Category : Switzerland

OneSpan Appoints Eric Hanson as Chief Marketing Officer

OneSpan, a digital identity verification and e-signatures solutions provider, announced that Eric Hanson has joined the company as Chief Marketing Officer and will be reporting to Matthew Moynahan, President and Chief Executive Officer. Hanson combin...

UK Digital Infrastructure: AWS Plans £1.8 Billion Investment

AWS’s continued commitment to the UK includes investments in infrastructure, renewable energy, and skills and training Today we are announcing that we expect to spend more than £1.8 billion in the next two years building and operating data centres in...

G+D Supports RaboBank in Creating a Sustainability-Focused and Individualized Payment Experience

With G+D Convego Recycled Cards Rabobank is introducing a new sustainable payment system. In addition, G+D facilitates the bank to further develop its customer service through an on-demand personalization approach. As a co-operative agricultural bank...

Wolters Kluwer Partners NYDIG to Roll Out Bitcoin Regulatory Risk Assessment

Wolters Kluwer Compliance Solutions has collaborated with Bitcoin company NYDIG to launch the Bitcoin Risk Assessment. The Risk Assessment evaluates a financial institution’s control environment related to its participation in the NYDIG Bitcoin platf...

eBay und Klarna starten strategische Partnerschaft in Deutschland

eBay kündigt eine strategische Partnerschaft mit Klarna an. Im Rahmen der Partnerschaft bietet eBay zukünftig Verbraucher*innen in Deutschland Klarnas flexible Zahlungsmethoden an. eBay bietet zukünftig zwei neue Klarna-Zahlungsoptionen bei eBay.de a...

Neue Finanz-App macht Sparen für Familien kinderleicht und nachhaltig

Ab jetzt macht es „Clanq“! Nach Monaten des Konzipierens, Programmierens und Ausprobierens geht heute, am 14. März 2022, das neue Schweizer FinTech Clanq an den Start. Die einfach zu bedienende App ist eine einzigartige Kombination aus Bankkonto, Spa...

Wolters Kluwer Inks Deal to Acquire IDS for US$70 Million

Wolters Kluwer Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) has signed an agreement with The Reynolds and Reynolds Company to acquire International Document Services (IDS), a U.S. provider of compliance and document generation software solutions for the m...

Digital Asset Manager CoinShares Increases Its Stake in FlowBank to 20.28%

London-based digital asset manager CoinShares announced that it will be increasing its stake in Swiss online bank FlowBank to 20.28%. The move was to facilitate increased digital asset exposure through FlowBank’s proprietary technology platform...

Here’s What You Need to Know About Biden’s Executive Order on Digital Assets

U.S. President Joe Biden has signed an Executive Order outlining its approach to addressing the risks and harnessing the potential benefits of digital assets and their underlying technology. The order lays out a national policy for digital assets acr...

5 Recommendations for Wholesale Central Bank Digital Currency Design and Implementation

A new paper from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Clifford Chance, commissioned by the Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA), looks at the potential benefits and challenges relating to wholesale central bank digital currencies (wCBDCs), an...

“BORN IN SWITZERLAND” Swiss Original Fintech Overview Map Update: 202 Companies

Luc Schuurmans, Deputy CEO, Executive Management at Bank Linth, put together an updated overview map of Fintech Companies “Born in Switzerland”. Here are the descriptions of all the Swiss Fintechs listed in Luc’s map: Funding Verve Ventures is a net...

Lendable Announces GBP 210M Funding Round Led by Ontario Teachers Pension Fund

Lendable, an AI-powered consumer finance platform, has announced a GBP 210m funding round at a valuation in excess of GBP 3.5bn. The round was led by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board (Ontario Teachers’), through its Teachers’ Innovation Platf...

Swiss Blockchain Startup Wecan Chooses France for Its Expansion

Wecan Group SA, a Swiss Blockchain software provider used Swiss private banks, is favoring an expansion in France for its internationalization. Behind this choice: an investment from Michel Reybier, owner of La Réserve hotels, and a selection in the...

2 Swiss Startups Make 2022 Top 50 Blockchain and Crypto Companies Ranking

Market intelligence platform CB Insights has released its second edition of The Blockchain 50, an annual ranking of the world’s top 50 most promising blockchain and crypto companies. Two Swiss startups made the 2022 ranking: SEBA Bank and the Solana...

Real Estate Companies Now Refinance via Loanboox

Loanboox, a public sector financing platform, now also offers its services to housing cooperatives, real estate funds and real estate companies. For this purpose, Loanboox has added the experienced real estate financing expert Patrick Zurfluh to the...