Author: Marc P. Bernegger

In demand are services for the, until now, neglected medium-size companies The exchange between established banks and startups will increase It will become more difficult for “lean startups” to assert themselves against the competition With the end of the year approaching, the amount of predictions for 2017 is steadily increasing. How will the industry develop and what will be the next big thing? Although A.I. (Artificial Intelligence), Blockchain, RegTech are buzzwords everyone is talking about, one can foresee the next Fintech trends more realistically by looking at the current developments. Exactly they will determine the course for the next year.…

You cannot ignore it: Fintech is a boom. According to Fintech News Switzerland, there are 185 digital finance firms in the Swiss market. As a contrast, our neighbor German has more than twice as many shown by a study by Barkow Consulting last year. Meanwhile, even more Fintechs should be in the market. The support for the industry is evident through the 300 million Euros investments in German Fintechs. Yet the first Fintechs are already dying. The online payment service Paymill and the payment Fintechs Yapital and Click-and-buy are only a few examples for the Fintech flops that shake the…

Switzerland has everything it takes to advance to the leading finTech nations. First-class financial institutions such as UBS or CS, leading banking software manufacturers such as Avaloq or Finnova and research departments of ICT heavyweights such as Google and IBM call Switzerland their home. Author: Marc Bernegger In addition, the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology in Zurich and Lausanne are among the leading international universities for technology and engineering. The high quality of life in Switzerland is well known. Even globally leading fintech personalities think highly of Switzerland as a fintech location. So said Susanne Chishti, CEO and founder of…