Category : News

Citi Partners With Metaco to Develop Institutional Digital Asset Custody Capabilities

Citi announced yesterday that it has selected Switzerland-based METACO to develop and pilot digital asset custody capabilities. This collaboration brings together METACO’s technology and digital solutions with Citi’s expansive custody network to deve...

SEON Partners With Provenir to Improve Fraud Detection Solutions

Fraud prevention platform SEON announced a new partnership with credit risk specialist Provenir to help organisations build better fraud prevention solutions. Through this partnership, Provenir provides an AI-powered decisioning platform that can ass...

Klarna App Is Enhanced With Digital Wallet for Easy Access to Loyalty Cards

Klarna, a leading global retail bank, payments, and shopping service today announced the launch of its new Loyalty Card feature in the Klarna App. This allows app users to store and access their physical loyalty cards as digital versions. They can th...

Swiss Private Bank Bergos AG Selects New Access SA to Support Its Digital Transformation

The core-to-digital solution suite provider, New Access SA, is very proud to announce the signing of a new license agreement with Swiss Private Bank BERGOS AG. Bergos is an independent Swiss Private Bank specialized in wealth management, offering inv...

Digital ID Verification, Remote Document Signing to Become the Norm in Finance Sector

The pandemic has accelerated the growth of non-face-to-face interactions, forcing banks, merchants and others to swiftly deploy digital tools to accurately verify the identity of the person on the other end of a digital transaction. A 2021 study by a...

Point Zero Forum to Kick off Tomorrow in Zurich

The Swiss Secretariat for International Finance (SIF) and Elevandi (a company set up by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to advance FinTech in the digital economy) will kick off the inaugural Point ZERO Forum in Zurich, Switzerland, tomorrow...

Nascent Metaverse Finance Industry Provides Investors with Exciting Opportunities

In 2021, interest in the metaverse spiked following a surge in sales of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and announcements from bigtechs sharing their interest and investment in the space. This year, the momentum is continuing, with corporations, venture c...

Austria’s Qenta Taps Netcetera to Secure Cashless Payments in the Region

Netcetera, a Swiss software company that provides secure digital payments, announced that it will be collaborating with Austrian payments services provider Qenta Payment CEE. Through this partnership, Netcetera will be a reliable expert provider and...

Mihails Safro, Xpate CEO: Core Banking Solutions Simplify Customer Experience on Both B2B and B2C Levels

Mihails Safro, CEO of xpate, that has just delivered it’s own in-house build core banking solution tells about the history and the meaning of this technology. What is the Core Banking System? Mihails Safro, Xpate Core banking stands for “Centralized...

Amnis Closed Series-A Funding Round of CHF 8.6 Million

AMNIS Treasury Services, a Zurich-based fintech founded in 2014 with the goal of reshaping international banking for SMEs, announced the closing of a Series-A investment round of CHF 8.6 million. The funding round, led by Lansdowne Partners, will en...

Swiss Real Estatte Crowdfunding Platform Foxstone Raises CHF 10 Million

The online real estate investment platform Foxstone has completed a CHF 10 million Series A financing round, the company’s largest to date. The participation of almost all the existing shareholders is to be noted, as well as the arrival of new entran...

Swiss Real Estate Crowdfunding Platform Foxstone Raises CHF 10 Million

Swiss Wealthtech 3rd-eyes Analytics Enters US Market with Partnership

Bonsai announced a partnership with 3rd-eyes analytics, an innovative Swiss Wealthtech company focused on realistic wealth planning. The 3rd-eyes analytics’ engine will power MyBonsai to hyper-personalize wealth planning and enable financial advisors...

Don’t Overcomplicate Climate Change

Asset managers can contribute most to a sustainable economy by sticking to a policy of steadily reducing their portfolios’ carbon emissions. The November 2021 climate change summit in Glasgow (COP26) brought home the urgency of addressing global warm...

Fintech and Finance Firms Snap Up Media Companies to Gain Audience

This past year has seen banks, financial services companies and fintech startups snapping up media companies, realizing the merits of owning their audience to gain exposure, sell more products and become more profitable. An extensive research paper b...