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ComplySci’s first quarter financial performance this year represented a “high water mark” of earnings growth for the firm, which has already been generating robust expansion for the past several years.

Advisor Group, the nation's largest network of independent wealth management firms, today announced the significant advancement of its growth strategy with the appointment of Kristen Kimmell as the company’s new Executive Vice President, Business Development. In this role, Ms. Kimmell will integrate and lead recruiting, transitions and onboarding for Advisor Group’s network of firms, encompassing FSC Securities, Royal Alliance Associates, SagePoint Financial, Securities America, Triad Advisors and Woodbury Financial Services.

Forward-thinking financial advisory firms face an increasing number of challenges. In addition to fee compression, strong market competition, shrinking margins and increasing cyberattacks, firms also have to navigate and comply with country-specific regulations.

The escalating war against cyber criminals on the global stage may be capturing the majority of headlines, but it mirrors an increased level of urgency that wealth management firms are taking with their own cybersecurity measures.

-SIMON Annuities and Insurance Services LLC (“SIMON”) is pleased to announce that Nationwide—a Fortune 100 insurance and financial services company with more than nine decades of experience protecting people and their financial futures—as the latest carrier to join its insurtech platform’s Marketplace.

Financial firms now have a new option to operate in a manner that is compliant by design. Practifi, a business management platform for financial advisory firms, has launched a new compliance application to create a unique, custom-built compliance dashboard within a business’s operations.

Offices may be filled with maskless faces by the end of this summer, but that doesn’t mean that advisors’ compliance concerns are easing. In fact, compliance remains a hot topic, said Tom Westhoff, Vice President of Global Sales at Practifi.

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.

Crypto is on a roll across the wealth management space, as Wall Street financial institutions, independent broker-dealers and RIA firms increasingly explore how to offer crypto-based financial products and strategies.

Global investment bank and advisory Entoro Capital LLC (“Entoro”), which aims to optimize the traditional banking process with the efficiency of modern technology, is now working as a node operator and helping to secure the Polymesh blockchain, currently in testnet phase.