Cambridge Investment Research, a Fairfield, Iowa-based broker-dealer, has added digital client onboarding and new-account-opening capabilities from Skience, a fintech firm whose platform it already uses.
The independent financial advisers affiliated with Cambridge who use the SkienceONE platform will have access to the onboarding module, which provides paperless processing of the forms associated with opening new accounts, as well as digital signature capabilities across multiple clearing firms and custodians.
Skience is based in Herndon, Virginia.
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