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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

Personal Finance Mgt (PFM)

Säule 3a Startup Pionier VIAC erreicht 1 Mrd. verwaltetes Vermögen

Vor rund 3 Jahren startete VIAC mit der ersten digitalen Säule 3a der Schweiz. Dank stetigem Produktausbau und innovativen Features

Funding

SPAC Frenzy Comes for Europe’s Fintechs

Bernard Arnault, the chairman of luxury goods group LVMH and Europe’s richest man, is the latest billionaire to embrace the

Covid19

Survey: Swiss Fintech Startups Have Risen Against the Odds Despite the Pandemic

In a recent survey among the members of the Swiss Fintech association on economic development during the Covid-19 pandemic, found

Blockchain/Bitcoin Funding

Sygnum Bank Secures Eight Figure Investment From SBI Digital Asset

Swiss Digital asset bank Sygnum announced that it has secured an eight-figure US$ investment from SBI Digital Asset Holdings, the

Payments

Web Browser Opera Launches E-Wallet Dify for Its European Users

Web browser Opera with 380 million monthly active users globally and 50 million in Europe, has announced the launch of

Fintech Opinion Leader Mobile Payments

Digital Bezahlen im Alter: 5 Thesen

Das digitale Rad dreht sich infolge der COVID-19-Pandemie immer schneller, gerade im Online- wie im kontaktlosen Zahlungsverkehr. Die Kreditkartenanbieterin VISA

Funding VC Fintech Switzerland

Swiss Fintech Funding Drops 38% in 2020

Swiss fintech companies raised a total of CHF 220.1 million in 2020, a 38% decrease compared the CHF 360.3 million

London USA

Personetics Secures $75 Million Funding From Warburg Pincus

Personetics, a Tel Aviv-based global provider of data-driven personalisation and customer engagement solutions for banks and financial services providers, announced

Various

New Swiss Fintech Startup Map February Welcomes 18 Newcomers

Swisscom has released the updated Swiss Fintech Startup Map for February 2021, welcoming 18 new Swiss startups for the month.

London Payments

TransferGo Forges Partnership With Thought Machine to Fuel Global Expansion Plans

TransferGo, London-based money transfer company, announced a partnership with Thought Machine, a cloud native core banking technology company, to propel