Category : Switzerland

Sentifi Wins Finance-IT Innovation Award from University of St.Gallen

At this year’s Business Engineering Forum, Sentifi Intelligence won the Finance IT-Innovation Award in the category “Innovative Technologies”. This prize is awarded by the University of St.Gallen and Leipzig University for the best application of inn...

Sentifi Wins Finance-IT Innovation Award

Bank Frick Acquires Liechtenstein Based Trade Finance Startup Tradico

Bank Frick continues to strengthen its fintech capabilities and acquires a majority holding in Tradico AG. The Liechtenstein company offers finance for goods purchasing to companies. Tradico, a Liechtenstein start-up, has already achieved turnover of...

Gut Gebrüllt neon – Gleich 4 Löwen Investieren in die Schweizer Konto-App

Das Zürcher FinTech-Unternehmen neon hat weitere namhafte Investoren gewinnen können. Nach dem sehr erfolgreichen Launch Ende März haben die vier Gründer des kostenlosen mobilen Kontos gestern erfolgreich an der Gründershow «Die Höhle der Löwen Schwe...

It is Time to get Your Swiss Personal Financial Fitness Coach

Smartwatches, fitness apps and equipment are enabling us to monitor our physical fitness in real time and are providing us with personalized plans, suggesting recommendations in terms of diet, exercise and sleep by putting a personal trainer in our p...

Swiss Investors Still Too Risk Averse Toward Fintech Startup Investment

Swiss VCs and institutional investors are largely still shy about investing huge sums into fintechs, a fact that is hardly a secret to those who are familiar with the scene. This fact is made clearer when you contrast the recent massive fundraising r...

Vontobel Launches Digital Wealth Management Tool

Vontobel announced the launch Vontobel Volt, a platform to provide wealthy clients digital access to the investment expertise of a global active wealth and asset manager. Complementing the traditional active wealth management offering, Volt enables c...

F10 Just Gained Its First Partner from Outside the Traditional Finance Industry, Tamedia

Tamedia, one of the biggest Swiss media groups, has just joined up with fintech accelerator F10. The media house will be contributing their broad experience with Internet services, product development, marketing and B2C know-how to F10’s accele...

Parashift Lanciert KI-Basierte Dokumenten-Erkennungs-Lösung

Parashift lanciert «Parashift Document Center», die KI-und cloudbasierte Dokumentenextraktionslösung für BPOs, Softwarehersteller und Grossunternehmen. «Parashift Document Center» bietet Unternehmen durch eine tiefe monatliche Subscription Zugriff au...

9 Fintech Startup Graduate from F10 Accelerator Program in Zurich

Twelve Fintech Startups with the potential to disrupt the finance industry pitched at the SIX ConventionPoint in front of the F10 FinTech ecosystem. F10 FinTech Incubator and Accelerator – The Home of FinTech – celebrated last weeek its Demo Day with...

P2P Lending: LEND Acquires Lendico and Gets Postfinance Funding

PostFinance and Switzerlend AG − the parent company of the crowdlending platform LEND.ch − have agreed to enter into a close partnership. LEND will take over 100% of the PostFinance subsidiary Lendico Schweiz AG. In return, the financial service prov...

Digital Customer Onboarding: Den Nutzern nicht wichtig und bei den Banken nicht richtig?

Schweizer Banken tun sich schwer mit dem Digital Customer Onboarding. Doch noch überraschender ist der Befund, dass die befragten Schweizer Digital Natives zu einem Drittel nicht wissen, dass es Digital Customer Onboarding überhaupt gibt. Dies konsta...

Inspired by Silicon Valley, Ledgy Wants to Help Others Give Equity to Employees

The fintech startup Ledgy and the law firms Kellerhals Carrard, Wenger & Vieli and LEXR partner up to help Swiss startups give out equity to their employees. According to a recent study by Index Ventures, European startup employees own half of th...

Swiss Crowdfunding Volume Exceeds Half a Billion Swiss Francs for the First Time

CHF 516.6 million were raised via Swiss crowdfunding platforms in 2018. Compared to the previous year, the volume increased by a further 38 per cent. Switzerland has thus developed into one of the largest crowdfunding markets in continental Europe. T...

Deutsche Banken: Vollständige Digitale Abwicklung von Schuldscheinen via Blockchain

Einem institutsübergreifenden Team von DekaBank, dwpbank, DZ BANK und Helaba ist es erstmals gelungen, die Abwicklung der Emission von Schuldscheindarlehen ausschliesslich digital durchzuführen. In einem Pilotgeschäft haben die vier Kreditinstitute d...