Welcome to the news highlights of this week. Why on Wednesday, not Friday? To let you be the first to know how much the global wealth management software market might reach by 2030. But names first.

What’s going on: Appital takes a funding bite of £1.7m, Scripbox buys Wealth Managers (hopefully, not all who populate this planet), Dezerv bites more funding than Appital, MeDirect goes pan-European, Serrala picks new exec, KeyBank adds BlueSnap to its eco-system, and South Africa gets its first passive micro-investing app. Let’s add some detail.

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