Category : News

Apply for Best European Student Project in FinTech

The Best European Student Project in the field of FinTech will be rewarded on April 12th in Paris, the very same day the Morpheus Cup will take place at the Palais Brongniart. This unique graduate schools and universities championship rewards the bes...

Bitcoin – the Mother of All Pyramids?

Some people call Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme. I tend to disagree as I do not believe that the inventors of Bitcoin intended to operate a fraudulent investment operation. But Bitcoin does bear some commonalities with a Ponzi scheme. What is more, Bitcoin h...

Macro-Economic Trends, Regulation, Fintech Changing Corporate Banking: Report

Major change drivers, including macro-economic trends, regulation, more demanding customers, digitalization and fintech, are transforming the corporate banking ecosystem, according to a new research paper from Finextra produced in association with Or...

The Swiss Fintech Startups PostFinance Is Backing

PostFinance, the financial services unit of Swiss Post and one of the leading financial institutions in Switzerland, has been an active investor in the fintech space as it seeks to become a digital powerhouse in the country. PostFinance Mobile App ©...

Erstes Schweizer Peer-To-Peer-Lending Fintech Im Deutschen Markt Live

CreditGate24 hat in den letzten beiden Jahren gezeigt, wie notwendig und nachgefragt digitale Finanzierungsalternativen sind. Seit der Gründung im März 2015 wurden bisher über 1’000 Kredite von Privaten und KMU finanziert. Das angefragte Kredit...

Official Founding of the International RegTech Association’s Swiss Chapter

Today, the International RegTech Association (IRTA) announced the foundation of its Swiss Chapter. The IRTA is a united community of individuals and organizations, with a shared vision to innovate, advance, and influence the future of Regulatory Tech...

Wenn Blockchains Die Filmindustrie Beflügeln

Award gekröntes eMovie Venture Filmprojekt feiert Weltpremiere in Hollywood. Drei Awards konnte der erste Ethereum-finanzierte Film bereits gewinnen, die letzten beiden sogar in Hollywood. Nun ist das Pilotprojekt der eMovie Venture Produktionsplattf...

Kostensenkung Im Zahlungsverkehr: Schweiz Auf Gutem Weg

Der Zahlungsverkehr ist ein erheblicher Kostenfaktor für die Kreditinstitute im SEPA-Raum. Jährlich fallen fast 7,5 Milliarden Euro für die Bearbeitung von Transaktionen, für Reklamationen und Vertriebskosten wie Mitarbeitergehälter an. Das sind Erge...

Redalpine Invests In Taxfix – The Mobile-First Tax Assistant

Redalpine announce to invest int Taxfix, the mobile tax assistant that’s finally making the submission of your tax return and claim of refunds easy. Redalpine leads the € 2 Mio Seed round together with Swedish investor Creandum. Taxfix founders Lino...

Tothemoon Project: The Merits Of Cryptocurrency Mining On The Tothemoon Farm

Mining is one of the most popular ways of making money on the Internet today. Having appeared not so long ago, it is rapidly gaining popularity, because it creates ample opportunities for obtaining additional incomes of impressive sizes. Mining is th...

Cooperations between Banks and Fintechs in Germany

Our German blogging friends from paymentbanking regular publish their German Bank and Fintech Cooperation Update. In terms of Cooperation and Fintegration Germany is an extraordinarily example. Especially emerging Fintech Market should learn from it....

Swiss Regulator FINMA Is Investigating ICO Procedures

The Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA has observed a marked increase in initial coin offerings (ICOs) conducted in Switzerland. It has therefore issued FINMA Guidance 04/2017 on this topic. FINMA has also indicated that it is investigating...

Schweizer Proptech-Startup Lanciert Plattform Für Immobilienauktionen

vendom, der digitaler Marktplatz für Immobilienauktionen, gestaltet den Kauf und Verkauf von Immobilien einfach, effizient und transparent. Das Schweizer PropTech-Startup wurde am 8. August 2017 lanciert. Durch spezifische Auktionsverfahren ermittelt...

When will Switzerland or FINMA organize a Fintech and Blockchain Week ? (Follow Hamburg, HK, MAS Singapore)

Several Fintech Week events are scheduled to occur in the coming months in Germany, Australia, India, Hong Kong, Singapore and San Francisco, promising to gather global fintech leaders and industry participants to share insights on the state of the i...

Swiss Fintech Nationalteam pitched to US investors in New York

Since more than a decade, venturelab runs the “Swiss National Startup Team” program called venture leaders with international roadshows to the Silicon Valley, Boston, New York, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Beijing and South Africa. The venture lead...