Category : Switzerland

The FTX EMEA Empire That Never Was

If you could peer into the mind of Sam Bankman-Fried, what would you see? Maybe it doesn’t bear thinking about. In the summer, empire building in Europe, the Middle East and Africa was very much on the mind of the FTX crypto mogul. I’ve already uncov...

Year End Message to Our Readers – Offline From 23rd December to 2nd January

Fintech News Switzerland would like to take this opportunity to wish all our readers a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year. We will be taking a break from the 23rd December 2022 to the 2nd January 2023. Until then, you can access some of our ye...

Visa Plans on Auto Crypto Payments

The rise of blockchain and cryptocurrencies has changed the way we think about digital money movement — creating opportunities for a new generation of financial applications. Visa reported that they are in the early stages of blockchain development a...

Banking and Fintech Players Embrace Cloud-Based Core Banking Platforms

2022 has seen a large number of banks and fintech companies embrace cloud-native architectures, inking strategic partnerships with modern core banking providers and technology specialists to modernize their core infrastructure and evolve for the digi...

BIS: New Global Bank Standards for Cryptoassets

The Group of Central Bank Governors and Heads of Supervision (GHOS), the oversight body of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, met on 16 December to endorse a finalised prudential standard on banks’ cryptoasset exposures and the Committee’s w...

Swiss Government Plans to Promote Open Finance in 2024

During its meeting on 16 December 2022, the Federal Council discussed open finance developments in Switzerland. It has instructed the Federal Department of Finance (FDF) to submit measures to it by June 2024 in the event that the financial sector doe...

Neue Strategie für die Digitale Schweiz

Der Bundesrat hat am 16. Dezember 2022 die neue Strategie Digitale Schweiz genehmigt. Die Strategie wurde vereinfacht und sieht neu jährlich wechselnde Fokusthemen vor, die vom Bundesrat bestimmt werden. Die Fokusthemen adressieren Themen, in denen d...

bob Finance Migrates Its Lending Portfolio to Mambu

Zurich-based digital financial services provider bob Finance announced that it has successfully migrated its full lending portfolio to Mambu’s cloud-native banking platform. This migration included a move to a locally-based Google Cloud as bob Financ...

UBS Issues USD 50 Million Tokenized Debt Securities for Asia Pacific

UBS has closed the first tokenized debt transaction for Asia Pacific investors, underlining its commitment to expand regional investment opportunities. UBS AG London branch issued USD 50 million in digital fixed rate security tokens (‘digital securit...

Governments, International Bodies Ramp up Crypto Tax Regulations

Over the past year, governments and regulatory bodies from around the world have increased their focus on the taxation of the cryptocurrency industry, a trend that comes on the back of increasing investment, adoption and innovation in the space despi...

New Swiss Fintech Startup Design for 2023

Together with their partners Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Swisscom and Clarafinds, eForesight has revised the Swiss Fintech Map and expanded the database as well as deleted some old and inactive players. The main categories contai...

New Swiss Fintech Startup Map Design for 2023

Mobil, Online, Krypto: Wie digital die Schweiz 2022 bezahlt

Die Schweizer:innen vertrauen immer stärker auf den Einsatz digitaler Bezahlmöglichkeiten. Das zeigen die Ergebnisse der zweiten Auflage des Visa Payment Monitor in der Schweiz. Laut der repräsentativen Umfrage unter 1’000 Menschen in der Schweiz ist...

8 Fast-Growing Supply Chain Fintech Companies from Europe

Cutting edge technologies including artificial intelligence (AI), analytics and distributed ledger technology (DLT) are changing the way companies and their suppliers do business. These technologies are revolutionizing the supply chain industry by in...

Accounto’s Board of Directors Are Expanding

The team at Accounto, the Switzerland based fiduciary software specialist, is gaining an experienced industry expert. Thomas Koller, former long-standing Chairman of the Board of Directors of OBT AG and General Manager of the Fiduciary & Business...