Category : Switzerland

Klarna Launches its Shopping App in Switzerland

Swedish Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) platform Klarna announces the launch of its shopping app in Switzerland. Besides searching for inspiration and products, all purchases can be made directly via the Klarna app. Users will also be able to manage their...

Italian Bank Credem Goes Live With Temenos for a Frictionless Digital Experience

Temenos, the banking software company, announced that Italian bank Credito Emiliano (Credem) has gone live with a new mobile app to accelerate its digital banking strategy. Temenos Infinity, running on the public cloud, will make it quicker and easie...

Swiss Impact Investing Platform Rebrands as Inyova Ahead of Germany Expansion Plans

Inyova, an impact investing platform in Switzerland, announced that it is expanding to Germany. The startup had also rebranded from Yova ahead of the move. At Inyova, investors can invest in sustainable companies from as little as CHF 2,000. No finan...

Dutch Payments Provider Mollie Raises US$800 Million In Series C Funding Round

Mollie, a Netherlands-based payment service provider, announced the closing of US$800 million in a Series C funding round. This takes the total amount raised by the company to over US$940 million, pushing its valuation to US$6.5 billion. The round wa...

Digitaler Kapitalmarkt Vaylo verstärkt Verwaltungsrat

Valyo, der seit 2019 im Schweizer Anleihenmarkt aktive digitale Kapitalmarktplatz, verstärkt seinen Verwaltungsrat weiter: Die zwei ausgewiesenen Branchenexperten Kaspar W. Kelterborn, ehemaliger Chief Financial Officier und Mitglied der Konzernleitu...

Digitaler Kapitalmarkt Valyo verstärkt Verwaltungsrat

5 Trends Shaping Brazil’s Fintech Industry in 2021

Brazil, the largest fintech market in Latin America (Latam) and the fifth in the world with more than 750 fintech companies, had a glorious year 2020, and the momentum is expected to continue in 2021. Investment in Brazilian fintech companies totaled...

PostFinance Selects FICO to Protect Nearly 3 Million Debit Cards With AI

Analytics software firm FICO announced that Switzerland’s PostFinance will protect nearly 3 million debit cards with the FICO® Falcon® Platform, an AI-powered payments card protection system. PostFinance, the financial institution of Swiss Post...

Banque de France Completes Digital Currency Pilot With SEBA Bank and Partners

Banque de France successfully conducted a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) experiment with SEBA Bank, as part of the experimental programme launched in March 2020. The experiment consisted in using the CBDC to simulate the settlement of listed se...

Miami Sees Booming Fintech Ecosystem Amid Favorable Political Environment and Latam Opportunity

As Miami rapidly becomes a central destination for technology development and a symbol for the tech exodus from Silicon Valley, fintech companies are flocking in the city, looking to leverage its Latin American (Latam) ties and crypto-friendly politi...

Swiss Bitcoin Investment App Relai Bags CHF 2.5 Million in Series A Led by Redalpine

Swiss bitcoin investment app Relai announced that it has raised CHF 2.5 million in a Series A round led by Swiss VC Redalpine less than one year after going to market. Relai received additional backing from Polytech Ventures, Bitcoin-focused Fulgur V...

Swiss Federal Council Brings DLT Act Into Force and Issues Ordinance

The Swiss Federal Council has introduced the Federal Act on the Adaptation of Federal Law to Developments in Distributed Electronic Register Technology which will come into full force on the 1st August 2021. The associated blanket ordinance will also...

Swiss BBVA Rolls Out Crypto Asset Trading for Its Private Banking Clients

BBVA Switzerland makes its first crypto asset trading and custody service available to all its private banking clients after six months of testing with a selected group of users. The new service is available only in Switzerland and has started operat...

BBVA Switzerland Rolls Out Crypto Asset Trading for Its Private Banking Clients

McLaren Inks Deal With Tezos as Official Blockchain Partner, Creates NFT Fan Platform

McLaren Racing has selected Tezos, a Luxembourg-based open-source blockchain protocol for assets and applications, to become the team’s official blockchain partner in a new multi-year technical partnership across Formula 1, INDYCAR and esports. McLar...