Category : Switzerland

Futurae Accelerates International Expansion with New Funding Round

Futurae Technologies AG, a Swiss authentication and transaction confirmation provider, has received a 5 million investment from a number of investors, namely the European leading financial services provider Euroclear, as well as the existing investor...

Commerzbank Signs on Google Cloud for Its Cloud Transformation Plans

Google Cloud and Commerzbank announced last week that they are expanding their collaboration by entering into a five-year, strategic partnership. With the help of Google Cloud, Commerzbank will move a significant number of its banking applications to...

Filmprojekt Madheidi sammelt 1 Million CHF via Crowdinvesting

Schweizer Filmprojekt bricht Finanzierungs-Rekorde und zeigt mit Blockchain und automatisierter Umsatzbeteiligung die Zukunft von Crowdinvesting. Innovation made in Switzerland Mit einem revolutionären Crowdinvesting-Modell, das Investoren über eine...

Filmprojekt Mad Heidi sammelt 1 Million CHF via Crowdinvesting

Visa Expands Real-TimePpush Payments with Introduction of Visa Direct Payouts

Visa has announced the expansion of Visa Direct, a real-time push payments platform, with the introduction of Visa Direct Payouts. The new solution allows Visa’s clients and partners around the world to use a single point of connection to push paymen...

Visa Expands Real-Time Push Payments with Introduction of Visa Direct Payouts

Making Central Bank Digital Currency Systems Interoperable for Cross-Border Fund Transfers

Around the world, central banks are accelerating their work on digital currencies (CBDCs) and exploring the opportunities these could bring to cross-border fund transfers. CBDCs are now a widely researched new form of digital central bank money that...

Inventx baut Innovation Lab aus

Die Inventx AG investiert in ihre Innovationskraft und baut die Tochterfirma Inventx Lab AG (InventxLab) mit Sitz in St. Gallen weiter aus. Seit dem 1.3.2021 leitet Urs Halter das InventxLab. Gleichzeitig konnte mit Damir Bogdan ein prominenter exter...

Broadridge Inks Deal to Acquire Itiviti for US$2.5 Billion

Broadridge Financial Solutions, an American-based investment banking company, is set to acquire Itiviti, a provider of trading and connectivity technology to the capital markets industry, in an all-cash transaction valued at €2.143 billion (approxima...

Broadridge Plans APAC and EMEA Expansion With Latest Acquisition for US$2.5 Billion

All 96 Fintech Unicorns: Worth a Combined US$404B

There are 96 fintech unicorns around the world that are worth collectively an estimated US$404 billion, according to data from CB Insights. Nearly half (46) of them are from the US, making it the largest hub for fintech unicorns in the world. The US...

Fintech in Africa will Boom in 2022: Fintech News Network Launches Its 8th Publication

The Fintech News Network is pleased to announce the launch of our eighth publication; Fintech News Africa. The Fintech News Network is an industry publication covering fintech and digital news across the globe. Our readers are from established financ...

RealT Selects Mt Pelerin’s Asset Tokenisation Technology for Real Estate Management

Real estate tokenisation platform RealT has chosen Swiss fintech Mt Pelerin‘s Bridge Protocol, an open source asset tokenisation technology, to optimise the management of its properties and investors. RealT, an American company based in Florida...

PayPal Allows American Customers to Use Cryptocurrencies for Purchases

PayPal announced the launch of Checkout with Crypto, where US customers will be able to choose to check out with crypto seamlessly. Building on the ability to buy, hold and sell cryptocurrency with PayPal, customers using Checkout with Crypto can che...

F10 Investment Selects 6 Fintech and Insurtech Startups for 2021

F10 Investment has chosen six fintech and insurtech startups from the latest F10 Incubation Programme cohort in Zurich for its second investment round. Through the F10 Investment, the corporate partners of the F10 Fintech Incubator and Accelerator, s...