Publisher Notes for 6/9/21 Friends, today our newsletter is packed with SO MUCH great content, including venture deals that ALL exceed $300M USD in one week, a LOL read from Bill Taylor in the Taylor Report and a new podcast delving into the NFT craze, plus much more! Read up! | Cindy Taylor, Publisher

News & Markets

DWealth Muse Podcast Series: Episode 15 - Capitalizing on the NFT Craze
In this episode, host Dara Albright and guest, George Levy, Founder of Blockchain Institute of Technology, discuss ways for individuals and businesses to capitalize on the NFT craze

El Salvador Rocks Bitcoin World. Pay Attention.
Author Bill Taylor provides insight into the significance of the recent announcement from El Salvador that BTC will become the country's legal tender and discusses how other countries are likely to follow their lead

The Week in Digital Wealth (6/9/21)
A look at the week's latest news in the digital wealth sector the world over including future IPOs and how millennials are shaping the future of community banks, plus much more

Advisor Tech Talk (6/9/21)
This week we cover the latest news from LPL, Orion, Riskalyze, Practifi and others in our new wealthtech-focused weekly series on DWN

Top 5 VC Deals of the Week in Digital Wealth (6/9/21)
This week, ALL of the fintech deals listed in our weekly column on top VC in the sector exceeded $300M USD. Read why we believe fintech is now the fastest growing sector on the planet. Period.

Fintech Luminaries - Meet Lou Camacho of Stratos Wealth Holdings
For the next in this feature series, we'd like you to meet Richard Napolitano of Advisor360°, a platform that is comprehensive yet modular, with a Unified Data FabricTM foundation that enables broker-dealers to digitally transform themselves, increasing productivity and revenue while decreasing risk.

And don't forget to check out our homepage for other great content, read up and GET YOUR SMART ON about the future of digital wealth!

Thought leaders

Wealthtech Insider (6/9/21) The Orion team reviews how technology provides much-needed efficiencies that keep an advisor on-task and better able to focus on clients' needs, which is especially important in the race to attract and retain high net worth clients

Fintech Corner (6/9/21) Adrian Johnstone of Practifi discusses how compliance has long been looked at as a burden, but it doesn't have to be, especially if technology and automation create a firm that by default operates in a fully compliant manner

Real Clear Crypto (6/9/21) Advisors face huge deficits in knowledge, services and products in the crypto space when compared to retail financial services firms. John Sarson recognized this when he founded Sarson Funds, and now has a full team filling that gap

The Taylor Report (6/8/21) Bill Taylor, CIO of Entoro Wealth, compares & analyzes price movement in BTC, ETH, Gold & the S&P 500 for the week and gives us his take on it all

Curated Industry Content

• How Can Advisory Firms Build for the Digital Future?
• Why Adding Digital Assets To Your Portfolio is Important
• Five Ways the Orion Client Portal Will Transform Your Client Relationships

Industry Press

• Orion and HiddenLevers Announce First Post-Acquisition Deal With Cardea Capital
• Practifi's Rapid Growth Continues With Sales Team Expansion
• Consumers Can Safely Share Their Cryptoasset Investment Data with First-in-Market Capability from Fiserv