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2 years ago
SEBA Bank, a digital assets firm with a Swiss banking license from FINMA, announced the appointment of Sam Lin as its Chief Executive Officer for Asia with immediate effect.
This appointment is in line with SEBA Bank’s aim to strengthen the off...
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2 years ago
Mastercard startet ein weiteres globales Startup-Engagement-Programm. Start Path unterstützt schnell wachsende junge Unternehmen aus den Bereichen Digital Assets, Blockchain und Kryptowährungen.
Sieben Startups haben sich dem Programm angeschlossen:...
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2 years ago
Swiss small and medium enterprise (SME) financing startup Tradeplus24 has raked in $225 million in a mix of equity and debt financing, Australian Financial Review (AFR) reported.
Of the total funding, $25 million is in equity financing and the remain...
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Switzerland -
2 years ago
Swiss small and medium enterprise (SME) financing startup Tradeplus24 has raked in $225 million in pre-Series B round, the startup announced.
Of the total funding, $25 million is in equity financing and the remaining $200 million is in debt financing...
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2 years ago
Stablecoins, or digital tokens with values tied to fiat currencies or other assets, have surged in popularity over the past year on the back of booming cryptocurrency transaction activity, the emergence of decentralized finance (DeFi), and a large ri...
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2 years ago
Paris-headquartered Spendesk, an all-in-one spend management platform for finance teams, has raised €100 million in a Series C funding round.
The round was led by global growth equity firm General Atlantic while existing investors Index Ventures and...
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2 years ago
Berlin-based Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform Solarisbank has raised EUR 290 million in an oversubscribed Series D funding round, the startup announced.
The funding was led by Switzerland-based Decisive Capital Management while new investors Pat...
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Switzerland -
2 years ago
Berlin-based Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform Solarisbank has raised EUR 290 million in an oversubscribed Series D funding round, clinching the coveted unison status with a valuation of € 1.4 billion.
The funding was led by Switzerland-based Dec...
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2 years ago
2021 was the tipping point for the acceptance of cryptocurrencies and digital assets in Switzerland. Investors entered the space at a rapid pace and client demand became simply too large to brush aside. Meanwhile, financial institutions started activ...
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Switzerland -
2 years ago
In 2020, the total volume of new debt capital brokered through online platform in Switzerland grew 42.5% to CHF 15.4 billion.
This represents a 183% increase from 2017 during which total volume of marketplace lending in Switzerland totaled CHF 5.4 bi...
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2 years ago
From retail and telecommunications to construction and transport, numerous sectors are currently experiencing disruption and digital transformation. This trend has been further accelerated by the global pandemic that forced people to adopt digital se...
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2 years ago
With the pandemic accelerating digital adoption across the globe, the popularity of digital banking has soared through the roof. Around 35% of customers adopted online banking, with 30% specifically increasing their use of mobile banking, since COVID...
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2 years ago
Soldo, a London-based business expense automation platform, announced that it has closed a US$180 million oversubscribed Series C funding round.
The fundraise was led by Temasek, a leading global investor headquartered in Singapore.
The round include...
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Switzerland -
2 years ago
When the global pandemic struck last year, millions of people transitioned from working in physical offices to working from home, within the span of a few weeks. Physical meetings turned to video calls and break-time interactions moved to online mess...
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2 years ago
Not only does bitcoin fail to satisfy the notion of being a currency without a government, but the cryptocurrency is also not a reliable inflation hedge nor a safe haven investment, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a probability researcher and former quantitat...