Asset management is under pressure. In addition to challenging market conditions, growing competition from low-cost index products is also undermining the margins of fund providers. Last but not least, end users make demands: they want to invest independently. FinTech cooperation offers customers added value. Although the global financial industry has…
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The economist and notorious crypto critic Nouriel Roubini says that, “Crypto technology has no basis for success.” He this said on March 6 in an interview with the CFA Institute. Speaking to the CFA investor group, New York based Roubini, who gained worldwide prominence through his prediction of the 2008…
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The Graz based MedTech startup SteadySense is launching temperature based fertility measurement patches. In the background is a million investment by Grazer eQventure. According to Werner Koele, founder of the Graz startup SteadySense, the temperature method for determining the time of ovulation is rightly criticized. This was because if you’re…
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The start in the US is often a shock for German startups. Annika Pierson, COO of the German Accelerator Life Sciences (GALS) on the East Coast of the United States, knows that. She says, “In Germany, startups have a lot of visibility and their number is not that high either.…
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Swissquote, a $ 618 million online banking group, announced on Friday that it plans to work with Zug based Crypto Storage to enable users to store cryptocurrencies on their platform. This Gland based bank said, institutional investors on its platform would be able to transfer crypto currencies from their external…
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A Spanish fintech closes one of the largest rounds of financing in the sector so far. Pagantis, former Digital Origin, has raised 66 million euros from three funds to finance its international expansion. Son Prime Ventures, SPF Investment Management, a recent spin-off of Credit Suisse and Rinkelberg Capital Group. This…
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As part of our retrospective review of “Chinese E-Auto Start-Ups: That’s what they did in 2018”, we had already made the following statement in the room: “You can be sure that we will hear more from WM Motor in 2019” and this seems to be true now. Because, as the…
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Zenloop As announced, the investment is now official. Nauta Capital and Piton Capital are investing 5.2 million euros in the Berlin-based software startup Zenloop, a software-as-a-service provider. The company was founded in 2016 by the then Flaconi founders Paul Schwarzenholz and Björn Kolbmüller. According to the company, the number of…
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Daura.ch started operations in mid-February. The blockchain solution enables the digital management of share registers. Daura is a joint venture of Swisscom founded in 2018 and Luka Müller, a legal partner of MME. The platform is aimed particularly at stock corporations that were previously not listed on the stock exchange.…
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By 2020 there will be more than 20 billion devices and articles connected to the Internet of Things (IoT); This is detailed in a study conducted by the division of innovation and design of the payment company, Visa, which sees in this figure a great potential to enable everything concerning…
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