Category : News

Spicehaus Partners Fund: 50 Million CHF for Digital Transformation Startups

The Spicehaus Swiss Venture Fund was launched in 2019 with a target size of CHF 50 million investing in start-ups that drive digital transformation. The latest investments of the Spicehaus Swiss Venture Fund are in the areas of fintech, robotics, and...

Dutch Neobroker BUX Launched Its Investing App in France

BUX launched its zero-commission mobile investing app for its French users, making it the first neobroker of its kind in the market. This will be the third country launch for BUX in 2020, following the launch in Germany and Austria earlier in the yea...

New Blockchain-Based Payment Systems Seek to Improve Cross-Border Trade Transactions

A new partnership between banking consortium Fnality International and software development firm Epam will seek to use blockchain technology to improve efficiency in cross-border trade transactions, enable faster trade settlement and reduce risk, Epa...

Barcelona Stock Exchange Aims to Become a Fintech Hub

Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME) has joined Barcelona Tech City as a Global Partner. The alliance reinforces Barcelona Tech City’s commitment to the fintech sector through BME, which is one of the main financial players in the Spanish and Euro...

Central Bank of France Announces CBDC Partners Including Swiss Seba Bank

The Banque de France has finalised the 8 companies that were selected to test out the use of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) for interbank settlements over the next few months. Firms selected by the central bank for the test phase are Accenture,...

Bond180 Completes Strategic Funding Round and Forms Partnership with R3

Bond180, a London based provider of technology solutions for primary fixed income markets, announced the completion of a strategic funding round. The round involved follow-on investment from Cambridge Enterprise, the commercialization arm of the Univ...

Swiss Fintech Fair 2020 Goes Digital

Swiss Fintech Fair, Switzerland’s biggest fintech gathering, will be hosted on September 07-08 in 2020. This year will be all about its new digital approach: Swiss Fintech Fair DIGITAL (#SFFdigital). Due to the overall success of the past years, the...

Vestr Closes Series A Led by Six Group

vestr, a Swiss startup which provides issuers of Actively Managed Certificates (AMCs) fast, flexible, and cost-efficient alternative to investment funds, has closed its Series A led by SIX Group. However, the amount invested has not been shared publi...

Swiss Fintechs Get Creative at Raising Fresh Capital

Fintechs are finding it harder to attract funding this year compared to last. Venture capital fell by more than a third in the first six months of 2020 compared to 2019, with investors preferring medtech, biotech and cleantech projects over financial...

Exclusive: Tradeplus24 Enters Into a Distribution Agreement with Postfinance

Tradeplus24, a leading provider of receivables-backed working capital facilities to Swiss SMEs and Mid Cap companies, has signed a distribution agreement with PostFinance. The agreement gives Tradeplus24 access to the Postfinance’s vast client base i...

Swiss Fintech Startup Map Welcomes 2 Newcomers in July

Swisscom released the new Swiss Fintech Startup Map for July 2020. With Achiko and Fyooz, two new Swiss Fintech Startups joined the map. In total 350 Swiss Fintech Startups are now on the map. ACHIKO Established in 2018, Achiko is a platform company...

Axpo Holding platziert ersten Digitalen Green Bond über Loanboox

Als erste Emittentin platziert die Axpo Holding AG einen grünen Bond vollständig digital über die unabhängige Fremdkapitalmarkt-Plattform Loanboox. Die grüne Anleihe über 133 Millionen Franken mit einer Laufzeit von 7 Jahren stiess am Kapitalmarkt au...

Mittels Anlagezertifikat in Schweizer Early-Stage Wealthtech Investieren

Gentwo wandelt sich zu einem bankfähigen Asset. Ein Anlageprodukt, lanciert über die Emissionsplattform von Clarus Capital Group, vereinfacht ein Early-Stage-Startup-Investment in den erfolgreichen Schweizer Verbriefungsspezialisten. GENTWO befindet...

Digital Asset Adds VMware As Investor in Series C Round

Digital Asset, the creators of the open-source DAML smart contract language, announced that VMware has joined the company’s Series C financing round, which was announced last December. With this investment, VMware joins Salesforce Ventures and Samsun...

METACO sichert sich CHF 17 Mio Serie-A-Finanzierungsrunde via Standard Chartered und ZKB

METACO, ein Anbieter von sicherheitskritischer Infrastruktur zur Verwaltung digitaler Vermögenswerte für Finanzinstitute, kündigte eine Serie-A-Finanzierungsrunde über CHF 17 Millionen an. Das ursprüngliche Ziel der Finanzierungsrunde war aufgrund de...