workflows, and insights designed to connect savers with their plan advisors throughout their financial journeys, particularly at key financial transitions. The offering is intended to create a more connected experience across workplace savings and personal wealth management while preserving the trusted relationships between savers, advisors, employers, and financial institutions, and doing so consistent with data privacy requirements and best practices. Ascensus is also enhancing the participant digital experience to deliver more personalized support, AI-powered assistance, and connected experiences that help savers make informed decisions and connect with the advisor serving their plan when they need guidance.
Axxcess Wealth Management
Axxcess Wealth Management, the SEC-registered investment advisor and TAMP behind the Axxcess Platform, today expanded its Orion insourcing services and introduced two diagnostic tools on axxcessplatform.com. The tools are built for firms on Orion Advisor Technology and for advisors considering independence.
The Orion Utilization Benchmark is a six-minute, 24-question assessment. It scores how firms use Orion across eight areas, from billing and trading to alternatives and vendor spend. Axxcess specialists then lead a 30-minute optimization session focused on each firm’s three weakest areas.
Orion insourcing replaces the usual vendor model. Axxcess doesn’t add another layer of technology, systems and processes. Instead, it works inside the firm’s existing Orion database, under the firm’s brand. A team that includes several former Orion senior support personnel runs sleeve-level billing, Eclipse trading, reporting, reconciliation and compliance day to day. TAMP capabilities are delivered the same way. That includes UMA/UMH with more than 400 SMA strategies and the full alternatives subscription lifecycle, from digital subscription documents through capital calls and K-1s.
Bruce Markets
Bruce Markets LLC, an SEC-registered broker-dealer and operator of Bruce ATS™, today announced a landmark agreement to extend U.S. equity trading throughout the weekend, subject to regulatory review. The initiative is designed to bring continuous 24/7 stock trading to global investors.
To power this expansion, Bruce Markets will leverage new strategic investments from PEAK6 Investments, the majority shareholder, and Robinhood Markets. Apex Fintech Solutions, Fidelity Investments, Nasdaq Ventures, NH Investment & Securities, tastytrade and Webull remain investors.
Bruce Markets will expand its use of Nasdaq’s trading technology, while clearing, carrying, and custody services will be provided by Apex Clearing Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Apex Fintech Solutions, Inc.
CD Valet
CD Valet, the digital marketplace known for helping investors compare and choose certificates of deposit (CDs), today announced the launch of its Financial Advisor Marketplace, a new platform designed to connect registered investment advisors (RIAs) with investors who are actively evaluating how to save, invest, and plan for their financial futures.
The launch comes at a pivotal moment for advisory firms. Organic growth rates across the RIA industry have been slowing in recent years, and competition for qualified leads has been intensifying. At the same time, two of the primary channels advisors have historically relied on for new client acquisition are shifting in ways that raise costs and reduce access.
Against this backdrop, CD Valet’s Financial Advisor Marketplace is designed to give advisors an independent, objective alternative, one built to help firms re-ignite organic growth without ceding a percentage of client relationships in perpetuity or being priced out by rising custodial minimums.
Community Capital Technology
NewEdge Capital Group, LLC (“NewEdge”), today announced a partnership between NewEdge Wealth, its registered investment adviser specializing in serving ultra-high net worth families, family offices, and institutional clients, and Community Capital Technology Inc. (“Community Capital”) to provide its advisors with access to a digital loan marketplace, enabling them to offer NewEdge Wealth clients with a broader range of financing solutions.
The solution leverages Community Capital’s proprietary platform, nationwide lender network and capital markets team, enabling NewEdge Wealth advisors to connect clients with a broad range of financing options efficiently. From a family-owned business seeking working capital to fuel growth, to a commercial real estate investor financing new projects, to an individual acquiring a private aircraft, the platform supports a wide spectrum of financing needs across asset classes and client profiles. By streamlining access to lending solutions, the platform is designed to provide borrowers with an efficient and transparent financing experience.
The loan marketplace established by this partnership enables advisors at NewEdge Wealth to source loan origination opportunities directly through CCT’s network of banks, credit unions, and other financial institutions, further expanding access to capital and complementing NewEdge’s existing institutional relationships.
