Category : Switzerland

PayPal Dips Its Toes in the Crypto Market…. in 2021

PayPal announced the launch of a new service enabling its customers to buy, hold and sell cryptocurrency directly from their PayPal account. The company is introducing the ability to buy, hold and sell select cryptocurrencies, initially featuring Bit...

Willkommene Konkurrenz in Säule 3a : finpension bringt 0.39 % Pauschalgebühr Lösung

finpension komplettiert ihr Vorsorgeangebot. Die bereits etablierten Angebote der zweiten Säule (Freizügigkeit und 1e) werden um eine 3a-Wertschriften-App erweitert. Der Säule 3a Markt ist aufgrund gesetzlicher Vorgaben von Banken und Versicherungen...

Willkommene Konkurrenz in Säule 3a: finpension bringt unabhängige 0.39 % Pauschalgebühr Lösung

Swisscard Hires Former Mastercard Executive as New CEO

Swisscard, a subsidiary of the Swiss bank Credit Suisse, has appointed Guido Müller as its new CEO succeeding Florence Schnydrig Moser who left the company in June 2020. The company also named Daniel Muff as its Chief Risk Officer (CRO). Until Guido...

Swiss Equippo Introduces New Online Auction Concept

Equippo Auction, an online marketplace for the construction industry, has introduced a new online heavy equipment auction concept that allows for a full refund regardless of the reason. The Swiss-based company is shaking up the market for the sale of...

Equippo Introduces New Online Auction Concept for Europe

Equippo Auction, an online marketplace for the construction industry, has introduced a new online heavy equipment auction concept that allows for a full refund regardless of the reason. The company is shaking up the market for the sale of used constr...

Why Collaboration Is Key for Growing Startups

The next generation of banking and insurance customers is generally speaking less loyal to companies or brands. They tend to perceive financial products and services as interchangeable. Innovative startups such as N26, ndgit and Apiax have been devel...

AI to Unlock US$1T of Additional Value Each Year for Banks: McKinsey

For global banking, artificial intelligence (AI) could potentially deliver up to US$1 trillion of additional value each year, boosting revenues through increased personalization of services, lowering costs through efficiencies, and uncovering new and...

WIR Bank investiert in Schweizer Proptech Startup

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...

“BORN IN SWITZERLAND” Swiss Original Fintech Overview Map Update: 174 Companies

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...

3 Key AI Capabilities for Asset Management Applications

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...

Boerse Stuttgart Digital Exchange Now Trades Ethereum, Litecoin and XRP Against Euro

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...

TX Group Leads Lend’s Funding Round With CHF 5.5 Million

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...

SIX Orchestrates Swiss OpenWealth API Roundtable for Financial Institutions

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...

COVID-19 Accelerates Shift to Digital Payments, Virtual Banking: McKinsey

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...