News / Switzerland - 2 years ago
The St.Gallen based wealthtech startup Kaspar& announced that it has secured a seat in the second stage of Switzerland startup accelerator programme Venture Kick. Launched in 2017, Venture Kick offers a three stage funding model initiated to supp...
News / Switzerland - 2 years ago
As vaccination rollout continues and confidence begins to return, governments in Europe are starting to relax COVID-19 restrictions. Already, signs are showing that the event industry is inching back to the traditional in-person events that were the...
News / Switzerland - 2 years ago
IDnow, a German-based leader in identity verification-as-a-service solutions, announced that it has agreed to acquire ARIADNEXT, a French company specialising in remote identity verification and digital identity creation. With IDnow and ARIADNEXT joi...
News / Switzerland - 2 years ago
JPMorgan Chase has entered into an agreement for a 40% ownership stake in Brazilian digital bank C6 Bank for an undisclosed sum. Launched in 2019, C6 Bank has reportedly amassed more than 7 million customers on its digital platform. C6 Bank offers a...
News / Switzerland - 2 years ago
Cross border payments specialist Payoneer announced that it has completed its merger with the FTAC Olympus Acquisition Corp. (FTOC), a special purpose acquisition company, to become a publicly traded company. As a result of this merger, a new public...
News / Switzerland - 2 years ago
Deutsche Börse Group has acquired a majority stake in Crypto Finance AG, a financial group under consolidated FINMA supervision that offers trading, storage, and investment in digital assets to institutional and professional clients. Through the acqu...
News / Switzerland - 2 years ago
According to a global study by Finastra, Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) and inclusive banking services will have a significant impact on the industry over the next twelve months. While this trend is expected worldwide by 85 percent of the surveyed globa...
News / Switzerland - 2 years ago
A world leader in tech innovation, it comes with little surprise that the US has produced some of the world’s biggest fintech companies with widely renowned names including PayPal, Square and Stripe. Today, the country hosts some of the largest and m...
News / Switzerland - 2 years ago
Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, announced that Swisscom, a Switzerland-base telecommunications company, has selected AWS as its preferred public cloud provider for its enterprise IT. Swisscom is pursuing a cloud-first strategy and w...
News / Switzerland - 2 years ago
Über die Schweizer Marketplace Lending-Plattformen Cashare, Crowd4Cash und Lend investiert der neu aufgesetzte Anlagefonds von NSF diversifiziert in Schweizer und liechtensteinische KMU Kredite. Professionelle und qualifizierte Anleger erhalten dadur...
News / Switzerland - 2 years ago
The wealth management sector is undergoing a profound transformation on the back of macroeconomic, technological and social shifts. High-net-worth-individuals (HNWIs) are increasingly investing in emerging asset classes, evolving client profiles and...
News / Switzerland - 2 years ago
ClearScore, a UK-based free credit scoring service and marketplace, announced that it has secured US$200 million from global equity investor Invus Opportunities, pushing its valuation to US$700 million. The investment is a mix of primary and secondar...
News / Switzerland - 2 years ago
Deposit Solutions and Raisin have announced the completion of their merger to from Raisin DS, servicing banks and consumers on both sides of the Atlantic in the savings and investment market. The merger only needs to be registered in the commercial r...
News / Switzerland - 2 years ago
The European Commission (EC) has released a framework for a digital identity scheme for all citizens, residents and businesses in the European Union (EU), allowing anyone in the bloc to prove their identity, share electronic documents and access onli...
News / Switzerland - 2 years ago
Digital Asset announced a new partnership with Nasdaq to enable Daml-driven applications on the Nasdaq Marketplace Services Platform. Nasdaq and Digital Asset customers will be able to leverage applications built in Daml, a multi-party application pl...