Category : Switzerland

Personetics Secures $75 Million Funding From Warburg Pincus

Personetics, a Tel Aviv-based global provider of data-driven personalisation and customer engagement solutions for banks and financial services providers, announced it has raised $75 million in funding from Warburg Pincus LLC, a leading global privat...

Swiss Fintech Startup Map Feb 2021 Welcomes 18 Newcomers

Swisscom has released the updated Swiss Fintech Startup Map for February 2021, welcoming 18 new Swiss startups for the month. The map provides regular updates on the Swiss fintech landscape in the region now displays a grand total of 341 Swiss fintec...

New Swiss Fintech Startup Map February Welcomes 18 Newcomers

TransferGo Forges Partnership With Thought Machine to Fuel Global Expansion Plans

TransferGo, London-based money transfer company, announced a partnership with Thought Machine, a cloud native core banking technology company, to propel its ongoing product innovation and drive global expansion into new markets. TransferGo said that...

15 Startups Graduate From the F10 Zurich Incubation Batch VI Programme

The F10 FinTech Incubator & Accelerator has announced the list of 15 startups that had graduated its Incubation Batch VI programme. The now global incubator and accelerator reported that it was its biggest Demo Day to date with over 700 attendees...

2 Jahre Valuu: Hypothekar-Volumen verdreifacht

An ihrem 2. Geburtstag hat die digitale Vermittlungsplattform Valuu allen Grund zu feiern: Im Vergleich zum ersten Jahr hat sie das vermittelte Hypothekar-Volumen verdreifacht und die Nutzerzahl mehr als verdoppelt. Doch die junge Geschäftseinheit vo...

400’000 CHF Seed Runde für neue digitale Kreditplattform Systemcredit

Das Schweizer Fintech Startup Systemcredit – die digitale Kreditplattform für KMU-Kredite – hat eine Seed-Finanzierungsrunde mit CHF 400’000 erfolgreich durchgeführt. Investiert haben neben den Gründern und bisherigen Angel Investoren auch zwei erfah...

Migros Venture Fonds beteiligt sich an Selma Finance

Sparrow Ventures, der Venture Builder und Wachstumskapitalgeber der Migros-Gruppe, beteiligt sich am digitalen Vermögensverwalter Selma Finance. Damit schliesst sich Sparrow Ventures zusammen mit bestehenden Investoren einer Finanzierungsrunde in Höh...

Klarna Launches Its First in-App Banking Services in Germany

Klarna, a Swedish global payment and shopping service, announced that it is launching consumer bank accounts in Germany. Klarna said that the launch marks a first for the company and will allow customers to easily track, categorise and analyse all of...

Oracle Study Shows People Trusting Robots More Than Themselves With Money

People now trusting robots more than themselves to manage their finances as 2020 has changed our relationship with money, according to a new study by Oracle and personal finance expert Farnoosh Torabi. The “Money and Machines: 2021 Global Study...

Helvetia Venture Fund Invests in Taxtech Startup Taxly

Swiss venture firm Helvetia Venture Fund announced that it is investing in Taxly, a Zurich-based tax tech company for an undisclosed amount. Taxly aims to use funding from the financing round to further improve its offering for the coming tax period...

How Policy Makers Around the World are Addressing Asset Tokenization

Applications of blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) in finance have proliferated in recent years, forcing policy makers around the world to step in and formulate rules in regard to asset tokenization. In a report released in January 20...

How Free Trading Platform Robinhood Makes Money

Robinhood Markets is a rapidly growing fintech startup based in California that’s been at the center of the recent retail trading boom. Robinhood offers commission-free trades of stocks, exchange-traded funds, options and cryptocurrencies as well as...

Over Half of US Consumers Would Consider Switching to Digital-Only Banks

A new survey conducted by Juniper Research has found that more than 50% of US consumers wanting to change banks would consider a digital-only bank, with the same finding reflected in a similar UK survey. However, the findings showed that banks need t...

Switzerland and Estonia Among Europe’s Most Advanced Blockchain Ecosystems

In Europe, Switzerland, Estonia, Malta and Cyprus have the most advanced and mature blockchain ecosystems with well-developed startup scenes and high levels of regulatory maturity, a paper by the EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum says. More specifi...