Fears of #technology displacing human workers are often dismissed by futurists as technophobia or Ludditism, but a Monday “strategy update” from the Dutch bank ING may change the conversation. In the next five years, the bank expects to reduce its workforce by around 5,800 workers, mostly in Belgium and the Netherlands,Read More
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These following names are #Fintech experts who are proudly named in the Who is Who and also be a part of Top #Digital #Heads for #Switzerland featured in the newspaper #Handelszeitung.
Olga Feldmeier – Managing Partner at XAPO ltd
Olga is a part of the management team of Xapo, a Silicon Valley based startup, which is a global leading player in the #Bitcoin industry. Olga’s background is in financial services industry: she was a strategy advisor for #banks at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and at Barclays Capital.
Andreas Kubli &8211; Group Managing Director &8211; UBS Switzerland AG
Andreas Kubli is Managing Director at UBS Switzerland AG Zurich. Since 2013 he has held the Head of the Multichannel Management & Digitization position at UBS Switzerland. Prior to this, he was leading Strategy and Business Development UBS Switzerland. Before his entry into UBS he was a partner with McKinsey & Company. Andreas Kubli has a masters in Corporate Law from the University of Law in New York as well as licentiatus juris form the University of Zurich. Andreas Kubli is an authorized attorney at law in Zurich as well as in New York.
Christian König &8211; Founder of Fintech News Switzerland
Chris is a Fintech Specialist with 15 years Investment Banking experience. He consults Fintech and Investment companies around the world (Singapore, Vietnam, Switzerland) with his company Finanzpro Ltd and is specialized in Financial Products, Social Media and Content Marketing. He is also the organizer of the Fintech Vietnam Meetup and is regular Fintech Speaker, a Fintech Mentor and a Digital Finance Lecturer. On top of that he runs several Blog projects such as Fintechnews Singapore, Fintechnews.ch and other award winning Finance Blogs. He holds a Master in Banking&Finance from the University in St.Gallen and is Certified Inter. Investment Analyst.
Daniel Gutenberg &8211; General Partner of VI Partners
Daniel Gutenberg is General Partner of VI Partners, a Swiss venture capital firm. He joined the company in 2003. Subsequent to selling Gutenberg Communication Systems AG to the Telindus Group in the year 2000, Daniel Gutenberg became a very active business angel and investor in numerous startups. His focus is on #Technology and he has been taking board assignments for various public and private Companies as well as for YPO Young Presidents’ Organization, a network of young global business leaders. He also acts as the president of the Swiss Technion Society and as a member of the Circle of Investors of BrainsToVentures. Daniel Gutenberg was awarded as business angel of the year in 2011 (SECA).
Marc P. Bernegger &8211; Serial Web Entrepreneur &
Fintech Investor
Marc P. Bernegger is a serial web entrepreneur and fintech investor. Aged 20, Marc co-founded the party platform usgang.ch (trade sale to Axel Springer) and he is a founder of amiando (awarded by the World Economic Forum as Global Technology Pioneer in 2010; trade sale to XING). He is Ambassador Switzerland at FinLeap, was partner at the listed investment company Next Generation Finance Invest (today Ayondo Holding) and venture partner at Orange Growth Capital. Marc was awarded as «100 most successful people under 40 in Switzerland» by BILANZ in 2015
Patrick Comboeuf &8211; Director of Studies &8211; CAS ‘Digital Leadership’
Patrick Comboeuf is a senior (digital) executive with a strong track record on both the corporate and academic side. He was Director E-Business at SBB orchestrating their digital channels (> CHF 400 Mio of revenue p.a.) from 2006 to 2014. As a leader of a team of 50-odd experts he was the driving force behind a vast array of digital transformation initiatives like SBB Mobile (ticketing/timetable) – with 5,4 million users the most downloaded app in Switzerland, their intra-preneurial startup programme SBB Digital as well as the company’s headline making social media presence to name a few. He’s a regular blogger and keynote speaker at conferences on topics like Mobile Commerce, Digital, Service Business, Customer Experience and how to create a sustainable digital lifeline for dinosaurs in the corporate world.
Urs Haeusler &8211; CEO of DealMarket
Urs is CEO of DealMarket &8211; the global Private Equity Platform providing a comprehensive platform for fundraising and deal flow management. Based on his online expertise and global network Urs is valued as senior advisor for entrepreneurs and corporates alike. He also is the owner of Haeusler Management & Ventures, an internet business consulting firm, since 2008. Urs also supports early stage tech start-ups as a Business Angel.
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These following names are #Fintech experts who are proudly named in the Who is Who and also be a part of Top #Digital #Heads for #Switzerland featured in the newspaper #Handelszeitung.
Olga Feldmeier – Managing Partner at XAPO ltd
Olga is a part of the management team of Xapo, a Silicon Valley based startup, which is a global leading player in the #Bitcoin industry. Olga’s background is in financial services industry: she was a strategy advisor for #banks at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and at Barclays Capital.
