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Edward Jones: Partnership
Edward Jones announced a commercial partnership with Carefull, a digital financial protection platform, offering it at no cost to all US clients. Edward Jones also made a direct investment through its venture capital arm (Edward Jones Ventures).
Source: FinTech Global
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Alliances like this can broaden financial services commercial leadership bench strength.
Market context: Against a Talent Market Index of 108 (Hot) (up 2.4 month-on-month), Americas is at rising (+15.4pts) on signal share.
Edward Jones: 1 signal in the last 90 days — in line with the Financial Services median of 1 across 21 tracked companies.
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