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Plaid is now known at DOJ as a payments disruptor as much as a picnic blanket design choice.

After shaking down Bain for evidence, DOJ files suit to stop Visa purchase of Plaid, a nightmarish turn of events for the $5.3-billion dream deal

The Feds see Plaid acquisition as naked attempt by Visa to perpetuate a monopoly with 'insurance policy;' the card giant responds with acerbic aplomb.

November 6, 2020 at 10:29 PM

Makan Delrahim: Both venture capital and antitrust are often about predicting the future competitive dynamics of competition... [and] tough decisions are necessary not only to survive but to thrive.

With Visa-Plaid deal closing five months delayed already, Feds accuse Bain & Co. of stonewalling on pricing strategy documents that cast light on anti-trust hotspot

Makan Delrahim says he won't let Bain run out the clock and the assistant US Attorney sued for the documents as part of the DOJ's antitrust investigation.

October 29, 2020 at 2:02 AM

Bill Crager is sold on financial wellness. The concept was mentioned 29 times in less than an hour at an earnings call.

Pressed by a Wall Street analyst, Bill Crager defines 'financial wellness,' a touchy-feely 'Hallmark' concept that just happens to be sweeping the financial services industry

The Envestnet CEO was self-deprecating about the 'Hallmark card' aspect of financial wellness but is targeting the company's full arsenal of products and services on the sweet equilibrium between money and life.

October 27, 2020 at 9:32 PM

Yodlee wobbled for 18 months but it never tumbled into the abyss.

Never mind the short-term gains, Bill Crager tells Wall Street he's keeping Yodlee as it wins back accounts from the Plaid-era firms with oodles of value yet to be unlocked

Envestnet modernized Yodlee, cut fees, after clients dumped it for upstarts and now the fixed-up fixer-upper is worth more in-house than on the auction block, CEO Crager says.

September 14, 2020 at 8:47 PM

Jake Gilliam: For advisors who prefer to use the framework and implement it on their own, they certainly can.

Cozier (and nearer zero-fee) by the day, Schwab again teams with Envestnet-- this time tapping the outsourcer's reach to 103,000 IBD reps to launch super-cheap model portfolios

Already bonded through PortfolioCenter and MoneyGuidePro, the San Francisco-based broker's Charles Schwab Investment Management unit chose Envestnet's supermarket with 100,000-plus advisor-shoppers for a key launch

September 2, 2020 at 6:31 AM

Marc Kasowitz: FinApps is pleased with the court’s well-reasoned opinion.

Two big adverse legal events hit Envestnet this week but the share price wavered only slightly -- perhaps for good reason

Delaware judge says 'FinApps' lawsuit can go deeper in discovery but not on counts where he had a say; Yodlee may get dragged to court, too, in Northern California but the Chicago firm's stock holds mostly steady at $82

August 29, 2020 at 6:55 PM

Cynthia Loh continues to draw up a digital model at Schwab.

With Envestnet-Yodlee help, Charles Schwab & Co. puts finishing touch on freemium model with free planning; it also -- Personal Capital style -- launches freebie tools for non-Schwab clients

The San Francisco-brokerage is private-labelling MoneyGuidePro plan software and Yodlee for aggregated account data, to launch free retirement planning onto the market ahead of closing its merger with TD Ameritrade.

August 22, 2020 at 5:05 AM

Bill Crager: I don't think because we're in a COVID uncertain age, that we're seeing the growth that we saw over the last quarter.

Envestnet's shares are surging; it's getting Tamarac's 1,000-plus RIAs to invest more of their $1.2 trillion of assets in its managed accounts and MoneyGuidePro is succeeding as part of the Tamarac bundle

CEO Bill Crager told analysts that RIA clients are connecting to his Chicago outsourcer more broadly, improving profits and making the outlook bright

August 15, 2020 at 1:46 AM

Eric Clarke: We have the scale now we need to effectively compete in a number of areas to help us win enterprise opportunities.

In a deal wired by a 'Tony,' Orion leaps to the top TAMP tier, with $42 billion and $1 trillion-plus of RIA portfolios, which may make it more lethal to rivals

At the urging of Genstar's Tony Salewski, the Omaha organization will pay an estimated $600 million for Brinker. In the process, Orion becomes a 1,000-employee firm-- one notch below No. 3 AssetMark on the TAMP list

June 30, 2020 at 2:24 AM

Peter D'Arrigo: 'Yodlee... is starting to, or actually beginning of last year, running into some headwinds in terms of growth, particularly within that analytics segment.

Envestnet cautions about Yodlee subscription 'headwinds' and the FTC asking more Yodlee-data questions as the company recorded a blowout revenue quarter

With the Redwood City-based analytics unit's possible sale put to bed for now, the Chicago firm reveals new worries about data privacy and competition but Envestnet proper's automated platform is the bomb in pandemic shutdown

May 19, 2020 at 2:48 AM

Megan Carpenter: 'The rules of the game have changed.'

COVID-19 crushes RIA conference schedule; 100 gatherings are in jeopardy along with the bottom lines of publications and organizations

Pershing INSITE is the latest biggie to cancel and firms are all over the map about when it'll be 'safe' for more than 10 people to gather at any one time.

April 14, 2020 at 5:58 AM

Barrett Ayers: Adhesion may increase its headcount by a further 40% in the coming year, a pace of hiring  that will continue for the 'foreseeable future.'

Vestmark credits a 'tip-off' and an unlikely rocket propellant -- advertising spend -- for Adhesion's 68% asset jump in first-year under its wing

When the Wakefield, Mass., TAMP bought Adhesion in 2018, its execs cited its 'be-like-Envestnet' mindset for growing RIA marketshare

April 7, 2020 at 12:58 AM

Sen. Ron Wyden: 'The consumer data that Envestnet collects and sells is highly sensitive.'

The odd case of Envestnet/Yodlee getting singled out as data scofflaw, just four days after Visa deal to buy rival Plaid and nine months after Raj Udeshi's 'Theranos' outcry

Three Capitol Hill Democrats urged the Federal Trade Commission to probe the small firm -- and nobody else -- with little explanation of where its practices allegedly diverge from the norm

January 27, 2020 at 7:29 PM

Bill Crager: Broker-dealers and banks will become service providers and solution enablers for a new breed of advisor and with our partnership with Dynasty we will be able to offer support as these models emerge and evolve.

After finally knocking down a wall at LPL, Envestnet takes a minority stake in Dynasty Financial, puts Bill Crager on the board and prepares for future upmarket

The Chicago outsourcer hopes to go deeper with big RIAs and enterprises -- starting with an exchange of B2B loans and other wares from Shirl Penney's firm.

January 10, 2020 at 2:33 AM

Jud Bergman: 'I was a reluctant entrepreneur. There was never an 'aha' moment, just a growing conviction that this was a good thing to do.'

Jud Bergman, wife Mary Miller-Bergman die tragically in San Francisco head-on car collision, stunning a devastated RIA business community

The 62 year-old Envestnet CEO, chairman and co-founder was in a taxi crash in San Francisco with suspected drunk driver; Miller founded Hanover Hill Wealth Advisors in Chicago

October 4, 2019 at 4:47 AM

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