Conquest
Conquest, a global fintech company delivering a verifiable AI financial advice engine for continuous advice at scale, today announced it has achieved ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification, the international standard for AI management systems. The certification provides independent validation of the governance practices behind Conquest’s approach to AI as financial institutions look to expand its use without sacrificing rigor or human judgment.
ISO/IEC 42001 sets requirements for how organizations establish, maintain and continually improve systems for managing AI, including risk management, transparency, data governance, accountability and human oversight.
As AI becomes more deeply embedded in financial services, institutions need clear controls for how the technology is developed, deployed and monitored. This is especially important in financial advice, where firms need auditable processes for understanding how technology contributes to the guidance investors receive while remaining in compliance. Conquest has long focused its approach to building and deploying AI on verifiability and auditability, giving advisors and financial institutions the ability to understand and explain the reasoning behind financial recommendations rather than rely on black-box outputs.
DeepVest
DeepVest, the agentic front office for financial advisors, today announced the launch of the DeepVest Day One Program, to provide discounted platform access to early-stage registered investment advisors (RIAs). Offered to firms within their first two years of operations with three or fewer total advisors, the program grants full access to DeepVest’s hallucination-free AI investment platform for only $100 a month per advisor for the first 12 months.
The Day One Program comes as AI-driven workplace reductions and a broader push toward leaner operating models are reshaping the financial services workforce. DeepVest is aiming to support wealth management professionals considering starting firms of their own by easing the burden of investing separately in research, proposal, monitoring and compliance tools before revenue has had time to scale. Choosing the appropriate tech-enabled tools to run a wealth management firm is critical for managing the complete business cycle, and the Day One program gives early-stage RIAs access to sophisticated investment and operational capabilities of larger firms without requiring the same technology budget or resources.
RIAs enrolled in the Day One Program will gain access to the full DeepVest workspace across four connected Labs: AdvisorLab, which turns prospect account statements into portfolio diagnostics and client-ready proposals; DataLab, an AI-native investment research terminal spanning equities, ETFs, crypto, foreign exchange, commodities, rates and macroeconomic data; AgentLab, which provides AI-powered portfolio analysis, optimization, scenario modeling, stress testing and rebalancing; and the recently released MonitorLab, a comprehensive market monitoring and alerts platform layer helping advisors, wealth managers and investors stay aware of and react to market-moving developments.
Eaglebrook
Eaglebrook, a digital asset investment platform for wealth management firms, today announced the launch of the wealth management industry’s first direct indexing capabilities for digital assets. Upon launch, clients can access the S&P Cryptocurrency Top 10 Equal Weight Index through Eaglebrook’s separately managed account (SMA) infrastructure.
The S&P Cryptocurrency Top 10 Equal Weight Index seeks to track the performance of the ten largest eligible cryptocurrencies by market capitalization within the S&P Cryptocurrency Broad Digital Market Index, with each constituent equally weighted.
Eaglebrook’s platform expansion enables financial advisors to implement institutional-grade digital asset indices directly within individual client accounts. The capability combines diversified rules-based portfolio construction with direct asset ownership and automated tax management.
Edward Jones
Edward Jones today announced a significant expansion in the firm’s workplace business with the development of an innovative, AI-powered, end-to-end retirement plan management tool in collaboration with Aboon and Retirement Plan Advisory Group, LLC (RPAG®) – part of Great Gray Group, LLC.
The expansion aims to enable financial advisors to best serve business owners and their employees with workplace retirement plans and strengthens the firm’s ability to serve clients across every stage of their financial journeys.
To better enable financial advisors to serve business owners with workplace retirement plans, Edward Jones is collaborating with Aboon and RPAG to develop a workplace retirement plan management solution.
eMoney Advisor
eMoney Advisor (eMoney), a leading provider of technology solutions and services that help people talk about money, today announced the launch of Financial Assessment, a new digital experience designed to help advisors engage prospects and plan participants earlier in their financial journey while creating new opportunities to expand their business.
The self-guided, one-page assessment provides prospects with a personalized summary of their financial picture across key planning areas such as spending, education and retirement. In just a few minutes, prospects gain meaningful insights into where they stand today and where potential gaps or opportunities may exist. For advisors, the assessment serves as a powerful conversation starter, helping transform introductory meetings into more meaningful and productive discussions. Rather than requiring the time and effort of building a comprehensive financial plan upfront, advisors can quickly identify a prospect’s priorities, concerns, and unmet planning needs. This creates a low-friction way to demonstrate value early in the relationship, deepen engagement and uncover opportunities for ongoing advice, ultimately helping advisors convert more prospects into clients while supporting sustainable business growth.
