Germany

7 Young Fintech Startups from the DACH Region to Keep an Eye on

Fintech Innovators, a community of fintech and insurtech innovators from Germany, Switzerland and Austria (DACH), has released its annual report featuring the most exciting and fastest-growing fintech and insurtech companies across the DACH region. Produced in collaboration with robo-advisory platform

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N26 Goes Stocks and ETF Trading

N26‘s primary strategic goal remains sustainable and profitable growth. To achieve this, the company continues to position customer activity and daily account usage at the core of its product strategy across its portfolio of spending, saving, investment and credit features.

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Commerzbank Goes AI Banking via Avatars Powered by Microsoft Azure

Commerzbank launched a project to realize a new customer experience with an AI Banking Avatar as mobile first approach. The banking avatar is a virtual assistant in form of a digitalized person that interacts with customers in natural language. Customers

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Commerzbank Granted Crypto Custody Licence

Commerzbank is the first German full-service bank to be granted the Crypto Custody Licence pursuant to Article 1 Section 1a Sentence 1 No 6 German Banking Act (KWG). The licence will enable the Bank to build up a broad range

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Sebastian Vetter Exits Payoneer, Joins Truelayer as Germany Country Manager

TrueLayer, a prominent player in Europe’s open banking payments sector, has recently appointed Sebastian Vetter as its new Country Manager for Germany. This strategic move aims to strengthen TrueLayer’s presence in the German market, which is increasingly adopting open banking

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ETF Studie aus Deutschland zeigt Potential für Robo-Advisors

Der Hype um börsengehandelte Indexfonds (ETFs) nimmt kein Ende, wie aus einer neuen ETF Studie von Business2Community hervorgeht. Allen voran in Deutschland scheinen sich ETFs grosser Beliebtheit zu erfreuen. So haben die Privatanleger in der Bundesrepublik 135 Milliarden Euro in

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Versicherungen und Technologie im Jahr 2028

Die Zukunft des Versicherungsvertriebs wird von einem zentralen Faktor geprägt sein: Technologie. Im Jahr 2028 werden selbstbestimmte Kunden, anspruchsvollere Vertriebspartner, neue Akteure und eine Fülle von Technologien die vertriebliche Realität prägen. Dies wird in den kommenden Jahren zu einer deutlich

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DZ BANK startet eigene Crypto Verwahrung

Deutschland’s DZ BANK hat eine neue Plattform für die Abwicklung und Verwahrung digitaler Finanzinstrumente in Betrieb genommen. Damit gehört das genossenschaftliche Institut zu den ersten Kreditinstituten, die auf Basis der Blockchain-Technologie ein solches Angebot für institutionelle Kunden auf den Weg

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German Wealthtech Upvest Partners with BlackRock and Closes €30M Fundraising

Upvest, a Berlin-based fintech company providing the trading, settlement and custody infrastructure necessary for digital wealth management in one application programming interface (API), is partnering with BlackRock to make investing more accessible. ‍Partnership to complement strengths BlackRock’s broad asset management

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Funding Overview Blockchain Germany 2023

The CV VC German Blockchain Report 2023 highlights Germany’s remarkable achievements in the blockchain sector, unveiling a 3% increase in blockchain funding and an all-time high share of global funding. Covering data from Q3 2022 to Q2 2023, the report

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