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  • user 3:35 am on September 14, 2016 Permalink | Reply
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    Swisspeers: Eine Schweizer Crowdlending Platform für KMU 

    Das Unternehmen Swisspeers mit Sitz in Winterthur hat neue Online-Plattform Peer-to-peerFinanzierung initiiert, die Investoren und kleine und mittelständische Unternehmen (KMU) mit Finanzierungsbedarf zusammenführt. Dieses Finanzierungskonzept zielt darauf ab, die Innovationsfähigkeit von KMU zu unterstützen und die Schweiz als Wirtschaftsstandort zu stärken.

    Das Unternehmen wurde 2015 von Alwin Meyer, Andreas Hug und Stefan Nägeli gegründet und die Plattform ging im Mai dieses Jahr online. Bislang hat die Plattform Unternehmenskredite im Wert von über 500.000 CHF durch sieben Projekte mit jeweils neun bis achtzehn privaten Investoren beschaffen können, teilte Meyer Schweizeraktien.net kürzlich in einem Interview mit.

    Von links nach rechts: Stefan Nägeli, Alwin Meyer und Andreas Hug, Co-Gründer von Swisspeers, auf https://www.swisspeers.ch/

    Von links nach rechts: Stefan Nägeli, Alwin Meyer und Andreas Hug, Co-Gründer von , auf https://www.swisspeers.ch/

    „Unsere Unternehmenskredite sollen sich langfristig auf eine Größenordnung von 50.000 CHF bis zu 1 Million belaufen,“ sagt Meyer.

    „Laut unserer Marktanalysen ist die Nachfrage in diesem Bereich am grössten. Der Zugang zu Krediten in dieser Größenordnung wird über die traditionellen Kanäle nicht ausreichend gewährleistet.

    Swisspeers will Investoren eine Alternative zu den traditionellen Festzinsanlagen bieten. Auf der Unternehmerseite werden KMU die Möglichkeit geboten, Zugang zu einem unbürokratischen Finanzierungstool ausserhalb des traditionellen Bankensystems zu erhalten. Es sorgt für komplette Transparenz bei der Finanzabwicklung. Swisspeers nimmt eine Bonitätsprüfung vor und vergibt daraufhin eine Empfehlung für einen risikoadäquaten Zinssatz. Das vom Unternehmen selbst entwickelte Finanzierungskonzept basiert auf einem kommerziellen Kreditrisikomodell, das eine Empfehlung für risikoadäquate Zinssätze abgeben kann.

    Für Unternehmen bedeutet dies ein schneller und einfacher Kreditprozess, faire Preisfestsetzung durch Bonitätsprüfung und eine nach dem Auktionsprinzip getätigte Finanzierung sowie eine Reihe von zusätzlichen Serviceleistungen wie z.B. Unterstützung und Beratung bei der Erfüllung der Dokumentationsanfordungen für den Kreditantrag.

    Für Investoren bietet Swisspeers Direktinvestitionen bei regionalen KMU, attraktive Renditen mit minimalen Gebühren und einen Beitrag zur Stärkung von Unternehmen. Somit sind Investoren in der Lage, dem Anlagenotstand im Schweizer-Franken-Festzinsgeschäft zu entkommen.

    Swisspeers-SME-Credit-Marketplace

    Das Unternehmen hat bislang sehr positives Feedback erhalten. „KMU schätzen die einfache, bequeme sowie orts- und zeitungebundene Alternative sehr,“ sagt Meyer.

    „Investoren sehen die Möglichkeit, eine positive Rendite zu erzielen. [&;] Viele Investoren beginnen mit einer kleinen Investition, um das neue Anlagemodell erst einmal zu testen. Nach der ersten positiven Erfahrung fahren sie dann mit weiteren Investitionen fort und bauen ein Portfolio auf.“

    Neben Swisspeers gibt es derzeit noch sechs weitere -Plattformen in der Schweiz: Cashare, CreditGate24, creditworld, Lend und splendit (Studentenkredite) laut eines Reports des Instituts für Finanzdienstleitungen Zug IFZ und Swisscom. CreditGate24 und Cashshare spezialisieren sich auf Privatkunden und KMU, Swisspeers und Creditworld nur auf KMU und Lend fokussiert sich bislang nur auf Privatkunden.

