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No More Printing, Signing and Scanning: Swisscom and Ajila Digitise Contracts
From quick account opening to planning applications with countless enclosures: thanks to the cooperation between Swisscom and Lucerne’s Ajila, all processes including the conclusion of contracts have now been fully digitised, meaning printing, signing and rescanning are no longer necessary.
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Top 20 Global Female Fintech Influencers
Onalytica, an influencer marketing software platform, has released its ranking of the world’s top 100 women influencers in finance. Onalytica analyzed over 300,000 finance-related posts from November 1, 2018 to October 31, 2019, to identify the top 100 most influential
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Collaboration Between the Swiss and Chinese FinTech Ecosystems
The Zurich and Singapore based FinTech Incubator & Accelerator F10 has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Chinese Zheshang Venture Capital Company Ltd to create more opportunities for investment and Startup development within the F10 ecosystem at the “Zurich
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Neuer CHF 50 Millionen Venture Fonds für die Digitalisierung in der Schweiz
Spicehaus Partners lanciert einen Schweizer Venture Fonds und investiert in Technologie-Startups in der Schweiz. Spicehaus Partners gibt heute das erste Closing und den Start ihres Schweizer Venture Fonds bekannt. Der Fonds investiert in Schweizer Technologie-Startups, welche die Digitalisierung vorantreiben. Im
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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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