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Ed O'Brien: “It’s just interesting timing, quite frankly."

Ed O'Brien recalled to Fidelity's mothership, bestowing him with power perhaps second only to 'Abby,' a key observer says, though at a huge cost--the sudden decapitation of eMoney

The suddenness of the move caught O'Brien off-guard, but Mike Durbin has consistently said his goal is to infuse investment management with wealth management and eMoney, which O'Brien calls home, sits at that intersection.

March 10, 2022 at 2:27 AM

Mike Durbin: Rohit’s experience is at that intersection of fin+tech.

Fidelity Institutional makes biggest hire in years -- a very familiar face in RIA technology -- in a play for software and data 'interoperability,' something Salesforce 'got right' before it lost its RIA mojo

The $4.2 trillion Boston unit for 13,500 third party wealth managers got Rohit Mahna who was the financial CRM guy at the San Francisco giant

December 15, 2021 at 4:02 AM

Kathleen Murphy: 'I’d always had 57 penciled in, in terms of taking stock … I’m so over New England Winters, too.'

Fidelity Investments loses Kathleen Murphy who largely caught up Fido to Schwab (near $4T) on the retail side by reversing net promoter scores

The 'no whining allowed' leader of the Boston giant's retail business, who oversaw $2 trillion in net new assets, was ready to exit but hung in through a year dominated by COVID-19 challenges

January 23, 2021 at 2:02 AM

Mike Durbin:  '[The growth of FCCS] has been meteoric [thanks to removing internal walls] so now we're widening that [wall-less approach] out.'

Fidelity Institutional looks like a big TAMP after Mike Durbin removes last internal walls between products and advisors after 'meteoric' 2019 leap; two Fido RIA sales legends depart amid the shift

Rich Policastro and Tom Valverde are out after Fidelity Custody & Clearing assets leap to $2.6 trillion AUA, restructuring gets the credit -- and so restructuring gets extended.

March 13, 2020 at 10:36 PM

Mike Durbin: I've never seen us more strategically anxious.

Mike Durbin says Fidelity Institutional has heightened 'strategic anxiety' softened by its best asset growth ever

His $2.6-trillion unit's 2017 asset growth includes big adds from AssetMark, Sepio, Carson Group and Principal Securities

March 23, 2018 at 3:19 AM

Lori Hardwick: We get three to four calls a week of people wanting to invest.

How Lori Hardwick's startup -- funded to the gills -- may co-opt the advisor desktop by creating an overarching open architecture

The co-founder's AI Labs is a portal-of-portals software that means to create -- and just may -- a virtual mono-custodian, mono-software platform

March 15, 2018 at 1:53 AM

Kelly Waltrich headlined a raft of sales marketing and client-support hires by Orion.

'New Moves in the Biz' section rises as human assets in RIA business flow

The RIABiz micro-stories are diverse. A robo startup star migrates to legacy-land, Sallie Krawcheck hires a CMO, an ex-NBA player bounces out of Goldman and an advisor moves back to Cleveland to put the '& son' in his father's RIA

January 3, 2018 at 7:28 PM

Mike Durbin: The number one thing I will do in this job is serve as chief advocate for our clients.

'No BS' Mike Durbin leapfrogs up the Fidelity Investments ladder but can he serve RIAs, eMoney and Abby?

RIAs run out of superlatives for the eight-year exec's ability to 'get it' at both the intrapreneurial and entrepreneurial level as he ascends to president of $2.3-trillion Fidelity Institutional

October 6, 2017 at 8:06 PM

Fidelity can only offer so much to a Gen X talent like Bob Oros

Fidelity begins search for new RIA national sales manager as Bob Oros goes millennial, vacating a prized position

The kids pioneered the mindset but now the Oroses of the world grab quality-of-work, make-a-difference opportunities that their experience allows them to command

January 14, 2017 at 1:51 AM

Mike Durbin didn't know he'd end up as the eMoney CEO when he agreed to oversee its onboarding.

Mike Durbin takes new RIA+ job at Fidelity after an unlooked-for two-year eMoney mission concludes

After Abby Johnson had former RIA chief troubleshoot $250-million purchase, he comes back to stock shelves with robo and alt goodies

December 8, 2016 at 12:08 AM

Ed O'Brien: When you look at what eMoney is doing, it is creating tools to help advisors that don't even clear or custody with Fidelity.

As Ed O'Brien packs his bags for Philly to take eMoney CEO reins, Mike Durbin resumes his job modifying Fidelity's future from finance to software

Fidelity is piloting eMoney in its own private client business as Thomas McCarthy fills O'Brien's shoes and Durbin eyes more acquisitions

March 18, 2016 at 8:18 PM

Mike Durbin: You get investment in your business because you prove that you're delivering a return for it. And I feel like we're doing that.

After years of work to gain parity with Schwab RIA custody, Fidelity is ready to show fruits of its $250 million move to gain an edge

With ex-Schwabbie Bob Oros in RIA charge, Mike Durbin as leapfrogger-in-chief, and Sanjiv Mirchandani at the big desk, the Boston-based custody division is set to launch its new technology platform

February 3, 2016 at 7:46 PM

Mike Durbin: We want eMoney to infect the rest of Fidelity to change its culture, thus we need to keep it independent.

Mike Durbin goes deep at eMoney Summit on why Fidelity got into RIA software -- a 'culture' point driven home by mind-bending MoneyGuidePro news

eMoney's interim boss, long the king of Fido RIA custody, speaks of eMoney as a de facto genetic implant of blue ocean culture

October 22, 2015 at 6:10 PM

Mike Durbin: It's an unbundling. That's exactly what it is.

Mike Durbin gets right to work as eMoney CEO with MoneyGuidePro coopetition deal -- even though he's 'interim'

The collaboration of the two sworn competitors and a Fidelity guy in between validates that so-called 'dashboard' technology a killer category with new entrants on the way

October 22, 2015 at 12:37 AM

Edmond Walters is making an exit, as bold in nature as his entrepreneurial reputation.

Edmond Walters bolts from eMoney and Fidelity Investments scrambles to manage the jilt

Six months after the $250-million deal, the entrepreneur leaves with no public explanation and Mike Durbin takes his CEO spot for now

September 3, 2015 at 7:44 PM

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