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Last week we launched a "mini-series" on digital wealth predictions for 2021 from the top fintech minds in...

Each week, we publish the Top 5 Fintech VC Deals of the Week for our readers, but for our year end piece, we thought it would be interesting to take a look at some trends that happened in 2020 instead.

Yesterday (12/28) around 1pm ET, the digital currencies app Voyager Digital went offline and has remained unavailable to customers for trades, etc. through Thursday morning.

Christmas is here and our household is huddled up by the Christmas ficus (yes, that's what we have) waiting excitedly for Santa to come through our loft's patio doors (no chimney in our studio) to deliver goodies! But wait - we don't need Santa this year! We have MacKenzie Scott!

Overall, the results proved that younger people are becoming increasingly aware of the need to secure their financial foundations better...

Who needs Santa when you have someone like MacKenzie giving away billions (yes billions) of her Amazon fortune? $6 billion this year so far. And, she certainly learned how to distribute efficiently from all her firsthand experience making Amazon the behemoth it is today with ex-hubby Jeff Bezos.

Vectorspace AI in partnership with CloudQuant announce the availability of novel datasets that reveal relationships between global equity products. Vectorspace AI datasets are designed to boost precision, accuracy, signal or alpha based on Natural Language Processing and Understanding (NLP/NLU) using the VXV utility token wallet-enabled API.

We ALL love predictions, don't we, especially when we look to what the future might look like for the coming year. And given that 2020 has been a PRETTY "interesting" year, there's no shortage of individuals ready to kiss this year good-bye and get back to the business of "normal", not "new normal", for 2021. We've asked a number of our industry friends to comment. In prior years, it's been like pulling teeth to get these responses back on time. Ahhh, the life of an editor! But THIS year - this year - has been a breeze. So much so, that we have to break this feature apart over 2-3 weeks in order to include all the quotes we received.

LifeRaft, a new insuretech company that makes simple, flexible and cost-effective supplemental health insurance products, came out of stealth mode today and launched its platform to offer people supplemental health options and solutions designed for real life. LifeRaft is building products that sit alongside a subscriber’s traditional health plan to help policy holders see the doctors they need, access the most appropriate treatments and make medical care more affordable.

The year is finishing out strong. Now there's a statement you don't often hear when referring to 2020, but the fintech venture capital is still flowing and there were some large deals penned this past week. Three of the top 5 were out of the US, with Paxos - a major crypto trading platform taking the top funding slot, followed closely by OscarHealth, an insurtech focused on health insurance offerings.