News / Switzerland - 4 years ago
Open financial ecosystems, data and analytics, as well as sustainability are the top three most impactful trends shaking up the Swiss wealth management industry. These trends are forcing traditional players to rethink themselves and innovate in order...
News / Switzerland - 4 years ago
After a tumultuous year 2020, fintech activity in Switzerland regained some of its strength in 2021. Much of the focus was put on large established firms last year as investors pumped large sums of money to support their growth and expansion plans. S...
News / Switzerland - 4 years ago
Unweigerlich gelangt man beim Wort «InsurTech Start-Up» zur Annahme, dass es sich bei einem solchen Unternehmen um ein reines Technologie Start-Up in der Versicherungsbranche handelt. Bisweilen sorgen auch technologische Meisterstücke solcher Unterne...
News / Switzerland - 4 years ago
Recent technological advances including blockchain, cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) have ushered a wave of new private-sector financial products and services, paving the way for rapid developments in money. While dozens of countries...
News / Switzerland - 4 years ago
F10 Switzerland’s eighth batch of early-stage startups selected for the F10 flagship incubation program reflects the innovative FinTech and InsurTech potential and the relevant trends in this sector, covering solutions in areas such as Metaverse, Sus...
News / Switzerland - 4 years ago
The Swiss Federal Council has released a report outlining its focus on digital finance during its meeting yesterday. In its report, the Federal Council sets out twelve areas of action with specific measures, and instructs the Federal Department of Fi...
News / Switzerland - 4 years ago
Blockchain technology is yielding tremendous innovation and value creation for consumers and businesses around the world. As the technology becomes more mainstream, companies need scalable, secure, and sustainable infrastructure on which to grow thei...
News / Switzerland - 4 years ago
In 2021, Swiss fintech funding activity regained some of its strengthen after underperforming for three years in a row. Data from Dealroom show that Swiss fintech companies raised a total of US$530 million, up 129% from 2020. The surge followed a per...
News / Switzerland - 4 years ago
Helvengo, a Zurich-based insurtech company focused on small and mid-size enterprises (SMEs) has secured over CHF 4.2 million in a seed financing round. The round was led by TX Ventures, the VC arm of Swiss media company TX Group, which is further exp...
News / Switzerland - 4 years ago
Fireblocks, a US-based platform that allows financial institutions to store, move and issue cryptocurrencies, has raised US$550 million in Series E funding, vaulting its valuation to over US$8 billion. The funding round, co-led by D1 Capital Partners...
News / Switzerland - 4 years ago
Today, UBS and Wealthfront, an automated wealth management provider, signed an agreement whereby UBS would acquire Wealthfront in an all-cash transaction valued at $1.4 billion. With over $27 billion in assets under management and more than 470,000 c...
News / Switzerland - 4 years ago
In Switzerland, Phase II of Project Helvetia has been completed, successfully demonstrating that it is possible to integrate a wholesale CBDC (wCBDC) running on a distributed ledger technology (DLT) platforms into existing core banking systems. Kicks...
News / Switzerland - 4 years ago
German investment company coinIX and F10 Investment, the investment arm of fintech incubator F10, have jointly poured in seed investment into the Crypto Index Series (CIS). CIS is a UK startup that had successfully graduated from the F10 Incubation P...
News / Switzerland - 4 years ago
J.P. Morgan announced that it has entered into an agreement with Athen based Viva Wallet, a leading European cloud-based payments fintech company, and its existing shareholders to acquire an ownership stake of approximately 49%, subject to regulatory...
News / Switzerland - 4 years ago
Mit der Lancierung stellt Abacus die Vorteile der Technologie von YAPEAL all ihren Kunden zur Verfügung. Spesen und Zahlungen können in Echtzeit abgewickelt und verbucht werden. Manuelle Buchungen in der Buchhaltung erübrigen sich für diese Prozesse....