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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.  

This week will be the two month "birthday" of the launch of a Bitcoin ETF. Well, actually on the 18th to be precise (the Pro Shares Bitcoin ETF launched October 18th). And, actually, the ETF holds only futures not actual spot Bitcoin. AND, actually actually, it's not going well. To be fair, it has not been a good two months for the actual "physical" spot Bitcoin either. But a futures based ETF will always underperform a product that directly holds physical assets. Thank you, SEC.

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!

When the market goes haywire or a client’s financial life is jolted by an unanticipated surprise, how do you help them stick to their plans? Their long-term goals might seem very far away during a difficult moment.

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

Capitalizing on the surging demand among high net worth investors for access to more sophisticated cryptocurrency asset management solutions, 3iQ Digital Assets, the U.S. subsidiary of Canada’s largest digital asset manager, launched a new digital asset separately managed account (SMA) and model portfolio solution, called Q-MAP.

The Thanksgiving holiday may be over, but there is a feast happening in the advisor tech space. Financial advisors have access to a new crypto index for retail investors. Retirements are up and so are client incomes. AI is powering more wealth management support functions. And firms are making acquisitions right up to the end of the year.  

 If it seems like fintechs have been especially active in the SPAC market this year, it’s not your imagination. Fintechs have participated in more than three-dozen blank check deals year-to-date, according to the FT Partners Q3 fintech report.

We're back this week with an action-packed roster of content for you including a deeper look at El Salvador's much touted Bitcoin City, a new Fintech Luminaries interview with Chad Parks of Ubiquity Retirement + Savings and yet another stratospheric $500M+ VC deal in fintech.  Read up! | Cindy Taylor, Publisher