The trade group representing the UK's largest retail investment platforms has told the Financial Conduct Authority that its proposed SIPP due diligence rules risk harming consumers holding legacy assets, and has asked the regulator to spell out how far firms are expected to go before the checks become unworkable. The intervention responds to CP26/20, the FCA's consultation on adapting its rules for self-invested personal pensions, which closes on today. The UK Platform Group

CAIS's $170m Series D, Playbook's AI orchestration launch and a fresh wave of RIA M&A are turning wealth management's tech stack into an AI-native operating layer.

From a JP Morgan minted token to Astraeus going live in New York, this week's WealthTech news reads less like a product roadmap and more like the wiring diagram of a new private banking stack. If you spent the first half of August 2026 wondering whether tokenisation was still a slide in someone's keynote or an actual balance sheet event, the answer arrived on 4 August with a very unambiguous number: $311 billion. That is the pool of assets under management inside six BlackRoc

Trading Central, the Paris-based analytics firm whose research feeds trading platforms used by millions of retail investors, has crossed the line from selling signals to packaging them as an investable product. Its first exchange-traded fund, the Trading Central Quant Europe 50 Equity UCITS ETF, began trading on 6 August 2026 and marks the firm's move from research vendor to asset manager, a step few analytics providers attempt. The fund lists under the ticker TCQE (ISIN IE00