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The wealthtech segment is saying goodbye to 2021 in style, raising capital, expanding teams, adding assets, and delivering shiny tech offerings for advisors. This year, crypto providers have increasingly made their way onto the landscape, paving the way for advisors to make the leap to digital assets. 

Inflation might be in the air, but that hasn’t stopped American consumers from shopping online and at physical stores this holiday season in a rush to beat the supply chain blues. BNPL has come into its own in 2021.  Mastercard and Visa both have their sights set on digital payments. Credit unions want more control over their crypto holdings. And billionaire tech entrepreneur Jack Dorsey is stirring the pot in the VC community. 

Inflation is not going away (nope) and will get worse. The Fed may not want to raise rates but the market will do it for them. The Fed has lost control.

Greetings Fintech Friends! With Christmas week upon us, we want to express our gratitude for our wonderful clients and readers and wish you all a beautiful holiday season! And in the meantime, we have another great newsletter this week, chock full of original, leading edge content. Read up!

For our latest Fintech Luminaries feature, we'd like you to meet rising fintech star Nick Kim of Vestigo Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that invests in companies within the FinTech industry.

As advisors gear up for 2022, wealthtech firms are busier than ever with hiring talent, M&A, raising capital, launching mobile apps and charitable giving. 

The financial services industry can’t afford to ignore the digital revolution any longer. If advisory firms had any lingering doubt about digital transformation’s importance, the COVID-19 pandemic swept it all away.

A great newsletter this week with a look at NFTs and sports, Bitcoin ETFs and their performance after 2 months and a deep dive into the great intergenerational wealth transfer, plus more. Read (and listen) up!

Inflation is out of control (certainly not transitory) & the Fed is lost. They don't have a clue on what to do, or the guts to do what they need to do. Not a deer in the headlights....a deer in the rear view mirror that's been run over.

The wealth transfer is an existential issue for wealth managers. According to Cerulli, 45 million households will transfer more than $70 trillion over the next two decades.