Category : News

PostFinance Launches Digital Mortgage Brokerage Platform Valuu

With the Valuu app, PostFinance has launched the first fully digital mortgage brokerage platform. It provides users with easy, fast access to a suitable mortgage from various providers, regardless of time or location – whether it be a new purchase or...

Fintegration: Telefonica Germany Partners with Weltsparen

Beginning today, o2 Banking customers in Germany will gain access to WeltSparen’s wide range of savings and investment products directly through their mobile o2 Banking app. In Germany’s ongoing low-interest environment, o2 Banking customers looking...

New Top 50 Crypto Valley Swiss Blockchain List – the Largest and Most Important Companies

Investment company CV VC, in collaboration with PwC Strategy & and IT partner inacta, has published its new quarterly list of the largest and most important companies in Switzerland and Liechtenstein’s Crypto Valley Blockchain cluster. The survey...

Ledger’s New Crypto Hardware Wallet Nano X Comes with Bluetooth Support for Mobile Access

Cryptocurrency hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger has unveiled a new signature product, the Ledger Nano X, a Bluetooth-enabled hardware wallet with enhanced security and an improved user experience and design. Ledger Nano X device and the Ledger Liv...

Ledger’s New Crypto Hardware Wallet Nano X Comes with Mobile Bluetooth Support

Alipay Accelerates EU Expansion with New Luxembourg E-Money License

Alipay, the mobile and digital payments platform of Ant Financial, Alibaba’s financial affiliate, has been granted an electronic money license in Luxembourg as the service accelerates its expansion across Europe. The launch of the new Luxembourg lice...

SwatchPay Comes to Switzerland, Enabled by Mastercard

Following a 2017 China launch, Swatch brings its NFC payments watch, stylised as SwatchPay to Swiss shores. In a collaboration with Mastercard, the “credit card watch” comes with an NFC radio chip hidden underneath the watch dial. Custome...

Falcon Private Bank Adds Cryptocurrency to Its List of Storable Assets

Falcon Private Bank, a Zurich-based wealth manager now allows its clients to transfer a limited variety of cryptocurrency (Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ether and Litecoin) to segregated Falcon wallets. According to the website, the cryptocurrencies are sto...

Digitalisierung: AZEK Lanciert Lehrgang Zum «Chartered Financial Data Scientist»

Wer fit ist im Umgang mit komplexen Datenstrukturen und programmieren kann, ist gefragt auf dem Arbeitsmarkt. Finanzfachleute in der Schweiz können sich jetzt diese Kompetenzen gezielt mit dem neuen Lehrgang von AZEK zum Chartered Financial Data Scie...

Surprisingly, Only 4% of UK’s Insurance Industry’s Payments is Fully Automated

A new white paper published by Banking Circle, has identified the stealth effect outdated payments processes are having on the insurance sector. The white paper reveals that out-dated and manually intensive collection and reconciliation systems are s...

40% of Global Financial Institutions Cite Security as Their Biggest Challenge

The Regtech: Beyond Compliance report by Frost&Sullivan was commissioned by Enterprise Ireland to analyse key trends in the global regtech market. In it, they refer to a 2017 Frost & Sullivan end-user survey of banking, financial services and...

Digitalisation in the Banking Sector – Switzerland 1, Europe 0 ?

Ten years after the global banking crisis, the Swiss financial industry faces its next crucial challenge. Once again, it must fundamentally renew itself, and perhaps even selectively reinvent itself. The driving force behind this new evolution is the...

European Regulators Call for Common EU-Wide Regulatory Approach for ICOs

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its advice to the European Union (EU) institutions on crypto-assets and initial coin offerings (ICOs) regulation, calling for a common EU-wide regulatory approach. In its advice paper...

Vontobel Now Offers Financial Intermediaries – ‘Digital Asset Vault’

Through a simple connection, wealth managers in Switzerland, banks and asset managers can now provide their clients with an end-to-end service offering for digital assets with Vontobel’s new solution ‘Digital Asset Vault’. As a result, clients can is...

26 Regulatory Initiatives that Will Shape Fintech in Europe and Beyond

In the banking industry’s quest towards open banking, standardisation has now become the name of the game towards global applicability. There is a consistent push and pull between whether these standards should come from regulators or industry...