News / Switzerland - 3 years ago
Applications of blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) in finance have proliferated in recent years, forcing policy makers around the world to step in and formulate rules in regard to asset tokenization. In a report released in January 20...
News / Switzerland - 3 years ago
Robinhood Markets is a rapidly growing fintech startup based in California that’s been at the center of the recent retail trading boom. Robinhood offers commission-free trades of stocks, exchange-traded funds, options and cryptocurrencies as well as...
News / Switzerland - 3 years ago
A new survey conducted by Juniper Research has found that more than 50% of US consumers wanting to change banks would consider a digital-only bank, with the same finding reflected in a similar UK survey. However, the findings showed that banks need t...
News / Switzerland - 3 years ago
In Europe, Switzerland, Estonia, Malta and Cyprus have the most advanced and mature blockchain ecosystems with well-developed startup scenes and high levels of regulatory maturity, a paper by the EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum says. More specifi...
News / Switzerland - 3 years ago
Valuu, a fully digital mortgage brokerage platform in Switzerland launched by PostFinance, reported that it has tripled the volume of mortgages brokered compared to its first year in operations. Given this, Valuu said that it is looking to expand its...
News / Switzerland - 3 years ago
WealthArc, a Swiss wealth management platform, announced that it has secured over $4 million in funding. WealthArc said that it will leverage this new capital to continue developing its digital platform and value proposition, mainly in the fields of...
News / Switzerland - 3 years ago
Payoneer announced that it plans to go public by merging with FTAC Olympus Acquisition Corp. (FTOC), a special purpose acquisition company in a US$ 3.3 billion deal. Payoneer has been backed by investments from TCV, Susquehanna Growth Equity (SGE), V...
News / Switzerland - 3 years ago
Visa has announced a partnership with First Boulevard, a digitally native neobank focused on building generational wealth for the black community, to pilot Visa’s new suite of crypto APIs that is anticipated to launch later this year. As part of the...
News / Switzerland - 3 years ago
Die Kreditfabrik der Glarner Kantonalbank (GLKB) und die Mobiliar bauen ihre Kooperation im Business-to-Business-Geschäft (B2B) substanziell aus. Die GLKB übernimmt die Verwaltung des bestehenden Hypothekenportfolios der Mobiliar. Die Mobiliar wird d...
News / Switzerland - 3 years ago
Hyppo.CH, a digital home financing portal for expats in Switzerland, has partnered with Oper Credits for a complete digital mortgage journey with increased accessibility to digital-savvy expats which will be available April onwards. Keen Innovation A...
News / Switzerland - 3 years ago
In Europe, fintech is the largest investment category, receiving more than EUR 30 billions of venture capital (VC) investment since 2014, ahead of health (EUR 29B), enterprise software (EUR 27B) and transportation (EUR 12B), data from Dealroom show....
News / Switzerland - 3 years ago
Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) ist in aller Munde. Egal ob in Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft oder Gesellschaft: Das Thema KI wird viel und kontrovers diskutiert. Für Unternehmen der Versicherungsbranche ist es da nicht leicht, den Überblick zu behalten. Währe...
News / Switzerland - 3 years ago
Switzerland is home to 130 startups that are applying blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) to finance use cases, new data from Swisscom show. Most of these companies (48%) operate in the banking infrastructure vertical, followed by inve...
News / Switzerland - 3 years ago
Swiss-based digital asset bank Sygnum Bank and Fine Wine Capital, a privately held specialist trading company with a focus on the fine wine market, have successfully tokenised a range of premium investible wines, creating the first asset tokens issue...
News / Switzerland - 3 years ago
PostFinance, the financial services unit of Swiss Post, and CoCoNet, a German-based digital banking solutions provider, are collaborating on a joint project to introduce a new cash management solution for corporate customers. The new solution offers...