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WEALTHTECH SAFARI A Guided Tour of WealthTech News Week of June 12, 2026 AI Adoption Surges Among Investment Managers in 2026 Seven in ten investment managers now actively deploy AI in their front offices per SimCorp's 2026 InvestOps Report, up sharply from roughly one in ten a year earlier. With vendor stability ranked above feature sets and innovation overtaking efficiency as the top investment driver, buy-side firms are prioritizing trusted, consolidated technology part

WEALTHTECH SAFARI A Guided Tour of WealthTech News Week of June 5, 2026 DBS to Open 18 Wealth Centers Across Asia as Affluent Demand Grows DBS will open 18 new wealth centers across Asia to capture rising affluent demand. Signals intensifying competition for Asia's expanding high-net-worth client base. Read More: WealthTech Strategy Partners Blog FMG: AI-Based Marketing Intelligence System Launched To Better Serve 80,000+ Advisors And Insurance Professionals FMG lau

WEALTHTECH SAFARI A Guided Tour of WealthTech News Week of May 29, 2026 FINRA Warns ‘Finfluencers’ Pose Growing Risk to Investors FINRA identifies financial influencers as a significant threat to retail investors due to aggressive marketing and undisclosed conflicts of interest. This regulatory focus signals an impending crackdown on social media-driven investment advice and increased supervision requirements for traditional broker-dealers. Read More: WealthTech Strategy

WEALTHTECH SAFARI A Guided Tour of WealthTech News Week of May 22, 2026 SEC opens the door for mutual funds and ETFs to invest in private assets • The SEC Staff issued a transformative no-action letter on April 27, 2026, expanding exempt relief for private asset transactions—previously limited to closed-end funds—to now include open-end mutual funds and ETFs, reversing historical prohibitions under the Investment Company Act of 1940. • While open-end funds must st

WEALTHTECH SAFARI A Guided Tour of WealthTech News Week of May 15, 2026 Acuity Trading Invests in MarketReader to Build a More Complete Al Market Intelligence Offering • Acuity Trading has completed a strategic growth investment in MarketReader to integrate real-time market movement attribution into its financial intelligence ecosystem. • This partnership enables advisors to provide more defensible market analysis by combining alternative data with explainable A

WEALTHTECH SAFARI A Guided Tour of WealthTech News Week of May 1st, 2026 Advyzon Disrupts Enterprise Tech Market with $676 Billion Citi Wealth Management Partnership Advyzon secured a major contract to provide the technology infrastructure for Citi Wealth’s $676 billion in assets. This deal marks a significant expansion for Advyzon, which has traditionally focused on serving smaller independent RIAs. Read More → RFG Advisory Adds Zocks CEO to their Board of Directors and In

WEALTHTECH SAFARI A Guided Tour of WealthTech News Week of April 27, 2026 PrimeInvestor lands its first external check from Zerodha’s Rainmatter • PrimeInvestor, a Chennai-based research firm with over 50,000 users, raised its inaugural outside round from Rainmatter Capital — Zerodha’s investment arm — to scale a full-stack Portfolio Management Service spanning mutual funds, stocks, ETFs, bonds, and gold. • The pivot from advice to execution reflects a broader pat

Charles Schwab to launch direct Bitcoin and Ethereum trading by June • Charles Schwab, the largest custodian in the RIA space, plans to offer direct spot trading for Bitcoin and Ethereum through its Premier Bank subsidiary by June 2026, marking a major push to compete with fintech platforms like Robinhood in the retail crypto arena. • The move signals that traditional financial institutions are no longer content to cede digital asset trading to fintechs—and that reg

WEALTHTECH SAFARI A Guided Tour of WealthTech News Week of April 7, 2026 FMG’s new CEO wants AI to solve what advisors couldn’t automate before • FMG, a leading marketing platform for financial advisors, is charting a new course under CEO Dave Christensen, who aims to leverage artificial intelligence to tackle workflow challenges that were previously unsolvable—opening the platform’s ecosystem to new tool categories and supporting advisors with early-stage prospecting.

