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Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a critical aspect in financial services.
Financial institutions around the world are making large-scale investments in AI and the trend isn’t expected to slow down anytime soon. The World Economic Forum (WEF) p...
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6 years ago
Liechtenstein’s Union Bank AG announced that it will be the world’s first fully licensed and regulated bank to issue its own security tokens – Union Bank Payment Coin.
According to them its Union Bank Payment Coin, is the first tha...
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Self-custody is an important and fundamentally native feature of cryptocurrency. A blockchain-based digital asset can be stored by its owner without the help of traditional financial intermediaries, such as banks, registered brokers/dealers or qualif...
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6 years ago
The term blockchain has evolved tremendously since its infancy, we’d spend time talking about it’s transformational nature and disruptive potential, but we’re sure you’ve heard plenty of it from the blockchain experts that are...
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Seit der Lancierung von VIAC – der digitalen Säule 3a – sind bereits 9 Monate vergangen. In dieser kurzen Zeit wurde bereits die Marke von CHF 50 Mio. an verwalteten Vermögen überschritten.
Diese verteilen sich auf nicht weniger als 4‘300 Kunden. Dam...
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6 years ago
Swiss fintech startups raised a total of CHF 288 million through nine initial coin offerings (ICOs) in the first half of 2018, surpassing venture capital (VC) investments, according to a new report by e-foresight, the IFZ and Swisscom.
The rise of I...
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Florian Kübler is co-founder and CEO of Switzerlend AG, which operates the platform lend.ch. Lend is a fast growing marketplace lending platform in Switzerland, cutting out the middleman to pass the cost benefits on to both lenders and borrowers. Th...
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6 years ago
Since being founded in August 2013, Bitcoin Suisse has built a comprehensive brokerage and storage offer, facilitated and provided services for some of the world’s largest ICOs and attracted senior financial services executives to the crypto-finance...
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12 % der Schweizer sind bisher noch nicht auf dem Online Banking und zahlen Rechnungen am Postschalter, meist aus Sicherheitsbedenken. Genau auf diese Kundengruppe hat es die Postfinance mit der neuen Aktion abgesehen.
Als erste Bank in der Schweiz v...
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6 years ago
Innerhalb von nur drei Monaten gelang es den Jungunternehmern des Fintech-Startups Yova, die Investoren von sich und ihrem Produkt zu überzeugen. Mit den zwei Millionen Schweizer Franken kann Yova die Präsenz in der Schweiz ausbauen und sich für die...
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6 years ago
Tradeplus24 is on the Venture Leaders Fintech team heading to New York in September. The startup’s automated platform brings structured lending within reach of SMEs needing more funding than is usually available at their scale, thanks to reduced cost...
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6 years ago
Switzerland, a world renowned banking and financial hub, has witnessed a growing fintech ecosystem in the past years fueled by supportive regulations, a large pool of available tech and finance talent, and banks’ desire to innovate.
Geneva is one of...
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6 years ago
The European Parliament Committee on EMA (Economic and Monetary Affairs) published last week a draft proposal mentioning the possibility to include Initial Coin Offerings in new crowdfunding regulation.
ICOs in the European Parliament’s MEP rad...
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Switzerland -
6 years ago
Liechtenstein Union Bank AG announced that it will issue its own security tokens – in coordination with the Liechtenstein supervisory authority FMA – as the world’s first fully licensed and regulated bank.
Shortly thereafter, the U...
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6 years ago
Die liechtensteinische Union Bank AG gab bekannt, dass sie – nach Abstimmung mit der liechtensteinischen Aufsichtsbehörde FMA – als weltweit erste vollkonzessionierte und regulierte Bank eigene Security Tokens herausgeben wird.
Kurz darau...