Smaller banks with a long history are evolving to face the challenge from the mushrooming Fintechs and the banking crisis. They are doing particularly great because of the strong community support they’ve nurtured for decades with their financial services, but that's not the only reason.

Learn who's supporting the U.S. financial system for Fintechs in particular and doing the best in these tumultuous times by banking on the community.

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.

All the next-gen financial technology in the world is useless if clients do not trust you. And trust begins with deeds and proper communication.

SVB’s bankruptcy has several lessons to teach us. To me, the main one is that communication matters, especially in times of crisis.

In this article, I’ll show you how proper communication can increase customer engagement, cement customers’ trust in your services or product, and save your business from sinking. Also, I’ll show what makes up a benchmark business-to-client communication in Fintech.