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It was a week before Christmas, and all the land...... the capital was flowing, for payments and...... crypto and proptech and international financial indeces

The SEC has had the Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial Technology, or FinHub, around for a few years but it was just announced that FinHub will now become a stand alone office

Welcome to our latest edition of Digital Wealth News! New headshot today - more confident, more wise, more fintech-focused then ever before. Now let's hit it! Here's my take on this weeks news!

Blockchange Inc. and IRA Financial are partnering to enable IRA funds & select 401(k) plans to be invested in cryptocurrencies and digital assets, under the management of a financial advisor. The arrangement allows investors to leverage the tax-advantaged status of their IRA or 401(k) funds as they diversify into a range of cryptocurrencies.

This week we saw YET ANOTHER British challenger bank receive funding this past week (gosh, there's a LOT of challenger banks out there now), plus an interesting new teen-based (you guessed it!) challenger bank out of SF. Also in this week's batch were an ATL-based payments app for e-commerce companies, an API platform for retail banking out of Chicago, and a credit card bill payment app out of India.

Everything changed in 2020—most businesses weren't prepared for the unexpected shift in the economy...

S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) and IHS Markit (NYSE: INFO) today announced they have entered into a definitive merger agreement to combine in an all-stock transaction which values IHS Markit at an enterprise value of $44 billion, including $4.8 billion of net debt.

Now - there are digital banks for teenagers (Step comes to mind and we just reported on them recently). There are platforms that enable you to gift your teen with fractional shares of stocks, like Stockpile and GiveAShare. All well and good - we love seeing platforms come out that help our young'ns become financially savvy and begin building portfolios.

THE TIFIN GROUP today announced that its portfolio company, 55ip, a financial technology company with proprietary capabilities empowering financial advisors to deliver tax-smart investment strategies at scale, has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by J.P. Morgan Asset Management.

AlphaTrAI is adding the founder of a prominent wealth management M&A firm and a leading tech venture capitalist to its advisory council, while also making a former president of LPL Financial the council’s chairman, the firm said today in a press release.