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The best advisors add holistic value to their clients' lives, addressing both their personal and financial well-being. Creating that holistic value is a matter of starting with the right questions: “Why, how, and what.”

This week we're back with a fresh round of new Top 5 VC deals, and the diversity of fintech in these deals continues to excite us.

About a decade ago, many within the industry debated whether advisors fully embracing technology was a do-or-die proposition, with many taking the position that it wasn't. 

Friends, we have a fresh new format for you this week, as we continue to see more stratospheric investment in fintech. That said, in our past two weeks, every Top 5 VC deal has been over $200M, and this week, we saw those numbers drop somewhat. Time will tell if this foretells a future trend of lowering investment numbers in the sector.

An explosion is happening in fintech. The BNPL craze appears to be here to stay. RIAs can no longer ignore client demand for crypto, a crypto trading hamster is outperforming everybody and central bankers are forging ahead with CBDCs.

For our latest Fintech Luminaries feature, we'd like to offer a fresh news take on this series with an interview from an up and coming FUTURE fintech luminary, 8th grader Jessica Albright. Learn how the current generation is already using fintech and how they hope to be involved in the industry in the future.

The buy now pay later niche is becoming a phenomenon after attracting e-commerce giant Amazon, with ripple effects being felt all the way to Japan. The M&A pipeline is growing stronger as the final quarter of the year approaches, and the blockchain is getting greater validation. Let’s dive in. 

Despite the chaos in the world lately, the financial markets continue to turn. Global fintechs are exploring the U.S. markets for multi-billion-dollar public listings, including more potential SPACs. Just because a company looks like a fintech doesn’t mean it is one. Demand for bitcoin and Ethereum is only growing stronger, and crypto payments have made their way to Android. Let’s dive in.

With a combined market cap of $1.8 trillion, the cryptocurrency industry has gotten too big for lawmakers to ignore. But politicians are missing the forest for the trees with their hastily written legislation. Fintech startup Circle is looking to join the ranks as a digital currency bank. Meanwhile, since last week’s Square/Afterpay deal, Buy Now Pay Later startups are looking increasingly attractive. SPACs are still a trend and more. Let’s dive in! 

xactly one year ago (last August) the CEO of MicroStrategy, Michael Saylor, announced that rather than holding excess cash reserves in low (or money losing) treasuries, MicroStrategy would hold Bitcoin. Saylor came to the conclusion that Bitcoin is a true store of value and a much better use of idle cash.