Andreas Kubli &8211; Group Managing Director &8211; UBS Switzerland AG
Andreas Kubli is Managing Director at UBS Switzerland AG Zurich. Since 2013 he has held the Head of the Multichannel Management & Digitization position at UBS Switzerland. Prior to this, he was leading Strategy and Business Development UBS Switzerland. Before his entry into UBS he was a partner with McKinsey & Company. Andreas Kubli has a masters in Corporate Law from the University of Law in New York as well as licentiatus juris form the University of Zurich. Andreas Kubli is an authorized attorney at law in Zurich as well as in New York.
Christian König &8211; Founder of Fintech News Switzerland
Chris is a Fintech Specialist with 15 years Investment Banking experience. He consults Fintech and Investment companies around the world (Singapore, Vietnam, Switzerland) with his company Finanzpro Ltd and is specialized in Financial Products, Social Media and Content Marketing. He is also the organizer of the Fintech Vietnam Meetup and is regular Fintech Speaker, a Fintech Mentor and a Digital Finance Lecturer. On top of that he runs several Blog projects such as Fintechnews Singapore, Fintechnews.ch and other award winning Finance Blogs. He holds a Master in Banking&Finance from the University in St.Gallen and is Certified Inter. Investment Analyst.
Daniel Gutenberg &8211; General Partner of VI Partners
Daniel Gutenberg is General Partner of VI Partners, a Swiss venture capital firm. He joined the company in 2003. Subsequent to selling Gutenberg Communication Systems AG to the Telindus Group in the year 2000, Daniel Gutenberg became a very active business angel and investor in numerous startups. His focus is on #Technology and he has been taking board assignments for various public and private Companies as well as for YPO Young Presidents’ Organization, a network of young global business leaders. He also acts as the president of the Swiss Technion Society and as a member of the Circle of Investors of BrainsToVentures. Daniel Gutenberg was awarded as business angel of the year in 2011 (SECA).
Marc P. Bernegger &8211; Serial Web Entrepreneur &
Fintech Investor
Marc P. Bernegger is a serial web entrepreneur and fintech investor. Aged 20, Marc co-founded the party platform usgang.ch (trade sale to Axel Springer) and he is a founder of amiando (awarded by the World Economic Forum as Global Technology Pioneer in 2010; trade sale to XING). He is Ambassador Switzerland at FinLeap, was partner at the listed investment company Next Generation Finance Invest (today Ayondo Holding) and venture partner at Orange Growth Capital. Marc was awarded as «100 most successful people under 40 in Switzerland» by BILANZ in 2015
Patrick Comboeuf &8211; Director of Studies &8211; CAS ‘Digital Leadership’
Patrick Comboeuf is a senior (digital) executive with a strong track record on both the corporate and academic side. He was Director E-Business at SBB orchestrating their digital channels (> CHF 400 Mio of revenue p.a.) from 2006 to 2014. As a leader of a team of 50-odd experts he was the driving force behind a vast array of digital transformation initiatives like SBB Mobile (ticketing/timetable) – with 5,4 million users the most downloaded app in Switzerland, their intra-preneurial startup programme SBB Digital as well as the company’s headline making social media presence to name a few. He’s a regular blogger and keynote speaker at conferences on topics like Mobile Commerce, Digital, Service Business, Customer Experience and how to create a sustainable digital lifeline for dinosaurs in the corporate world.
Urs Haeusler &8211; CEO of DealMarket
Urs is CEO of DealMarket &8211; the global Private Equity Platform providing a comprehensive platform for fundraising and deal flow management. Based on his online expertise and global network Urs is valued as senior advisor for entrepreneurs and corporates alike. He also is the owner of Haeusler Management & Ventures, an internet business consulting firm, since 2008. Urs also supports early stage tech start-ups as a Business Angel.
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A major financial #infrastructure provider in Switzerland is developing a proof-of-concept focused on securities market infrastructure.
SIX Securities Services, the post-trade infrastructure operator for the #Swiss #financial sector, and Digital Asset Holdings, a developer of #distributed #ledger #technology for the financial #services industry, announced plans to develop a proof of concept that will demonstrate the commercial viability of distributed ledger technology across the Swiss financial #market, with an initial prototype for . The two firms will also develop a roadmap for future opportunities spanning the whole market infrastructure value chain.
SIX #Securities Services recognizes the potential of distributed ledger technology and after a competitive evaluation process has selected #Digital #Asset as the business and technology partner for the design of a solution for the Swiss market. The initial phase of the project will demonstrate the ability to build and incorporate distributed, encrypted, straight through processing tools into existing securities transaction flows, and propose a roadmap for extending this to a production-ready service.
The proof of concept will extend beyond the scope of the prototype, and Digital Asset will develop a product roadmap for future opportunities to include a wide range of applications that demonstrate how current, segregated processes could be streamlined and made more efficient for SIX Securities Services and post-trade ecosystem as a whole.
SIX Securities Services has already made significant strides in exploring distributed ledger technologies and currently has a prototype for Corporate Actions processing on display at Sibos, in Geneva #from 26-29 September, 2016.
