News / Switzerland - 5 years ago
Swiss fintech startups raised a total of CHF 288 million through nine initial coin offerings (ICOs) in the first half of 2018, surpassing venture capital (VC) investments, according to a new report by e-foresight, the IFZ and Swisscom. The rise of I...
News / Switzerland - 5 years ago
Florian Kübler is co-founder and CEO of Switzerlend AG, which operates the platform lend.ch. Lend is a fast growing marketplace lending platform in Switzerland, cutting out the middleman to pass the cost benefits on to both lenders and borrowers. Th...
News / Switzerland - 5 years ago
Since being founded in August 2013, Bitcoin Suisse has built a comprehensive brokerage and storage offer, facilitated and provided services for some of the world’s largest ICOs and attracted senior financial services executives to the crypto-finance...
News / Switzerland - 5 years ago
12 % der Schweizer sind bisher noch nicht auf dem Online Banking und zahlen Rechnungen am Postschalter, meist aus Sicherheitsbedenken. Genau auf diese Kundengruppe hat es die Postfinance mit der neuen Aktion abgesehen. Als erste Bank in der Schweiz v...
News / Switzerland - 5 years ago
Innerhalb von nur drei Monaten gelang es den Jungunternehmern des Fintech-Startups Yova, die Investoren von sich und ihrem Produkt zu überzeugen. Mit den zwei Millionen Schweizer Franken kann Yova die Präsenz in der Schweiz ausbauen und sich für die...
News / Switzerland - 5 years ago
Tradeplus24 is on the Venture Leaders Fintech team heading to New York in September. The startup’s automated platform brings structured lending within reach of SMEs needing more funding than is usually available at their scale, thanks to reduced cost...
News / Switzerland - 5 years ago
Switzerland, a world renowned banking and financial hub, has witnessed a growing fintech ecosystem in the past years fueled by supportive regulations, a large pool of available tech and finance talent, and banks’ desire to innovate. Geneva is one of...
News / Switzerland - 5 years ago
The European Parliament Committee on EMA (Economic and Monetary Affairs) published last week a draft proposal mentioning the possibility to include Initial Coin Offerings in new crowdfunding regulation. ICOs in the European Parliament’s MEP rad...
News / Switzerland - 5 years ago
Liechtenstein Union Bank AG announced that it will issue its own security tokens – in coordination with the Liechtenstein supervisory authority FMA – as the world’s first fully licensed and regulated bank. Shortly thereafter, the U...
News / Switzerland - 5 years ago
Die liechtensteinische Union Bank AG gab bekannt, dass sie – nach Abstimmung mit der liechtensteinischen Aufsichtsbehörde FMA – als weltweit erste vollkonzessionierte und regulierte Bank eigene Security Tokens herausgeben wird. Kurz darau...
News / Switzerland - 5 years ago
Die Welt befindet sich im Umbruch, die Digitalisierung schafft neue Geschäftsmodelle, alte Geschäftsmodelle verschwinden. Auch Banken sind von diesen Änderungen betroffen. Die Zukunft der Kredite liegt nicht mehr bei der Bank, sondern die Zukunft sin...
News / Switzerland - 5 years ago
With cryptocurrencies entering the mainstream, storing and spending them require new easy-to-use solutions. ETH spin-off SHIFT Cryptosecurity has developed a sturdy, discreet and of course high-security hardware wallet for cryptocurrencies. The appea...
News / Switzerland - 5 years ago
In the face of growing competition, changing consumer expectations and the broader digitalization of our economy, incumbent financial institutions must embrace digital change and welcome the idea of partnering with digital enablers and fintechs, acco...
News / Switzerland - 5 years ago
F10 Incubator and Accelerator – The Home of FinTech – announces the final selection of eight Startups for the inaugural P3 «Product to Market Program». The program complements the value chain for driving innovation towards the FinTech of tomorrow. F1...
News / Switzerland - 5 years ago
Deposit Solutions, the Open Banking pioneer and international platform for savings deposits, announced the closing of a new funding round . The round was led by private equity firm Vitruvian Partners. Vitruvian was joined by Kinnevik and existing sha...