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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 meet April Rudin of The Rudin Group.

Without a doubt, the internet has made the world a better place. By distributing near-instant access to information across the globe, virtually all industries have become more efficient.

Gideon Strategic Partners, a wealth management and financial planning firm that oversees over $500 million in assets and provides concierge-style services to high-net worth individuals and businesses, today announced that its financial advisors have affiliated with The Leaders Group, a leading national, independent broker-dealer located in Littleton, Colo. The transition is effective immediately.

What a difference a week can make! The SPAC deal pipeline continues to fill, while Wise tested the mettle of the LSE in a post-Brexit world and the Nasdaq provided a Shanghai surprise. One major Wall Street firm made a bullish call on a fintech consumer lending platform. Google is on the fintech prowl in Japan while the banks look on, plus traditional lenders are upping the ante to compete with their tech-savvy rivals.

The various intersecting regulatory regimes across the U.S. have often been regarded as an area of scrutiny for the financial industry, if not a nearly insurmountable burden to conducting business as efficiently and profitably as possible.

As I reviewed our columns going back to the first of the year, it was abundantly evident that the deal sizes have ratcheted up as the year has progressed. I'll also admit, it felt weird to leave out deals in the $500M - $600M range. But those did not make the list, incredibly.

For our latest Fintech Luminaries feature, we'd like you to meet Eugene Kim of MNFT, a NFT marketplace solution for creators, brands and agencies that allows them to create and operate their own NFT exchange.

Would you wait 10 minutes to make an in-store purchase? Probably not. However a typical bitcoin transaction can take between 10 and 20 minutes. All that may be set to change soon. Bitcoin Latinum (LTNM), a new Bitcoin fork, is gearing up to launch in Q3 2021, closing several gaps in the current Bitcoin blockchain.

This week, 3 of the top 5 deals were international - out of South Korea, Holland and China; The Chinese deal received funding from a Canadian teacher's pension fund - we thought that was interesting and rather unusual; In America, the two firms who made our list this week were in auto finance and wealthtech - two strong areas of financing in our country.

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.