Banco Santander has ‘signed’ the hitherto responsible for the Platform Ecosystem of Google Cloud, Aiaz Kazi, as head of Platform, a newly created position from which will lead the open platform of financial services and will contribute to develop the way in which the entity offers products and services to…
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Countries like Italy, Thailand and Japan are known for their traditional dishes. Tourist offices offer more and more cooking classes to introduce visitors to the local cuisine. The Thai startup Cookly jumped on this trend in 2015 as well. Through the platform, users can book cooking classes in more than…
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What about the innovation location Europe? To answer this question, we interviewed a total of 760 companies in 16 countries. The results have now been published. Exploring the community We have explored what it really is about innovation in Europe by asking 760 companies from 20 industries and 16 European…
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Just a few weeks ago, JP Morgan Chase, one of the largest financial institutions in the world, shocked the cryptographic space. For those who missed the memo, the Wall Street pillar revealed plans to launch their own digital asset, based on the private accounting book Ethereum-Esque Quorum. Due to its…
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N26 sets new standards within the banking industry when it comes to flexibility in terms of cash withdrawal or deposit. In Austria, in addition to the approximately 8,600 ATMs, the cash desks of the drugstore dm, the supermarkets Billa, Merkur, and Penny are now available. In total, the possibility of…
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The Berlin investor Project A is now in e-scooter fever. Together with Creandum and the old investors Vostok New Ventures, Balderton Capital, LocalGlobe and Raine Ventures, the capitalists invest 26 million euros in the Swedish startup Voi, which like many other companies offers electric scooters. About its development The fresh…
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Goldman Sachs-backed cryptocurrency finance group Circle reportedly plans to raise around € 220 million from a combination of equity and credit. Circle’s plan Circle, which generates revenue from trading fees on its crypto-currency exchanges (Poloniex and the institutional offering of Circle Trade), saw its earnings decline after the crypto-crash led…
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For many experts and also a part of the community it is now clear that the mass adaptation of digital assets will only take place through the offer of large institutions. A big step in this direction is the Swiss private bank Julius Baer. In today’s press release, the bank…
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The blockchain developers of Blockstream have released a new version of their scaling software for Bitcoin (BTC), as reported on March 1 on the company’s blog. The software called “C-Lightning” is an implementation of the Lightning Network (LN) written in the C programming language. The Lightning Network serves as a…
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According to the analysis, Switzerland had 356 fintech companies in 2018, as opposed to 220 in the previous year. The growth is reported to depend on Fintech Distributed Ledger (DLT) companies, which triples in number. More specifically, “out of a total of 356 companies, 122 are Distributed Ledger Technology, 66…
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