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The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has rejected Swiss cryptocurrency trading platform Bitcoin Suisse‘s banking license application, deeming it ineligible for approval.
Bitcoin Suisse had previously submitted an application...
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Riding on the rise of sustainable finance, a new wave of climate-focused fintechs are emerging in Switzerland to provide customers with environmentally-friendly digital financial services and investment opportunities.
Thomas Ankenbrand and Marc Grau...
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Bitpanda, an Austrian digital investment platform dealing with cryptocurrency, announced that it has closed it Series B funding round with an investment of $170 million and attained unicorn status with a valuation of $1.2 billion.
The funding round w...
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London-based global payments service provider SumUp announced that it has raised a €750 million facility from Goldman Sachs, Temasek, Bain Capital Credit, Crestline, and funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management.
The current round was oversubscribe...
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Die PropTech Academy Schweiz hat einen internationalen «PropTech Innovation»-Bewertungsprozess entwickelt.
Damit wurden nun erstmals 155 Schweizer Firmen der Bau- und Immobilienwirtschaft nach ihrem Innovationsgrad bewertet und ein «PropTech Innovati...
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Stripe, an Irish-American payment processing platform, has raised $600 million (€500 million) during a funding round, pushing its valuation to $95 billion (€80 billion).
Primary investors include Allianz X, Axa, Baillie Gifford, Fidelity Management &...
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Rivero, a Swiss fintech company providing payments processing solution, has launched “amiko”, the first end-to-end digital chargeback solution.
The solution was launched in partnership with Viseca Payment Services, an issuer and processor of Masterca...
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Als einer der grössten External Asset Manager entwickelt und vertreibt swisspartners individuelle Lösungen in der klassischen Vermögensverwaltung und -strukturierung.
Mit der Kooperation mit der Sygnum Bank reagiert swisspartners auf die steigende Ku...
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Zum neuen Geschäftsjahr stellt sich Salesforce Schweiz neu auf.
Petra Jenner übernimmt ab sofort als General Manager Schweiz von Blaise Roulet, der seit 2015 für die Leitung des hiesigen Markts verantwortlich war. Blaise Roulet übernimmt bei Salesfor...
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Swiss software company AdNovum has appointed Andreas Punter as its Chief Marketing Officer.
By creating this new position, AdNovum aims to strengthen its marketing and communication unit and thus support the strategic focus on clients and vertical ma...
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The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and Finastra, a London-based financial services software and cloud solutions provider, have committed to a strategic initiative to tackle the growing trade finance gap.
Both organisations are orchestrating...
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For the first time, Switzerland leads the Business-to-Consumer (B2C) e-commerce Index, an annual list by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) which ranks 152 countries on their readiness to support and engage in online comm...
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Swedish payments firm Klarna announced the expansion of its open banking solution across eight more European countries, which now includes Portugal, Denmark, Luxembourg, Ireland, Croatia, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia.
As part of the latest expansion...
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NPB Neue Privat Bank, a Zurich-based Swiss boutique private bank, announced that it is introducing InCore Bank‘s comprehensive digital asset banking services to its clients.
With this partnership, NPB’s clients will now able to trade in m...
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Token, a London-based open banking payments platform, and BNP Paribas, announced the launch of online payments service to combine the power of SEPA Instant and PSD2 APIs, two major initiatives from the European Payments Council.
Developed with Token,...