OORI, a Riyadh-based investment platform, has secured a licence from the Saudi Capital Market Authority to conduct arranging and advising activities, giving it a regulated route to sell private market investments to qualified Saudi investors. The authorisation, held under CMA licence number 26341-30, positions the platform to open access to venture, growth and pre-IPO technology deals that have historically sat behind high minimums and limited distribution. The launch is fund

As advisers digest a wave of platform launches and the sector's second quarter figures land, WealthTech is quietly redrawing the boundaries between plumbing and product. The Story That Set the Tone This Week WealthTech does not usually give us headline-grabbing summer drama, but the first full week of August 2026 has delivered a genuinely useful preview of where the sector is heading. Following last Tuesday's announcement, Orion introduced fractional share trading for financi

Altruist's Hazel graduates from waitlist, SS&C plugs a stablecoin settlement rail into tokenised funds, and a wave of Series D and pre-seed capital rewrites what advisor-led means.

WealthReach has acquired AdvisorRankings, a boutique search optimization agency that works exclusively with financial advisors, folding an established SEO and AI-search practice into a platform that has spent 2026 assembling the pieces of an organic-growth stack for registered investment advisors. The deal, announced from New York, gives WealthReach an in-house, done-for-you service to sit alongside its self-serve technology, and it lands as a growing share of prospective cli