Category : News

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...

Baloise Bank SoBa bringt E-Banking Messenger

Warten vor dem Bankschalter oder in der Telefonleitung gehört der Vergangenheit an: Die Baloise Bank SoBa führt einen E-Banking Messenger ein, welcher Kunden via Chatfunktion einen direkten und gesicherten Draht zur Bank ermöglicht. Adressänderungen,...

Web Browser Opera Accelerates Fintech Push in Europe with Fjord Bank Acquisition

Opera, a browser provider headquartered in Oslo, announced its intention to purchase Fjord Bank subject to regulatory approval. The acquisition will enable Opera to further accelerate its fintech operations in Europe by launching new services aimed a...

Raphael Polansky Joins Management Board of Boerse Stuttgart Digital Ventures

Raphael Polansky has become a member of the Management Board of Boerse Stuttgart Digital Ventures GmbH on 1 July 2020. They invest in promising startups and enters into partnerships with selected partners to implement their digitisation strategy. The...

Bank Vontobel beteiligt sich an Yapeal (Technologie)

Yapeal ist das FinTech, das auf die Community setzt und diese Woche seine Konto-App im Markt lanciert hat. Eine App, welche mit starker Beteiligung der Nutzer, sprich der Community, laufend weiterentwickelt wird. Das FinTech versteht sich als Teil ei...

Switzerland’s Futurae and Investglass Amongst Winners of 2020 Financial NewTech Challenge

The Swiss Startups Futurae and Investglass were named amongst this year’s winners of the Financial NewTech Challenge. The Financial NewTech Challenge, organized by Capgemini and Efma, and hosted on the FintechVisor portal, is a competition that aims...

European Innovation Council Awards €5 Million to Blockchain Solutions for Social Innovations

The European Innovation Council (EIC) Prize on Blockchains for Social Good has awarded €5 million to six winners selected in a call to identify scalable, deployable and high-impact blockchain solutions for societal challenges. The winning solutions p...