News / Switzerland - 7 years ago
More then 70 Fintech Startups applied for the Swiss Fintech Awards 2019. The jury has pre-selected a very interesting mix of five Swiss Early Stage Fintech Startups and five Growth Stage Swiss Fintech Startups. The winners will be announced during th...
News / Switzerland - 7 years ago
A recent customer survey carried by leading finance management portal Nummo has brought forward monetary concerns among the citizens in the upcoming year. Conducted in the month of October, the survey has revealed that debt obligation is the numero u...
News / Switzerland - 7 years ago
2018 was a disastrous year for cryptocurrencies, which saw their value plunge by 80% between January and September. But as we begin 2019, industry participants remain overall confident on the future of cryptocurrencies and their underlying technology...
News / Switzerland - 7 years ago
Blockchains versprechen grossangelegte offene Internetanwendungen, die vollständig dezentral organisiert sind. Der Preis dafür ist eine zähe Geschwindigkeit bei jeder Transaktion, die von dem System verarbeitet wird. Professor Sebastian Faust, Krypt...
News / Switzerland - 7 years ago
Die Crypto Fund AG, eine Tochtergesellschaft der Crypto Finance AG, gibt die Ernennung von Christoph Steiger als Head of Sales bekannt. Christoph verstärkt das Team und übernimmt die Verantwortung für den Vertrieb sowie das Kundenbeziehungsmanagement...
News / Switzerland - 7 years ago
A recent customer survey carried by leading finance management portal Nummo has brought forward monetary concerns among US citizens in the upcoming year. Conducted in the month of October, the survey has revealed that debt obligation is the number on...
News / Switzerland - 7 years ago
With a pool of over 147,000 professional developers and US$788 million raised in 2018, Switzerland’s tech industry ranks tenth among its European counterparts. Zurich, Geneve and Lausanne have been found to be Switzerland’s three largest tech communi...
News / Switzerland - 7 years ago
UK mobile-only bank Revolut has reportedly gotten a Swiss IBAN number by opening a correspondence account with Credit Suisse, according to a report by Handelszeitung. The move allows Revolut’s 50,000+ Swiss customers to transfer money to their accoun...
News / Switzerland - 7 years ago
SIX has announced that it is developing a fully integrated trading, settlement, and custody platform for digital assets. Thomas Zeeb, Head Securities & Exchanges at SIX, explains how SIX Digital Exchange (SDX) is building a bridge between existin...
News / Switzerland - 7 years ago
Das Banking Startup Neon im Interview mit Startupszene.ch. Was ist die Geschäftsidee? Wir mischen das alltägliche Banking in der Schweiz auf. Mit konsequenter Ausrichtung auf das Smartphone und Nutzerfreundlichkeit ist neon eine Alternative für diej...
News / Switzerland - 7 years ago
With the deadline looming for financial services firms to be fully compliant with the Payment Services Directive II by September 2019, Avaloq is gunning to capitalise on the rush with its latest solution. According to its press release this new solut...
News / Switzerland - 7 years ago
Monito, the Lausanne-based comparison website for international money transfer services, has raised US $2.5 million in Series A financing led by Tamedia, Switzerland’s leading private media group. B&Y Venture Partners, Silicon Valley-based serial...
News / Switzerland - 7 years ago
Im kommenden Jahr werden sich im Banking die Trends der letzten Jahre forcieren und miteinander verzahnen: Open Banking und die Customer Experience bleiben die bestimmenden Themen, während Banken zunehmend das Potenzial von AI -Anwendungen nutzen wer...
News / Switzerland - 7 years ago
During its meeting on 7 December 2018, the Federal Council adopted a report on the legal framework for blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) in the financial sector. The report shows that Switzerland’s legal framework is well suite...
News / Switzerland - 7 years ago
Swiss Startup Alethena is the first company to successfully tokenize its entire share capital on the Ethereum blockchain. The company’s shareholders will thus be holding tokenized shares endowed with claimable rights, i.e. dividend and voting rights....