Austria

17 Rising Fintech DACH Stars that Went Live in 2022

Fintech Innovators has released its annual report featuring the most exciting and fastest-growing fintech and insurtech companies across Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH). Produced in collaboration with robo-advisory platform Inno Invest, startup acceleration program German Accelerator, consulting firm KPMG and

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Bitpanda Receives Full Crypto Custody and Trading License in Germany

Austrian crypto platform Bitpanda has received a full operating license from the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority or BaFin for the custody and proprietary trading of crypto assets. Bitpanda claims to be the first European retail investment platform to obtain

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N26 Launches New Cryptocurrency Trading Feature With Bitpanda

German neobank N26 has launched its cryptocurrency product in Austria to enable customers to buy and sell 194 cryptocurrencies in their app. The N26 Crypto feature will be made available progressively to eligible customers in Austria over the coming weeks,

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Krypto-Broker Coinpanion kooperiert mit Checkout.com

Das Österreichische Fintech-Unternehmen Coinpanion hat sich zur Abwicklung seiner Paymentprozesse für die Zusammenarbeit mit dem internationalen Zahlungsdienstleister Checkout.com entschieden. Durch die Zusammenarbeit mit Checkout.com kann der Kryptobroker seinen Anleger:innen nun zahlreiche Optionen für Ein- und Auszahlungen anbieten, von Kartenzahlungen über

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Top 30 Fintech Events To Attend in DACH in H2 2022

2021 was a blockbuster year for fintech funding globally. In Germany, Austria and Switzerland, also referred to as the DACH region, fintech funding increased four-fold to US$10.8 billion, data from research platform Fintech Global show. To showcase the region’s burgeoning

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Austria’s Qenta Taps Netcetera to Secure Cashless Payments in the Region

Netcetera, a Swiss software company that provides secure digital payments, announced that it will be collaborating with Austrian payments services provider Qenta Payment CEE. Through this partnership, Netcetera will be a reliable expert provider and enabling its secure 3DS technology

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Banking Circle Supports Bluecode and TWINT’s Interoperability

The mobile payment systems German-Austrian Bluecode and the Swiss TWINT are now interoperable with one another. Interoperability of said two systems is based on the specifications of EMPSA (European Mobile Payments System Association). TWINT and Bluecode interoperability has already been

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Coinpanion erhöht Seed Runde auf über 5 Mio

Coinpanion, ein Österreichisches Krypto-Startup, kann sein Seed Investment vom Herbst letzten Jahres ( 1,8 Millionen Euro) auf insgesamt 5,5 Millionen Euro aufstocken. Das in Wien gegründete FinTech ermöglicht mit seiner Plattform jedem, auch ohne fundiertes Wissen, vom Kryptowährungsmarkt zu profitieren. Denn

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Moody’s Acquires Passfort and 360kompany to Boost Its Onboarding Solutions

Global integrated risk assessment firm Moody’s Corporation is acquiring two European providers of onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC) technology solutions. Moody’s has completed the acquisition of PassFort Limited and has signed an agreement to acquire Austrian based d360kompany AG

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Bitpanda Pro Appoints JPMorgan’s Exec Joshua Barraclough as CEO

Austrian digital investment platform Bitpanda announced that it has appointed Joshua Barraclough as the CEO of Bitpanda Pro, its digital asset exchange for professionals and businesses to trade. Josh joins Bitpanda from J.P. Morgan, where he held key positions such

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