Tagged: postfinance

July 3, 2025 @ 3:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

From 1 August 2025, PostFinance is permanently reducing the prices for transfers in pounds sterling to the United Kingdom to a fixed fee of 9 francs, and for euro transfers to Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia to 7 francs. In doing so, PostFinance is… Read More

June 12, 2025 @ 11:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PostFinance, a key part of Switzerland’s financial ecosystem and a subsidiary of Swiss Post, is navigating a turbulent business / economic environment as it implements significant organizational changes to secure its competitive edge. In recent announcements, the financial institution revealed plans to reduce its workforce… Read More

March 19, 2025 @ 8:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PostFinance, one of Switzerland’s financial institution and a subsidiary of Swiss Post, released its 2024 annual results, shedding light on a year of challenges and positive developments. With 2.5 million customers and a reputation for stability, the bank faced a volatile economic landscape marked by… Read More

March 13, 2025 @ 12:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PostFinance noted that less than four years after its launch, Yuh has reportedly reached an important milestone: the Swiss finance app is said to be profitable. PostFinance also mentioned in a blog post that with now more than 300,000 users and customer assets of 3… Read More

January 19, 2025 @ 8:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Around a year after introducing the trading and custody of cryptocurrencies, PostFinance is expanding its offering to include the “staking” function. The banking services provider said this means that passive income can now be “generated by depositing cryptocurrencies.” PostFinance claims it is the first “systemically… Read More

August 21, 2024 @ 4:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PostFinance notes in a recent update that the receipt of instant payments now possible. No more waiting for your money: instant payments are here. PostFinance customers can “now receive money transfers in real time – 24/7, 365 days a year.” According to a blog post… Read More

June 20, 2024 @ 10:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As of 18 June 2024, PostFinance is reportedly the first major Swiss retail bank to offer its customers access to the saving plan function for ETFs, shares and themed certificates. Philipp Merkt, Chief Investment Officer at PostFinance said: “Thanks to their simplicity and cost efficiency,… Read More

February 20, 2024 @ 7:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PostFinance is launching a new crypto service for Switzerland. PostFinance is a financial service firm that serves over 2.5 million customers in Switzerland. It aims to assist smaller firms in their transition to digital finance including banking, payments, money management and more. PostFinance claims that… Read More

September 25, 2023 @ 9:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Swiss National Bank (SNB) announced today that it is not currently making any changes to the policy rate. However, PostFinance is continuing to “enable its customers to participate in the positive interest rate environment and is increasing the interest rate on the retirement savings… Read More

August 20, 2023 @ 10:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PostFinance is boosting its mortgage lending: the financial service provider is acquiring a stake in Credit Exchange Ltd (CredEx) and taking a seat on its Board of Directors. The two parties have “signed a contract to that effect.” This partnership with the mortgage marketplace CredEx… Read More

August 3, 2023 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PostFinance, which claims to be one of Switzerland’s leading financial institutions and largest retail banks, leverages its existing partnership with Sygnum, the “world’s first” digital asset bank, to reward their employees “with a free NFT issued by Sygnum as part of their educational game for… Read More

June 24, 2023 @ 11:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PostFinance wants to drive the development of a digital franc and is entering into partnership with Swiss Stablecoin Ltd for this purpose. As part of a joint proof of concept, a digital image of the Swiss franc “will be released for specific use cases and… Read More

April 6, 2023 @ 8:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PostFinance, one of Switzerland’s major financial institutions and largest retail banks, partners with Sygnum, which claims to be one of the world’s first digital asset banks, “to offer its customers a range of regulated digital asset banking services via Sygnum’s B2B banking platform.” PostFinance‘s partnership… Read More

August 23, 2021 @ 9:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PostFinance, the financial services division of Swiss Post, has reportedly hired Benjamin Staeheli to serve as their Head of Payment Solutions. He’ll be joining the Executive Board as of  January 1, 2022, the announcement confirmed. Benjamin Staeheli possesses a degree in business administration from the… Read More

June 23, 2021 @ 9:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Analytics software company FICO recently revealed that Switzerland-based PostFinance will be protecting almost 3 million debit cards with the FICO® Falcon® Platform, an AI-enhanced payments card protection solution. PostFinance, the financial services division of Swiss Post, says it will be using the Falcon Platform to… Read More

May 14, 2021 @ 12:27 am By JD Alois  |  

PostFinance and Swissquote have partnered on a new digital finance app that is being described as the dawn of a new era in mobile banking in Switzerland. Called “Yuh” the money management app is now available in both the Apple App Store and Google Play…. Read More

May 4, 2021 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PostFinance, the financial services division of Swiss Post, has teamed up with Swissquote in order to launch a digital banking app, called Yuh. The Fintech app will be available to the public on May 11, 2021. PostFinance and Swissquote had first announced plans to work… Read More

January 5, 2021 @ 11:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Switzerland-based SafeSide Life, a digital life insurance solution provider, has teamed up with miira, a comparison platform for enhancing personal retirement planning (that’s powered by PostFinance’s Innovation Lab). Through the partnership, the companies will aim to improve how consumers analyze financial protection requirements and subsequently… Read More

December 6, 2020 @ 3:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PostFinance, the financial services division of Swiss Post, and CoCoNet, a Germany-headquartered digital banking service provider, are teaming up to launch a cash management platform for corporate clients. The new solution will aim to provide various cash management services to PostFinance‘s corporate customers, which includes… Read More

November 13, 2020 @ 7:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Switzerland’s Post Office division is reinventing itself as a “radical” banking challenger. Last month, the Swiss Post Office had announced a “Banking & Beyond” initiative, called PostFinance. As first reported by swissinfo.ch, the nation’s post office will be working on the new project with Swissquote,… Read More