Apiax Expands Its Management Team Ahead of Ambitious Expansion Plans
Swiss regtech startup Apiax has expanded its management team with experienced professionals Mark Holden and Jerome Salaun to take over its Enterprise Sales and Customer Success teams to support the company in the next phase of its expansion plans. Apiax
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Das umfassende Open Banking Schweiz Dossier
Open Banking bedeutet die Verwendung offener, einheitlicher APIs (Application Programming Interface, zu deutsch: Programmier-Schnittstelle), mit denen Entwickler von Drittanbietern Anwendungen und Dienste rund um das Finanzinstitut erstellen können. Der Endkunde entscheidet, für welchen Service, den er nutzen möchte, diese APIs
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FINMA Permits Chip Scanning and Geolocation for Digital Onboarding
The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) now allows the scanning of chips embedded in biometric identity documents as part of the digital onboarding process. The changes come into force on the 1st of June 2021. Additionally, FINMA will allow
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Yova schliesst Finanzierungsrunde über 11 Millionen Franken ab
Die 2017 in Zürich gegründete Impact Investing Plattform Yova setzt ihren Wachstumskurs fort. In einer kürzlich abgeschlossenen Finanzierungsrunde erlöste das Unternehmen 11 Millionen Franken. Yova wird von namhaften Investoren finanziert, darunter Carole Ackermann (CEO bei Diamondscull; VR bei BKW, BVZ,
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Revuto’s Latest $1.7 Million in Funding to Aid Subscription Mgt and Payment Simplification
Just days ahead of its scheduled public token sale, Revuto has closed $1.7 million during a private investment round. The team is building the first decentralized application on the Cardano network for subscriptions and payment management. Forthcoming dApp To Deliver
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Temenos Taps Digital Assets Platform Taurus to Unlock Swiss Banks’ Access to Crypto Assets
Banking software company Temenos announced the integration of Taurus, a Swiss digital asset and blockchain infrastructure fintech, with Temenos Transact, the next generation core banking software. Following a thorough landscape review and evaluation process, Temenos selected Taurus as a partner
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6 Swiss Fintechs That Managed to Expand Internationally During the Pandemic
In 2020, Switzerland’s economy shrank 2.9% as a results of the COVID-19 pandemic, the worst annual contraction in 45 years. Startup funding declined 7.4% while fintech funding fell 38% as investors spread their financing more thinly, avoiding rounds of more
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Spanish Stock Exchange Set to Pilot a Blockchain-Based SME Financing Platform
The Spanish stock exchange Bolsa de Madrid (BME) announced last week that it is set to test blockchain-based SME financing platform in a regulatory sandbox by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation. The project’s entry into the sandbox
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MoneyGram Allows Customers to Buy and Sell Bitcoin With Cash
MoneyGram , a provider of cross-border P2P payments and money transfers, announced the launch of a new partnership with Coinme, a licensed cryptocurrency cash exchange in the U.S., to enable the cash funding and payout of digital currency purchases and
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How to Get a Swiss Fintech License, Swiss SME Banking Heats Up
Switzerland’s fintech license appears to have attracted a horde of cryptocurrency startups looking to leverage the relaxed regime to provide certain bank-like services which would have otherwise required a full banking license, Michael Brüggler, managing expert at Fintech Werkstatt, told
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