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Popcorn is a new paradigm for decentralized finance (DeFi) where yield-generating products simultaneously fund social impact beneficiaries at no additional cost to the user.

The impact of disrupted lives and lost income from COVID-19 will be with us for years to come, and the people who need the most help are often in no position to hire an advisor.

The global wealth management industry faces mounting pressures as client demographics shift, market competition increases and churn becomes more commonplace. In the coming years, younger generations will inherit most of the world’s wealth.

Clearly, from looking at the number of huge deals that have gone down the past week, VCs are looking to deploy capital before end of year. This week, we had to leave several deals off our Top 5 list that exceeded $200M.

BNPL companies are in the spotlight, but not for the reasons they would want. Wall Street analysts have fintech stocks in their sights, while one China-based tech giant is looking to gaming to take some of the regulatory heat off in Beijing. Fintech M&A is alive and well, while an emerging fintech-focused VC firm with its roots in a major crypto exchange has entered the fray.

With inflation hovering at a 40-year high, BNPL is being looked to as the hero among consumers. One Brazilian digital bank fintech’s IPO was a hit on Wall Street. The CEO of Better.com could not have picked a worse way or time to announce layoffs. Meanwhile, Elon Musk is eyeing greener pastures.  

ed AI-enabled digital assistant platform provider for the wealth management and insurance industries, CogniCor, recently launched a first of its kind “knowledge graph” for the wealth management industry to support its range of digital assistants. This new product gives AI-enabled digital assistants context and background information to support RIAs and IBDs, enabling the assistants to learn quickly and integrate seamlessly into firms’ operations, according to the company’s release.

With the holiday season upon us, you'd think things would be slowing down but that's not the case in the fintech world.  More mega VC deals have just closed, the Fed is up to who knows what this season, and we just interviewed Congressman Tom Emmer in our podcast series about the future of crypto.  Read (and listen) up!

Nothing is too big to fail. Not businesses, not people, empires or even countries. Sometimes it's a slow "death," sometimes its quick and messy and sometimes its a combination of those two.

Blockchain technology is forcing entrepreneurship to evolve. But tokenization allows founders like Michael Kisselgof of Popcorn to take things even farther.