News / Switzerland - 3 years ago
Die Digitalisierungs- und Diversifikationsstrategie der WIR Bank ist um ein Kapitel reicher. Die schweizerische Genossenschaftsbank beteiligt sich an der Vermando AG, die Angebote rund um die digitale Transformation im Immobilienbereich realisiert. A...
News / Switzerland - 3 years ago
Luc Schuurmans, Head Private Banking, Executive Management at Bank Linth, put together an updated overview map of Fintech Companies “Born in Switzerland”. Since his last update, he collected 10 more Swiss Fintechs- aisot, axelra, custodigit, finpens...
News / Switzerland - 3 years ago
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly being adopted across the financial landscape. In asset management, applications of AI are articulated around the technology’s key inherent capabilities: the ability to conduct repetitive tasks efficiently; the...
News / Switzerland - 3 years ago
Boerse Stuttgart Digital Exchange (BSDEX), Germany’s first regulated trading venue for digital assets launched in September, has now introduced trading of Ethereum, Litecoin and XRP against Euro. Another new feature is the possibility to transfer Eth...
News / Switzerland - 3 years ago
Swiss media company TX Group led the Series B financing round for Lend, a crowdlending platform, with an investment of CHF 5.5 million in a move that will strengthen its existing fintech portfolio. Other investors in the round included PostFinance an...
News / Switzerland - 3 years ago
Swiss Fintech Innovations (SFTI), OpenWealth (orchestrated by Synpulse) and b.Link of SIX are jointly initiating a roundtable for Swiss financial institutions to discuss the state of open banking. Four and a half months ago SIX officially launched th...
News / Switzerland - 3 years ago
The COVID-19 pandemic and its many repercussions have dramatically changed consumer behaviors, accelerating the move from physical to virtual banking and boosting digital payments, according to a new report by McKinsey. All forms of electronic paymen...
News / Switzerland - 3 years ago
Swiss Re and Daimler Insurance Services have launched a new company called Movinx for automotive and mobility insurance. Both shareholders of the 50/50 joint venture will leverage their expertise to establish a new business model. The aim is to devel...
News / Switzerland - 3 years ago
Central banks around the world are exploring the potential of digital currencies to improve monetary transactions. While so-called central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) appear to be upon us, promising many benefits including faster and cheaper tran...
News / Switzerland - 3 years ago
Temenos announced that FlowBank has selected Temenos Transact to power its new digital bank in Switzerland. Temenos Transact core banking technology is said to enable FlowBank to rapidly launch and offer a new investing experience to private and inst...
News / Switzerland - 3 years ago
Mt Pelerin, a Swiss blockchain company specialising in banking and finance, unveiled a new process to make security tokens bankable with financial institutions in a move to accelerate adoption by all types of investors. Mt Pelerin made its first brea...
News / Switzerland - 3 years ago
Meniga, provider of AI-powered digital banking solutions, announced that it has expanded its business to the US, with a dedicated team appointed to drive sales operations. The new US team – operating remotely before opening planned premises in...
News / Switzerland - 3 years ago
The recently released Bilanz’s list of top 100 Swiss bankers serves to recognise and celebrate the contributions that these financial leaders have made in the region. We would like to highlight the additions of eight fintech “bankers̶...
News / Switzerland - 3 years ago
The world’s purported first blockchain-focused art, Block 21 was sold off at Christie’s, renown auction house. Block 21 is a part of Portraits of a Mind, a global art project decentralising the founding code behind Bitcoin into 40 fragments. Po...
News / Switzerland - 3 years ago
You can reset your PIN after a data breach, you can reset your password after a data breach, you can reset your security questions after a data breach – but can you reset your face? Sure, there’s surgery, but clearly that’s asymmetry of the amount of...