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Until recently, financial advisors were severely limited in the value they could extract from their software, but new, more flexible technology has the potential to simultaneously catalyze growth, lower operating costs and improve the client experience.

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.

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.

“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.”

Advisors today face huge deficits in knowledge, services and products in the cryptocurrency space when compared to retail financial services firms. John Sarson has recognized this when he founded Sarson Funds and now has a full team working to fill the gap.

Digital Wealth News is pleased to bring you our “Fintech Luminaries” series – featuring thought leaders within the digital wealth ecosystems. For our latest feature, we'd like you to mee Lou Camacho of Stratos Wealth Holdings. The Beachwood, Ohio, wealth management firm aggregator acquires majority and minority stakes in RIAs around the country and leverages best-in-breed tech platforms and solutions to help their portfolio firms operate more efficiently and turbocharge their growth.

Off-the-shelf customer relationship management (CRM) solutions were not built with specific advisor compliance issues in mind. As a result, many of these systems leave stakeholders less prepared for surprise audits than they would like to be.

More advisor firms and institutions are formalizing the study of human behavior with tools like personality tests. The exact language may differ, whether it’s the DISC study categorizing people as types of birds, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, or the Big Five, but the desire to “know thyself” is almost as old as human knowledge itself.

Sheesha Finance, he first decentralized cryptocurrency mutual fund for DeFi investors to easily access a variety of projects without having to spend days, sometimes weeks doing research, and deFIRE, a DeFi platform designed for the Cardano ecosystem, today announced a partnership to deliver valuable crypto solutions to Cardano’s community and users.

Better HoldCo, Inc.(“Better” or the “Company”), one of the fastest-growing digital homeownership platforms in the U.S., and Aurora Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: AURC) (“Aurora”), a special purpose acquisition company, which closed its initial public offering on March 8, 2021, today announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement that will transform Better into a publicly-listed company.