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Wealthica and Simon Boulet Named FinTech Leader of the Year 2021 by “Finance et Investissement”

Wealthica' the leading Financial Data Platform in Canada and Simon Boulet, have been named as FinTech Leader of the Year by Finance et Investissement, the preeminent source of information in Quebec for professionals in the financial services sector. 2021 was a hallmark year for Wealthica. The company now serves over 50,000 users, aggregating over 200 institutions and…

February 23, 20220Comments

ByBilly Kawasaki

budgeting

Investing Uncategorized

How to Avoid Outliving your Retirement Fund

One of the things that you need to do while planning for retirement is determining how long you expect your retirement to last. True, that’s easier said than done; predicting how long you will live as a retiree is not just dreadful, but also very easy to get wrong. What if you end up living…

February 14, 20220Comments

ByKonstantinos Kosmidis

tax season

Wealthica Launches New Tool to Help Canadians Prepare for Tax Season, Now Aggregating $18B in Assets

Wealthica, the leading Financial Data Platform in Canada, launches a new tool to help Canadians prepare for tax season. Canadians now track over $18 billion dollars worth of assets, including stocks and bonds, real estate, cryptocurrencies and more on the platform. Wealthica launches the Registered Contribution Tracker. This feature enables users to better track and manage…

February 8, 20220Comments

ByBilly Kawasaki

Dividend Tracker

Dividend Tracking was Never that Easy!

Dividend Tracking shouldn’t be hard. Either a well-made dividend tracking spreadsheet or a dividend tracking app is enough to start tracking your dividends.

October 27, 20210Comments

ByKonstantinos Kosmidis

Press Release Uncategorized

Wealthica Announces SOC 2 Type II Compliance

Wealthica, the leading Financial Data Platform in Canada, announces the successful completion of the audit to obtain the System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 Type II certification. A SOC 2 Type II certification is an audit performed by an independent auditor that confirms that Wealthica’s internal controls are effective for protecting customer information. A SOC 2…

October 5, 20210Comments

ByBilly Kawasaki

Free Tickets to Canadian Financial Summit

Canada's top financial experts are coming together to help you save more, invest better and worry less. The summit is designed to give you actionable advice through engaging seminars. Wealthica will be speaking at the summit to talk about our platform! Learn how to: Retire early on your own terms; Invest better; …

September 17, 20210Comments

ByBilly Kawasaki

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Here’s Something Better than the RBC Direct Investing App

Do your needs go beyond what the RBC Direct Investing app can offer? No sweat. Wealthica’s app will help you track your net worth and investments in one place!

September 14, 20210Comments

ByKonstantinos Kosmidis

Vezgo Crypto API - Zabo Alternative

Looking for a Zabo Alternative? The Vezgo Crypto API Has you Covered…

As you may already know, Zabo is being acquired by Coinbase and they won’t be offering their crypto API as a service anymore. Since there aren’t many great services like Zabo out there, this is quite disappointing. But I’m very glad to announce to you that it’s not the end of the world! Vezgo Is…

August 13, 20210Comments

ByKonstantinos Kosmidis

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Help and How To

Why you Don’t Need an Interactive Brokers API Documentation

Your search for an Interactive Brokers API documentation stops here. This is how you can have your balance, holdings, and transactions history in one place…

July 27, 20210Comments

ByKonstantinos Kosmidis

Journey Updates

Early Free Access to Crypto Tracking Feature

We recently shared our secret link to add crypto institutions to your Wealthica on Reddit. You can get early free access to the CRYPTO tracking feature we've been working on for the last few weeks. It's currently a hidden feature you can only unlock using the special link. You can now track all your…

June 2, 20210Comments

ByBilly Kawasaki

Journey Updates Uncategorized

Connect your Wealthica

We've been working hard to enhance our product capability and our aggregation offering for developers and other Fintech apps for Canadians. If you are a developer, have a look at Wealthica for Developers. We are happy to announce 3 third-party apps that now work with Wealthica. …

April 26, 20210Comments

ByBilly Kawasaki

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Journey Updates

Introducing Wealthica V2

We're happy to announce that we are about to launch we're launching a huge enhancement for the desktop application that we call V2. Wealthica V2 features an enhanced design, better filtering options and lots of new features on the Holdings page. We've also made it easier to distinguish your regular banking from your investments…

January 28, 20210Comments

ByBilly Kawasaki

Help and How To

How to buy stocks in Canada? The DIY Investing, Advisors or Robo Dilemma

Are you ready to start investing your hard earned money so your money works just as hard for you? You might be wondering how to buy stocks in Canada and where to start on your DIY Investing journey. But, do you really have to do it yourself? There are a variety of different resources…

November 3, 20200Comments

ByMelisa Hernandez

FDATA North America Releases Report On Competition Issues Around Open Banking in Canada

