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Earlier this month, the financial advisory & fintech industries gathered in NYC for the annual Wealthies awards highlighting the most innovative companies serving financial advisors & among the winners was Practifi.

Hello Fintech Friends! This week we've added a new Op-Ed section and we have a POWERFUL one today on thwarted fintech innovation from regulators, along with a deeper dive into behavioral finance and a look at J.P. Morgan's jump across the big pond, plus more. READ UP!! Cindy Taylor, Publisher

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. 

Actions by the Commission that include slow-walking certain fintech-related qualifications, including its sheer unwillingness to approve a cryptocurrency ETF, are just the tip of the iceberg. The latest threats by the SEC to sue cryptocurrency exchanges and its allusions to banning fintech revenue models altogether should have every American deeply concerned – especially when suggestions of such bans come just weeks following an IPO effective date.

Cybersecurity is a critical function at any wealth management firm, and at a firm as large as Advisor Group, with six subsidiary firms and well over 10,000 financial advisors nationwide, protecting sensitive or confidential data is no small task.

Technology that can both scale up a practice and zoom-in to offer client experience enhancements is at a premium, said, Tom Westhoff, vice president of Global Sales at Practifi.

Seasons change and so does the fintech landscape. Since our last update, one major cryptocurrency exchange is calling out the SEC, Europe does not want to get left behind on digital currencies, investors have some remorse over buy now pay later, and SPACs are still popular.  

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If there was ever a time for wealth management firms to build additional resources into their upcoming annual cybersecurity budgets, it’s now.

Cyber-attacks generally continue to rise as hackers from around the world grow bolder and more sophisticated, and though it has been a common tactic for years, ransomware seems to be having a moment in recent months.