After the global launch of The FinTech Book in 2016, we met thousands of FinTech entrepreneurs, investors and financial services professionals who all loved the book and wanted to learn more about how financial technology will change the global investment/wealth management sector and private banking.

We came up with the idea for The WealthTech Book, spoke to our FinTech friends globally and everybody supported the idea. FinTech entrepreneurs across all continents were eager to share their powerful insights. They wanted to explain the new business models and technologies they were working on to change the world of finance. FinTech investors, “intrapreneurs”, innovation leaders at leading financial institutions and thought leaders were keen to describe their embrace of the FinTech revolution across investment management and private banking. Finally, our WealthTech visionaries wanted to share their vision for the future.

The global effort of crowdsourcing such insights was born with The FinTech Book, which became a global bestseller across 107 countries in five languages. We built on this success with The WealthTech Book. We are aware that this would not have been possible without the FINTECH Circle global community, the Swiss FinTech Innovation Lab community and our own personal networks. We are very grateful to the almost 100,000 members of FINTECH Circle for joining us daily across our websites (www.FINTECHCircle.com, www.swissfintechinnovationlab.ch), our Twitter accounts and our LinkedIn groups. Without public support and the engagement of our global FinTech community, this book would not have been possible.

The authors you will read about have been chosen by our global FinTech community purely on merit – no matter how big or small their organization, no matter which country they work in, no matter if they are well known or still undiscovered, everybody had the same chance to apply and be part of The WealthTech Book. We are proud of that, as we believe that FinTech and WealthTech will fundamentally change the world of finance and asset management. The global FinTech and WealthTech community is made up of the smartest, most innovative and nicest people we know. Thank you for being part of our journey. It is difficult to name you all here, but you are all listed in the directory at the end of this book.

Our publisher, Wiley, has been a great partner for The FinTech Book and we are delighted that Wiley will again publish The WealthTech Book in paperback and e-book formats globally. Special thanks go to our fantastic editor, Gemma Valler. Thank you to you and your team – we could not have done it without your amazing support!

We look forward to hearing from you. Please visit our website www.WealthTECHBook.com for additional bonus content from our global WealthTech community! Please send us your comments on The WealthTech Book and let us know how you wish to be engaged by dropping us a line at [email protected] or [email protected].

Susanne Chishti Thomas Puschmann

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