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Postfinance Participates in Imburse’s Bridge Funding Round
Imburse AG, a Swiss enterprise SaaS company empowering large companies with payments-as-a-service solutions, announced its completion of a $1.7 million bridge funding round. Institutional investors PostFinance CVC, based in Switzerland, and SixThirty, a US-based VC, led the round, with existing
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Swiss Fintech Incubator and Accelerator F10 Expands to Singapore
F10, a fintech incubator and accelerator from Switzerland, is expanding to Singapore where it will run its renowned P2 “Prototype to Product” startup program. After the highly popular and successful F10 FinTech Hackathons in Singapore in September 2018 and 2019, the move
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Forrester Report Highlights Needs for More Personalization in Financial Services
Current personalization efforts from financial services firms are still nowhere near the level necessary to engage increasingly demanding customers. Banks, investment firms, insurance companies and other financial services firms must rethink personalization and focus on driving customer engagement and loyalty,
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The Future of Banking and Fintech- Fixing a Broken System and the Quantum Age
Bill Gates once famously stated: “we need banking, but we don’t need banks anymore”. Even though the statement might go too far in this generality/radicality, at least in the near future (what about the bank as a store of value
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“BORN IN SWITZERLAND” Swiss Original Fintech Overview Map Update: 175 Companies
Luc Schuurmans, Head Private Banking, Executive Management at Bank Linth LLB AG, put together an updated overview map of Fintech Companies “Born in Switzerland”. Since his last update, he collected 4 Fintech Startup more – mimic, atfinity, Aximetria and realAdvisor Here are the
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Swiss Fintech Startup Map October 2019: 4 New Swiss Fintech Join the Ecosystem
Swisscom released the new Swiss Fintech Startup Map October 2019. The new Swiss Fintech map counts now 345 Startups. 4 new Swiss Fintech “Startups” joined the map, including Sibex, nectar, ruvercap, CBFore Group: Sibex Off-Market Transactions & Liquidity solutions for
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SEBA Bank is Live!
SEBA Bank AG is fully operational just 18 months after its foundation and a few weeks after being granted a banking licence by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA. After an onboarding phase with a designated customer group, SEBA
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Glarner Kantonalbank Integriert Buchhaltungslösung KLARA ins E-Banking
Die Glarner Kantonalbank bindet die Business-Software KLARA an das e-Banking an. Die KLARA Business AG bietet innovative Onlinelösungen für Buchhaltung, Personaladministration und Marketing an. Mit KLARA können Konten- und Zahlungsdaten automatisiert abgeglichen werden. Mit der Anbindung von KLARA an das
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7 Future of Money Scenarios
Within 5 to 7 years, digital payments will become more prominent as tech solutions substantially increase in convenience compared to cash. Nevertheless, cash will continue to be perceived and widely used as a store of value. This is, according to
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Podcast: Swiss FinTech Fair Founder Interviews
This is a podcast interview by Voice of Fintech with Christina Kehl, co-founder & Managing Director at Swiss Finance Startups. Voice of Fintech talks about the Swiss Finance Startups association goals, the need to “bring Bern to Zurich” to provide
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