Tag "SWISS FINTECH INNOVATIONS (SFTI)"

SFTI Co-Director Cornelia Stengel Discusses Top Fintech Trends

Payment innovations, embedded finance and digital assets are amongst the fast-rising trends to watch out for in the Swiss fintech space. These trends are emerging on the back of deeper ecosystem collaborations and a shift towards “individualization” and hyper-personalization of

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Open Finance: SIX’s bLink Platform Could Act as the Trusted Central Authority

With open finance increasingly coming to the public’s attention in Switzerland, discussions on API standards are accelerating. In July, industry trade group Swiss Fintech Innovations (SFTI) released a whitepaper outlining key considerations to address in regards to data security and

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SIX Orchestrates Swiss OpenWealth API Roundtable for Financial Institutions

Swiss Fintech Innovations (SFTI), OpenWealth (orchestrated by Synpulse) and b.Link of SIX are jointly initiating a roundtable for Swiss financial institutions to discuss the state of open banking. Four and a half months ago SIX officially launched the open banking

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How the Financial Industry Will Look Like in 2030: Swiss Fintech Innovations

Industry trade group Swiss Fintech Innovations (SFTI) has released a discussion paper exploring how the financial and banking services industry will likely look like in 2030. The paper, produced by members of SFTI representing the likes of Swisscom, SIX, Zürcher

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Change in the Management of Swiss Fintech Innovations

Swiss Fintech Innovations (SFTI), the independent association of Swiss financial institutes, announces some management changes. Natascha Tummeley, who joined SFTI’s management in April 2016 and took over in September 2017, will leave SFTI by end of September 2019 and move

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Jürgen Petry Discusses SFTI’s Common Swiss API Initiative

Open banking is a major shift in the retail banking industry to give customers greater control over their data and create a new connected ecosystem where banks, fintechs and other third parties collaborate to deliver seamless financial services. In Switzerland,

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Cloud Computing and Insurance

The market for cloud services is expected to skyrocket in the next few years, and according to industry experts, there are many reasons to believe that insurers will be in the forefront of this growth. But first: what is cloud

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Introducing Swiss Fintechpoly: a Monopoly but for Fintech Nerds

With more than 275 million sets sold in 43 languages and 111 countries, and more than one billion players, it is fair to say that Monopoly is one of the world’s favorite board games and part of international popular culture.

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SFTI and inacta Partner to Promote Blockchain for Finance

Swiss FinTech Innovations (SFTI), the leading Swiss association of financial institutions supporting innovation in the financial sector has announced a partnership with inacta AG to explore and promote blockchain technology in Switzerland. The first step in the cooperation between SFTI

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Stellungnahme zu Open Banking und PSD2

Mitte Januar 2018 veröffentlichte SFS ein Positionspapier, worin vorgeschlagen wird, in der Schweiz eine Selbstregulierungsorganisation zu gründen, welche sich der Ausarbeitung einer Schweizer Open Banking Lösung widmet. Dabei sollen einerseits die Standardisierung (Standard-APIs) und andererseits die Öffnung von Schnittstellen für Dritte

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