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It was a week before Christmas, and all the land...... the capital was flowing, for payments and...... crypto and proptech and international financial indeces

The SEC has had the Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial Technology, or FinHub, around for a few years but it was just announced that FinHub will now become a stand alone office

This week we saw YET ANOTHER British challenger bank receive funding this past week (gosh, there's a LOT of challenger banks out there now), plus an interesting new teen-based (you guessed it!) challenger bank out of SF. Also in this week's batch were an ATL-based payments app for e-commerce companies, an API platform for retail banking out of Chicago, and a credit card bill payment app out of India.

You would think that with last week's Thanksgiving holiday here in the US, muted as it was due to the pandemic, we would have seen slowed down deal activity in the fintech sector. Turns out that assumption would be WRONG, and we still saw deal closings, believe it or not, with one that topped $300M(!!) and three more topped the $100M+ figure.

The CEO of international financial advisory deVere Group, Nigel Green, has recently issued a statement noting that anecdotally, the firm is experiencing unusually high numbers of clients requesting assistance with its citizen and residency service.

It’s a busy, yet short week for advisers. So, I wanted to provide a brief recap on some of the stories we’ve focused on this year at Adviser Domain. But first – an important update from the SEC...

Finmail Mailbox integrates both email and a digital currency payment feature, so that people can use their mailbox and email address to send and receive emails as well as digital currencies such as Bitcoin and USDT.

Some substantial deal flow this past week in fintech VC. Apparently folks are rushing to close up deals before end of year and the beginning of 2021, and whatever type of presidency that delivers in the US.

Financial Planning Association launches new Cybersecurity for Financial Planners

Deal flow was back at it this week, but with lots of chop, in...