Category : Switzerland

Using Blockchain to Register a Swiss Company

In a bid to win the digitalSwitzerland challenge, Proxeus joined forces with small group of highly innovative partners to do something never done before – legally register a company from start to finish in record time using digitized workflows and sm...

6 Bitcoin And Blockchain Startups You Have To Know in Austria

In Austria, the city of Graz has become the epicenter of the blockchain ecosystem. The establishment of BlockchainHub Graz in 2017, the launch of the associated Blockchain Startup Contest in early 2016, and the introduction of the country’s first b...

Bank Frick ermöglicht Direktinvestments in Kryptowährungen

Professionelle Marktteilnehmer und Finanzintermediäre können seit anfang März auch bei der Liechtensteinischen Bank Frick in die fünf führenden Kryptowährungen Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Litecoin (LTC), Ripple (XRP) und Ether (ETH) investier...

Real Estate Meets Blockchain

Blockchain, the technology underlying cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, has entered many industries including real estate where it promises increased efficiency and transparency. A blockchain is a digitized, distributed ledger that immutably records...

Swiss Fintech Startup Map, April 2018, 10 new Swiss Fintech Startups

Swisscom released the Swiss Fintech Startup Map for April 2018 which now counts 224 Swiss Fintech Startups. 10 new Swiss Fintech Startups are in the map: Here are 10 new Swiss Fintech Startups entries: Imburse AG IMburse has built an elegant trans...

Wealthtech In Switzerland: A short Overview

Overview of Wealthtech in Switzerland Wealthtech, a sub-category of fintech which involves creating digital solutions to transform the investment and asset management industry, is thriving. In 2016, wealthtech companies raised a record of US$796 mill...

Schroders Launches Global in-Residence Programme for Tech Start-ups

Schroders announced he launch of its global in-residence programme for tech start-ups. The Cobalt programme has been designed to help financial services-focused start-ups collaborate with Schroders to support their development. Schroders is specifica...

Entwicklung einer elektronischen Identität für Personen ohne anerkannte Ausweispapiere

Das Schweizer E-Government-Unternehmen Procivis und das NGO «Rohingya Project» haben ihre Zusammenarbeit zur Förderung der finanziellen und sozialen Integration der weltweit 3,5 Millionen Rohingya bekanntgegeben. Procivis stellt im Rahmen der Partne...

Swiss Innovation: Schweizer Finanzprodukte auf Bitcoin und Co

Machen Banken sich zu wenig Gedanken um Anlageoptionen bei Bitcoin? Kunden fühlen sich bei Kryptowährungen von ihren Banken nicht ausreichend beraten, stellten Bilanz Autoren Erik Nolmans und Stefan Lüscher in der Februar Ausgabe des Bilanz Magazin f...

Swiss Regulator Meets With Crypto Industry To Clarify ICO Guidelines

The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) is holding a series of roundtable discussions across Switzerland to present and clarify its recently released ICO guidelines. The regulator said the purpose is to provide first-hand information...

Iuvo, an Estonian Peer-to-Peer Lending Platform, Reaches €10M in Investments

The Estonian peer-to-peer lending platform iuvo reached a significant milestone – over 10M EUR invested by investors from more than 80 countries from around the world. For the last year and a half, the platform is growing steadily with an average mon...

Der Gang der Finanzindustrie in die Cloud: Die Frage ist nicht ob, sondern wie

Applikationsvielfalt, Legacy, Compliance. Man sollte meinen, die Cloud sei für die Finanzindustrie unter diesen Voraussetzungen nicht geeignet. Doch mit der Cloud wird auch einiges an Innovation möglich, was ohne undenkbar wäre. Zwei Ingredienzen sin...

PriceHubble übernimmt Deutsches Proptech und expandiert damit in den Deutschen Markt

PriceHubble, das Schweizer Immobilien Big Data Start-up, gegründet 2016, mit dem Ziel die Bewertung von Immobilien dank modernster Machine Learning Ansätze zu revolutionieren, übernimmt per sofort 100 Prozent der deutschen YouVal GmbH, Betreiberin de...

ICO and Cyber Security

The era of cryptocurrencies has brought new threats from hackers. Rapid development of the cryptocurrency market and the ICO market is accompanied by new ways of cyber attacks on user data. But unfortunately, many of the modern cyber security systems...

IoT Is Just A Technology. Unlock the Value Proposition for Connected Insurance

A few years ago, insurers were busy trying to figure out what IoT was and what it could do. But spotlighting the technology, all too often led to products and services with little customer appeal. The lesson was clear – put customers front and center...