Category : Switzerland

Study: In-Vehicle Payment Spend To Exceed $86 Billion in 2025

A new study from Juniper Research has found that the value of in-vehicle payments, where a payment is made via embedded vehicle systems, will reach $86 billion in 2025, up from just $543 million in 2020. In-vehicle payments automate and simplify seve...

The Current State and the Future of the Swiss Billing Industry

SIX Group has released a white paper on the Future of Billing. The white paper emerged from a joint project conducted by SIX and Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU). It examines the current state of the Swiss billing industry and p...

Fintech Germany Award Announces Its Winners for 2020

The Fintech Germany Award has announced its list of winners for the year 2020 where outstanding fintechs from various categories are recognized and honored by their peers. The award was organized by Frankfurt Main Finance, TechFluence and the WM Grou...

Huawei’s Finance Apps Spiked by 160% on the Back of Urgent Need for Digital Financial Inclusion

At the 2020 Huawei Developer Conference held earlier this week, fintech influencer, best-selling author, and entrepreneur Brett King joined the finance tech.session to talk about the role of technology to improve financial inclusion and shared his vi...

Huawei Developer Conference: Brett King Talks Financial Inclusion, Banking 4.0, and More

5 Key Highlights From Huawei’s Developer Conference

From September 10 to 12, 2020, Huawei Consumer Business Group (BG) held the annual Huawei Developer Conference. Themed HDC.Together, the event saw multiple announcements being made, including the launch of new products, as well as updates on the Huaw...

area2invest und Finoa: Neue Wege bei der Kryptoverwahrung

area2invest und Finoa haben eine Kooperation zur Verwahrung von tokenisierten Vermögenswerten in Form von Security Tokens abgeschlossen. Die Krypto-Verwahrlösung der Finoa bietet die höchsten Sicherheitsstandards basierend auf Warm-Storage fähigen Ha...

European Fintech Report Forecasts Decline in Fintech Funding Over the Next Year

Finch Capital, an early stage venture capital firm focusing on the fintech sector in Europe and South East Asia, issued its annual State of European FinTech report for 2020. The report covers a range of topics impacting the fintech industry which inc...

Accenture Cloud Launches With $3 Billion Investment

Accenture aims to propel its clients across all industries to rapidly become “cloud first” with an investment of US$3 billion over 3 years with the formation of its aptly-named Accenture Cloud First. Karthik Narain will lead Accenture Cloud First and...

Digital Investing: Bank Vontobel holt Fintech-Experten für den Ausbau

Die BankVontobel verstärkt sich mit dem Finanzmarkt- und FinTech-Experten Toby Triebel. Triebel wird zum 5. Oktober die Leitung der globalen Client Unit «Digital Investing» übernehmen und Mitglied des Operating Committee. Über die Challenger-Einheit...

25 Years With HSBC, Now Libra’s New Managing Director

Geneva based Libra Association, an independent group organised by Facebook to manage its Libra stablecoin project, announced the appointment of former HSBC head James Emmett, as the Managing Director of Libra Networks. James Emmett said of his appoin...

“BORN IN SWITZERLAND” Swiss Original Fintech Overview Map Update: 172 Companies

Luc Schuurmans, Head Private Banking, Executive Management at Bank Linth LLB AG, put together an updated overview map of Fintech Companies “Born in Switzerland”. Since his last update, he collected 11 more Swiss Fintechs- Legartis, Yoordi, Yoordi, b...

Wealth Managers Need to ‘Democratise’ Their Services If They Want to Survive

Wealth managers and private banks need to ‘democratise’ their service and product offerings to a wider audience to compete and grow in the new hyper-digital world according to a report by Avaloq. If firms do not democratise their proposition, they ri...

Singapore, Helsinki and Zurich Named World’s Smartest Cities

Singapore, Helsinki and Zurich have been named as the world’s smartest cities this year knocking off many European cities according to the Smart City Index Report this year. It is also worth noting that in addition to Zurich, another Swiss city...

Rapyd Expands Card Acquiring Capabilities in Europe

Rapyd, a fintech-as-a-service company, announced a major expansion of its European platform, adding end-to-end card acquiring capabilities to its payments capabilities. Rapyd now offers a full stack payment acceptance capabilities in Europe including...