Category : Switzerland

Laurent Decrue wird neuer CEO von Bexio – Gründer verlässt Firma

Per 1.11.2020 übernimmt Laurent Decrue die Rolle des Managing Directors von bexio. Er folgt auf Jeremias Meier, der das Unternehmen seit seiner Gründung führte. Vor seinem Start bei bexio war Laurent Decrue CEO der Umzugsplattform Movu. Er hat diese...

The First Venture Funding Map in Switzerland

The Bern based FundTech startup Leva today published Switzerland’s first “Venture Funding Map”. The map showcases 123 investors and business angel organizations that have offices in Switzerland. It is noticeable that 68 of the 85 venture capita...

Volante Technologies Ties up With Goldman Sachs’ for Its Cloud Banking Platform

US based Volante Technologies, cloud payments and financial messaging solution, announced a collaboration with Goldman Sachs for the Goldman Sachs Transaction Banking Platform. Voltane will provide the payment technology underpinning the bank’s recen...

Digital Asset Expert Daniel Diemers Joins Board of Directors of Incore Bank

InCore has appointed Dr. Daniel Diemers to its Board of Directors for his expertise in banking and digital assets. Daniel Diemers Daniel Diemers has been working as a strategy consultant for over 20 years and supports financial companies on their way...

Study: In-Vehicle Payment Spend To Exceed $86 Billion in 2025

A new study from Juniper Research has found that the value of in-vehicle payments, where a payment is made via embedded vehicle systems, will reach $86 billion in 2025, up from just $543 million in 2020. In-vehicle payments automate and simplify seve...

The Current State and the Future of the Swiss Billing Industry

SIX Group has released a white paper on the Future of Billing. The white paper emerged from a joint project conducted by SIX and Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU). It examines the current state of the Swiss billing industry and p...

Fintech Germany Award Announces Its Winners for 2020

The Fintech Germany Award has announced its list of winners for the year 2020 where outstanding fintechs from various categories are recognized and honored by their peers. The award was organized by Frankfurt Main Finance, TechFluence and the WM Grou...

Huawei’s Finance Apps Spiked by 160% on the Back of Urgent Need for Digital Financial Inclusion

At the 2020 Huawei Developer Conference held earlier this week, fintech influencer, best-selling author, and entrepreneur Brett King joined the finance tech.session to talk about the role of technology to improve financial inclusion and shared his vi...

Huawei Developer Conference: Brett King Talks Financial Inclusion, Banking 4.0, and More

5 Key Highlights From Huawei’s Developer Conference

From September 10 to 12, 2020, Huawei Consumer Business Group (BG) held the annual Huawei Developer Conference. Themed HDC.Together, the event saw multiple announcements being made, including the launch of new products, as well as updates on the Huaw...

area2invest und Finoa: Neue Wege bei der Kryptoverwahrung

area2invest und Finoa haben eine Kooperation zur Verwahrung von tokenisierten Vermögenswerten in Form von Security Tokens abgeschlossen. Die Krypto-Verwahrlösung der Finoa bietet die höchsten Sicherheitsstandards basierend auf Warm-Storage fähigen Ha...

European Fintech Report Forecasts Decline in Fintech Funding Over the Next Year

Finch Capital, an early stage venture capital firm focusing on the fintech sector in Europe and South East Asia, issued its annual State of European FinTech report for 2020. The report covers a range of topics impacting the fintech industry which inc...

Accenture Cloud Launches With $3 Billion Investment

Accenture aims to propel its clients across all industries to rapidly become “cloud first” with an investment of US$3 billion over 3 years with the formation of its aptly-named Accenture Cloud First. Karthik Narain will lead Accenture Cloud First and...

Digital Investing: Bank Vontobel holt Fintech-Experten für den Ausbau

Die BankVontobel verstärkt sich mit dem Finanzmarkt- und FinTech-Experten Toby Triebel. Triebel wird zum 5. Oktober die Leitung der globalen Client Unit «Digital Investing» übernehmen und Mitglied des Operating Committee. Über die Challenger-Einheit...

25 Years With HSBC, Now Libra’s New Managing Director

Geneva based Libra Association, an independent group organised by Facebook to manage its Libra stablecoin project, announced the appointment of former HSBC head James Emmett, as the Managing Director of Libra Networks. James Emmett said of his appoin...