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In a new blog post, Meta Platforms’ head of commerce and fintech, Stephane Kasriel gives a sneak peek of the company’s fintech ambitions in the metaverse, outlining its intent to bring forward a “single wallet experience” across its family of apps an...
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In recent years, Switzerland’s blockchain and digital asset ecosystem has matured rapidly and grown into one of the world’s leading blockchain hubs, a position that’s asserted by its expanding workforce and a rising number of foreign companies settin...
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Comparis, der Online-Vergleichsdienst mit einem der grössten Marktplätze für Immobilien in der Schweiz, hat eine Kooperation mit Valuu unterzeichnet. Valuu ist die unabhängige Hypotheken-Vermittlungsplattform von PostFinance.
Immobiliensuchende finde...
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COVID-19 accelerated trends toward remote banking and digitalisation, forcing financial institutions to embrace new technologies and processes to keep their businesses functional despite social distancing restrictions.
Now, with more and more people...
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Zürcher Kantonalbank has announced that it will begin moving its applications and data to the public cloud in 2022 and the bank has chosen Microsoft Switzerland as its first cloud provider.
The move will not be done automatically; rather, each applic...
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Following its successful product launch in September 2021, Swiss fintech startup Numarics has successfully closed a CHF 2.1 million pre-seed financing round led by Wingman Ventures.
Numarics combines artificial intelligence with expert knowledge from...
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Worldline, a global leader in payment services is one of the first payments companies to enter the Metaverse with the launch of a dedicated virtual showroom.
The company aims to bridge the gap between the network of virtual worlds and the real world...
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Global leaders were treated to a crypto charm offensive at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week. Finance Minister Ueli Maurer and Switzerland Global Enterprise, which is responsible for attracting business, took the opportunity to roll out the...
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F10 announced that 13 growth-stage fintech and insurtech startups have been selected for its spring 2022 cohort from 300 applications globally to join its open innovation accelerator at its Zurich and Singapore hubs.
The goal of this programme is to...
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ZoodPay, a Swiss-based buy now, pay later (BNPL) platform for e-commerce customers in the Middle East and Central Asia, has made its entry into Pakistan by fully acquiring the Karachi-headquartered Tez Financial Services.
Tez was granted a Non-Bank F...
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Technology-enabled innovation is reshaping financial products, market players, market structure and even money itself, removing key frictions in the provision of financial services, enabling new business models and allowing market participants to rea...
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Spiros Margaris is the world’s No.1 fintech influencer and has been a successful investor in the fintech industry for many years. In a partnership with CAT Financial Products AG (CATFP), he gives investors the chance to invest diversified and in a si...
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LevelField Financial, the premier U.S. financial services firm uniting digital assets and traditional banking services in one trusted platform has selected Switzerland-based METACO, a specialist of digital asset custody orchestration technology to co...
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Huobi Global announced the acquisition of Bitex, one of the first regional cryptocurrency exchanges in Latin America, as it moves to expand its footprint in the fast-growing region. The terms of the deal are confidential and were not disclosed.
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In Switzerland, banks and financial institutions have been slow in embracing the open banking movement, a delay that can partly explained by institutions’ conservative corporate culture as well as an overarching fear of losing customers to third part...