{"id":1700,"date":"2025-12-19T03:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T03:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elcaminofinancial.com\/blog\/?p=1700"},"modified":"2026-02-04T07:11:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T07:11:42","slug":"something-big-is-coming-partnership-announcement-on-january-1-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elcaminofinancial.com\/blog\/something-big-is-coming-partnership-announcement-on-january-1-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Something Big Is Coming: Partnership Announcement on January 1, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

UPDATE: ECF’s BIG announcement has been delayed to January 15, 2026. Thank you for your patience! ECF is excited continue to provide the best Financial Planning tool for Financial Advisors in 2026! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we enter 2026, we\u2019re excited to share that El Camino Financial will be announcing a new partnership on January 1, 2026. This upcoming partnership is centered on supporting financial planners with better infrastructure tools designed for how financial planning firms actually operate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Along with this announcement, we\u2019ve refreshed our website to better reflect who we serve and where we\u2019re headed. El Camino Financial is built as a financial planner OS, bringing key planning workflows together in one place and helping planners spend less time managing disconnected systems and more time focused on clients. The updated site highlights this planner-first approach while making it easier to explore how our platform fits into a modern advisory firm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, our broader mission remains unchanged. We believe financial planning should be more accessible across the United States. That\u2019s why we continue to offer the El Camino Financial app free to individuals, helping more people understand their finances and take meaningful steps toward planning. When individuals are better informed, planners are able to have better, more productive conversations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re excited about what\u2019s coming next and look forward to sharing more details soon. If you\u2019re a financial planner building a client-first, scalable practice, we think you\u2019ll feel right at home with what\u2019s ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join us on January 1, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– SERGIO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATE: ECF’s BIG announcement has been delayed to January 15, 2026. Thank you for your patience! ECF is excited continue to provide the best Financial Planning tool for Financial Advisors in 2026! As we enter 2026, we\u2019re excited to share that El Camino Financial will be announcing a new partnership on January 1, 2026. This upcoming partnership is centered on supporting financial planners with better infrastructure tools designed for how financial planning firms actually operate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,19],"tags":[14,21,24,8,27],"class_list":["post-1700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-professionals","category-updates","tag-ecf","tag-financial-planning","tag-fintech","tag-personal-finance","tag-wealthtech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elcaminofinancial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elcaminofinancial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elcaminofinancial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elcaminofinancial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elcaminofinancial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elcaminofinancial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elcaminofinancial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elcaminofinancial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elcaminofinancial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elcaminofinancial.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}