Category : News

Top 10 Regtech Startups in Europe

Regtech, which refers to the use of technology to help financial services firms deal with regulation, is one of the fastest-growing fintech segments. KPMG forecasts that regtech spending by 2022 will reach US$76 billion from only US$10.6 billion in 2...

Swiss Digital Assset Infrastructure Provider Raises Series A from Arab Bank Switzerland and Lombard Odier

Taurus Group, a Swiss B2B digital asset infrastructure provider, announced it has secured a CHF 8-digit series A funding round. The financing round is composed of existing investors as well as new strategic institutional, and private investors that i...

Swiss Digital Asset Infrastructure Provider Raises Series A from Arab Bank Switzerland and Lombard Odier

Swiss Assocation Issues Industry Standards for Custody and Management of Digital Assets

First initiative by the Swiss financial industry to agree on a common standard in the path to digitalization. The Capital Markets and Technology Association (CMTA), an independent Swiss association bringing together actors from the financial, technol...

Swiss Association Issues Industry Standards for Custody and Management of Digital Assets

COVID-19 Crisis to Substantially Transform the Payments Landscape: McKinsey

COVID-19 will have a long-lasting impact on all industries, and the payments sector will be no exception, according to a report by McKinsey & Company. The use of cash and other paper payment methods is already rapidly declining with withdrawals a...

Insurtech Bietet Versicherungen Für ICT-Unternehmen an

swissICT und esurance lancieren eine Versicherungslösung für ICT-Unternehmen. Angesprochen sind KMU und insbesondere auch Startups. Der ICT-Fachverband swissICT, der digitale Versicherungsbroker esurance und das Label swiss made software gehen eine s...

13 Swiss Companies Make up 2020 WealthTech 100 List

Specialist research firm Fintech Global has released its annual WealthTech100 list, which recognizes the 100 most innovative wealthtech companies in the world. This year, 13 Swiss companies made the list. Over the past four years, the global wealthte...

14 Swiss Companies Make up 2020 WealthTech 100 List

Specialist research firm Fintech Global has released its annual WealthTech100 list, which recognizes the 100 most innovative wealthtech companies in the world. This year, 14 Swiss companies made the list. Over the past four years, the global wealthte...

Stripe Launches Card Issuing Services for Businesses in the US

Payments company Stripe has rolled out a new card issuing product in the US, allowing businesses to create, manage and distribute tailored virtual and physical cards to their customers and employees, the company announced on April 23. Stripe Issuing...

Credit Suisse Entrepreneurship Fonds Investiert Millionen in Neues Schweizer Insurtech

Das Zürcher Insurtech Startup Toni Digital versucht den Versicherungsmarkt mit einem innovativen Geschäftsmodell einfacher, digitaler und günstiger zu machen. Jetzt sicherte sich das Unternehmen rund 6 Millionen CHF in der aktuellen Finanzierungsrund...

Research: 6 Million Downloaded Their Bank’s App for the First Time During Corona Lockdown

New research from Nucoro, reveals that between 14th March and 14th April, because of the Coronavirus lockdown, around 12% of the adult population in the UK – some six million people – downloaded their bank’s App for the first time. Some 21% of...

Banks Still Falling Short in Improving Customer Experience: World Fintech Report 2020

Despite having invested heavily in front-end IT infrastructure to improve customer experience, traditional banks are still falling short behind bigtechs and challenger banks, according to new report by Capgemini and Efma. In their annual World Fintec...

Impact of COVID-19 Crisis: Insights From Global Startup Survey

To better understand the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on startups globally and equip governments with tools and actionable insights to support their innovation ecosystems, Startup Genome launched a global startup survey on the topic. Key findings f...

Liquiditätsmanagement: Schweizer KMU in Zeiten von COVID-19

Die wirtschaftlichen Folgen des Coronavirus (COVID-19) sind erheblich. In dieser ausserordentlichen Zeit können selbst finanziell gesunde Unternehmen unverschuldet in eine Liquiditätskrise geraten. In vielen Branchen brechen die Umsätze ein, die kurz...