Category : Switzerland

Erster Schweizer Anbieter mit Versicherungsabschluss im Metaverse

Als erste Versicherung macht die Digitalversicherung Smile ihre Dienstleistungen und Services im Web 3.0 erlebbar. Darunter fallen täglich buchbare, virtuelle Kundenberatungen sowie greifbare Autoschäden in der neuen smile.meta Garage. Die technische...

Projekt Digitales Firmenkonto: CHF 3 Millionen für Relio, TX Ventures und SIX Investieren

Relio erhält eine Finanzierung von CHF 3 Millionen für die Lancierung eines digitalen Geschäftskontos. Mit seiner neu entwickelten Compliance-Technologie spezialisiert sich das Startup vor allem auf komplexe Firmenkunden. Zu den Hauptinvestoren zähle...

Duck Creek to Acquire Swiss Imburse Payments

Nasdaq listed Duck Creek Technologie announced a definitive agreement to acquire Imburse Payments, a Swiss-based modern payments platform. Duck Creek is according the PR an “intelligent solutions provider defining the future of property and casualt...

The Implications of ChatGPT and AI Models on Fintech and Banking

A new text-based artificial intelligence (AI) tool called ChatGPT is making waves in the technology industry for its ability to accurately answer questions and complete a wide range of tasks, from creating software to formulating business ideas. Laun...

Switzerland’s Premier Crypto Conference Returns With a Two-Day Format in Zurich & Davos

Wrapped around the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the CryptoSummit.ch will kick off on Monday, 16th January 2023 at the Hyatt Circle Conference Centre at Zurich airport. The second day of the event is set to take place on Friday,...

Top Destinations for Online Fintech Workers and Digital Nomads in 2023

Technological advances and the COVID-19 pandemic have spurred a rapid shift in working practices, prompting a growing number of people with jobs not tied to a specific location to travel the world all the while working remotely. These changes in the...

The FTX EMEA Empire That Never Was

If you could peer into the mind of Sam Bankman-Fried, what would you see? Maybe it doesn’t bear thinking about. In the summer, empire building in Europe, the Middle East and Africa was very much on the mind of the FTX crypto mogul. I’ve already uncov...

Year End Message to Our Readers – Offline From 23rd December to 2nd January

Fintech News Switzerland would like to take this opportunity to wish all our readers a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year. We will be taking a break from the 23rd December 2022 to the 2nd January 2023. Until then, you can access some of our ye...

Visa Plans on Auto Crypto Payments

The rise of blockchain and cryptocurrencies has changed the way we think about digital money movement — creating opportunities for a new generation of financial applications. Visa reported that they are in the early stages of blockchain development a...

Banking and Fintech Players Embrace Cloud-Based Core Banking Platforms

2022 has seen a large number of banks and fintech companies embrace cloud-native architectures, inking strategic partnerships with modern core banking providers and technology specialists to modernize their core infrastructure and evolve for the digi...

BIS: New Global Bank Standards for Cryptoassets

The Group of Central Bank Governors and Heads of Supervision (GHOS), the oversight body of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, met on 16 December to endorse a finalised prudential standard on banks’ cryptoasset exposures and the Committee’s w...

Swiss Government Plans to Promote Open Finance in 2024

During its meeting on 16 December 2022, the Federal Council discussed open finance developments in Switzerland. It has instructed the Federal Department of Finance (FDF) to submit measures to it by June 2024 in the event that the financial sector doe...

Neue Strategie für die Digitale Schweiz

Der Bundesrat hat am 16. Dezember 2022 die neue Strategie Digitale Schweiz genehmigt. Die Strategie wurde vereinfacht und sieht neu jährlich wechselnde Fokusthemen vor, die vom Bundesrat bestimmt werden. Die Fokusthemen adressieren Themen, in denen d...

bob Finance Migrates Its Lending Portfolio to Mambu

Zurich-based digital financial services provider bob Finance announced that it has successfully migrated its full lending portfolio to Mambu’s cloud-native banking platform. This migration included a move to a locally-based Google Cloud as bob Financ...

UBS Issues USD 50 Million Tokenized Debt Securities for Asia Pacific

UBS has closed the first tokenized debt transaction for Asia Pacific investors, underlining its commitment to expand regional investment opportunities. UBS AG London branch issued USD 50 million in digital fixed rate security tokens (‘digital securit...