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WEALTHTECH SAFARI A Guided Tour of WealthTech News Week of July 31, 2026 *NEW FEATURE* WealthTech Job Exchange Because finding a good job is hard but building a good team is harder. Enterprise GTM and Sales -- Available FTE -- 20-year veteran of BlackRock, SS&C Technologies, and FA Solutions Link Knote: We are introducing a new feature: Job Exchange. This is our attempt at connecting our friends who are looking for new challenges with our friends who are looking to build

WEALTHTECH SAFARI A Guided Tour of WealthTech News Week of July 24, 2026 Neo Exits Stealth with $100M to Govern Agentic AI Neo emerged from stealth with $100M to help enterprises manage and secure the spread of AI agents across their software, in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners, with Craft Ventures and Merlin Ventures participating. Its real-time control layer spans agent and app inventory, risk intelligence, action-level attribution, granul

GIM raises $20M to scale agentic AI investing Grace Investment Machine (GIM), an AI-native investment tech company, closed a $20M Series A co-led by a US VC firm and Hony Capital, with IDG Capital and existing backer Monolith Capital participating, its third round in year one. The system builds foundation models for capital markets and multi-agent architectures that validate trading signals through layered reasoning; its CogAlpha paper was accepted at ACL 2026 with an oral re

YCharts to acquire Zephyr, expanding its advisor analytics platform YCharts, an advisor-facing analytics and research platform, is acquiring investment-analytics provider Zephyr in a deal framed as a partnership that broadens its toolset for financial advisors. Layering Zephyr’s portfolio analytics onto YCharts’ recent AI rollout deepens the platform’s push to become an all-in-one research and reporting hub for growth-minded advisory practices. Knote: I have not seen anything

WEALTHTECH SAFARI A Guided Tour of WealthTech News Week of July 3, 2026 2026 US Model Portfolio Landscape — Model portfolio market research • Third-party model portfolio assets reached $934 billion at the end of March 2026, up 46% year-over-year and closing in on the $1 trillion mark, per new Morningstar research. • With ETFs now capturing 55% of model allocations and nearly 70% of firms planning private-asset exposure, TAMPs and model providers are increasingly p

WEALTHTECH SAFARI A Guided Tour of WealthTech News Week of June 26, 2026 Edward Jones takes stake in elder-fraud startup Carefull • Edward D. Jones & Co., a 20,000-broker wirehouse, has taken a minority stake in Carefull, a fintech that monitors client accounts for signs of scams and cognitive decline, and will offer the service free to its 9 million clients. • With Americans over 60 reporting more than $7.7 billion in cyber-enabled fraud losses in 2025, the deal

WEALTHTECH SAFARI A Guided Tour of WealthTech News Week of June 19, 2026 Scale, Differentiate, or Get Left Behind: Inside the 2026 TAMP Growth Summit Leadership Panel The 2026 TAMP Growth Summit leadership panel convened executives from Envestnet, AssetMark, Orion, SEI, Dynasty Financial Partners, and others to examine how AI convergence, expanded platform capabilities, and differentiation strategies are reshaping the future of outsourced wealth management.. As TAMPs evolve

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