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This week, 3 of the top 5 deals were international - out of South Korea, Holland and China; The Chinese deal received funding from a Canadian teacher's pension fund - we thought that was interesting and rather unusual; In America, the two firms who made our list this week were in auto finance and wealthtech - two strong areas of financing in our country.

For financial advice firms, continued growth is always the name of the game. But how each firm goes about expanding its business depends on its size and client base. Whatever your firm’s goals, ensuring that you are using proper, modern technology is essential to meeting them.

It’s important advisors learn to give advice and even comfort in a way that is consistent with research around “stickiness.” What follows is a four-part process, developed at the Orion Center for Outcomes, around giving clients advice in a way that influences behavior change.

Most advisory firms want to scale, but not all of them can. One of the biggest obstacles to scaling is not having the right technology in place, said Adrian Johnstone, Chief Commercial Officer at Practifi, a business management platform for financial services firms.

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.

Digital Wealth News™, a multi-tiered media platform covering the maturing fintech revolution, is pleased to announce that it will be airing a live broadcast of this year’s Global DeFi Summit, being held on June 24, 2021, beginning at 11am ET.

For our latest Fintech Luminaries feature on Digital Wealth News, we'd like you to meet Michael Partnow of JIFFY.ai, a global, enterprise-grade process automation company that helps organizations to automate end-to-end complex business processes across their front, middle, and back offices.

Fintechs are increasingly coming into their own, with investment banks hunting ways to rub shoulders with the digital crowd. In the past week, JPMorgan made a splash with a fintech investment while the IPO pipeline is filling in the U.S., as well as globally. PayPal is upping the ante for merchants as it boasts its prowess in the competitive payments landscape, while central bank digital currencies are all the rage.

Global central bankers, already extremely anxious about losing monetary control to the likes of Bitcoin, are going to have some very sleepless nights ahead. Nightmare type sleepless nights. Last week El Salvador's President, Nayib Bukele, signed into law legislation declaring Bitcoin to be legal tender in the country.

Cryptocurrencies, in particular Bitcoin, have come under recent criticism for being environmentally unfriendly, specifically for the energy it takes to mine and transact with digital assets. Most recently, Tesla founder Elon Musk triggered a wave of volatility in Bitcoin after he opined that the digital currency was not energy efficient.