Category : News

The Future of Insurance Europe 2022 Takes Off Next Week in Amsterdam, Physically

Reuters Events will be hosting their event The Future of Insurance Europe 2022 in Amsterdam from 18th-19th October 2022. The fully-in person event will connect more than 40 Insurance professionals and 350+ industry representatives to investigate how...

EU Passes Uniform Legal Framework for Crypto-Assets Across the Bloc

The European Union’s (EU) Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee voted 28 to 1 in favour of the Markets in Crypto Assets regulation (MiCA), a uniform legal framework for crypto-assets in the EU. Under the MiCA, entities issuing and trading crypto-as...

Alpian Launches Its Private Banking App for the Mass Affluent

Digital private bank Alpian has launched its mobile-first digital service which combines everyday and private banking services for the mass affluent client segment. The service aims to differentiate itself by providing clients access to personalised...

Netcetera’s Digital Wallet and Checkout Experience Solutions Wins Juniper Awards

Swiss digital payments company Netcetera’s ToPay Mobile Wallet and Click to Pay solutions won the platinum and gold awards respectively at the Juniper Research’s Future Digital Awards 2022. The ToPay Mobile Wallet is a solution for issuing, using and...

Deutsche Börse’s D7 Platform Performs Its First Digital Securities Issuances

Deutsche Börse’s digital post-trade platform D7, facilitated by service provider Clearstream’s infrastructure, has executed the first digital securities issuance in Germany. The first automated issuances on the D7 platform were performed by universal...

Worldline Selected as Global Payments Provider to the Lufthansa Group

French payments company Worldline has been selected as a payments provider to the Lufthansa Group, the aviation group which operates Germany’s flag carrier. The partnership will give the Lufthansa Group the possibility to onboard a selection of World...

French Social Trading App Shares Backed by Serena and Venus Williams

Paris-based social trading app Shares has brought on tennis legends Venus and Serena Williams as investors and its first ambassadors. The news follows the company’s US$40 million Series B round in July led by Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures. Shares comb...

Railsr Raises US$46M Series C to Grow Its Embedded Finance Platform

London-based embedded finance platform Railsr, formerly known as Railsbank, has closed a US$46 million Series C led by Anthos Capital. The round comprised US$26 million equity, as well as US$20 million debt from Mars Capital. Existing investors Ventu...

The Top 33 Fintech Startups in Europe on LinkedIn in 2022

33 fintech companies made LinkedIn’s second annual top startups list, a ranking of companies from 13 European countries that it says is gaining attention. The ranking was produced using LinkedIn data in four areas: employee growth, jobseeker interest...

SWIFT and Capgemini Successfully Interlink CBDCs for Cross-Border Payments

SWIFT and Capgemini have achieved CBDC-to-CBDC transactions between different distributed ledger technology networks based on Quorum and Corda technologies, as well as fiat-to-CBDC flows between these networks and a real-time gross settlement system....

Sygnum Partners With T&B Media to Raise US$300M to Fund Its Metaverse Platform

Sygnum, a digital asset technology group with a Swiss banking licence and a Singapore capital markets services licence, is partnering Thai media group T&B Media Global to raise over US$300 million to fund its new interconnected metaverse platform...

Luxury Goods Retailer Bucherer Acquires Digital Authentication Startup Adresta

Swiss digital authentication startup Adresta has been acquired by Bucherer Group, one of the world’s largest luxury watch and jewellery retailers, effective 30 September 2022. A spin-off from Helvetia Insurance, Adresta develops blockchain-based digi...

Swiss Professionals Show Reticence to Share Data Despite Seeing Opportunities in Open Banking

In Switzerland, the finance and banking industry believes open banking offers considerable opportunities across all major use cases. But despite the realization that the sector is moving towards greater openness and connectivity, there is a clear dis...

SIX Digital Exchange Links to SIX SIS to Boost Digital CHF Bond Accessibility

SIX Digital Exchange (SDX) announced the addition of SIX SIS to its Central Securities Depository (CSD), making it the first regulated CSD to have direct access to SDX. The addition is expected to increase the accessibility of natively digital CHF-de...

Swissquote Dives Into Cryptocurrency Trading With the Launch of SQX

Online trading platform Swissquote has launched a cryptocurrency exchange called SQX that aims to provide a more competitive and secure trading environment. Unlike other crypto exchanges, SQX says that it prides itself on being a centralised trading...