Category : Switzerland

Advisory Firm Nebula Capital Partners Set to Launch BNPL-Focused Fund

London-based advisory firm Nebula Capital Partners (NCP) is launching a fintech lending focused fund project which bridges the gap between traditional and digital finance. NCP aims to bring the emerging asset classes of digital lending and embedded f...

7 Must-Know Fintech Startups from Geneva

Geneva, a leading international financial center, is seeing the emergence of a burgeoning fintech sector. Today, the region is home to some 39 fintech companies that cover various segments ranging from blockchain and crowdfunding, to regtech and weal...

London Fintech 9fin Secures £8 Million Series A Led by Swiss VC Redalpine

9fin, a London-based provider of data, news and predictive analytics for debt capital markets, has announced an £8 million Series A round to fuel its expansion into the US. The company will expand into the US market by opening a New York-based office...

Yokoy Co-Founder and CMO Shares Ambitions, Expansion Plans

Swiss spend management specialist Yokoy is on an expansion spree. After launching in Austria and Germany less than a year ago, the startup is already planning to conquer new markets, Yokoy co-founder and CMO Melanie Gabriel told Fintech News Switzerl...

Die St.Galler Kantonalbank startet mit Open Wealth API

Als erste Schweizer Bank stellt die St.Galler Kantonalbank gemäss eigenen Angaben per sofort eine standardisierte Programmierschnittstelle (OpenWealth API) für ihre Depotbank-Services zur Verfügung. Die Programmierschnittstelle ermöglicht einen siche...

Salt Edge, Supernovae Labs Partner to Boost Open Banking in Italy

Italian fintech accelerator Supernovae Labs has joined forces with open banking solutions provider Salt Edge to provide financial institutions and third-party providers a much more secure and reliable way of aggregating bank data and initiating payme...

Next Gen Finance Professionals Need to Embrace Major Upskilling to Keep Pace

Refinitiv’s new report “Workspace Without Limits” explores the data challenges financial professionals are facing, and the role that technology, interoperability and programming skills play in solving for some of these challenges; e...

Digital Asset Manager CoinShares Snaps up 9% Stake in FlowBank for US$11.8 Million

London-based digital asset manager CoinShares has acquired a 9.02% stake in Swiss online bank FlowBank for US$11.85 million. With this move, FlowBank’s clients can invest in CoinShares’ crypto ETPs. From next year onwards, customers will be able to d...

German Regulator BaFin Grants Third Crypto Custody License to Tangany

Tangany has received a license from the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) as the third regulated service provider for the custody of digital assets in the country to provide crypto custody business. Furthermore, Tangany plans to...

4 Priorities for Banks to Secure Digital and Mobile Channels

During the pandemic, the number of data breaches has increased drastically: cyberattacks targeting banks have even grown by 238 percent. This fraud surge goes hand in hand with the growing use of the mobile and digital banking channels. While this tr...

Top 50 Early-Stage Insurtechs in Europe

With 29 out of 50 companies, the UK takes the lion’s share in this year’s Future50, a ranking by Insurtech Insights and Sønr depicting Europe’s top 50 most promising early-stage insurtech startups. These 50 insurtechs were selected out of thousands o...

Europe Leads in Open Banking Regulation But Adoption Discrepancies Exist Between Countries

Europe is often considered a pioneer in the widespread introduction of open banking, but despite groundbreaking regulations like PSD2, significant differences and discrepancies exist between countries of the continent, a new research by German open b...

Europe Paved the Way for Open Banking but Held Back by Adoption Discrepancies

YAPEAL lanciert das erste digitale Firmenkunden Konto in der Schweiz

YAPEAL bietet neu vollumfänglich digitalisierte Dienstleistungen für Firmenkunden in der Schweiz an. Das Schweizer Firmenkundengeschäft der Banken ist in vielen Bereichen weit davon entfernt, die digitalen Möglichkeiten, welche den Unternehmen einen...

German Neo Insurer Getsafe Extends Series B Fundraise to US$93 Million

Getsafe, a digital insurer targeting millennial buyers in Germany and the UK, announced that it has extended its Series B funding round to US$93 million. The neo insurer previously announced in December 2020 that it had secured US$30 million during a...