Financial Assessment is available today to all Premium Client Portal users. Advisors simply send an invite, and recipients receive an email prompting them to create an account and access the interactive assessment, which can be branded to the advisor’s firm. When prospects are ready to take the next step, their information remains within the eMoney platform, creating a connected experience that helps advisors engage, convert and serve clients more effectively throughout the financial planning journey.
The Financial Planning Association
The Financial Planning Association® (FPA®), the leading membership organization and trade association for CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® professionals, today announced the launch of the rebuilt FPA PlannerSearch®, a platform designed to modernize how consumers find and connect with financial planners.
Rather than relying primarily on location and asset level, PlannerSearch® connects consumers with CFP® professional members of FPA based on their financial goals, life events, preferences, and decision-making styles. The launch comes as consumers increasingly turn to search engines and generative AI with highly specific financial needs, creating greater demand for tools that help them find human financial planners whose expertise and approach fit their individual circumstances.
Developed in partnership with marketing technology leader Snappy Kraken and financial software developer The Smyth Group, the rebuilt PlannerSearch® drew on extensive research, including focus groups and individual interviews with financial planners, consumer-behavior research, prototype development, and testing. FPA members can add Snappy Kraken lead nurturing to their profiles for a fee, helping them quickly engage consumers who inquire through the platform. Snappy Kraken serves more than 200 enterprises, 4,000 firms and 7,000 advisors, representing over $1 trillion in combined assets under administration (AUA).
Foundation Source
Foundation Source, the leading provider of philanthropic solutions for donors, nonprofits, institutions, and the wealth advisors who serve them, today announced the appointments of Manu Sood as Chief Technology Officer and Hetal Patel as Head of Product, as part of the company’s continued investment in technology, AI and product innovation to support the growth of its PhilTech platform.
Foundation Source has significantly expanded its offering across private foundations, donor-advised funds and planned giving. The appointments of Ms. Sood and Ms. Patel represent the latest investment in the technology, talent and capabilities supporting that growth, including an increased focus on AI and the addition of a dedicated Head of Product role.
Ms. Sood brings 26 years of technology leadership experience across fintech, digital banking, and enterprise technology. Most recently, she served as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at AvidXchange, where she led enterprise technology operations and AI transformation for the B2B payments platform. Previously, she held technology leadership roles at Varo Bank, Western Governors University and Rio Tinto, leading large-scale modernization, cloud transformation and digital platform initiatives.
iCapital
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, and iCapital1, the global fintech company shaping the future of investing, today announced a strategic collaboration to advance the infrastructure supporting private markets.
By bringing together DTCC’s market infrastructure, processing capabilities, and network with iCapital’s technology platform and investment workflows, the firms aim to connect data, operations, and market participants across the private investment lifecycle. The collaboration is intended to reduce operational friction and help wealth advisors and asset managers participate in private markets more efficiently, at greater scale and with less risk. In support of this initiative, DTCC has also made a strategic investment in iCapital.
As investor portfolios increasingly include both public and private investments, DTCC and iCapital aim to advance scalable industry solutions that streamline operations, enhance data quality, and create a more seamless experience for firms and investors. The collaboration is designed to support more connected and automated workflows across the private investment lifecycle. For wealth advisors, this can simplify how alternative investments are accessed and managed within client portfolios. For asset managers, it can provide more efficient and standardized infrastructure for reaching and supporting the wealth market.
Income Lab
XYPN, the leading business support platform for fee-only financial planners, today announced a new partnership with Income Lab, a leading financial planning platform known for its innovative retirement income planning capabilities and expanding suite of comprehensive planning tools. The partnership makes Income Lab available as a member benefit for XYPN members, delivering access to one of the industry’s most highly rated planning solutions and addressing one of the Network’s most requested member benefits.
The addition of Income Lab reflects direct advisor demand. The platform has ranked among XYPN’s five most-requested member benefits for three consecutive years and reached the top position in 2026. More than 300 XYPN members already use Income Lab, while advisor satisfaction with the platform continues to rank among the highest in the industry.
