Category : Switzerland

Banking Circle Supports Bluecode and TWINT’s Interoperability

The mobile payment systems German-Austrian Bluecode and the Swiss TWINT are now interoperable with one another. Interoperability of said two systems is based on the specifications of EMPSA (European Mobile Payments System Association). TWINT and Blue...

Salesforce Expands Social Commerce Offerings, Connecting Merchants With TikTok

Salesforce is partnering with TikTok to make it easier for Commerce Cloud merchants to engage with the TikTok community, including advertising to users and making their products more discoverable. This partnership is the latest Commerce Cloud platfor...

Western Union Taps Mambu for Its New Digital Bank Platform in Europe

Cloud banking platform Mambu has teamed up with Western Union to integrate its solution into the latter’s next generation real time multi-currency digital wallet and digital banking platform in Europe. Mambu will enable Western Union to extend the re...

Crowdfunding Volume Regains Strength in Switzerland

In 2021, crowdfunding volumes in Switzerland regained some strength after activity stalled in 2020 due to various effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The year saw a volume of CHF 791.8 million transacted via crowdfunding platforms, a significant market...

Checkout.com Ties up With Fireblocks to Accept Stablecoin Settlements 24/7

London-based payments solutions provider Checkout.com unveils its stablecoin settlement solution by leveraging Fireblocks’ new crypto payment technology. This offers merchants the flexibility of 24/7 settlement including weekends and holidays — incre...

Marco Pizzorusso Appointed as New CFO of Adnovum

As of August 1, Marco Pizzorusso will take over the financial management of the Swiss software company Adnovum as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and member of the Leadership Team. He succeeds Roger Bösch, who has decided to take on a new challenge aft...

Digital Bank radicant Partners With Google Cloud for Scalability and Agility

Basellandschaftliche Kantonalbank’s (BLKB) digital bank radicant announced that it will be collaborating with Google Cloud. radicant had recently received a banking license from the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA). The use of the...

Facebook Shares Ambitions for “Single Wallet Experience” Across the Metaverse

In a new blog post, Meta Platforms’ head of commerce and fintech, Stephane Kasriel gives a sneak peek of the company’s fintech ambitions in the metaverse, outlining its intent to bring forward a “single wallet experience” across its family of apps an...

A Look at Switzerland’s Booming Digital Asset Ecosystem

In recent years, Switzerland’s blockchain and digital asset ecosystem has matured rapidly and grown into one of the world’s leading blockchain hubs, a position that’s asserted by its expanding workforce and a rising number of foreign companies settin...

Comparis und Valuu gehen Kooperation ein

Comparis, der Online-Vergleichsdienst mit einem der grössten Marktplätze für Immobilien in der Schweiz, hat eine Kooperation mit Valuu unterzeichnet. Valuu ist die unabhängige Hypotheken-Vermittlungsplattform von PostFinance. Immobiliensuchende finde...

8 Financial Processes Poised for Digital Transformation

COVID-19 accelerated trends toward remote banking and digitalisation, forcing financial institutions to embrace new technologies and processes to keep their businesses functional despite social distancing restrictions. Now, with more and more people...

Zürcher Kantonalbank Set to Move Its Apps and Data to the Cloud With Microsoft

Zürcher Kantonalbank has announced that it will begin moving its applications and data to the public cloud in 2022 and the bank has chosen Microsoft Switzerland as its first cloud provider. The move will not be done automatically; rather, each applic...

Swiss Fintech Startup Numarics Secures Over CHF 2 Million

Following its successful product launch in September 2021, Swiss fintech startup Numarics has successfully closed a CHF 2.1 million pre-seed financing round led by Wingman Ventures. Numarics combines artificial intelligence with expert knowledge from...

Worldline Enters the Metaverse

Worldline, a global leader in payment services is one of the first payments companies to enter the Metaverse with the launch of a dedicated virtual showroom. The company aims to bridge the gap between the network of virtual worlds and the real world...

Switzerland Attracts More Blockchain Firms Despite Crypto Meltdown

Global leaders were treated to a crypto charm offensive at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week. Finance Minister Ueli Maurer and Switzerland Global Enterprise, which is responsible for attracting business, took the opportunity to roll out the...