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By Gregory Bilecki TWIDW 4/19/22: Fed News & Market Impacts, Binance launches its first customer...

Ten years ago, Jonathan Cagle was a financial advisor investing client portfolios in traditional assets. Then he encountered digital assets and today, acts as a portfolio manager & research analyst for Sarson Funds.

BNPL companies are in the spotlight, but not for the reasons they would want. Wall Street analysts have fintech stocks in their sights, while one China-based tech giant is looking to gaming to take some of the regulatory heat off in Beijing. Fintech M&A is alive and well, while an emerging fintech-focused VC firm with its roots in a major crypto exchange has entered the fray.

An explosion is happening in fintech. The BNPL craze appears to be here to stay. RIAs can no longer ignore client demand for crypto, a crypto trading hamster is outperforming everybody and central bankers are forging ahead with CBDCs.

Financial institutions continue to target fintechs on their radar, but one global investment bank is getting the wrong kind of attention for its upcoming deal. Companies are trying to differentiate themselves in the buy now pay later pool. The deal pipeline is filling with M&A, SPACs and IPOs, and crypto trading is all the rage. 

The following list of wealthtech resources for advisors is referenced from a prior Michael Kitces Financial Advisor Fintech...

As humans, we don’t like change very much. Some acknowledge change but resist it as much as possible. Others live in denial, convinced they’re keeping up with the times, while they slip into obscurity or become antiquated. But small and mid-size business owners can’t afford to do either; they must embrace change to be successful.

Recognizing the potential for an explosion in customer demand for bitcoin, Goldman Sachs is re-entering a sector they exited just a couple years or so ago by relaunching its cryptocurrency trading desk, thus allowing them to deal Bitcoin futures and non-deliverable forwards to clients.

Digital Wealth News is pleased to bring you our “Fintech Luminaries” series – featuring thought leaders within the digital wealth and blockchain ecosystems. For the next feature in this series, we’d like you to meet Aaron Klein, Co-Founder and CEO of Riskalyze.

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