Category : Switzerland

CB Insights Report: Embedded Fintech Gaining Traction

Around the world, non-financial companies are increasingly integrating financial products into their service offerings. This emerging trend, referred to as embedded fintech, is becoming more and more apparent, according to a CB Insights report. In it...

Was sind Cobots?

Seit dem 5. Dezember 2008 werden kollaborierende Roboter – die sogenannten „Cobots“ – in der Industrie eingesetzt und brachten bis heute eine nachhaltige Veränderung in der Produktion. Sowohl die Arbeitsprozesse als auch die Aufteilung der Arbeit zwi...

Future Scenario: Pay with Sygnum’s Stablecoin when Ordering Online on Galaxus/Digitec

Sygnum Bank, Coinify and Galaxus announced their successful e-commerce transaction using a bank-issued stablecoin. Sygnum’s DCHF stablecoin has been successfully used for an e-commerce payment transaction with Swiss online retailer, Galaxus. The tran...

Gabathuler, Gutenberg und Osterwalder beteiligen sich an Skribble

Das E-Signing-Startup Skribble erhält weiteres Wachstumskapital. Es konnte drei prominente Privatinvestoren aus der Tech-Szene als Investoren gewinnen. Darunter Daniel Gutenberg, der sich durch frühe Investitionen in zahlreiche Unicorns einen Namen m...

Tradeplus24 Lands Breakthrough Partnership for SME Loan Distribution in Australia

Credit Suisse-backed and SME focused fintech Tradeplus24, has joined the Australian Finance Group’s panel of finance providers to offer its loan product. AFG is an Australian mortgage broking group, with 2,975 finance brokers that work with close to...

Helvetia Venture Fund Acquires Stake in Swiss Challenger Bank Neon

The Helvetia Venture Fund invested and holds a stake in neon, which offers app-based banking. This follows a previous partnership where Smile, a Swiss digital insurance solution from Helvetia, and neon offered a mobile bancassurance solution in Switz...

Erste Bonusmeilen E-Scooter Kreditkarte für Europa

Bonusmeilenprogramme von Kreditkarten sind üblicherweise an Flugmeilen gebunden – nicht unbedingt die klimafreundlichste Art der Fortbewegung. Jetzt setzt der schwedische E-Scooterverleiher Voi dagegen: Als weltweit erster Mikromobilitätsanbieter ste...

Common API and b.Link Join Forces to Drive Swiss Open Banking

One key factor for the success of open banking is the standardisation of interfaces as banks and their customers need a common standard that they can trust. Only then can the best possible conditions be established for implementing innovations cost-e...

New Report Spotlights the Indonesian Fintech Opportunity for Swiss Firms

With a population of 267 million people, a large pool of financially underserved businesses and individuals, and high mobile and Internet penetration rates, Indonesia has seen its fintech industry rapidly expand over the past years, bringing huge opp...

SwissBanking Outlines Success Factors for the Industry in the Age of Open Banking

In Switzerland, it is no longer a question of whether or not open banking is to stay, but rather in what form it will establish itself in the country, according to industry trade group the Swiss Bankers Association (SBA). In a series of documents out...

PwC Blockchain Partner Joins FiCAS Board of Directors Following Crypto ETP Launch

FiCAS, a Switzerland based crypto investment management boutique, announced the appointment of Dr. Daniel Diemers, as a new member of its Board of Directors. It is worth noting that Dr. Diemers is a founding member of the Swiss Blockchain Federation...

Boerse Stuttgart Develops Blockchain Financing Method for Industrial Capital Goods

Boerse Stuttgart Group has developed a flexible method for financing industrial capital goods on a blockchain basis in a joint basic research project with the Bosch research team “Economy of Things”, Daimler Mobility and technology partner 51nodes. I...

Swiss Financial Intermediaries Successfully Complete First Automated and Compliant Bitcoin Transaction

The virtual asset technology software specialist 21 Analytics has enabled the first automated crypto asset transaction that is compliant with the Anti-Money Laundering Ordinance of the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA). The success...

Swiss 21 Analytics Completes First Automated and Compliant Bitcoin Transaction

The virtual asset technology software specialist 21 Analytics has enabled what they claim to be the first automated crypto asset transaction that is compliant with the Anti-Money Laundering Ordinance of the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authorit...

Bekannter Fintech First Mover wird Digital Banking Chef der St.Galler Kantonalbank

Nils Reimelt wird per 1. Dezember 2020 als neuer Leiter Digital Banking in die St.Galler Kantonalbank eintreten. Er übernimmt diese Funktion von Falk Kohlmann, der per 1. Januar 2021 zum Leiter Service Center und Mitglied der Geschäftsleitung ernannt...