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The deal pipeline is filling in the fintech space, chief of which includes Visa flexing its muscle in Europe’s open banking industry. Kids are gaining access to financial apps sooner than later, thanks to one UK-based challenger bank. In addition, a couple of German fintech startups are looking to gain a foothold in the US market while the IPO pipeline keeps growing. Andreessen Horowitz has made a key hire and is doubling down on crypto despite a murky regulatory environment.

What's new? CHINA......first its Elon Musk and then here comes China.........China stomps its big foot and basically shuts down BITCOIN mining in China causing BITCOIN to plunge (down 25% week on week).........Panic hits the crypto market, BITCOIN trades under $30K.........ETH drops under $2,000 (off 30%+ week on week)

Greetings from Digital Wealth News™! Friends, another week of big news on the digital wealth front with a look at how tokenization is revolutionizing traditional financial markets, more top VC deals coming from offshore and a deep dive into the current state of China's central bank. Read up!

It’s important advisors learn to give advice and even comfort in a way that is consistent with research around “stickiness.” What follows is a four-part process, developed at the Orion Center for Outcomes, around giving clients advice in a way that influences behavior change.

Bitcoin has become a real threat to global central banks' monetary control. After years of warily watching and trying a variety of threats and initiatives to discredit Bitcoin, the gloves are coming off. Panic at the highest level.

Most advisory firms want to scale, but not all of them can. One of the biggest obstacles to scaling is not having the right technology in place, said Adrian Johnstone, Chief Commercial Officer at Practifi, a business management platform for financial services firms.

“Tokenization, an innovation built on blockchain technology, is making its way from cryptocurrencies to real assets,” said John Sarson, CEO and co-founder of Sarson Funds, a provider of digital asset management and cryptocurrency education resources for financial advisors. “The impact could be revolutionary.”

The escalating war against cyber criminals on the global stage may be capturing the majority of headlines, but it mirrors an increased level of urgency that wealth management firms are taking with their own cybersecurity measures.

North of the US-Canada border, the temperatures might be cooler, but not when it comes to demand for fintech wealth management venture deals.

Digital Wealth News™, a multi-tiered media platform covering the maturing fintech revolution, is pleased to announce that it will be airing a live broadcast of this year’s Global DeFi Summit, being held on June 24, 2021, beginning at 11am ET.