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Imagine creating a valuable product, which is then taken from you & monetized without your consent. This happens to Americans every day, said Robert Grant, Chmn and CEO of Crown Sterling Ltd.

CHINA.....Evergrande.....fear of contagion.....enough "new for you?".....looks like China is undergoing a total new direction.....socialism is the new "in"......good/bad?......in the meantime, selling everything is in vogue.

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 advisors are doing deals, strengthening their technology offerings and battening down the cybersecurity hatches. 

The deal size is back thru the roof in this week's current edition. We saw a slight drop off last week, but apparently that was an anomaly due to Rosh Hashanah and the Labor Day weekend before that. This week, the deals are back in scale, and more over the $100M total than we can post here.

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.