Income Lab helps advisors address a wide range of planning challenges, including retirement income projections, tax-aware withdrawal strategies, Roth conversion planning, Social Security optimization, Medicare and IRMAA planning, and other complex financial decisions. Its planning methodology focuses on spending power and potential adjustments over time, helping advisors move beyond traditional probability-of-success discussions and toward a more practical framework for guiding client decisions.
Jump
XYPN, the leading business support platform for fee-only financial planners, today announced a new partnership with Jump, the artificial intelligence platform helping advisors and financial professionals automate the entire client meeting lifecycle — from meeting preparation and note-taking to follow-up communications, CRM updates, business intelligence, and account opening.
Through the partnership, XYPN members will receive discounted access to Jump’s Meet, Onboard, and Grow capabilities, providing access to one of the industry’s most sought-after AI-powered advisor productivity solutions.
The partnership reflects growing demand among advisors for compliant technology that helps reduce operational burdens and create more time for client relationships. AI efficiency tools ranked as XYPN’s most-requested partnership category in 2025 and 2026, while Jump was the category’s most requested tool in the Network.
Libretto
Libretto, the ‘total wealth’ advice platform for RIAs and family offices, has launched Libretto Insights, a new educational hub featuring content and resources for financial advisors and wealth managers.
Libretto’s Insights page features educational articles, webinars, podcasts, videos, interviews, news, and other thought leadership content exploring concepts related to Libretto’s differentiated approach to financial planning and investing.
Originally designed to manage ultra-high-net-worth clients, Libretto captures a holistic picture of each client’s lifetime wealth, inclusive of private assets, liabilities, and future inflows. It then connects planning to portfolios and risk management, considering liquid investments as a “completion portfolio” that addresses the client’s unique objectives and risks. In doing so, Libretto empowers advisors to deliver sophisticated solutions for clients of all wealth levels.
MoneyStack
MoneyStack, the financial counseling platform built for behavioral healthcare, today announced it has raised $1,000,000 in new funding led by Cistern Capital, with participation from the American Heart Association’s Social Impact Funds, O’Shaughnessy Ventures, Sidecut Ventures, Gaingels and angel investors. The round brings MoneyStack’s total funding to date to nearly $2 million.
MoneyStack integrates dedicated financial counselors into behavioral healthcare programs to help individuals and families stabilize acute financial distress that can complicate treatment and recovery.
MoneyStack will use the funding to continue building technology purpose-built for financial counseling within behavioral healthcare, including GamFin for gambling addiction. The company will also translate years of hands-on counseling experience and client data into tools that can extend and scale its model such as using financial transaction data to identify early signs of financial harm, allowing counselors and clients to plan ahead rather than respond after a crisis.
OnePay
OnePay, the consumer fintech trusted by millions of Americans to make money better, today announced that teens ages 13-17 can bank through OnePay, giving them a hands-on way to manage money and build a financial foundation while parents maintain visibility and control.
There are roughly 42 million teenagers in the United States.1 Most will reach college without a working understanding of banking, saving, or investing, and without any credit history at all. A first car loan, an apartment application, a first credit card are all harder to get independently, and usually at higher rates, unless a parent co-signs.
With OnePay, teens can begin building credit history, spend, save, invest, earn rewards, receive allowances, and send money to friends and family, giving them access to many of the financial tools they’ll use as adults. Nothing is reported to the credit bureaus while they’re under 18. When teens turn 18, OnePay reports their eligible account history, helping them enter adulthood with an established credit file rather than a blank one. To qualify, they must remain an authorized user on a parent’s OnePay deposit account, complete SSN verification, and not opt out of credit reporting.
OneVest
OneVest today announced a new integration with Schwab Advisor Center, bringing paperless, automated account opening directly into its Workspace wealth operating system. Advisors using OneVest can now initiate Schwab account opening, send a secure digital envelope to an end-client to eApprove, and track approval within minutes – all without ever leaving the OneVest platform. The process can be kicked off with either an automated agentic workflow within Workspace or an intuitive, advisor-guided setup.
The new offering opens up OneVest’s underlying connectivity as a plug and play provider of Schwab’s digital onboarding integration and provides flexible deployment options. The integration delivers automated account opening and status tracking by connecting client and account data from Schwab Advisor Center. The same flow covers individual, joint, trust, custodial, and retirement account types, with no rekeying into Schwab Advisor Center required.
