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The development and maturation of fintech continues to accelerate, but it was a particularly eventful week in the universe of fintech-related ETFs and funds.

If Robinhood’s “Payment for Order Flow Revenue Model” is responsible for anything, it is for driving innovation and helping bring industry-wide brokerage commissions down to zero so that retail investors can trade commission free.

Public is a stock trading firm that aims to be the "anti-Robinhood" of public markets, has a more social focus and does not sell its investor's order flow.

With the ongoing surge of self-directed online trading expected to further fuel market volatility, wealth management firms and technology entrepreneurs alike are seeking asset management solutions that can supersede or sidestep human emotions and bias to create better outcomes.

After SPACs, or special purpose acquisition companies, became one of the preferred ways to take innovative companies public last year, a flurry of “SPAC-tivity” has taken place in the fintech sector, headlined last week by the acquisition of New York-based MoneyLion, a comprehensive personal finance, advice and investing platform, by Fusion Acquisition Corp.

Here are three of the world's great retailers - selling affordable goods to the public the world over - and yet, retail sales alone is not enough for any of them. All three have now taken major moves into fintech and digital banking.

With news headlines blasting stories about COVID, the new Biden administration, the GameStop/Reddit/Robinhood/Market Democratization drama, Bitcoin/Elon Musk, etc., there is a huge transformation in business architecture going on..

Great transformations are often marked with nouns developing into verbs. Phoning. Texting. Facebooking. Tweeting. And most recently, GameStopping.

For Sander Ressler, Managing Director of Essential Edge Compliance Outsourcing, a compliance supervision consultancy for the wealth management space, the Reddit-fueled surge in GameStop’s share prices towards the end of January was a memorable time for his firm.

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