Category : News

Swiss Fintech Awards 2023: Top 10 Fintech Startups Revealed

A jury of 20 experts from the Swiss fintech space reviewed 80 Swiss fintech startup applications and picked the five most promising companies in the categories “Early Stage Fintech Startup of the Year” and “Growth Stage Fintech Startup of the Year”....

Highlights of the European ETF Industry in 2022: White Label Platform Competiton Heats up

2022 was a remarkable year for investors around the globe. Some may call it a year for the history books. Major economic and geopolitical headwinds resulted in falling equity and fixed-income markets around the globe. In the aftermath of the COVID-19...

Digital Banking Ranking: Swiss Banks Have Dropped Out of the Top 20

Where do you look for international digital banking champions? You are unlikely to find them in Switzerland. With regard to digital banking services, the Swiss banking sector fell further behind banks in the rest of the world in 2022 and now risks be...

GCash FutureCast Introduces 10 New Innovations That Bring The Future Of Fintech To All Filipinos

GCash is the Philippines’ #1 Finance Super App with over 79 million users who enjoy fast, safe, and convenient transactions online. Based on Data.ai, a reputable 3rd party platform, GCash is the #1 Finance Super App in the country with the most downl...

Galaxy and DWS Enter Alliance to Develop Exchange Traded Products on Digital Assets

Galaxy Digital Holdings, an USA based financial services and investment manager in the digital assets, and DWS, one of the world’s leading asset managers, have entered into a strategic alliance with the aim of initially developing a comprehensive sui...

In Latin America, Fintech is Driving Banking Innovation and Improving Financial Inclusion

The rise of fintech in Latin America (LatAm) over the past decade has shaken up the region’s financial landscape, driving innovation in the banking sector, boosting competition and helping increase inclusion, a new paper by the International Monetary...

User Authentication Enters New Era, Enabled by Biometrics, Blockchain, AI

Technological advancements, including biometrics, blockchain, encryption and artificial intelligence (AI), are fueling the advent of more efficient and secure authentication mechanisms. New methods and trends including passworldless authentication ar...

Keyrock and Tenity Launches Accelerator for Web3.0, Fintech Startups in Belgium

Belgian crypto startup Keyrock announced that it has partnered with global fintech incubator Tenity to launch an acceleration programme for Web3.0 and fintech startups. The 4-month programme is set to begin in early September 2023 in Belgium and will...

Crypto-Assets: Green Light to New Rules for Tracing Transfers in the EU

On Thursday, MEPs approved with 529 votes in favour to 29 against and 14 abstentions, the first piece of EU legislation for tracing transfers of crypto-assets like bitcoins and electronic money tokens. The text –provisionally agreed by Parliament and...

Ondato Rolls Out Its Know Your Business Solution in Poland

London-based regtech firm Ondato has launched an expanded Know Your Business (KYB) solution to give local and international organisations operating in Poland automated tools for fully compliant business customer onboarding. The extended coverage prov...

Rental Deposit Meets ETF Investing: Evorest Closes Pre-seed Round

Newly founded Wealth/Prop-tech Startup Evorest raises seven-digit pre-seed financing from private investors to revolutionize the Swiss rental deposit market. For the first time, tenants will be able to digitally invest their rental deposits in low-co...

Stanford: Fintech Maintains Position as Third Biggest AI Investment Focus Area

In 2022, global private investment in artificial intelligence (AI) companies reached US$91.9 billion, a 18-fold increase compared with 2013. Of that sum, fintech companies secured the third largest amount, raising a total of US$5.5 billion, a new rep...

CAT Financial Products Taps Broadridge to Transform Its Front-To-Back Office

CAT Financial Products (CATFP), an independent Swiss provider of securities and investment services for structured products, announced that it has partnered with Broadridge Financial Solutions. The partnership has helped CATFP to increase its front t...

Europe’s Top 10 Neobanks Serve a Combined 64M Customers

Changing customer behavior, technological advancements and an evolving regulatory landscape are fueling the rise of digital banking. So-called neobanks or challenger bank are rapidly capturing the market and are now serving a combined customer base o...

SweePay and SMART VALOR Brings Crypto to Masses at National Railways, Retailers

The Swiss crypto exchange SMART VALOR and the financial intermediary SweePay has partnered to ensure that the purchase of cryptocurrencies at Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) ticket machines is simple, smooth and secure. Since 2016, it has been possible...