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John Sarson first started thinking about bitcoin as an investment opportunity in 2015. At the time, he was managing his own RIA firm focused on ETFs and low-cost trend-following investments.

Greetings, Fintech Friends! This week we review the current (and lingering) demise of gold, learn about the Tezos blockchain and what it means for the future of DeFi and chat with wealthtech CEO Helen Yang of Andes Wealth Technologies plus more!

The Casper Network’s mission is to create a collaborative blockchain that supports a robust community of smart contract and decentralized application creators. CasperLabs aims to be a leading solution to the blockchain trilemma, a three-factor functionality problem in achieving a scalable, decentralized, and secure blockchain.

Fintechs continue to grab the spotlight on a global stage as venture capital chases startups and the pipeline continues to grow for more mature companies to list in the public markets, mostly through SPACs. The pace of deals does not appear to be slowing down as fintech billionaires are minted overseas while Asia and Latin America seek to raise their profile for tech innovation. The Robinhood of Pakistan’s investment app is one of two fintech related rounds just announced. And millennials are fueling a transformation in banks to a more digitized business model. Let’s dive in.

Friends, today we have a highly entertaining post comparing the current players in bitcoin to the WWF(!), we delve into more sector VC deals with one topping out this week at $900M and queue up a new podcast for you covering the SPAC sector. Read up!

Advisortech-focused firms have been busy in the last week raising capital, being crowned as unicorns and fueling consolidation in the space. Here is a roundup of the latest developments.

Friends, today we have a new podcast with guest Eric Satz of AltoIRA, fresh off a capital raise with some big players and here to discuss SDIRAs, we delve into the brilliant technology used to crack the Colonial pipeline hack and hear about the latest news and VC deals in the digital wealth sector here. Read up!

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For financial advisory firms to get their technology up-to-date at an institutional level will require some form of data Rosetta stone. That’s where Practifi, a Sydney-based Australian fintech making inroads among U.S. wealth managers, can help, said Adrian Johnstone, the firm’s chief commercial officer.

The 10th Annual Smarsh Risk & Compliance Survey, which encompasses 450,000 professionals supporting more than $1.3 trillion in assets under management, emphasizes that the widespread and rapid shift to remote work models in response to the pandemic is unlikely to be fully reversed, with many wealth management firms likely to embrace large populations of remote employees going forward.