After a $70 million fundraising round, the company also plans to begin offering HSAs and emergency savings.

With today’s generation of home buyers so rooted in a digital world, how will the financial services industry need to change to meet their needs? What new consumer technology will they need to adopt to meet consumers where they are? How will those approaches differ from how things have been done historically in the industry? Join us in a discussion with Blend’s Founder, Nima Ghamsari as we chat through how banks and financial institutions need to think through these questions.

The wealthtech’s strategy is backed by a survey on what fundamentally drives financial advisors and their clients.

Nuances within the space provide advisors with opportunities to educate clients on safely housing this burgeoning asset class.

Enhancements include a new dashboard view and a grid interface for porting data from other programs.

Vendors like Orion are giving independent advisors access to cash deposit accounts and securities-backed loans in an effort to provide all-encompassing services.

Despite the continuing smaller financial advisor headcount at the wirehouse, it reeled in record profits and unveiled its latest plans for further expansion.

The acquisition could help Addepar move downstream and better serve RIAs.

Is the bank late to the automated investing party, or trying to bring some investors back home?

Social media missteps can erode the authentic “who” and “why” of your firm over time, writes Tara Meehan.

At the IMPACT 2021 conference, CEO Walt Bettinger and head of advisor services Bernie Clark shared plans to grow the firm’s market share of independent advisors.

Join Janet King, Arizent VP of Research and Brian Elkins, Senior Director of Strategy at Monigle for a discussion of a new, prescriptive framework that helps banks and other financial institutions identify why customers choose to bank with one financial institution over another. Developed in conjunction with creative experience agency Monigle, the Humanizing Customer Experience research from American Banker draws on more than 5,000 customer responses to show what matters most in customer experience and ranks which financial institutions do it best. Join this discussion to learn more about how you can optimize your bank's approach to CX to improve customer satisfaction and earn higher net promoter scores.

Ainslie Simmons, a 20-year veteran of the industry, will serve as president of the new Pershing X division.

In a conversation with Onramp Invest CEO Tyrone Ross at the Bitcoin for Advisors conference, Kitces explains his skepticism towards the asset class.

It will operate with central staff at the group level coordinating with teams within UBS’s wealth, asset, investment bank and Swiss units.

The credit union is working with CUSO Financial Services, a unit of Atria Wealth Solutions, to add secure document uploading and other features to its website.

While every firm has unique needs, there are several common paths to take.

Firms should be aware that cyberattacks are getting more complex and regulators are cracking down.

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