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SIMON Markets LLC (“SIMON”) today announced it will integrate cryptocurrency education into its leading-edge fintech platform for wealth management professionals, delivering on what firms and their financial professionals have been asking for amidst a rapidly growing market.

Fintech firms are hitting on all cylinders lately, making a splash in some of the trendiest deals in the capital markets and helping to shape the financial industry of the future. In fact, one of the mega IPOs of the year so far involves a payment technology unicorn that is about to become a household name. Whether it’s real estate opportunities, SPAC deals or digital currencies, financial technology companies ranging from mobile banking startups to payments platforms are setting the pace.

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.

After a robust first quarter in which fintech startups gripped the headlines for unprecedented VC fundraisings, the momentum continues. Last week was no exception — including a multi-billion dollar exit for a Utah-based fintech unicorn. In addition, fintech firms are raising capital at a dizzying pace in emerging markets, while they have also moved into the conversation for one of the hottest niches in crypto — central bank digital currencies (CBDCs.)

Joel Bruckenstein, president of Technology Tools for Today (T3), has launched registration for the T3 Advisor and T3 Enterprise conferences. Formerly run as two separate events at different venues at different times of the year, the post-pandemic plan for 2021 is to run the two events back-to-back beginning Monday September 27 and concluding on Friday, October 1, 2021, in Denton, Texas.

CogniCor, the leading provider of artificial intelligence-powered digital assistants for the wealth management industry, today announced the launch of three new digital assistant modules to help wealth management firms support their employees and advisors with scalable solutions to their most labor-intensive and time-consuming operational issues and raise the efficiency and productivity of firms’ internal support functions.

Property tech “is a good number of years behind the maturity of other spaces. Fintech, for example, has already dramatically re-shaped the world of wealth management, with many traditional wealth management businesses forced to adopt new technologies or fail.”

This week - all but one deal exceeded $100M USD in funding - again. The THREE deals topping $200M+ USD were in retail fraud protection, insurtech and neo-banking (back end platforms).

Skience, a leading financial services digital enablement provider and consultancy, today continued the ongoing expansion of its leadership team with the appointment of Chris Zuczek to the newly-created role of Chief Product Officer.

Tipalti, the leading global payables automation platform, announced its acquisition of Approve.com, a cloud procurement solutions provider, to expand its portfolio of financial operations offerings.