The Lead

Most everyone probably knows what the headline is referring to, but just in case, it;s the current market cap of Bitcoin.

We thought it would be interesting to see which stories have had the highest pageviews to date in our scant 3 month history. Interestingly, 3 of the 5 top posts fell under our "Fintech Luminaries" series, which spotlights C-level executives at leading financial technology firms.

Last week we launched a "mini-series" on digital wealth predictions for 2021 from the top fintech minds in...

Each week, we publish the Top 5 Fintech VC Deals of the Week for our readers, but for our year end piece, we thought it would be interesting to take a look at some trends that happened in 2020 instead.

Yesterday (12/28) around 1pm ET, the digital currencies app Voyager Digital went offline and has remained unavailable to customers for trades, etc. through Thursday morning.

Who needs Santa when you have someone like MacKenzie giving away billions (yes billions) of her Amazon fortune? $6 billion this year so far. And, she certainly learned how to distribute efficiently from all her firsthand experience making Amazon the behemoth it is today with ex-hubby Jeff Bezos.

We ALL love predictions, don't we, especially when we look to what the future might look like for the coming year. And given that 2020 has been a PRETTY "interesting" year, there's no shortage of individuals ready to kiss this year good-bye and get back to the business of "normal", not "new normal", for 2021. We've asked a number of our industry friends to comment. In prior years, it's been like pulling teeth to get these responses back on time. Ahhh, the life of an editor! But THIS year - this year - has been a breeze. So much so, that we have to break this feature apart over 2-3 weeks in order to include all the quotes we received.

Back in March, hardly anyone in the wealth management industry had the faintest idea how long most of us would be working remotely. As 2020 draws to a close, with some companies changing their practices to make remote work a more permanent mode of operations, it seems clear that virtual, digitally enabled experiences are here to stay.

That title from a classic rock song from the Clash (Combat Rock album....1981) pretty much says it all during this nationwide epic migration.

MassMutual spent $5M (chump change) to acquire a minority interest in NYDIG AND buy $100M of bitcoin from NYDIG's portfolio