Because the Schwab integration can be initiated by OneVest’s agentic platform, it isn’t just a faster form, it’s a connection point for agentic workflows. Onboarding agents help advisors pre-fill the account information from data already on file, flag missing information before it reaches the client, and route the envelope for approval automatically. OneVest is also modular, so firms can start with Schwab digital onboarding alone and add other solutions, from client management to supervision, as they need them, without a rebuild.
Orion
Today, Orion announced the next phase of its flexible ecosystem, with expanded capabilities for integration providers and a roadmap for future innovation designed to create more ways to securely and reliably connect to data through Orion, build across the ecosystem, and unlock new opportunities with AI. As advisor technology becomes more interconnected, firms increasingly rely on secure access to data across platforms, applications, and AI-enabled tools to power the experiences they deliver to investors.
With the broadest and most open ecosystem in wealth management1, Orion has evolved into one of the industry’s most significant channels for technology providers seeking to reach advisory firms, with more than 500 integration providers connecting to firms through Orion. That scale also gives advisors greater flexibility to choose the technology, data, and workflows that work best for their firm and clients. As AI changes how advisors work, open, secure, and governed access to data matters more than ever: AI tools are only as useful as the data they can securely access. This next phase of Orion’s flexible ecosystem expands provider connectivity while establishing clearer, more consistent standards for how providers connect to and build across Orion.
Together, these capabilities strengthen Orion’s flexible ecosystem, giving technology providers more ways to innovate across Orion while giving advisors greater choice in the technology and tools they use to serve their clients.
Savvy Wealth
Savvy Wealth, the AI-native wealth management platform for independent financial advisors, today announced the launch of Savvy Custodial Platform1, its new custodial offering built for registered investment advisor (RIA) owners and firms working with its new introducing broker-dealer business, Savvy Wealth Management, LLC.
With Savvy Custodial Platform, independent RIAs can onboard clients in as little as 90 seconds and move assets in a few clicks, replacing the paperwork and delay of legacy custodial relationships with a modern, digital, and personalized experience for both advisor and client.
The custodial relationship is where independence hits a ceiling for RIAs. An RIA owner can control the firm, the book, and every investment decision, and still run the practice on custodial systems designed decades ago: paper forms, multi-day account openings, and service queues. Savvy Custodial Platform extends the independence that defines Savvy’s offerings for RIAs down into the custodial infrastructure layer itself to deliver more time saved and greater ease in serving clients.
Securitize
ADI Foundation today announced that Securitize, a global leader in tokenized assets, is integrating with ADI Chain, expanding the network’s institutional tokenization capabilities and creating new infrastructure for regulated financial assets to move onchain.
The integration will connect Securitize’s tokenization infrastructure with ADI Chain, the institutional blockchain infrastructure built to move digital assets, payments and real-world value seamlessly across global markets.
Through the integration, ADI Chain will become part of Securitize’s growing multichain ecosystem, creating a pathway for eligible tokenized financial products issued through Securitize to leverage ADI Chain infrastructure, subject to applicable regulatory, product and jurisdictional requirements.
Singularity Financial Partners
Singularity Financial Partners today launched as The Operating Company for RIAs. The company was founded in February by Michael Roth, Oleg Tishkevich and Jim Zimmerman, whose careers span InvestCloud, Envestnet and Microsoft.
Singularity is not a plugin, not software, not a consultancy and not an aggregator that buys firms and leaves how they run untouched. It takes an ownership position in each firm, through capital, operating work or both, and embeds its own people in the business to improve how it operates, hires, grows and uses technology.
Singularity has completed its first transactions and is operating inside those firms today.
TradingView
Benzinga, a leading provider of real-time financial news and market data, and TradingView, one of the world’s leading charting platforms and social networks for traders and investors, today announced a collaboration to expand access to professional-grade analyst research across TradingView’s global community.
Through this integration, Benzinga’s Analyst Insights product is incorporated into the TradingView platform and news experience, delivering timely, easy-to-digest summaries of sell-side analyst reports directly within the tools millions of traders use every day.
