Publisher Notes for 1/26/22 Greetings Fintech Friends! This week we launch a new monthly roundtable, learn about metaverse commerce, coin a new term..."Tonga'd", and see a massive decline in venture dollars in digital wealth in our Top 5 VC Deals series plus more! Read up! | Cindy Taylor, Publisher

News & Markets

EPISODE 46: The Colossal Economic Impact of Metaverse Commerce
DWealthMuse host, Dara Albright & guest Donnie Dinch, CEO of Bitski, which powers the commerce layer of the metaverse via NFTs, discuss "metaverse commerce"

Is 2022 a "Tonga Year'?
A "Tonga Year" is one that seems to have caught everyone by surprise and disrupted (or let's be real, blew up) some huge hopes and dreams

The Week in Digital Wealth (1/26/22)
Fintech stocks and bitcoin are far from their peaks as investors flee risk for now, and one banking fintech could be ready to go public

Advisor Tech Talk (1/26/22)
In the midst of a stock market correction, the advisor community is hiring more talent, revamping products, raising capital and more

Top 5 VC Deals of the Week in Digital Wealth (1/26/22)
This week the VC numbers ratcheted down QUITE a bit in the fintech sector, coinciding with dramatic US stock market declines

DWN Round Table: Tech Enabled Recruitment Trends Two Years into the Pandemic
Digital Wealth News asked four wealth management executives to discuss how the pandemic impacted recruitment at their firms

Thought leaders

	JIFFY.ai Illuminations: Disrupt with Compassion! Technology should be implemented for the sake of people, the industry and to make our world a better place today and for future generations
	Wealthtech Insider: How Big RIAs Are Using Technology To Scale Smart If wealth management firms want to scale up through technology, they should take note of their peers who are already succeeding
	REAL CLEAR CRYPTO: Crypto Wallets - The Custodial Vessel For All Digital Assets In crypto, assets are not held in brokerage or bank accounts, but rather wallets, the custodial vessel for digital assets of all kinds
	Fintech Corner: Why Merely Adopting New Technology To Grow Your Firm Isn't Enough Wealth management firms are doing more harm than good when they take a scattershot approach to growth through implementing technology

The Taylor Report (1/25/22) Bill Taylor, CIO of Entoro Investments, 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

• RegTech in 2022 - Resources will Dictate how Firms Deal with the Continuing Deluge of Data
• Why Advisors Need More Than a CRM
• What Is a Digital Automation Platform?
• WHITEPAPER: Orion Communities - Streamlining and Scaling the Investment Management Process
• Crypto, Climate, & Confusion: Clearing the Air on Blockchain and the Environment