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Earlier this month, the financial advisory & fintech industries gathered in NYC for the annual Wealthies awards highlighting the most innovative companies serving financial advisors & among the winners was Practifi.

Hello Fintech Friends! This week we've added a new Op-Ed section and we have a POWERFUL one today on thwarted fintech innovation from regulators, along with a deeper dive into behavioral finance and a look at J.P. Morgan's jump across the big pond, plus more. READ UP!! Cindy Taylor, Publisher

Financial institutions continue to target fintechs on their radar, but one global investment bank is getting the wrong kind of attention for its upcoming deal. Companies are trying to differentiate themselves in the buy now pay later pool. The deal pipeline is filling with M&A, SPACs and IPOs, and crypto trading is all the rage. 

Actions by the Commission that include slow-walking certain fintech-related qualifications, including its sheer unwillingness to approve a cryptocurrency ETF, are just the tip of the iceberg. The latest threats by the SEC to sue cryptocurrency exchanges and its allusions to banning fintech revenue models altogether should have every American deeply concerned – especially when suggestions of such bans come just weeks following an IPO effective date.

Cybersecurity is a critical function at any wealth management firm, and at a firm as large as Advisor Group, with six subsidiary firms and well over 10,000 financial advisors nationwide, protecting sensitive or confidential data is no small task.

Greetings Fintech Friends! We're back at it this full week with all the news you can use in the digital wealth sector, including recent VC deals, advisor tech happenings and an interview with Sabrina Bailey of the London Stock Exchange plus more. Read up!

It’s no secret the discipline of wealth management has moved toward building relationships, understanding client goals, and the kind of work that generations past might have dismissed as “soft skills.”

Technology that can both scale up a practice and zoom-in to offer client experience enhancements is at a premium, said, Tom Westhoff, vice president of Global Sales at Practifi.

Did you know (I sure didn't) that there are 195 countries in the world? Did you know (I did) that only one so far has made Bitcoin legal tender? That country is El Salvador down in Central America. And sure, as dominoes fall there will be many more following El Salvador's lead.

Wealthtech is on the move with strategic investments, partnerships, hirings and more. Read Advisor Tech Talk for 9/14/21.