Category : News

McKinsey: COVID-19 Pandemic Shakes Up European Fintech Landscape

The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing global economic crisis have shaken up the fintech industry, forcing many to readjust their strategies and expand their revenue streams on the back of a contracted funding environment. After growing more than 25% a ye...

Berner Kantonalbank Joins Swiss Immo Lab To Invest in Proptech Startups

Berner Kantonalbank (BEKB) joins venture capital firm Swiss Immo Lab, to invest in innovative proptech startups. BEKB is now the fourth partner alongside Avobis, Hypothekarbank Lenzburg and Gebäudeversicherung Bern (GVB). Since its inception in Decem...

Hitachi and Swiss Re Link up for ‘Digital Risk’ Coverage

Swiss Re Corporate Solutions and Hitachi Europe announced a partnership to launch integrated insurance-based offerings for the digital era. As organisations increasingly depend on Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered automation for critical business...

Salesforce Ventures Launches US$100M Fund for Cloud Startups

Salesforce announced its second Impact Fund worth US$100 million from Salesforce Ventures, the company’s global strategic investment arm. The new fund will accelerate the growth of cloud companies addressing some of today’s most pressing needs includ...

Traditionelle Privatkredite versus P2P Lending in der Schweiz

In der Schweiz gibt es zahlreiche Wege, um einen Kredit zu erhalten und zahlreiche Anbieter, aus denen man wählen kann. Herkömmliche Kreditgeber oder Crowdlending-Plattformen – beide haben ihre jeweiligen Vorteile und Nachteile, die berücksicht...

Swiss ATM’s Get Standardised Software

SIX has completed the “ATMfutura” migration where banks that have equipped their ATMs with a standardised software, enabling users to carry out financial transactions regardless of the operator of the device. As an operator of the infrastructure for...

Swiss Fintech KeeSystem Launches a New Version of Its Wealth Management Software

KeeSystem launches its new version of KeeSense, its portfolio management software for independent managers. It pursues its objective initiated when it was created in 2009: to provide private management professionals with the best technology for their...

The Swiss Fintech Startup Map Welcomes 9 Newcomers in October

Swisscom has released the updated Swiss Fintech Startup Map for October 2020, providing updates on the fintech landscape in the region. For this month, the nine new Swiss fintech startups have made their way onto the map are; Aisot, flov technologies...

NEC Acquires Avaloq for CHF 2.05 Billion

Avaloq, a Swiss company that develops and provides software for core banking, announced its acquisition by Japanese NEC Corporation. The acquisition is expected to be worth CHF 2.05 billion (approximately US$2.2 billion), and to be completed by April...

eKYC Landscape in Austria and Germany

Like many countries in Europe, Germany and Austria are looking to adopt digital KYC in order to streamline the customer onboarding process. A digital onboarding process allows banks and financial institutions to offer a good first impression to custo...

Banking Circle Bags Two Digital Awards by Juniper Research

Banking Circle has been awarded two prestigious awards at Juniper Research’s Future Digital Awards for Technology and Innovation this year. The financial infrastructure provider was awarded the Lending Platform Platinum Award for Banking Circle...

Entersekt und ndgit gehen Partnerschaft ein

Entersekt, spezialisiert auf Mobilgeräte basierte Identitätsprüfung und Omnichannel Authentifizierungs-Lösungen, hat eine strategische Partnerschaft mit ndgit, einem Open-Finance-Plattform- Anbieter mit Sitz in München, bekanntgegeben. Ab sofort ist...

A Deep Dive Into the European Open Banking Adoption and Fintech Collaboration Space

Across the world, banks in Europe are being the most active in adopting open banking, and the majority of them are pursuing a collaborative approach when it comes to developing new, innovative products, a new survey found. The study, conducted in 201...

Baloise Adds Proptech Startup Houzy to Its Expanding ‘Home’ Ecosystem

Baloise, a Swiss insurtech company, is expanding its ‘Home’ ecosystem by investing in Houzy, a digital platform for homeowners, adding a further dimension to the ecosystem. The long-term equity investment in Houzy is the fourth alliance announced for...

Proptech Map Switzerland wächst um 10 %

PropTech Map Switzerland wächst um 10 %. Fast alle Kategorien haben zu diesem Wachstum beigetragen. Auch der Auftritt der PropTech Map Switzerland ist bunter geworden. So hat jede Kategorie nun eine Farbe und die Anzahl Nennungen sind im Kategorienti...