Category : Switzerland

Switzerland Attracts More Blockchain Firms Despite Crypto Meltdown

Global leaders were treated to a crypto charm offensive at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week. Finance Minister Ueli Maurer and Switzerland Global Enterprise, which is responsible for attracting business, took the opportunity to roll out the...

Here Are 13 Startups Selected for F10’s Latest Accelerator Cohort

F10 announced that 13 growth-stage fintech and insurtech startups have been selected for its spring 2022 cohort from 300 applications globally to join its open innovation accelerator at its Zurich and Singapore hubs. The goal of this programme is to...

BNPL Player Zoodpay Expands to Pakistan With Acquisition of Tez Financial Services

ZoodPay, a Swiss-based buy now, pay later (BNPL) platform for e-commerce customers in the Middle East and Central Asia, has made its entry into Pakistan by fully acquiring the Karachi-headquartered Tez Financial Services. Tez was granted a Non-Bank F...

New World Bank Report Looks at the Rise of Fintech

Technology-enabled innovation is reshaping financial products, market players, market structure and even money itself, removing key frictions in the provision of financial services, enabling new business models and allowing market participants to rea...

CAT Financial Products Issues Financial Products with Fintech Influencer

Spiros Margaris is the world’s No.1 fintech influencer and has been a successful investor in the fintech industry for many years. In a partnership with CAT Financial Products AG (CATFP), he gives investors the chance to invest diversified and in a si...

LevelField Selects METACO to Launch Digital Asset Management Capabilities on IBM Cloud

LevelField Financial, the premier U.S. financial services firm uniting digital assets and traditional banking services in one trusted platform has selected Switzerland-based METACO, a specialist of digital asset custody orchestration technology to co...

Huobi Global Steps up Latin America Presence With Bitex Acquisition

Huobi Global announced the acquisition of Bitex, one of the first regional cryptocurrency exchanges in Latin America, as it moves to expand its footprint in the fast-growing region. The terms of the deal are confidential and were not disclosed. Found...

Swiss Banks Slow to Embrace Open Banking

In Switzerland, banks and financial institutions have been slow in embracing the open banking movement, a delay that can partly explained by institutions’ conservative corporate culture as well as an overarching fear of losing customers to third part...

Polytech Ventures, Fusion Partners Raise CHF 11 Million to Build Next-Gen Swiss Startups

Swiss investment company Polytech Ventures Holding and Fusion Partners, a corporate venturing organisation in French-speaking Switzerland, have raised CHF 11 million to develop its independent Swiss “startups studio” named Webuild Venture...

Irish B2B Payment Provider TransferMate is now a Fintech Unicorn

TransferMate, a leading provider of B2B payments infrastructure as-a-service, announced a $70M funding round bringing the company to a valuation of $1BN and $130M of total funding. Railpen, one of the largest UK pension funds, managing £37 billion, p...

Disruption im Wealth Management: 5 Gründe warum Vermögensverwalter Data Analytics einführen sollten

In den nächsten Dekaden werden grosse Vermögen von den Baby Boomern an ihre Nachfahren der Generationen X und Y (Generation Y wird auch Millennials genannt) vererbt. Zur Höhe der Vermögen, die vererbt werden, zirkulieren verschiedenste Zahlen. Und ni...

Meet the 10 Fintech Finalists at the Swiss Startup Competition Venture and Winners for 2022

Switzerland’s startup competition >>venture>> has announced its list of 52 finalists for its 2022 competition. The competition has finalists from five different verticals namely Finance and Insurance, Health and Nutrition, ICT, Retail and...

Baltic Super Bolt und Uber Konkurrent startet in der Schweiz

Bolt, die erste europäische Super-App und der grösste Anbieter von Mikromobilität in Europa, startet seinen Sharing-Service für E-Trottinettes in Winterthur. Dies markiert den Eintritt der Marke in die Schweiz. Mit der Bolt-App, die auf iOS und Andro...

Finnova Takes Over Contovista from Viseca

The Lenzburg-based banking software manufacturer Finnova AG is acquiring the fintech company Contovista with retroactive effect from 1 January 2022. The two companies have been successfully working together for years. Finnova is acquiring 100% of the...

New Access Part of the “World’s Most Innovative Wealthtech Companies” 2022

New Access SA has been recognized among the 100 tech companies transforming the global investment and banking industries in the fourth annual 2022 WealthTech100 list. Launched by specialist research firm FinTech Global, the WealthTech100 is an annual...