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Germany Regtech

IDnow Acquires Identity Trust Management

IDnow, a provider of Identity Verification-as-a-Service solutions, announced that it has agreed to acquire identity Trust Management, an international provider

Blockchain/Bitcoin

Swiss Blockchain Federation Launches Blockchain Innovation Programme

The Swiss Blockchain Federation has launched the NTN Innovation Booster – Blockchain Nation Switzerland, a four-year program co-funded by Innosuisse,

Various

Fintech Studie und Ranking 2021

Der Schweizer FinTech-Markt ist im Jahr 2020 ein weiteres Mal gewachsen. Ein genauerer Blick auf den Sektor lässt jedoch erahnen:

Germany Regtech

Swiss Regtech Apiax Begins Operations in Germany and Secures Fresh Funding

Swiss regtech startup Apiax announced that it has started operations in Germany and opened a subsidiary in Frankfurt to serve

USA

Square’s Banking Subsidiary Begins Operations in the US

Square, a US-based mobile payment company, announced that its subsidiary Square Financial Services, has begun operations. The launch follows Square

Funding Virtual Banking

Israel Expat Neobank Rewire Raises $20 Million in Series B Funding Round

Rewire, a Tel Aviv-based neobank for migrants, announced a Series B funding round of $20 million led by global crowdfunding

Payments

Fidesmo Launches Wearable Payments Service in Switzerland With Cembra

Swedish tech company Fidesmo is expanding its wearable payments service to Switzerland through a collaboration with Cembra, a Swiss provider

InsurTech

Insurtech simpego übernimmt Sachversicherungen von Sympany

Das Insurtech Start-Up simpego und die Krankenversicherung Sympany sind eine strategische Partnerschaft für Sachversicherungen eingegangen. Ab sofort wird Sympany die

Germany Payments

Fidor Solutions Partners SIA to Launch Instant Payments Service in Europe

Fidor Solutions, a subsidiary of Sopra Banking Software, has signed a partnership agreement with SIA, a European company in payment

Partner Content Various

F10 Partners New Energy Nexus for Green and Climate Fintech Programme

F10 FinTech Incubator & Accelerator, a global banking and insurance incubator and accelerator with hubs in Switzerland, Singapore and Spain,

Open Banking

Report: Open Banking’s Global Revolution in Progress

Banking software company Temenos published a new report “Open Banking: Revolution or Evolution?” written by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)

Blockchain/Bitcoin

Swiss Flovtec Starts Offering Digital Asset Market Making Solution

flovtec, a Swiss technology company specialising in providing liquidity to tokens and exchanges in the growing digital asset space, said

London Payments

SETL Hires Former SWIFT and Ripple Exec as Head of Payments

SETL, a London-based settlement and payments infrastructure provider, announced the appointment of Marjan Delatinne to its executive management team as

Payments USA

PayPal Goes Galactic to Make Universal Space Payments a Reality

PayPal announced the launch of PayPal Galactic, an initiative that addresses the issues to help make universal space payments a

Personal Finance Mgt (PFM)

Schweizer Treasury Fintech Amnis holt Julius Bär Banker in VR

AMNIS Treasury Services AG (Amnis), ein 2014 gegründetes Schweizer Fintech-Unternehmen mit dem Ziel, den internationalen Zahlungsverkehr für KMU zu vereinfachen,

Blockchain/Bitcoin Wealthtech

Swiss Private Bank Starts Offering Crypto Investments

Bordier & Cie SCmA, a Swiss private bank founded in 1844, has expanded its offering to include cryptocurrencies by incorporating

Blockchain/Bitcoin London

Skrill Launches New Fiat-to-Crypto Withdrawal Service

Digital payments provider Skrill, part of the integrated payments platform Paysafe, has announced a new feature for its digital wallet

Covid19 Mobile Payments

Dank Corona: Bargeld nicht mehr wichtigstes Zahlungsmittel

Der unabhängige Online-Vergleichsdienst moneyland.ch hat im Rahmen einer repräsentativen Online-Umfrage im Januar 2021 gefragt, mit welchen Zahlungsmitteln und wie häufig

Blockchain/Bitcoin Wealthtech

Zürcher Kantonalbank Completes First Blockchain-Based Fund Transaction

Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB) and Deutsche Börse’s post-trade services provider Clearstream successfully processed their first live blockchain-based end-to-end fund transactions, using

Cloud USA

Blackrock and Snowflake Launch Cloud Data Solution for Investment Managers

American asset management firm BlackRock and Snowflake, a cloud-based data-warehousing company, announced a strategic partnership to deliver a next-generation solution

Wealthtech

Digitaler Anlagespezialist Findependent setzt auf Online-Onboarding der Hypi Lenzburg

Neue Kunden und Kundinnen können bei Findependent ab sofort ihr Anlagekonto auf digitalem Weg eröffnen. Das Aarauer Wealthtech Startup vertraut

Funding Germany

Risikokapital Ökosystem in Europa auf dem Vormarsch – Deutschland wächst Stark

i5invest und das Institut für Entrepreneurship der Wirtschaftsuniverstiät Wien veröffentlichen den European Capital Report 2021 und zeigen, dass sowohl das

Open Banking

ZKB und SGKB forcieren neuen Open Banking Verband

Die von der St.Galler Kantonalbank und dem Beratungsunternehmen Synpulse ins Leben gerufene OpenWealth API-Standardisierungsinitiative wurde in einen Verein überführt. Mit

Payments USA

Former Governor of the Bank of England Joins Stripe’s Board of Directors

Stripe, a US-based payment processing platform, announced that Mark Carney, the former Governor of the Bank of England and the

Blockchain/Bitcoin

Digital Asset Adoption Gains Momentum With US$26 Billion in Bitcoin Transactions

Bitcoin’s recent price surge has accelerated institutional adoption of cryptocurrencies leading to institutional investor pouring an estimated US$26 billion into