The purpose of the Financial Publishers and Media Alliance is to help the investor education, retail investment research, and financial media industries better serve the interests of individual investors.
The FPMA is doing that by taking an active role in shaping the future of the digital financial publishing & media industries.
We believe our members have a vital role to play in providing education and unbiased information to individual traders & investors.
We also believe that role includes a responsibility to protect individual investors from predatory & misleading marketing.
The FPMA is focused on providing compliance education, hosting regulatory conversations among the financial publishing, trader education, and financial media industries, and engaging both the industry and regulators in conversations around how best to serve the individual investor community.
WASHINGTON DC – As more Americans manage their own portfolios, Industry veterans have launched The Financial Publishers & Media Alliance (FPMA) to enable the investor
The Financial Publishers & Media Alliance filed comments with the Federal Trade Association on May 10th, 2022 regarding an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“ANPR”)
John Newtson, FPMA president, talks to Aaron Dehoog, one of many financial publishers who believe the FTC’s recent industry crackdown is improving the industry.
Ian is CEO of Financial Answers by Tifin
Following 15 years helping financial services firms build tools to better integrate financial data, Ian transitioned to consumer media, becoming GM of MarketWatch, Inc., one of the largest multi-channel financial media brands globally.
After MarketWatch, Ian co-founded Even Financial, now the premier platform to provide customizable financial product offers.
Following two years as CEO of Even, Ian left to become CEO of Stocktwits, Inc., the largest social network for investing and trading with more than three million members. While there, Ian extended the platform by launching Trade App, the first FINRA approved broker-dealer with social features. Ian graduated with highest honors from The University of Michigan, and currently serves on the External Advisory Board of the UM School of Information.
He also serves as a mentor to fintech founders through Techstars, and to returning US military veterans through American Corporate Partners.
Brittany Burns is the CEO of Simpler Trading, the premier online financial education platform connecting retail traders to seasoned pros for best-in-class education, tools and community.
With a focus on core values, mission and product offerings, Simpler Trading’s community has more than doubled and the company went on to rank as one of Built In Austin’s 50 Best Medium Places to Work and the ABJ’s Austin’s Best Places to Work.
Brittany Burns maintains her Virginia legal license and has worked with clients from start-ups to Fortune 200 companies to make complex communications and strategies efficient and digestible. With a focus on transformational leadership, Brittany helps founders and high-growth companies overcome plateaus, streamline their product suite, refine company culture, and scale to the next level.
Burns is an active member of Impact100 and Women’s Presidents Organization. She commits time to mentoring women within the financial services industry and provides mentoring sessions for law students who are on a non-traditional path.
Morgan Busby is CEO of Financial Media Corp which is a digital marketing and publishing firm that was started in 2011. In 2021, GFP Acquisitions, the US based subsidiary of a German Publishing Company acquired a majority stake. In 2022, FinMC helped launch a Law Enforcement de-escalation training portal.
Morgan has previously held Series 3, 7, 24, 63 and 66 licenses.
Morgan and Melanie are involved in multiple charitable organizations including Wolfson Children’s Hospital and Light of the Village. Morgan and Melanie live in Jacksonville Beach, FL with their two girls, Olivia (10) and Charlotte (5)
John Newtson is co-founder of the Financial Marketing Summit, an industry conference for financial publishers, trader educators, and digital financial media to connect, learn, and grow.
He has deep experience across financial publishing – from helping build a trader education company from scratch, to time as head of publishing for Real Vision, a next generation financial publishing & media company, to acting as head of business development for Angels & Entrepreneurs, one of the largest angel investing networks online today.
John is also managing director and founder of Pendry Cannon, a strategic consulting firm bridging the gaps between the growing digital financial publishing & media ecosystem serving tens of millions of individual investors looking for investment opportunities with other entrepreneurial and capital networks.