The latest funding round puts Acorns, led by CEO Noah Kerner, at a reported valuation of $860 million.

As CEO Joe Duran prepares to meet potential investors, he faces one of the greatest sales pitches of his career.

Independent advisors can get overwhelmed with all the tech options. Are fintech partnerships helping?

Regulator puts brokers on notice about its top concerns for 2019.

Baby boomers are retiring and spending their savings. Are advisors prepared to onboard the next generation?

The deal combines two of the financial services industry's largest technology and processing companies.

Launching an app doesn’t have to cost millions of dollars.

Advisors should pay attention to compliance issues and evolving expectations from clients.

Quovo is acquired by competitor Plaid, which says it wants to extend its aggregation into the brokerage space.

The LearnVest founder left the insurance giant and No. 6 IBD, in her latest surprise move after the firm shut down the startup’s online planning services.

Efforts to build better connections to bank customer data, trade digital currency and explore artificial intelligence for security and compliance purposes were some of the biggest draws of fundraising for U.S. startups.

Advisors report what they love — and hate — about tech at companies holding client assets.

Firms face a complex world of increasing data volumes, regulations, reporting demands and multi-asset class complexity.

These tools could save months of time — are they worth the investment?

Robinhood Financial has rebranded its service, deleted tweets about its launch and scrubbed the page from its website.

The move is intended to improve CRM integration and search optimization.

The giants have traditionally bought out the newcomers.

The development of new products, technology and the increasing prominence of ESG are top-of-mind among industry executives.

It’s easy to identify, but hard to accomplish.

At the moment, there's no clear way to "turn over human intuition" to machine learning, but there are immediate ways to save advisors' time.