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Riskalyze has launched a brand-new financial technology innovation designed to facilitate the ease of integrating the vast landscape of financial technology available to financial advisors.

Over the past decade, fintech has been shaped to a fair extent by two dueling forces: On the one hand, are those who believe the future is in the hands of DIY investors, empowered by advancements in robo-advice (think Betterment), online self-directed trading (think Robinhood), as well as consumer-facing financial planning tools like Personal Capital or Quicken.

Fintech has a metaphorical chocolate and peanut butter. The chocolate would be decentralized finance, fintech applications that put the power of banking, lending and investing directly into the user’s hands, with less reliance on financial intermediaries, or no reliance on them at all.

aymynt Financial Group, a Boston-based fintech company, announces the MYNT PayCard, a multicurrency hardware wallet. Using advanced microchip technology, the MYNT PayCard is a reloadable smart card that allows users to store and spend multiple cryptocurrencies.

In what is surely a MOST uncanny coincidence, two major fintech SPAC deals were recently announced at $5 Billion dollar valuations First, what are the odds, and second, HOLY CANNOLI, that's a lot of money.

For the next feature in this series, we’d like you to meet Jahon Jamali of Sarson Funds, an independent provider of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency marketing and educational services focusing on the financial professional community and their clients.

Insurance and crypto. Those categories were the two big winners this past week in fintech-focused venture capital with deals ranging from $80M-$100M.

JP Morgan Chase has tested blockchain payments between orbiting satellites (yes, in space) to demonstrate how digital devices might use technology behind virtual currencies for transactions. In other words, telling your creditors you were abducted by Martians and couldn't pay your bills ain't gonna fly.

What's new? Actually, not too much. BTC & ETH are just about unchanged from last week's Taylor Report prices. BITCOIN hit upper $50K area, sold off to lower $40K area and here we are taking a breather.

We saw three deals close this past week in excess of $100M - two in the US and one in a new market for us - South Africa.