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After a robust first quarter in which fintech startups gripped the headlines for unprecedented VC fundraisings, the momentum continues. Last week was no exception — including a multi-billion dollar exit for a Utah-based fintech unicorn. In addition, fintech firms are raising capital at a dizzying pace in emerging markets, while they have also moved into the conversation for one of the hottest niches in crypto — central bank digital currencies (CBDCs.)

For the next feature in this series, we’d like you to meet Lori Hardwick, one of the predominate voices in Fintech today. Her background includes executive roles at Envestnet (Group President), Pershing, a BNY Mellon Company (COO), and Advisor Innovation Labs (Co-Founder). Lori has a consulting business as CEO, WealthTech, for RedRock Strategic Partners and is also on the Strategic Advisory Board for Genstar Capital. She is currently serving on 4 corporate boards in the financial services industry including Cetera Financial Group, Orion, Riskalyze and Vestwell.

Joel Bruckenstein, president of Technology Tools for Today (T3), has launched registration for the T3 Advisor and T3 Enterprise conferences. Formerly run as two separate events at different venues at different times of the year, the post-pandemic plan for 2021 is to run the two events back-to-back beginning Monday September 27 and concluding on Friday, October 1, 2021, in Denton, Texas.

We're back into stratosphere territory, with the top fintech deal of the week topping a jaw-dropping $600M and the second at $300M.

For those of you who haven't gone out to fund-raise to this sector, let me share a little about it with you. You come to an institutional investor with a new strategy - backtested and perhaps even running money currently. They then look at you and ask for a series of greeks on the strategy - deltas, alphas, betas - god knows what else - and then tell you they need you to have a 3 year live track record and at least $200M in AUM before they can continue the discussion.

CogniCor, the leading provider of artificial intelligence-powered digital assistants for the wealth management industry, today announced the launch of three new digital assistant modules to help wealth management firms support their employees and advisors with scalable solutions to their most labor-intensive and time-consuming operational issues and raise the efficiency and productivity of firms’ internal support functions.

We're back again today with another round of top 5 VC deals for the week in the digital wealth sector.

What do we need to know about the transfer of digital assets to make sure they don't get lost in the ether? According to one study only one in four consumers have someone in their life who knows all their usernames and passwords, so are consumers even prepared to pass on these assets?

CogniCor has built an artificial intelligence-driven digital assistant platform that enables wealth management firms to provide their advisors and staff members with guidance for highly manual, often time-consuming tasks.

Andes Wealth Technologies, an innovative wealth technology company, announced today the release of an integrated, comprehensive, and powerful client onboarding and communication platform to help advisors enhance client relationships and better manage their practices.