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The development and maturation of fintech continues to accelerate, but it was a particularly eventful week in the universe of fintech-related ETFs and funds.

This past week, America "won" with four of the five top VC deals in the fintech sector. Furthermore, all four of those deals surpassed $100M, while the 5th deal - and Indian digital lending startup - scored $75M for their new venture.

The 10th Annual Smarsh Risk & Compliance Survey, which encompasses 450,000 professionals supporting more than $1.3 trillion in assets under management, emphasizes that the widespread and rapid shift to remote work models in response to the pandemic is unlikely to be fully reversed, with many wealth management firms likely to embrace large populations of remote employees going forward.

If Robinhood’s “Payment for Order Flow Revenue Model” is responsible for anything, it is for driving innovation and helping bring industry-wide brokerage commissions down to zero so that retail investors can trade commission free.

We’d like you to meet Cheryl Nash, CEO of InvestCloud's Financial Supermarket™ (formerly Tegra118), which enables wealth and asset management firms and their advisors to deliver better outcomes and experiences to their investors.

With the ongoing surge of self-directed online trading expected to further fuel market volatility, wealth management firms and technology entrepreneurs alike are seeking asset management solutions that can supersede or sidestep human emotions and bias to create better outcomes.

For the next feature in this series, we’d like you to meet Sally Outlaw of Worthy Financial which helps the "98%" painlessly save & invest while also helping businesses get better access to capital.

After SPACs, or special purpose acquisition companies, became one of the preferred ways to take innovative companies public last year, a flurry of “SPAC-tivity” has taken place in the fintech sector, headlined last week by the acquisition of New York-based MoneyLion, a comprehensive personal finance, advice and investing platform, by Fusion Acquisition Corp.

As I’m sure many of you feel, your business is your baby. And as you would a child, you want to see your business mature and achieve its full growth potential. There’s no set way to run a business, which means there’s endless ways to grow, innovate and achieve success.

A new healthcare fintech startup has a solution: PayZen pays hospitals upfront for patient invoices and offers patients zero-interest, fee-free payment plans.