News / Switzerland - 1 year ago
After experiencing record investment volumes in 2021, venture funding is dropping significantly this year amid hiking inflation rates, political instability and tanking stock prices. Investors are scaling back their investment pace significantly, and...
News / Switzerland - 1 year ago
PayPal has reached a new agreement with Apple that will see that two technology giants accept each other’s products in their respective payment ecosystems. The partnership is the latest in a series of collaborations announced by PayPal over the past...
News / Switzerland - 1 year ago
London-based Starling Bank recently announced in a text to its users that it has decided to block all incoming and outgoing transactions to crypto exchanges and other crypto platforms. Starling Bank says that while the technology and thinking behind...
News / Switzerland - 1 year ago
Crypto comparison website Bitstacker conducted a study which found that there was a 70% drop in Bitcoin millionaires in November 2022 when compared to January 2022 due to the ongoing ‘crypto winter’. 72,000 Bitcoin holders were no longer millionaires...
News / Switzerland - 1 year ago
London-based embedded finance platform Railsr has launched Insights, a dashboard for brands to access data-driven insights on their customer base to optimise the end consumer product. Railsr’s Insights allows brands to track customer data such as acc...
News / Switzerland - 1 year ago
Die Venture Capital Firma EquityPitcher AG schliesst erfolgreich ihren zweiten Fonds. Dieser investiert gezielt in Startups aus der DACH-Region und zählt bereits 20 Portfolio-Unternehmen aus 12 verschiedenen Industrien. EquityPitcher setzt bei all ih...
News / Switzerland - 1 year ago
The clearing and settlement landscape is on the brick of a major transformation, driven by the accelerated pace of technology development and adoption. In the coming years, market participants expect the settlement timeframe to substantially shorten...
News / Switzerland - 1 year ago
In Zusammenarbeit mit der Hochschule Luzern – Wirtschaft (HSLU) hat PostFinance eine umfassende Erhebung zum Anlageverhalten in der Schweiz durchgeführt. Die Resultate zeigen, dass ein geringes Interesse für die Finanzmärkte, ein vermeintlich fehlend...
News / Switzerland - 2 years ago
Swiss digital asset bank Sygnum has received in-principle approval from the Abu Dhabi Global Market’s (ADGM) Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) to expand to the city. The approval allows the company to access Abu Dhabi’s established wealt...
News / Switzerland - 2 years ago
Finastra is collaborating with French blockchain platform Fragmos Chain to provide out-of-the-box integration with Finastra Summit, its over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market solution. The API-first integration via FusionFabric.cloud enables banks...
News / Switzerland - 2 years ago
Italian neobank HYPE has partnered with London-based identity verification and authentication provider Onfido to automate its customer onboarding process. Launched in 2015, HYPE provides 1.7 million customers with services such as P2P and bill paymen...
News / Switzerland - 2 years ago
Austrian crypto platform Bitpanda has received a full operating license from the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority or BaFin for the custody and proprietary trading of crypto assets. Bitpanda claims to be the first European retail investm...
News / Switzerland - 2 years ago
Paris-based business financing platform Karmen has raised an additional €50 million in debt financing from London-based alternative asset management company Fasanara Capital. Karmen first raised €22 million comprising €3 million in equity and €19 mil...
News / Switzerland - 2 years ago
German automated decisions platform Taktile has closed a US$20 million Series A funding round with investments from Index Ventures and Tiger Global. Taktile allows companies to build automated flows for decisions — like which customer to lend to or w...
News / Switzerland - 2 years ago
Financial services app SWISS4.0 has been granted a fintech license by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) to operate as a financial institution, effective 18 November 2022. SWISS4.0 said that it is the first Geneva-based fintech...