INVEST West 2020

Current and former clients claim personal information, including Social Security and passport numbers, have been exposed due to negligence.

The firm is dropping management fees on robo accounts with $10,000 to $50,000, turning to a minimal per-month charge instead.

If planners can navigate data security and compliance concerns, the app can connect them with a huge new audience.

Venturing into the new social media platform, planners are encountering a deluge of misinformation, day trading and get-rich-quick schemes.

Wall Street criticizes rookie investors for driving up stock prices, but there is little evidence supporting the narrative.

Members of Congress question whether the company is doing enough to protect inexperienced customers engaging in high-risk investing.

The two companies have deep ties and are now formalizing the bond.

Chief information officer Frank LaQuinta reveals the firm’s $500 million acceleration strategy, plus how advisors are using technology during the coronavirus pandemic.

The latest cash influx values the fee-free trading app at $8.6 billion.

Advisors who missed the “first-mover advantage” a decade ago could be in the catbird seat as all the rules change.

A class action asserts that the data aggregator accesses more of consumers' bank account information than it needs and ultimately aims to sell the data to others. Plaid, which has agreed to be sold to Visa, denies the allegations.

U.S. officials have raised questions about the security of TikTok, which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance.

The funds helped the firms offset diminished revenue and preserve jobs, executives say.

Jane Gladstone, new president of Promontory Interfinancial Network, says the recession will accelerate the shakeout among the nonbank disruptors and that small banks have an opportunity to forge new bonds with the survivors.

Instead of a sale, Orion’s private equity backers are reinvesting to help grow the company’s presence in the TAMP marketplace.

The deal would pair plan sponsors on Empower’s platform with the hybrid robo advisor’s technology and advice capabilities.

The company’s new suite of APIs is designed to help firms develop technology with its data, but they aren’t the only player using data to conquer advisor fintech.

Instead of “disrupting” finance, Cerulli research suggests all-in-one financial hubs may be the way forward.

Companies that connect advisors and carriers are seeing a surge in use.

The deals come as millions of baby boomers enter retirement.