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Untested Robo-Advisers Are Becoming a Big Market Risk
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FinTech is now considered trendy enough to be part of the 2017 South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas -- one of the most important technology and culture conferences in the U.S. -- along with Kesha, "Game of Thrones" and Mark Cuban.
The realm of financial technology is a hodgepodge of businesses touching finance, investing, and capital movements that is lumped into a trendy but amorphous hypernym. But, behind the trendy term and some big opportunities are major risks that threaten individual investors in a way that could exacerbate financial market moves.