News / Switzerland - 6 years ago
As cryptocurrencies gain popularity, scalability issues and high transaction fees have forced Swiss startup Lykke to switch from a semi-decentralized to a centralized operational mode. The transition for Bitcoin trading wallets occurred in late-Decem...
News / Switzerland - 6 years ago
German Fintech Overview and Map 2018 and link collection provided by our German blogging friends from paymentbanking. German FinTech Overview Link collection: Payment https://www.sumup.de https://www.izettle.com/de http://www.go4q.mobi http://www.ip...
News / Switzerland - 6 years ago
Insurtechs enable insurance carriers to innovate much faster than they do today. Their innovative solutions dramatically improve the primary process of insurance carriers; they take away the frictions that customers experience when dealing with an in...
News / Switzerland - 6 years ago
Neun Prozent der Befragten haben bereits Bitcoins oder andere Kryptowährungen gekauft. Weitere elf Prozent gaben an, im kommenden Jahr darin investieren zu wollen. Dabei rechnen nur gerade acht Prozent dieser zweiten Gruppe effektiv mit Kursgewinnen;...
News / Switzerland - 6 years ago
In recent weeks there have been reports in various media outlets and publications of differences of opinion and governance issues in regards to the Tezos Foundation internally as well as its founders. Due to this, many of our clients and concerned co...
News / Switzerland - 6 years ago
Im Zuge des digitalen Wandels sehen sich traditionelle Unternehmen mit einer völlig neuen Konkurrenz konfrontiert: Nicht mehr nur die bisherigen Wettbewerber, sondern branchenfremde Player wie die grossen Tech-Konzerne aus dem Silicon Valley und jung...
News / Switzerland - 6 years ago
LiveEdu is a decentralized learning ecosystem that teaches people how to build complete products in future technological fields. They are building the YouTube for online education. You can also describe their ecosystem as the next-generation Lynda.co...
News / Switzerland - 6 years ago
Im Niedrigzinsumfeld gewinnen passive Anlageinstrumente an Beliebtheit. Im Vergleich zu aktiv verwalteten Anlagen bieten sie Renditevorteile durch ihre günstige Gebührenstruktur. Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) sind eine attraktive Kapitalanlage für lan...
News / Switzerland - 6 years ago
The Gibraltar Financial Services Commission’s (GFSC) DLT Regulatory Framework came in to effect on 1st January 2018. This means that firms in Gibraltar, that use DLT (also known as blockchain) to store or transmit value belonging to others, now have...
News / Switzerland - 6 years ago
After an eventful 2017 in Fintech, we begin another new year with fresh expectations as to how some of the hottest trends in the financial technology sector including cryptocurrencies, blockchain, investing, peer-to-peer lending, trade finance as wel...
News / Switzerland - 6 years ago
After an eventful 2017 in Fintech, we begin another new year with fresh expectations as to how some of the hottest trends in the financial technology sector including cryptocurrencies, blockchain, investing, peer-to-peer lending, trade finance as wel...
News / Switzerland - 6 years ago
Luc Schuurmans, Head Private Banking, Executive Management at Bank Linth LLB AG, put together an updated overview map of Fintech Companies “Born in Switzerland”. Since his last update he collected 15 Startups more Along with Swisscoms Fintech map (a...
News / Switzerland - 6 years ago
The Swiss Fintech Awards have pre-selected 5 Early Stage Fintech Startups and 5 Growth Stage Startups. This 10 Startups will now join the Accenture Boot Camp in January including a Speed Dating with jury members and sponsors in February. The Finale –...
News / Switzerland - 6 years ago
Three weeks after the approval of bitcoin futures by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in the United States, Solactive is launching the Solactive Bitcoin Front Month Rolling Futures 5D Index, an index tracking the performance of XBT futures li...
News / Switzerland - 6 years ago
The Swiss fintech ecosystem experienced significant growth in 2017, aided by a supportive regulatory framework, traditional financial players’ willingness to collaborate with startups, and new international fintech agreements. As of December 20...