Welcome to the Wealthtech Weekly, your roundup of the latest news and trends in the fintech industry.

What’s going on:

• Connected nets $2.6 million for expansion
• TradePMR integrates with CircleBlack
• Eyeballs Financial becomes part of Wealth Engineering Expert Sourcing Consortium
• GBST goes for rebranding and boasts a new version of its Composer platform
• Crystal Capital Partners is slowly accumulating talent super unit
• Masttro bags $43 million, mainly from FTV Capital
• Tampa boils with GPT discussions this week

Let’s get a better view of what's happening.

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.

Daniel Reibsamen is CTO at Guidance Residential — a provider of exclusive Muslim-tailored home financing options. With his primary task being to take the company national and digital, he dedicated 10 years to Guidance Residential and continues to push the limits. Daniel’s main goal is for the clients to get access to the technology that all the large banks have, just the way they need it.