Category : Switzerland

Stripe Launches Card Issuing Services for Businesses in the US

Payments company Stripe has rolled out a new card issuing product in the US, allowing businesses to create, manage and distribute tailored virtual and physical cards to their customers and employees, the company announced on April 23. Stripe Issuing...

Credit Suisse Entrepreneurship Fonds Investiert Millionen in Neues Schweizer Insurtech

Das Zürcher Insurtech Startup Toni Digital versucht den Versicherungsmarkt mit einem innovativen Geschäftsmodell einfacher, digitaler und günstiger zu machen. Jetzt sicherte sich das Unternehmen rund 6 Millionen CHF in der aktuellen Finanzierungsrund...

Research: 6 Million Downloaded Their Bank’s App for the First Time During Corona Lockdown

New research from Nucoro, reveals that between 14th March and 14th April, because of the Coronavirus lockdown, around 12% of the adult population in the UK – some six million people – downloaded their bank’s App for the first time. Some 21% of...

Banks Still Falling Short in Improving Customer Experience: World Fintech Report 2020

Despite having invested heavily in front-end IT infrastructure to improve customer experience, traditional banks are still falling short behind bigtechs and challenger banks, according to new report by Capgemini and Efma. In their annual World Fintec...

Impact of COVID-19 Crisis: Insights From Global Startup Survey

To better understand the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on startups globally and equip governments with tools and actionable insights to support their innovation ecosystems, Startup Genome launched a global startup survey on the topic. Key findings f...

Liquiditätsmanagement: Schweizer KMU in Zeiten von COVID-19

Die wirtschaftlichen Folgen des Coronavirus (COVID-19) sind erheblich. In dieser ausserordentlichen Zeit können selbst finanziell gesunde Unternehmen unverschuldet in eine Liquiditätskrise geraten. In vielen Branchen brechen die Umsätze ein, die kurz...

Digitale Anwaltskanzlei – aus digitalCounsels wird GetYourLawyer

GetYourLawyer digitalisiert die Rechtsbranche: Die Onlineplattform verbindet Privatpersonen und KMU mit passenden Anwältinnen und Anwälten, ermöglicht eine digitale Zusammenarbeit und übernimmt zugleich deren administrative Abwicklung. In Partner...

Crowdlitoken: Mittels Digitaler Immobilienanleihen 16 Mio. CHF Platziert

Crowdlitoken AG lanciert eines der grössten digitalen Finanzprodukte und schliesst die erste Finanzierungsrunde mit 16 Mio. CHF im April 2020 erfolgreich ab. Das Liechtensteiner Fintech-Unternehmen ist Herausgeber digitaler Anleihen, mit der sich Inv...

Top 6 Fintech Webinars and Virtual Events to Attend if You are in Europe

With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a growing number of webinars and virtual events are being hosted to provide industry participants with networking opportunities as more and more offline conferences and gatherings are being canceled or postponed. F...

Online Invoicing and Accounting Solutions for Self-Employed and SMEs in Switzerland

In the traditional business model, invoices are created at the end of each billing period, then printed, put in an envelope and mailed to the customers. However, there are several problems and drawbacks with this method including the fact that it is...

Regtech in Europe: Regtech 3.0 Solutions and more

Regtech, a term that refers to the use of technology such as advanced analytics, robotic process automation, cognitive computing and cloud computing, to help financial services firms get better at dealing with regulation, is one of the fastest-growin...

PwC Launches Solution Supporting Audit of Cryptocurrencies

PwC launches a new software tool to provide audit and other assurance services to clients holding or transacting in cryptocurrency. In an environment where robust controls have been proven effective throughout a business’ cryptocurrency activities, P...

3 Startups Joined Up to Launch a Swiss Crypto Asset Management Ecosystem

METACO, AlgoTrader and Cysec (formerly ArcaTrust) have banded together to offer an asset management ecosystem specifically for all Swiss-made crypto assets. The ecosystem allows financial institutions to manage these assets across an asset’s en...

New Swiss RegTech Startup Map

RegTech is a shorthand for regulatory tech, a subset of fintech that focuses on technologies that could help facilitate the delivery of regulatory requirements in a comprehensive and cost-effective way. The rise of RegTech was only a matter of time,...

KMU Digitalisierungs Studie: Ein digitaler Vorsprung ist immer noch möglich

Wie schon im Jahr 2017 widmet sich der diesjährige KMU-Spiegel dem Thema «Digitalisierung». Es sei unbestritten, dass die Digitalisierung eines der wichtigsten und umfassendsten Themen sei, mit denen Unternehmen heute konfrontiert sind, begründen di...