Switzerland Lags Behind in Adopting Robo-Advisors, Investment Tech
Swiss investors are lagging behind their European counterparts in embracing investment technology services. A new survey by Swiss banking technology provider Avaloq, which polled 1,430 investors across 10 countries in Europe and Asia, found that only 8% of Swiss respondents
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Open-Banking-Weichensteller actesy neu im F10-Accelerator-Programm
Die actesy AG erhält in Zukunft Unterstützung vom Fintech-Beschleuniger F10 in Zürich. Das Ostschweizer Unternehmen ist eines von 25 europäischen, asiatischen und amerikanischen FinTech- und InsurTech-Startups, welches für das neue Förderungsprogramm ausgewählt wurde. actesy wurde aus insgesamt über 350 Bewerbern
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SpotOn Raises US$300 Million in Series E Funding to Acquire Appetize
SpotOn, provider of mobile payment technology and management system for restaurants and small businesses, announced US$300 million in Series E funding, raising its valuation to US$3.15 billion. The funding, which comes four months after SpotOn’s US$125 million Series D, will
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Swiss VC btov Partners Closes US$135 Million Fund Focused on European Tech Startups
Swiss venture capital firm btov Partners announces the final closing of its new digital technologies early-stage fund with a volume of US$135 million. It’s the second fund that focuses entirely on digital technologies, and the ninth for btov Partners in
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Goldman Sachs to Acquire GreenSky, Led Form3’s US$160 Million Series C
Goldman Sachs Group has signed a deal to acquire GreenSky, a fintech platform for home improvement consumer loan originations, in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately US$2.24 billion. GreenSky’s differentiated lending capabilities and market-leading merchant and consumer ecosystem will help
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Avaloq Ventures Rebrands as FiveT Fintech Following Spin-off From Group
Swiss core banking solution provider Avaloq announced that the investment advisor of its fintech investment fund is being spun off from the group by means of a management buyout and renamed as FiveT Fintech. This will give the management team
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Coinfirm Raises US$8 Million in Series A Co-led by SIX Fintech Ventures
London-based crypto regtech firm Coinfirm announced the close of its Series A fund raise of US$ 8 million, and has appointed Dr. Mircea Mihaescu as its new Chief Executive Officer. The funding round was co-led by SIX Fintech Ventures, the
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Raiffeisen Switzerland Issues CHF 165 Million Bail-in Bond on Valyo’s Platform
Raiffeisen Switzerland, a cooperative of cooperatives the union of all independent Swiss Raiffeisen banks, has issued a CHF 165 million bail-in bond on Valyo’s capital market platform. This is reportedly the first bail-in bond has been issued digitally in Switzerland. This
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Switzerland’s Startup Competition Venture Has Ended on a High Note This Year
Switzerland’s startup competition >>venture>> has come to a close with the announcement of this year’s winners. Established in 1997, >>venture>> ranks and celebrates the top 3 winners in the five categories including that of the “Finance & Insurance” category. A
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Money20/20 Europe 2021: Line-up, Key Topics and More
Money20/20 Europe, one of the biggest annual fintech events in the region, is coming back from September 21 to 23, 2021, in the Netherlands, and will bring together some of the fintech industry’s brightest minds to explore where the future
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