According to Thomas Zeeb, Division CEO SIX Securities Services: «Distributed ledger technology and its potential role in post trading is key to our business. We need to understand it, and more importantly, its applicability and future flexibility in order to keep ahead of the game. Partnering with Digital Asset is a way to accelerate our own development plans and leverage their experience in this area.»
«Partnering with SIX brings this cutting edge technology another step closer to commercial reality,” said Blythe Masters, CEO of Digital Asset. “We believe this collaboration will provide exciting opportunities for SIX and its customers while reducing inefficiency, cost and risk in the financial services ecosystem.»
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Customers are better connected, new #technology is launching everyday and data is connecting everything. This has disrupted the market and allowed competitors and start-ups outperform established players.
This video shows the importance of embedding #digital across your business. Those who adapt their business model around the customer will reap the rewards. Businesses need to become more innovative and agile to be able to adapt to customer demands and market changes. This will enable them to increase customer engagement, empower employees and become more profitable. Ultimately, you don’t need a digital strategy, you need a business strategy for the digital age.
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It’s become a truism that #digital banking customers are your best customers, but #Bank of the #West and Fiserv have the data to back up that assumption — and to do something #about it. Digital banking features cost money &8212; your vendor may charge a per-user fee to institute the latestRead More
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MUUME, a company that provides a platform for “#digital self-service” for daily purchases, is helping brick-and-mortar businesses address new #mobile-driven consumer behaviors.
One idea behind #MUUME is to bridge the gap between online and phsysical POS, changing the consumers behavior requesting a more flexible, mobile-friendly buying experience.
More than a platform, MUUME is reinventing the way people shop. Currently, the Swiss company offers three distinct products:
SelfServicePOS allows for digital self-service for retail and food businesses. Essentially, customers select products by scanning their QR codes or barcodes, or they can order at the business with their smartphones. The order is sent to the merchant’s payment terminal and the customer can then choose to pay in a traditional manner at the checkout or through the mobile app.
SelfServicePRE-ORDER allows customers to pre-order products and services while paying for them simultaneously. This can be used for instance for exclusive offers or limited items. The process is designed to allow for a &8220;quick and effortless&8221; buying experience. The feature is also available for food and drinks purchases during events. In fact, MUUME has announced recently a new partnership with Swisscom to integrate this MUUME solution into the app of the Bernese soccer club BSC Young Boys (YB).
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The collaboration allows fans and visitors of the Stadium Stade de Suisse to use the YB app to order and pay for drinks and snacks through the app starting from August 20th, reducing waiting time and allowing for an entirely digital buying experience.
For the consumer, MUUME allows for seamless, simple and an all-inclusive &8220;self-service shopping and self-service ordering and paying&8221; experience.
Users can get very easily additional product information. This can be done by barcode/QR, Beacon, Wifi and other touch points. Customers can view its description as well as other forms of content such as images and video clips of the product, all through the app. This gives the users a clear added value.
SelfServiceM-SHOP – a Digital self-service for shopping on the go. Either as an individual solution or in conjunction with the other key products SelfServicePOS and SelfServicePRE-ORDER.
MUUME Shopping Flow
MUUME has an integrated cloud-based digital wallet that allows users to manage their funds in various currencies as well as similar monetary means such as coupons. The platform is &8220;multi-bank&8221; and is an independently licensed Payment Service Provider.
For the merchant, MUUME provides an efficient digital shopping experience and a self-service ordering process. This allows for increased digital convenience, which increases sales, customer loyalty and improves resource planning. As the platform allows for instant checkout and payments through the app, merchants are provided with fast liquidity, eliminating cash handling. Moreover, merchants receive monthly customer, order and payment data from the platform.
MUUME&8217;s platform can be integrated into any third party system, and was entirely developed in-house.
A 84-strong company, MUUME is headquartered in Cham, Switzerland with staff members located in Berlin, Krakow and Chisinau. The company is regulated by Switzerland&8217;s financial supervisor Finma.
In June, MUUME raised CHF 2.2 million in a Series A funding round led by Frankfurt-based private equity company Heliad Equity Partners with participation of entrepreneur and investor Hans Thomas Gross as well as the Zurich-based Family Office Keller. The capital will be dedicated to &8220;push product development and geographical-expansion,&8221; MUUME, said in a press release.
Commenting on the new funding, Thomas Hanke, CEO of Heliad Equity Partners, said:
&8220;We believe in the great potential and the USP of MUUME. We are pleased to join the company in its continued development and are convinced that MUUME will be successfully positioned in the #Fintech market.&8221;
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Kevin Simback and Josie Lee seeded the list of US companies using #technology in the broad #Digital #Mortgage #Market – MortgageTech. I keep the conversation categorization and add on a few names. 1 – Mortgage Enterprise Solutions – this includes offering lending operating system (LOS) providers, marketing/lead gen/application/underwriting/fulfillment/closing platforms, servicingRead More
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This is Part I of a series looking into the #Mortgage #Market. The inspiration came from a great conversation that Kevin Simback , Director of Strategy at IBM Lending Solutions, started on the #Fintech Genome, MortgageTech – the last frontier for Fintech? A starting list of companies focused on Mortgage.Read More
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