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European venture capital firm redalpine has closed its early-stage fund, redalpine capital VIII (RAC VIII), at US$250 million. The fund closed oversubscribed, attracting institutional investors including Aviva Investors, Flexstone Partners and KfW. RAC VIII will…
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View MoreThe Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has published its final, partially revised FINMA Anti-Money Laundering Ordinance. It…
Swiss wealth technology firm Avaloq is entering the US market with the launch of its Mosaic platform. The…
Signicat has appointed Keith Fenner as CEO and Pete Daffern as Chair, effective 10 November 2026. Fenner succeeds…
Swiss wealth technology company Light Frame has raised US$5.1 million in a seed round led by Fortino Ventures.…
Among Swiss and Liechtenstein banks, the appetite for replacing core banking systems remains limited, reflecting a view that…
Across the investment industry, artificial intelligence (AI) is well established, with nearly nine in ten organizations having fully…
Morgan Stanley has agreed to buy Vinyl Equity, a digital transfer agent registered with the US Securities and…
Coinbase has secured final approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to charter its…
Affirm, a US-based payment network, will acquire Ratepay from Milan-based digital payments group Nexi. Following the change of…
Tokenized financial markets are unlikely to become fully on-chain in the foreseeable future. Instead, a selective approach will…
Worldline has introduced miniPOS Cube, a payment terminal designed for merchants in Switzerland. The device supports TWINT, the…
In Switzerland, financial influencers, also referred to as finfluencers, are shaping financial knowledge and actual investment decisions. According…
Binance will close certain European customer accounts by 31 December 2026 as it adjusts to the EU’s crypto…
French banking group Crédit Mutuel Arkéa has suffered a cyberattack that resulted in the theft of around €100…
Despite numerous high-profile success stories, launching a profitable technology startup remains difficult, and a viable exit is unlikely,…
UBS has cut about 200 jobs in London over the past few weeks, Bloomberg reported. Its work to…
Millions of customers remain cut off from their accounts following the Paraguay ueno bank collapse. The central bank…
Monzo is weighing a new funding round that would value the UK digital bank at around £7.5 billion,…
Sequoia Capital is closing its London office, and several people will be leaving the firm as a result.…
Revolut has completed the registration of its Austrian banking branch and plans to launch it in 2027. The…
Eurex Clearing will clear native digital instruments alongside traditional securities. The company will run both under one rulebook…
Zug-based fintech Safirum has launched CHF-S, a Swiss franc stablecoin, on the Solana blockchain. The token, first announced…
MUFG has merged its securities and banking businesses in the European Union into a single entity, MUFG Bank…
UBS has 608 AI use cases in production, 81% more than a year earlier, according to its third-quarter…









