A 'perp walk' is still preferred but oddly unified SEC and FINRA signal that wild west days are over for robo-advisors and blockchain coins

Trout's comments regarding robo-advice providers are on the money. Contrary to what Oisin implies, the SEC's published priorities for 2019 say absolutely nothing about digita/robo advice, and there are other sources and articles indicating that robo/digital advice was a major focus of the SEC 2018 and prior years, that they had a small number of enforcement actions (cited in this article), and that the industry has been left fully intact without any findings or citations that strike at the core business model of digital wealth management services or providers. Contrary to the implication of the article title, the robo-advice space is not under attack by the regulators. Hogwash.

The 2018 published SEC examination priorities cite a focus on "Electronic Investment Advice" - <a href="https://www.sec.gov/about/offices/ocie/national-examination-program-priorities-2018.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.sec.gov/about/offices/ocie/national-examination-program-priorities-2018.pdf</a> The 2019 examination priorities specifically make no such mention - <a href="https://www.sec.gov/files/OCIE%202019%20Priorities.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.sec.gov/files/OCIE%202019%20Priorities.pdf</a> I don't think "perp walking" robo-advisors is on their agenda.