Category : Switzerland

“BORN IN SWITZERLAND” Swiss Original Fintech Overview Map Update: 200 Companies

Luc Schuurmans, Deputy CEO, Executive Management at Bank Linth, put together an updated overview map of Fintech Companies “Born in Switzerland”. Here are the descriptions of all the Swiss Fintechs listed in Luc’s map: Funding investiere is the leadi...

Goldman Sachs Paper: Gaming and Media Industry Leads Metaverse Race

The metaverse, a concept that refers to a shared, immersive virtual environment facilitated by the use of VR and augmented reality (AR) headsets, has emerged into one of the hottest trends in the corporate world, becoming something startups and large...

Philippines’ UnionBank Picks METACO to Set Up Its Digital Asset Custody Operations

The Union Bank of the Philippines has selected METACO, a provider of security-critical software and infrastructure to the digital asset ecosystem, to implement its digital asset management services. The bank will leverage METACO Harmonize which is it...

Meta Advances Work on Diem; Alphabet Shifts Focus on APAC Payment Market

These past few years have seen American bigtechs continuing to make inroads into fintech, teaming up with legacy financial institutions to embed financial services into their platforms, and taking part in strategic funding rounds to get their hands o...

Swiss ‘Unicorn’ Banking App Reincarnates as Bitcoin Vault

Swiss fintech company Numbrs has blamed jealous banks for killing off its original business model as a third-party provider of financial products. So it has reinvented itself under the banner of the ultimate bank killer – bitcoin. The company, fêted...

Temenos Launches IMPACT Partner Programme for Open Collaboration

Banking software company Temenos has strengthened its commitment to a partner-first future with the launch of the Temenos IMPACT Partner Programme. The new partner programme aims to drive deeper collaboration and tighter engagement with system integr...

5 New Swiss Fintech Startups to Follow in 2022

In 2021, the Swiss fintech industry continued to mature with established players growing in size, attracting large rounds of funding, and expanding overseas. The momentum in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space pursued, building on the surge in cr...

How Can Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Boost Cyber Security?

Machine learning is the use of data and algorithms to allow machines to imitate human behaviour. This technology is applied in many different ways. One of these is in the boosting of cyber security, an issue that has become quite sensitive over the p...

How Refinitiv is Empowering Developers in the Sustainable Finance Revolution

Refinitiv has created a global community for developers in the financial industry. In continuing its longstanding history as a leader of innovation and open tech, the Refinitiv Developer Community offers practical support for today’s business challen...

Entris Banking verbessert Zahlungsanbindung mit Bottomline

Bottomline gab heute bekannt, dass Entris Banking, ein neuer Schweizer Kunde, sich für die SaaS-basierte Zahlungsanbindungsplattform von Bottomline entschieden hat, um seinen Kunden ein verbessertes, flexibleres Zahlungserlebnis im In- und Ausland zu...

Entris Banking Taps Bottomline to Boost Its Payment Connectivity

Bottomline announced that Entris Banking has selected its SaaS-based payment connectivity platform to provide customers with an enhanced, more flexible domestic and international payment experience. ENTRIS BANKING is a business process and technology...

The Bank Branch of the Future: Consumers Prefer Hybrid Experiences

Digital banking has been displacing many branch interactions in the move towards digital. As consumers increasingly engage with their banks remotely and circumstances such as the pandemic as well as new digitally-focused strategies continue to play o...

TransUnion Taps Spring Labs to Bring Credit Data to Public Blockchain Networks

Blockchain-based data-sharing platform Spring Labs announced that is bringing TransUnion’s identity and credit data on-chain to help accelerate Web 3 and DeFi adoption. The off-chain credit data from TransUnion, a global information and insights comp...

Checkout.com Raises US$1 Billion Series D, Now Valued at US$40 Billion

Checkout.com, a London-based payments solutions provider, raised US$1 billion in its Series D funding round at a valuation of US$40 billion. The firm has more than doubled its valuation since its US$450 million Series C a year ago. Primary investors...

Top 20 Most Valuable Independent Digital Banks Worth a Combined US$184.7B

Around the world, independent digital banks are growing and maturing. As awareness and adoption surged on the back of the COVID-19 pandemic, investors continued pouring billions of dollars into the sector, pushing valuations to all-time high levels....