WEALTHTECH SAFARI A Guided Tour of WealthTech News Week of April 3, 2026 State Street signals it’s ready to ‘disrupt’ RIA custody five years after abrupt exit, madly hiring Altruist veterans to build Apex-powered, ‘digitally native’ AI platform • State Street Global Advisors, the asset management arm of one of the world’s largest custodian banks, is reportedly developing a digitally native RIA custody platform leveraging AI and Apex Fintech Solutions, having recruited

Merrill Launches AI-Powered Meeting Journey Merrill, a wirehouse giant, launched a tool to automate meeting preparation, summarization, and client follow-ups. This launch underscores the rapid enterprise-wide adoption of AI to eliminate administrative friction in wealth management. Knote: Merrill was one of those firms that did not want to deploy notetakers for liability reasons. It looks like the allure of saving thousands of advisor hours finally wore them down. Read More

Your guided tour of the interesting events in WealthTech for the week. Robinhood's $658 million private markets fund for retail investors goes public Robinhood Markets has listed its flagship venture fund on the NYSE, allowing non-accredited retail investors to trade shares of pre-IPO technology companies like Databricks and Stripe. The move demonstrates a significant shift in democratizing institutional-grade alternative investments through mass-market distribution and a tra

Your guided tour of the interesting events in WealthTech for the week. Orion Announces Denali AI Enterprise Version, Powering a New Era in Advisor Productivity Orion has launched the Denali AI Enterprise version to automate complex workflows and provide advisors with real-time access to actionable client data through natural language processing. This release marks a strategic shift from basic AI experimentation to enterprise-grade data orchestration, allowing firms to scale

Your guided tour of the interesting events in WealthTech for the week. iAltA Holdings Acquires Delio as They Quietly Build Their End-to-End Alts2Wealth Platform iAltA Holdings has acquired Delio, a provider of white-label operating systems for private market investments, to further its goal of creating an end-to-end private markets platform. This acquisition solidifies iAltA’s position in the alternative investment space by integrating digital workflows and reporting tools

Your guided tour of the interesting events in WealthTech for the week. Morningstar warns Robinhood's new venture fund a potential 'disaster' for investors Morningstar analyst Bryan Armour labeled Robinhood's new pre-IPO venture fund as a reckless move due to the firm's lack of investment management experience. Significance: This critique highlights the growing tension between fintech disruptors attempting to democratize private equity and established research firms prioriti

Your guided tour of the interesting events in WealthTech for the week Alina Invest Secures $22.5 Million in Financing for User Acquisition Alinea Invest has obtained a $22.5 million credit facility from PvX Partners to scale its AI-powered investment platform for Gen Z and female investors. The use of non-dilutive capital for marketing highlights a growing industry trend where fintechs prioritize performance metrics over traditional equity dilution to fund growth. Click he

Your guided tour of the interesting events in WealthTech for the week US wealth management in 2035: A transformative decade begins The US wealth management industry is entering a transformative decade driven by the convergence of AI technology, demographic shifts, and the transition toward integrated life management. Strategic adoption of agentic AI and M&A will be essential for firms to scale operations and establish new sources of trust through hyper-personalization. Click

Your guided tour of the interesting events in WealthTech for the week The Profitability Paradox: Competing for Relevance and Returns Wealth management firms are facing a structural squeeze as the cost of client acquisition rises while fee compression limits traditional revenue growth. Strategic survival now depends on scaling operational efficiency through integrated technology rather than relying solely on asset under management growth. Read More Schwab Creates Organization

Nationwide Welcomes New Leaders, Income Lab Launches AI Scribe Insurance and financial services: Nationwide appointed new technology and distribution leaders while Income Lab introduced an AI tool for automated retirement planning. Significance: These developments highlight the accelerating integration of artificial intelligence and specialized leadership to enhance advisor productivity and client retention. Read More OneDigital Introduces Private Investments Within Personali

Your weekly guide to interesting happenings in WealthTech globally. In this issue, commentary on the following: DOL, White House Near Release of Proposed 401(k) Alts Rule Edelman Moves to Orion for Tech Stack Flanks and FinReg360 launch EDX: Europe’s first standardized financial data exchange protocol Groww steps up wealth play via MF and portfolio management solutions Nationwide Welcomes New Leaders, Income Lab Launches AI Scribe OneDigital Introduces Private Investment