Tagged: switzerland

January 29, 2020 @ 4:28 am By JD Alois  |  

Switzerland has approved the first articles of incorporation hosted on blockchain, according to a note from advisory firm Andriotto Financial Services. Overfuture expects to have is class A shares hosted on blockchain as well as it moves forward with an initial public offering (IPO), or… Read More

January 23, 2020 @ 8:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Adam White, president at Bakkt, recently shared some details regarding a major development currently underway at the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)-owned digital assets trading desk while attending a conference at Davos. White noted during a panel discussion held at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos,… Read More

January 21, 2020 @ 4:15 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Neon, a Switzerland-based mobile banking app, announced on Monday it is eliminating extra fees for card payments abroad. The company revealed the exciting news by stating the following: “To pay so much in fees while abroad is just not ok anymore. Card payments and cash… Read More

January 19, 2020 @ 5:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SEBA, a Switzerland-headquartered digital asset bank that holds regulatory licensing, is reportedly planning to raise $96.5 million in capital. During the fundraising, SEBA’s management intends to secure 100 million Swiss francs (appr. $96.5 million) from new investors, which include established financial institutions, family offices and… Read More

January 9, 2020 @ 7:43 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

AlgoTrader AG, a Swiss platform services provider for fully-integrated and automated quantitative trading and trade execution, for both traditional and digital assets, announced on Wednesday it secured CHF 3.7 million through its Series A funding round, which was led by an undisclosed global Tier 1… Read More

December 28, 2019 @ 9:00 am By Cali Haan  |  

Switzerland’s finance minister and outgoing president, Ueli Maurer, says he doesn’t think Facebook’s proposed Libra cryptocurrency project can proceed in its current form, Reuters reports. This is mainly, “because central banks will not accept the basket of currencies underpinning it,” Maurer claimed. “The project, in… Read More

December 15, 2019 @ 4:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

Switzerland based SEBA Bank, a financial service firm for both digital and traditional assets that is licensed by the Swiss supervisory authority FINMA, is now onboarding clients from 10 jurisdictions, according to a company release. SEBA Bank reports that it is now accepting institutional and… Read More

December 10, 2019 @ 10:48 pm By Alexey Ermakov  |  

After the parabolic bull run of 2017, the last two years were pretty much a bearish phase. New lows were created, bounces and new projects were spread thinly apart.  As we look forward to 2020, expectations of another massive crypto rally, interesting projects and the… Read More

December 8, 2019 @ 6:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

Switzerland based Fintech Incubator & Accelerator F10 has set up a new office in Singapore to expand its reach in the world of Fintech. Singapore is a well established Fintec hub due to the exceptional support by the Singaporean government and financial regulators. F10 said… Read More

December 2, 2019 @ 4:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Crypto Valley Association (CVA), a Switzerland based blockchain advocacy group, has published an “Asset Tokenization Paper” at the inaugural launch event for its Western Chapter today taking place at the EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. The CVA seeks to define the… Read More

November 29, 2019 @ 9:38 am By JD Alois  |  

The Swiss Federal Council has moved to improved the legal certainty regarding the framework for the utilization of blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT).  During a meeting on November 27th, the Federal Council adopted language designed to mitigate risk while removing barriers for DLT utilization…. Read More

November 21, 2019 @ 9:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Switzerland-based Cornèrcard has partnered with Gemalto and Visa in order to introduce the nation’s first credit card that features a biometric fingerprint reader. As noted on Cornèrcard’s official website: “With the exclusive Cornèrcard Biometric Gold Visa credit card you hold a … high-tech product in… Read More

November 20, 2019 @ 2:38 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital Securities Swisscom, Deutsche Börse and three other partners have successfully settled a securities transaction using tokenized shares via distributed ledger technology (DLT). Three banking partners participated in the digital asset transaction; Falcon Private Bank, Vontobel and Zürcher Kantonalbank. According to Swisscom, the proof of… Read More

November 19, 2019 @ 7:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zürich-based Swiss Infrastructure and Exchange (SIX) Group AG, the operator of Switzerland’s stock exchange, recently revealed that it has made an all-cash offer for Bolsas y Mercados Espanoles, a Spanish stock exchange operator. The deal would reportedly establish the third-largest financial market infrastructure group in… Read More

November 17, 2019 @ 2:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Switzerland-based Avaloq, a company that offers a standardized Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) or Software as a Service (SaaS) model to financial institutions and wealth management platforms, revealed recently that it has finalized its acquisition of Derivative Partners, which was first announced in July… Read More

November 14, 2019 @ 4:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

The International Securities Services Association (ISSA), a Switzerland based association that promotes best practices in the securities sector, has added their voice to the emerging digital asset or crypto-asset sector. This includes security tokens, payment tokens (cryptocurrencies, stablecoins etc.) and utility tokens. In October 2018,… Read More

November 1, 2019 @ 2:36 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A Switzerland-based securities dealer called XBT Corp/First Global Credit has been charged and fined by the American SEC and CFTC for, “selling unregistered security-based swaps to U.S. investors using bitcoins and for failing to transact its swaps on a registered national exchange.” The company’s website has… Read More

October 20, 2019 @ 4:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Zürich-based Apiax, a Fintech firm that transforms complex regulatory requirements into digital compliance rules, has raised $6.6 million through a Series A investment round. Founded in 2017, Apiax is a Swiss Regtech firm that builds and provides tools to transpose written regulations into binary, machine-readable… Read More

October 17, 2019 @ 12:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Swiss Federal Council received an update yesterday regarding the topic of stablecoins and Facebook’s Libra specifically. According to a post on the Swiss government website, Switzerland will continue to actively monitor discussions on new digital technologies such as blockchain/DLT and the country is generally… Read More

October 11, 2019 @ 4:21 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Following in the footsteps of PayPal, which walked away from the Libra Association last Friday, eBay and Stripe have now departed the alliance. In an update, Law360 has confirmed that Mastercard and Visa have exited the Libra Association as well. “We highly respect the vision… Read More