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By Christopher Hamman Last week, the cryptocurrency space continued to spin from multiple institutional failures.  The Senate Committee on Agriculture will hold a hearing...

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By Christopher Robbins This week in digital wealth, we have numerous announcements of new...

This week, our top deal came in at $775M for an Israeli-based B2B credit platform. B2B credit seems to be a growing category for fintech venture investment.

This week, there were several impactful news items in the digital assets space—none qualify as the most groundbreaking news of the year, but all speak to the growing acceptance of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology as central to the future of finance and fintech.

Russia & Ukraine market impact updates, and Ukraine asks exchanges to bar and sabotage Russian user accounts on the heels of officially legalizing the trade of crypto in the country this week.

With the holidays, we took a week off from this column, but we're back at the end of the year and HOLY CANNOLI - have we got some big deals to include - including a $1B Equity transaction. Just goes to show that you can't be asleep at the wheel if you're covering the fintech sector - it doesn't sleep - and the money keeps flowing in ever larger transactional amounts.

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. 

We've given up acting surprised when every deal each week continues to be over $100M in VC funding, and this week is no different. What I loved seeing is that the US was back in the driver's seat for the top deals internationally in financial technology.

Blockchain is all the rage these days, as evidenced by corporate America’s desire to pile in. Serena Williams backs a startup that gives the renters of the world a fighting chance. The Amazon.com and Netflix of the online mortgage lending industry made its listing debut, while Serena Williams scored on behalf of a segment of the population that is underserved in financial services. Let’s dive in.