Category : Switzerland

UBS Next Participates in $20 Million Series B of Israel Compliance Tech Startup

Shield, a compliance tech platform based in Tel Aviv, announced its $20 million Series B financing round, which was led by Macquarie Capital and joined by UBS through its venture and innovation unit UBS Next, Mindset Ventures and OurCrowd. This fundi...

EIB and Goldman Sachs Issue First Euro-Denominated Digital Bond on a Private Blockchain

The European Investment Bank (EIB) — in collaboration with Goldman Sachs Bank Europe, Santander and Société Générale — launched Project Venus, their second euro-denominated digitally native bond issue and first using private blockchain technology. Th...

SIX Fintech Ventures Joins Keyrock’s $72 Million Series B Fundraising

Keyrock, a Brussel based digital asset market maker, raised $72 million in its Series B funding round from investors including Ripple, SIX Fintech Ventures and Middlegame Ventures. Keyrock plans to use its funding to invest further into infrastructur...

Mastercard & Vesta Join Forces to Offer Enhanced Fraud Management Solutions

Mastercard and Vesta, an end-to-end fraud prevention platform for digital purchases, announced a new strategic partnership to provide a state-of-the-art fraud management platform for merchants across Latin America and the Caribbean. As the need and i...

The State of the German Blockchain Ecosystem

Despite a global venture capital (VC) pullback, shrinking valuations and public market turmoil, Germany’s blockchain VC funding market remained stable this year, with companies in the space securing a total of US$218 million across 20 deals year-to-d...

16 Banking, Insurance and Fintech Professionals Named Among 2022 Top B2B Marketing Influencers

CMO Huddles, a community of business-to-business (B2B) marketing leaders, have released its selection of this year’s top B2B marketing influencers. The 101 Top B2B Marketing Influencers of 2022 list recognizes the best marketing leaders from around t...

Interest in Media for Equity on the Rise

Media for equity, a financing option that provides advertising in return for equity in a company, is proliferating at an increasing rate, recognized by startups as a powerful engine for sustainable growth. Also known as media for growth or airtime fo...

A.P. Moller – Maersk and IBM to Discontinue Blockchain Trade Platform Tradelens

A.P. Moller – Maersk and IBM announced the decision to withdraw the TradeLens offerings and discontinue the platform. Starting immediately, the TradeLens team is taking action to withdraw the offerings and discontinue the platform, and the intent is...

Swiss Digital Bank Alpian Ramps up Athlete Endorsement Push to Appeal to the Mass Affluent

Swiss digital bank Alpian has announced the appointment of Sébastien Buemi as honorary “chief inspiration officer,” adding the Swiss professional racing driver to its list of existing brand ambassadors, among which tennis world champion Belinda Benci...

Swiss Digital Bank Alpian Ramps up Athlete Endorsements to Appeal to the Mass Affluent

Alpian ernennt Sébastien Buemi zum dritten ehrenamtlichen Chief Inspiration Officer

Nachdem Alpian im Oktober 2022 offiziell als erste digitale Privatbank der Schweiz an den Start ging, gibt das Unternehmen heute die Ernennung von Rennfahrer-Champion Sébastien Buemi zum neuen ehrenamtlichen Chief Inspiration Officer bekannt. Er wird...

France, Luxembourg and EIB Conduct Joint Wholesale CBDC Experiment

The Banque de France, Banque centrale du Luxembourg and European Investment Bank (EIB) successfully conducted a wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) experiment. The experiment, known as the Venus initiative, involved a 100 million euro digi...

Conferma Pay, Sabre and Mastercard Issue B2B Virtual Travel Payment Cards

UK virtual corporate card provider Conferma Pay and US travel tech company Sabre have partnered with Mastercard to issue virtual cards for B2B travel payments. The solution involves generating single use card numbers to enable travel buyers and suppl...

Belgium’s OpenWay Launches Card-as-a-Service Platform

Belgian payment processing company OpenWay has added card issuing software to its Way4 digital payments platform covering credit, debit, corporate, fleet, instalment, prepaid, loyalty, and gift cards. The new “card-as-a-service” software includes fea...

UBS Chooses Regula’s Identity Verification Solutions to Automate Onboarding

UBS has partnered with Latvian identity verification company Regula to create a fully automated and 24/7 account opening process for new customers. Instead of real-time video interviews, which were previously required by UBS to verify new customers,...