Acorns is the latest wealthtech company to go public via blank-check merger, following competitors like SoFi. Launched at the end of 2014, the fintech is a subscription-based automated investing and banking app.
The key is knowing how to select software that solves your problems while simultaneously improving both the functionality and the profitability of your firm.
Onramp Invest emerges from beta mode amid a rapidly evolving crypto marketplace that historically kept financial advisers on the sidelines.
The big news, announcements and underlying trends emerging in the world of technology solutions for financial advisers.
The payments processor plans to offer both types of accounts to the small businesses that use its app, according to hidden code in a recent update to its app.
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With just a few clicks, an adviser can submit a task on behalf of a client, something that would otherwise require extensive knowledge and time-consuming coordination between various operational teams.
Advisory firms are moving to adopt AI tools to achieve their growth objectives, but it’s not easy, partly because firms lack the data connectivity that’s needed for AI to operate efficiently.
With a new funding round and support from the asset management giant Vanguard, Altruist increases its potential to break up the RIA custodial oligopoly.
The latest launch by Betterment kicks off the fintech’s mission to rapidly grow its adviser-focused business line throughout the year.
In the first quarter, a total of 86 deals took place, and the wealthtech sector already has outpaced 2020’s year-end total funding of $5.2 billion.
Advisers now have a wide array of options from financial planning software, risk management and analytics platforms, digital marketing and CRM tools. What point does it become too much?
Teens will be able to trade U.S.-listed stocks, Fidelity mutual funds and most exchange-traded funds, with no account fees or commissions.
Institutional investors now have access to data and analytics across both Goldman Sachs Marquee and MSCI RiskManager.
Market leader Riskalyze lashed out at competitors over differences in methodologies, but the allegations opened up interesting questions about the technologies under the hood at risk analysis providers.
Robo-advisers are expanding services and growing assets at a rapid pace, further cementing their place in the financial advice industry.
The key issue, as Gensler put it, is how the SEC continues to ensure that markets work for everyday investors when new technologies change the face of finance.
It’s the idea that someone is out there today, hacking a creative solution that will become the next new tech, that makes this an exciting time to be in financial advice.
You have to be more patient with an online lead, nurturing it and cultivating it before it will become a revenue-generating client.
The risk management software provider lashed out at competitors HiddenLevers and RiXtrema for using predictive models that are 'wildly inaccurate.'