TradingView’s platform provides the ideal environment for these insights to be applied in context, alongside real-time charts, technical indicators, and a highly engaged global community sharing ideas and strategies. The result is a more connected trading experience where data, analysis, and market perspective come together in one place.
Vanilla
Vanilla, the modern estate planning platform built for financial advisors, today announced the launch of Mobile Notary, a new offering powered by Snapdocs, the leading technology platform for notary and signing workflows across regulated industries. Vanilla’s Mobile Notary brings a vetted, background-checked notary directly to advisors’ clients, at a time and location of the client’s choosing. It is available now to all Vanilla clients with a finalized plan, accessible directly from their Vanilla dashboard.
An estate plan only protects a family once it has been properly executed. For many clients, that final step is where momentum slows. Coordinating witnesses and a notary around bank hours or a trip to a retail store can leave a finalized plan unsigned for weeks, and for advisors who have guided a client through the harder conversations about legacy and wealth transfer, that gap represents unfinished work.
Vanilla clients book an appointment directly through a new Snapdocs integration that is accessible from their Vanilla dashboard. Once signed, clients upload the completed documents to their Vanilla dashboard, giving the advisor full visibility. Snapdocs’ network includes more than 140,000 credentialed notaries across all 50 states and more than 70 languages.
Wallace Finance Co.
Wallace Finance Co. today announced the launch of Wallace Understudy, a platform which creates a unique, living “digital twin” of an investment advisor’s practice based on actual firm operations. Wallace Understudy streamlines advisor training, continuity, and succession by capturing and transferring the judgement and methodology that has traditionally only lived in an advisor’s head.
Following the launch of Wallace Finance’s custom indexing and portfolio management “Terminal”, key pilot programs identified substantial friction in transferring advisor judgement and methodology along with a book of business.
Wallace Understudy is a stand-alone platform which operates in a simple, streamlined workflow. Client files are read only on the advisor’s own computer. The Understudy reads from firm systems and never writes to them. Every methodology and rule change is logged. The Understudy belongs to the firm: it can be exported as a signed file and erased at any time.
WealthStream
WealthStream, the Advice Intelligence platform that helps wealth management firms make their best planning judgment available to every advisor, today announced the appointment of Larry Roth to its Strategic Advisory Board.
Roth is Founder and Managing Partner of Ascentix Partners, the leading growth strategy consultancy for wealth management enterprises, wealthtech platforms and private market solutions providers. He previously served as CEO of Advisor Group, now Osaic, and Cetera Financial Group, two of the country’s largest independent wealth management organizations. He also serves as a Senior Advisor to Berkshire Global Advisors.
Roth will advise WealthStream’s leadership team on enterprise strategy, market development and strategic partnerships as the company expands its work with wealth management organizations.
Webull
Webull (NASDAQ: BULL), an online investment platform, today announced an expansion of its Model Context Protocol (MCP) capabilities, enabling eligible Webull users to leverage AI assistants to research markets, analyze their portfolios, and prepare trades through Webull’s cloud-based MCP server without requiring programming knowledge, API credentials, or software installation.
Webull’s Cloud MCP is a fully managed, Webull-hosted server that connects compatible AI assistants to Webull’s market intelligence, account information, and investment tools. With the latest update, authorized users can move from research and portfolio analysis to trade preparation within the same AI conversation, while maintaining control over every transaction. Each trade requires separate customer confirmation before an order can be submitted to the market.
Unlike Webull’s local MCP server, Cloud MCP does not require users to install software, generate API credentials, or manage access keys. Customers can connect their existing Webull account through supported AI platforms, authorize the accounts and capabilities they want to make available, and begin using Webull tools through a conversational interface.
Zocks
Zocks, the privacy-first AI platform for financial services, today announced its new Advisor Intelligence plugin that packages seven Claude skills developed specifically for financial services workflows.
The prebuilt Claude skills reason across all the client information and context Zocks ha captured from past meetings and conversations over time, including goals, concerns, life events, household dynamics, and more. The skills provide instructions for applying that data to specific advisor workflows, including custom analyses and generating client-ready deliverables, packaged together in a single installable plugin.
Once the Zocks Advisor Intelligence plugin is installed, advisors can type a single plain-language prompt in Claude that matches one of the seven skills, such as “what should I do next with this client” or “prep the annual review.” Claude then completes the full sequence of work in minutes.
