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Stableton Financial and DeepJudge, two of the winners of this year’s Swiss Fintech Awards, have been reaping the fruits of the publicity accompanying the renowned startup competition, using the new-found exposure as an opportunity to expand to new ve...
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1 year ago
Home to more than 150 fintech unicorns, the US is a fintech powerhouse and one of the world’s biggest fintech ecosystems. Given the country’s leading position in the global fintech scene, a number of large-scale events and conferences are being held...
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1 year ago
Access to the metaverse is complex and expensive, which is why it is so far used almost exclusively by large companies. The Zurich and Verbier-based PR agency Rent a PR, which has been providing on-demand public relations and communications consultin...
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1 year ago
London based Wealth management platform FNZ announced that it has agreed to acquire investment management solutions provider DIAMOS AG to bolster FNZ’s client proposition in the German market.
DIAMOS will also provide FNZ with its technology expertis...
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1 year ago
Alternative investment platform Stableton announced the promotion of Roman Loosli, Freddie Cunningham and Christian Schmid to the firm’s executive management team.
The move also sees the promotion of Roman Loosli from Head of Data & Solution Arch...
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1 year ago
Crypto solutions provider 21.co has raised a US$25 million round led by Marshall Wace at a US$2 billion valuation, making it Switzerland’s largest crypto unicorn.
The round, which included investors, such as Collab+Currency, Quiet Ventures, ETFS Capi...
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1 year ago
Driven by a supportive policy context and the multitude of initiatives introduced by governments across the region, Europe is rising to leadership in the field of climate fintech, being home to four times as many climate fintech companies compared to...
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1 year ago
5 fintech and 2 proptech scale-ups made this year’s TOP 25 Swiss Scale-ups Awards organized by Venturelab with Credit Suisse and the Swiss Venture Club.
The scale-ups ranking was created to recognise Swiss companies aged five to 10 years who are no l...
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1 year ago
Ten fintech and three proptech startups made the 12th edition of the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Awards organized by Venturelab with Credit Suisse and the Swiss Venture Club.
The 2022 ranking features 40 new nominees, as well as a fintech startup in first...
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1 year ago
Business executives are bullish on the prospect of the metaverse, predicting sizeable commercial opportunities in taking part in immersive virtual environments. But despite the high level of interest, industry stakeholders are also growing increasing...
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1 year ago
More than 20 countries around the world have introduced investor visa programs, providing wealthy people with a residency permit or, in some cases, even citizenship in return for a substantial investment.
Also known as “golden visas,” these programs...
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1 year ago
Digital private bank Alpian announced that it is now a Principal Member of Visa, allowing the company to issue its exclusive metal debit card in Switzerland.
The pairing of the metal debit card with a multi-currency current account (CHF, EUR, GBP and...
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1 year ago
In the Caribbean, the Dominican Republic is seeing the emergence of a burgeoning fintech industry, a thriving ecosystem that has risen on the back of supportive regulatory initiatives and ambitions to improve financial inclusion.
With 55 active finte...
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1 year ago
Digital asset bank Sygnum announced the opening of its metaverse hub, saying that is the virtual equivalent of New York’s Times Square in Decentraland.
Decentraland claims to be the first and largest metaverse which leverages a crypto asset called MA...
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1 year ago
Account-to-account payments platform Vyne entered a new partnership with web development platform Wix that gives Wix’s UK-based merchants access to Vyne’s open banking payments infrastructure, enabling them to offer their customers the ability to pay...