News / Switzerland - 1 year ago
Over the past year, governments and regulatory bodies from around the world have increased their focus on the taxation of the cryptocurrency industry, a trend that comes on the back of increasing investment, adoption and innovation in the space despi...
News / Switzerland - 1 year ago
Together with their partners Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Swisscom and Clarafinds, eForesight has revised the Swiss Fintech Map and expanded the database as well as deleted some old and inactive players. The main categories contai...
News / Switzerland - 1 year ago
Together with their partners Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Swisscom and Clarafinds, eForesight has revised the Swiss Fintech Map and expanded the database as well as deleted some old and inactive players. The main business area cat...
News / Switzerland - 1 year ago
Die Schweizer:innen vertrauen immer stärker auf den Einsatz digitaler Bezahlmöglichkeiten. Das zeigen die Ergebnisse der zweiten Auflage des Visa Payment Monitor in der Schweiz. Laut der repräsentativen Umfrage unter 1’000 Menschen in der Schweiz ist...
News / Switzerland - 1 year ago
Cutting edge technologies including artificial intelligence (AI), analytics and distributed ledger technology (DLT) are changing the way companies and their suppliers do business. These technologies are revolutionizing the supply chain industry by in...
News / Switzerland - 1 year ago
The team at Accounto, the Switzerland based fiduciary software specialist, is gaining an experienced industry expert. Thomas Koller, former long-standing Chairman of the Board of Directors of OBT AG and General Manager of the Fiduciary & Business...
News / Switzerland - 1 year ago
Munich-based security technology group Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) is further expanding its stake in Swiss digital payments company Netcetera from 30 to 60 percent. Netcetera will still remain as an independent company following the share transfer that i...
News / Switzerland - 1 year ago
Dataiku, an AI and analytics platform, announced that it has raised US$200 million in Series F funding round led by new investor Wellington Management. This brings Dataiku’s total funds raised since its inception to approximately US$600 million with...
News / Switzerland - 1 year ago
Over the past year, Europe’s insurtech industry has seen the addition of more than 100 companies, bringing the total number of insurtech firms in the continent to 598, a new report by the Swiss Institute of Financial Services Zug IFZ shows. The figur...
News / Switzerland - 1 year ago
Software investment firm Thoma Bravo announced that it will be acquiring Coupa Software, a specialist in in business spend management, for US$8.0 billion in an all-cash transaction. The transaction, which was approved unanimously by the Coupa Board o...
News / Switzerland - 1 year ago
Europe is home to a young and dynamic healthtech industry, which, despite the global venture capital (VC) investment contraction, has managed to continue to grow, innovate and secure funding. In the year to come, the sector is expected to see acceler...
News / Switzerland - 1 year ago
Together with major Swiss banks, the Swiss stock exchange BX Swiss is taking the financial market infrastructure for tokenized securities to the next level. In a test, trades on BX Swiss were settled for the first time directly in Swiss francs via a...
News / Switzerland - 1 year ago
OnlyFans, the booming subscription social platform, has built up a considerable payments business and is now looking to add new features and capabilities to create added value for content creators, a new report by publishing platform Workweek says. O...
News / Switzerland - 1 year ago
Der Bundesrat hat anlässlich seiner Sitzung vom 9. Dezember den Bericht «Die Akzeptanz von Bargeld in der Schweiz» verabschiedet, der in Erfüllung des Postulates 18.4399 von Nationalrätin Prisca Birrer-Heimo verfasst wurde. Bargeld erfüllt wichtige F...
News / Switzerland - 1 year ago
Allica Bank, a fintech SME challenger bank in London, has announced a £100 million Series C funding round led by global growth technology investor, TCV, with participation from existing investors Warwick Capital Partners and Atalaya Capital Managemen...