Category : News

Amazon to Roll Out Pay-With-Palm at Whole Foods Stores

Amazon.com announced that it is rolling out its biometrics technology Amazon One as a payment option at Whole Foods stores in the Seattle area over the coming months. The multinational company had introduced Amazon One as a fast, convenient, contactl...

Helvetia Venture Fund Acquires German Property Finance Company Baufi24

The Helvetia Venture Fund is investing in Baufi24, a German property finance company, by acquiring its shares as part of a series A financing round. Venture capital firm btov also took part in the financing round alongside Helvetia Venture Fund. The...

56 Fintech Billionaires Worth a Combined US$327B in 2021

There are 56 fintech billionaires around the world who combine a total net worth of US$327.7 billion, data curated by Finextra based on Forbes’ 2021 World’s Billionaires list show. These represent some of the world’s biggest and most successful finte...

Relio Aims to Build Digital Accounts for Swiss SMEs

Relio, a Swiss provider of digital accounts for SMEs, announced the closing of a pre-seed financing round of CHF 0.7 million with SIX FinTech Ventures and High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF). The firm also received additional support from the former Revolu...

St.Galler Fintech revolutioniert das Anlegen des Altersguthabens

Die PSS, führende Fintech-Spezialistin für die Anlage des freien Altersguthabens, lanciert eine neue Fintech-Anlageplattform – zugeschnitten auf das Kundensegment 55+. Die neue PSS-Plattform ermöglicht die vollständig papierlose Kundenbetreuung, wobe...

Klarpay Secures FINMA License, Plans to Roll Out Borderless Multi-Currency Accounts

Zug-based merchant payments company Klarpay announced that it has secured a license to offer borderless multi-currency accounts to digital businesses from the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA). Switzerland introduced the fintech li...

12 Fintech Leader Women to Follow in Switzerland in 2021

Fintech News Switzerland has selected some fintech women leaders in the Swiss fintech sector. These 12 women have gained the trust and respect of their peers through hard work, dedication and leadership. They are now driving changes in the traditiona...

Finnova Introduces ‘Open Banking As a Service’ Solution

Finnova, a Swiss provider of banking solutions, announced that it is launching its ‘open banking as a service’ solution with the implementation of the Swiss NextGen Banking API. The as-a-service solution enables the simple, efficient and...

2 Swiss Startups Chosen for PwC’s UK Wealthtech Accelerator Programme

PwC has announced the latest cohort of fintechs who have joined the Wealth Scale programme which will support nine wealthtech businesses. Two of the startups chosen were Swiss-based; Conser and 3rd Eyes Analytics. The other startups that made the lis...

BLKB Starts Digital Bank Project “Radicant”

Swiss cantonal bank Basellandschaftliche Kantonalbank (BLKB) in partnership with with Dr. Anders Bally, the founder of venture firm Bally Capital Partners, announced that they have launched Radicant, a Zurich-based digital financial services provider...

Tencent-Backed BUX Raises $80 Million to Expand Its Free Trading Platform

BUX, a European mobile brokerage company based in Amsterdam and London, announced that it has raised US$ 80 million from a group of investors. The funding round was led by Prosus Ventures and Tencent, with participation from additional new investors...

Neobank, Challenger Bank Maps Showcase Boom in Digital Banking

Since 2010, more than 310 neobanks have launched around the world, attracting an estimated 39 million users globally. Out of the 300+ ventures to have ever launched, 256 were live as of late-2020 with nearly half (111) located in Europe, data from Eu...

“BORN IN SWITZERLAND” Swiss Original Fintech Overview Map Update: 185 Companies

Luc Schuurmans, Head Private Banking, Executive Management at Bank Linth, put together an updated overview map of Fintech Companies “Born in Switzerland”. Since his last update, he collected 1 more Swiss Fintechs- Aidonic Here are the descriptions o...

Die 3a-Vorsorge App frankly verstärkt den Fokus auf Nachhaltigkeit: 600 Millionen Meilenstein

Die Vorsorge-App frankly ermöglicht Nutzerinnen und Nutzer in ihrer Säule 3a ein einfaches und günstiges Vorsorgesparen mit Wertschriften. Die rein digitale Lösung der Vorsorgestiftung Sparen 3 der Zürcher Kantonalbank hat im ersten Jahr nach ihrer L...

SumUp und N26 kooperieren für bargeldlosen Zahlungslösungen für Selbständige

SumUp hat eine Partnerschaft mit der mobilen Bank N26 verkündet. Die beiden Branchenpioniere wollen Freiberuflern, Selbstständigen und UnternehmerInnen in ganz Europa dabei helfen, einfach und flexibel bargeldlose Zahlungen zu akzeptieren. Die Kooper...