Category : Switzerland

Stanford: Fintech Maintains Position as Third Biggest AI Investment Focus Area

In 2022, global private investment in artificial intelligence (AI) companies reached US$91.9 billion, a 18-fold increase compared with 2013. Of that sum, fintech companies secured the third largest amount, raising a total of US$5.5 billion, a new rep...

CAT Financial Products Taps Broadridge to Transform Its Front-To-Back Office

CAT Financial Products (CATFP), an independent Swiss provider of securities and investment services for structured products, announced that it has partnered with Broadridge Financial Solutions. The partnership has helped CATFP to increase its front t...

Europe’s Top 10 Neobanks Serve a Combined 64M Customers

Changing customer behavior, technological advancements and an evolving regulatory landscape are fueling the rise of digital banking. So-called neobanks or challenger bank are rapidly capturing the market and are now serving a combined customer base o...

SweePay and SMART VALOR Brings Crypto to Masses at National Railways, Retailers

The Swiss crypto exchange SMART VALOR and the financial intermediary SweePay has partnered to ensure that the purchase of cryptocurrencies at Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) ticket machines is simple, smooth and secure. Since 2016, it has been possible...

Apple Card’s Savings Account With High Interest Is Now Available Only for U.S. Users

Apple has announced that its card users in the U.S. can now set up a savings account from Goldman Sachs which offers a high-yield APY of 4.15 percent. This is more than 10 times the national average according to the FDIC. In a press statement, Apple...

Europe’s 16 Most Influential Female Fintech Marketers in 2023

In the fintech sector, marketers have a critical role to play, helping fintech companies build their brand, gain consumers’ trust and drive business growth. Earlier this month, the Fintech Marketing Hub, an online community platform dedicated to the...

Money20/20 Europe Unveils Speaker Lineup

Money20/20 unveils its agenda for the upcoming Europe show in Amsterdam, June 6-8th. Over 300 speakers are expected to join Money20/20 Europe this year. They include top executives from global banks including HSBC, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, NatWest, a...

Twitter Ties up With eToro to Enable Users to View Real-Time Stocks, Crypto Prices

Multi-asset investment company eToro has partnered with Twitter to enable the social media platform’s users to instantly see real-time prices for a wider range of stocks, crypto and other assets when using the new $Cashtags feature. Twitter added pri...

Kaspar& lanciert Säule 3a Sparlösung

Das seit März 2022 aktive St.Galler Startup Kaspar& erweitert sein Produktangebot um eine voll-integrierte Säule 3a Lösung. Während das Jungunternehmen bisher vor allem durch die Möglichkeit des Aufrundungssparens aufgefallen ist (hierbei wird be...

A New Digital Banking Platform Launched for Corporate Clients in Austria

The well-known digital banking by Erste Bank and Sparkasse is available for corporate clients for the first time. The completely new and stand-alone business banking platform is being launched under the name George Business. Hans Unterdorfer “George...

New Paper Explores Pros and Cons of Central Bank Digital Currencies

Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), a digital form of a government-issued currency that’s pegged to a physical commodity, have gained notable traction over the past couple of years, prompted by technological advances and a decline in the use of...

Swiss Central Bank Payment Vision Outlining Focus on DLT, Tokenization and Instant Payments

The Swiss National Bank (SNB) has shared how it intends to “future-proof” the domestic payment ecosystem, outlining its ambition to leverage technologies and processes including tokenization and distributed ledger technology (DLT) to establish an “ef...

Schweizer HSG Startup Studie zeigt regulatorischen Handlungsbedarf

Im Auftrag der Swiss Entrepreneurs & Startup Association SWESA hat die Universität St. Gallen die Rahmenbedingungen für Startups in der Schweiz aus juristischer und wirtschaftlicher Sicht umfassend untersucht. Während die Hochschullandschaft u...

Finanzguru Bags €13 Million in Fundraise Led by SCOR Ventures, PayPal

Finanzguru, a German financial advisor enabled by open-banking, announced that it has raised €13 million in a funding round led by new investors SCOR Ventures and PayPal Ventures. This brings its total funds raised to €27 million since its launch in...

Swiss Post to Issue Newest AI Swiss Crypto Stamp

Following the successful launches of the Swiss Crypto Stamp in the last two years, Swiss Post will be issuing the third generation, Swiss Crypto Stamp 3.0, on 2 May 2023. Once again, Swiss Post is uniting the analogue world of the stamp collector wit...