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M&A is afoot in the wealth management space as firms hire more talent and ink strategic deals to strengthen their offerings to advisors.  

While it’s no secret that inflation has reared its head in the economy, one tech billionaire now warns that hyperinflation could be on the horizon. A legacy asset management firm that dates back to 1939 has collaborated with one of the cryptocurrency industry’s most innovative wealth management platforms. Corporate America is making it easier for consumers to buy bitcoin and use it for payments. Facebook as the world knows it might be a thing of the past. 

The fintech industry has attained royal status. A bitcoin ETF is finally seeing the light of day, and crypto prices have been rallying. Legacy banks are feeling the heat from fintech, and more.  

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.

Friends, this week's top 5 VC deals in digital wealth does not disappoint. We traverse the world for the biggest deals, and jump into NFTs, decentralized social media and more. And wait until you see the numbers. We blew right past $100M as minimums and now we're even higher.

Advisors don’t just need help with crypto education, they need to understand what is most important to learn, where they can learn it and how to parse that information to clients.

Not to sound like a broken record, but we often do. But I believe this week's internatoinal VC deals in the fintech sector may have hit an all-time high, inasmuch as the smallest deal was $200M USD, and we by-passed numerous deals in excess of $100M for this week's list.

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.

Greetings Fintech Friends! We're back at it this full week with all the news you can use in the digital wealth sector, including recent VC deals, advisor tech happenings and an interview with Sabrina Bailey of the London Stock Exchange plus more. Read up!