On July 17, the Financial Data and Technology Association (FDATA) of North America released a paper on competition issues around customer-directed finance (often referred to as "Open Banking") and the financial data access competitive landscape in Canada. The paper’s release coincided with a virtual presentation by FDATA North America Executive Director Steve Boms, Senator Colin…

July 22, 20200Comments

Banking+Investment: Effortlessly Track All Accounts In One Place

We're bringing you even more ways to effortlessly track all accounts in one place. Late last year, we quietly introduced support for banking institutions as a beta, so you could track your global wealth across all your financial accounts. This feature enables you to add your regular bank accounts, credit cards, and investments you hold within…

June 8, 20200Comments

Help and How To Investing

Use the Wealthsimple API to Do More: Wealthsimple and Wealthsimple Trade Enhanced

Connecting your Wealthsimple account to Wealthica has never been easier. The Wealthsimple Trade and Wealthsimple API allow you to easily connect your account to Wealthica securely with just a few clicks. This means you no longer need to enter your credentials when connecting your Wealthsimple account to Wealthica, securely giving you instant control over your…

March 9, 20200Comments

Help and How To

Questrade API and the App Hub – Quickly Export Transactions to Google Sheets

Questrade is the most popular Canadian online brokerage, an independent company recommended by thousands of online reviews and real users. We selected it as the Best of All Canadian Brokerages in Stockchase's Questrade vs Others comparison of all Canadian brokerages. We also wrote a full Questrade Review on Stockchase. One of our favourite features on Questrade is…

February 18, 20200Comments

Tax Season

Journey Updates

It’s Tax Season! Here’s how Wealthica can help

The last product update was about Wealthica being free, teaming up with Finance Montréal and Wealthscope scorecard. This month, it's all about tax season! Tax Season Tax season is coming up, and it’s important for investors to have a simple way to declare taxable gains and transactions. For TFSAs and registered accounts such as RRSPs…

February 17, 20200Comments

Move Over ‘Open Banking’, Say Hi to ‘Consumer-Directed Finance’

About a year ago, I reported on the Department of Finance Canada launching a public consultation on the merits of open banking. On January 31, 2020, Minister of Finance, Bill Morneau, released the findings from the first phase of the review by the Advisory Committee and announced that the committee will go through a…

February 12, 20200Comments

Wealthica Welcomes Eric Lemieux

Eric Lemieux, former Senior Executive at Desjardins, Joins Wealthica

MONTREAL, Jan. 29, 2020 - Wealthica the largest financial aggregator in Canada and the only aggregator specialized in Canadian investment accounts is pleased to announce that Eric Lemieux has joined the leadership team. Eric Lemieux is also an investor in Wealthica. Eric Lemieux, a senior executive specializing in the financial industry has developed extensive experience notably…

January 29, 20200Comments

Automated Portfolio Rebalancing Coming to Wealthica, Thanks to Passiv

We are happy to announce a partnership with Canadian Fintech Startup Passiv, to automatically calculate trades and follow a target portfolio asset allocation. Rebalance Instantly Canadian Investors can use Passiv Lite for free within Wealthica. Wealthica makes it possible for self-directed investors to automatically load one's ETF portfolio into Passiv and calculate trades needed based on the…

January 24, 20200Comments

Help and How To

How to Succeed with Canadian Couch Potato Investing

Index investing, passive investing or Couch Potato investing is meant to reduce your costs (i.e. low management fees) while beating most of the mutual funds and/or advisor-managed accounts. The strategy is no secret: you choose a few low cost index-trade funds (ETFs) to create your own all-ETF portfolio according to your risk profile and…

January 23, 20200Comments

Journey Updates

Why is Wealthica Free? Happy New Year from Wealthica

Happy New Year! ? We’re happy to be starting off the year with a new product update for January. We’ve added several new add-ons to facilitate your investment management, announced a partnership with Fintech Station, and continue to improve your user experience on Wealthica. But before we go further into our product update, an early 2020…

January 14, 20200Comments

Help and How To

Instant Portfolio Analysis – The Secret to Exceed Your Financial Goals

Have you ever wondered if your portfolio is properly diversified and protected against downside? Wealthica is excited to announce the Wealthscope Portfolio Scorecard, available on Wealthica. The scorecard is available to all Wealthica users through a monthly or annual subscription. Interestingly, while it is not difficult to find individual stock or fund reports (most brokerages provide…

January 10, 20200Comments

Help and How To

How to Automatically Import/Export your Stocks Portfolio to Yahoo! Finance

Yahoo! Finance has a great app for stock quotes and news. You might like to use Yahoo! Finance mobile app to stay informed about the stocks you watch or own. Keeping your Yahoo! Finance watch list in sync with your actual portfolio might be a challenge. Wealthica solves this problem for you…

December 29, 20190Comments