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This is the third time now that retail investors have been on the receiving end of a cryptocurrency exchange or centralized lender going bankrupt. Regulators have dropped the ball, clearly.

By Christopher Hamman What a week! Cryptocurrency prices dipped sharply following troubles at the former second-largest cryptocurrency exchange.  The New York Fed and the banking...

By Christopher Robbins This week in digital wealth, we have several fundraising announcements, partnerships...

Change is in the air. Change is inevitable Change is also under way in the crypto sector. And, it's a good thing. Sounds crazy, doesn't it? I mean blockchain, bitcoin, crypto etc. are all based on decentralized finance (DeFi).

Hello VC Friends! WELL......this was an interesting week. So much going on politically and within...

Seeing a bit of a pullback this week in the megadeals of fintech. In prior editions, we've seen EVERY deal at $200M+. This week, only our largest deal hit that number. However, last week was a rare one indeed in geopolitics.

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 hope you had a great Labor Day week and enjoyed the tail end of the summer season with a few extra days off. But this week we're back at it with a new roundup of the Top 5 VC deals in digital wealth.

Four of the top 5 deals this week come out of foreign markets - Mexico, Sweden, France and Germany. We also have two deals in the blockchain sector - Solana Labs and Ledger. Big numbers again, this week, too. The smallest deal in the Top 5 came in at $180M with the "winner" - Swedish payments firm Klarna - topping out at $639M USD.