Category : Switzerland

Financial Times Names Unit8 as Fastest Growing Swiss Data & AI Firm

Top spot for Unit8 in the annual ranking of the Financial Times: the Lausanne-based data & AI services company achieved the strongest revenue growth of all Swiss participating companies. For the two founders, Marcin Pietrzyk and Michal Rachtan, t...

Everon Is the First Fintech Company to Be Crowned Switzerland’s Best Asset Manager

Once again, Everon performed outstandingly in the asset manager rankings compiled by BILANZ. Alongside the title of ‘Asset Manager of the Year’, the Zurich-based fintech company took first place in two further contests and second place in another. Th...

Squirro Supplies European Central Bank With AI Solution

Switzerland-based Squirro has announced a major project with the European Central Bank (ECB), in which Squirro will supply its Insight Engine and Risk Insights solution to the central bank of the 19 European Union countries that have adopted the euro...

Swiss SME Lender Tradeplus24 Launches in the UK With £30 Million Debt Facility

Swiss small and medium enterprise (SME) financing startup Tradeplus24 announced that it will be expanding into the UK with the close of a £30 million debt facility provided by San Francisco-headquartered global credit fund, Partners for Growth (PFG),...

Yuh wird neuer Sponsor der Schweizer Eishockey National League

Die höchste Schweizer Eishockey Liga und die neue Finanz-App Yuh gehen gemeinsame Wege. Ab der Saison 2022/2023 wird Yuh, ein Joint Venture von PostFinance und Swissquote, neuer Sponsor der National League und wird auf allen Mittelkreisen in den Stad...

Open Finance and Green Fintech Among Swiss Federal Council Top Areas of Focus for Coming Years

Switzerland’s Federal Council has set out 12 key fintech trends and technologies it will be putting a focus on for the coming years as part of the government’s ambition to establish the country as a top business location for digital finance. A new re...

Open Finance, Green Fintech Among Swiss Federal Council’s Top Areas of Focus for Coming Years

Rwanda’s Largest Bank Completes Core Modernization With Temenos

Temenos, the banking software company, today announces that Bank of Kigali Plc, Rwanda’s largest bank by assets and market share, has gone live on Temenos. Replacing its core banking system with Temenos open platform for composable banking allows the...

3a Fintech VIAC steigt ins Schweizer Online Hypotheken Business ein

Nebst dem eigentlichen Grund «Sparen fürs Alter» wird die Säule 3a häufig genutzt, um die nötigen Eigenmittel für den Erwerb von Wohneigentum anzusparen. Um in diesem Bereich den VIAC-Kunden ein attraktives Angebot zu ermöglichen, wurde in Zusammenar...

London Stock Exchange Inks US$325 Million Deal to Acquire TORA

The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) announced that it has agreed to acquire TORA, a US-headquartered cloud-based technology provider that supports customers trading multiple asset classes across global markets, for US$325 million. The acquisition...

Top Three Digital Fraud Prevention Trends for 2022

2021 was another memorable year. Organisations that built remote processes in response to the pandemic have spent the past year optimising and strengthening their systems to ensure a positive and secure customer experience. However, with identity the...

European Financial Services Providers, Banks Embrace Biometric Authentication

In Europe, financial services companies and banks are embracing biometrics, actively partnering with tech vendors and software developers to improve digital onboarding experiences, strengthen compliance functions, and enhance fraud prevention. Biomet...

Top 12 In-Person Fintech Events Taking Place in H1 2022 in London

In 2021, in-person events started returning as governments around the world began easing social distancing and traveling rules. Now in 2022, it appears that in-person conferences are back in full force. Over the coming months, several large scale, pr...

VIAC greift 3a-Lebens-Versicherungsprodukte an

Etwas mehr als ein Drittel aller 3a-Gelder werden mit Versicherungsprodukten verwaltet. Dies, obwohl seit Jahren in unzähligen Artikeln darüber berichtet wird, dass man «Sparen» und «Versichern» trennen soll. Fehlte bislang ein einfaches, flexibles u...

Alpian ernennt Chief Marketing Officer

Alpian hat die Ernennung von Roman Balzan zum Chief Marketing Officer mit Wirkung zum 01.01.2022 bekannt gegeben. Als erfahrener Marketingexperte mit umfassenden Kenntnissen in integriertem Marketing und Markenkampagnen wird Roman Balzan für die gesa...