Ep. 282: The Unexpected Alliance: How Robinhood’s $300M TradePMR Acquisition Will Reshape Custody with Robb Baldwin
Robinhood’s $300M acquisition of TradePMR marks a strategic pivot into the RIA space that few saw coming. In this exclusive interview, TradePMR founder and CEO Robb Baldwin sits down with Craig Iskowitz just one day after closing the deal to share the inside story of how this unexpected partnership came together. Baldwin reveals the three […]
Ep. 248: July WealthTech News
Come on in, sit back and relax. You’re listening to Episode 248 of the WealthTech Today podcast. I’m your host, Craig Iskowitz, founder of Ezra Group Consulting and this podcast is all about the newest information updates around Wealth Management Technology. This is our July news roundup, We’ve got a lot of stories to cover, […]
Ep. 202: TruView: An Advisor Experience Platform with Amit Dogra
Come on in and sit back and relax. You’re listening to Episode 201 of the WealthTech Today podcast. I’m your host, Craig Iskowitz, founder of Ezra Group Consulting. This podcast features interviews, news and analysis on the trends and best practices, all about wealth management technology. My guest for this episode is Amit Dogra, President […]
#ItzOnWealthTech Ep. 91: Creating a Gravitational Pull Towards Your RIA Platform with Jason Wenk, Altruist
“The most compelling thing you can have when you go to market in any industry is simply providing immense value to your users. So the combination of people who are frustrated with their current solutions, so it’s not like we had to go manufacturer demand, people are not super happy with what they have today, […]
#ItzOnWealthTech Ep. 70: Best of 2020 – Part 1
Considering the crazy events that have swept over the world so far this year, we thought it would be prudent to compile our Best of 2020 episode a little early, just in case. We had an incredible lineup of guests and it was difficult for the #ItzOnWealthtech team to decide who made the cut. We […]
#ItzOnWealthTech Ep. 65: Don’t Let Your Fintech Become a One-Trick Pony with David Lyon
“We weren’t the only ones that identified this challenge facing advisors, but it was important when we were designing our marketplace so that it wouldn’t become a one-trick pony. It wasn’t just putting a bunch of strategist models on a shelf to make it easy for advisors to adopt into their practice. That’s a component, […]
#ItzOnWealthTech Ep. 60: Technology is the Front Door for Advisors to Work with Custodians with Lauren Wilkinson
“My point of view is that technology is the business. Technology is the front door for advisors to work with the custodian. In Schwab’s case Schwab Advisor Center is really the front door for our advisors to work with Schwab, and when I think about charging fees for technology, I think, well, technology has to […]
#ItzOnWealthTech Ep. 52: Bitcoin Apathy is No Longer Kosher with Sunayna Tuteja
“The next wave of investors into digital assets, whether they’re retail clients or the RIAs, also have somewhat of a different mental model. They may or may not care about the ideology or subscribe to the ideology of the Bitcoin white paper, but they are looking at this as an investment from a very pragmatic […]