    2015 wurden in der Schweiz insgesamt CHF 27.3 Millionen an Finanzierungsgeldern für 1.342 Finanzierungsprojekte vermittelt. Crowdlending verzeichnet das größte Wachstum von 2014 bis 2015 (+127%, auf CHF 7.9 Millionen).

    „Für 2016 erwarten wir mindestens eine doppelt so hohe Summe im Schweizer Crowdfunding Markt, der“, laut des Reports, „insbesondere durch Kreditvergaben an KMU und Immobilien-Crowdfunding angetrieben wird.“

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  • user 3:36 am on September 1, 2016 Permalink | Reply
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    Startup of the Month: Lykke, a Next-Gen Zero-Commission Trading Platform Powered by Blockchain 

    and has gotten a major boost in Switzerland as Richard Olsen, the co-founder of OANDA and a former CEO of the North American FX Brokerage, is looking to harness the power of the technology to disrupt digital currencies and assets .

    Lykke, Olsen&;s latest venture, has just released a mobile app for Android devices, which follows its iOS counterpart released in June. The Wallet lets users trade digital currencies and assets, and come with a number of innovative features including instant settlement, direct ownership and zero commission.

    Lykke Launches Wallet App for Android Devices

    Through the app, users can track asset prices in real time, check their balances, transaction history and blockchain details for all transactions, move assets to any bitcoin wallet, deposit and withdraw bitcoins via QR codes with no fees.

    &;Lykke Wallet, currently in beta, aims to prove the concepts and the technology behind the new global marketplace,&; Olsen said in a media release.

    Signing up to Lykke is quite simple: you can use your smartphone camera to take pictures of yourself and your identification documents.

     

    Lykke&8217;s technology

    Founded in Zurich in 2015, Lykke aims at cutting out intermediaries in financial markets by allowing participants to transact in a peer-to-peer manner.

    It uses a technology called &;colored coins;&8217; tokens that represent assets. &8220;If a colored coin is hacked, the issuer can cancel the colored coin and issue a new colored coin,&8221; explained Olsen in a recent interview with Finance Magnates.

    Another interesting feature is the &8217;s use of multisignature (multisig) wallets, which require two signatures (one from Lykke, one from the client) to spend funds from a particular wallet.

    The Lykke Exchange itself doesn&8217;t take custody of client funds but also holds one of the two needed private keys. If, for some reason, the Lykke Exchange goes down, there is a &8220;refund mechanism&8221; for the private key held by the company.

    &8220;We have solved the cyber security issue that plagues bitcoin exchanges and offer restitution, which is more efficient than a depositor insurance scheme in that is limited to specified amount of money,&8221; Olsen said.

    lykke launches iOS mobile wallet app

    Lykke is building a global marketplace where users would be able to trade all classes of financial instruments issued in the form of colored coins in order to enable direct ownership and immediate settlement on the blockchain.

    In May 2016, Lykke closed a second seed funding round, welcoming new investors Marco Brockhaus and Carlo Koelzer, founding partner of 360T&8217;s Group Executive Board and member of Deutsche Börse Group Management Committee.

    That same , the company announced the addition of Nick Szabo, a Bitcoin pioneer, into its Advisory Board.

    Lykke is currently on an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which it plans to begin in September.

    &8220;Blockchain is an opportunity for all businesses – literally all businesses can embrace the technology and seize the opportunities, such as issuance of new instruments, explosive growth of transaction volumes, new types of banking, investment management and insurance products – these markets have huge potential,&8221; Olsen said.

    &8220;Companies that close their eyes to the new opportunities are at risk – they will be latecomers and will have to restructure, when revenues nosedive – a bad environment to embrace new business models.&8221;

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  • user 7:35 am on August 25, 2016 Permalink | Reply
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    Future of Banks — Platforms or Pipes 

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    Much has been written about the of . In the end, it all seems to come down to one question: will become platforms or ?

    In reality, there’s no question at all. Platforms are the winning business model of the 21st century and the banking industry is well aware. In fact, banks have been platforms for decades is merely creating the latest set of bank extensions. Earlier incarnations include ATMs and online bill pay for consumers.

    That said, what’s happening today is forcing banks to rethink how fast they extend their platform to avoid becoming just the pipes. The advent of the cloud and the software revolution in Fintech with billions of capital being invested every quarter has brought more innovation to banking in the past two years than it has seen in the past twenty. Still, the current David taking down Goliath narrative surrounding the future of banking and finance ultimately fails to account for the reality of the situation.

    While it often goes unnoticed, a great many fintech startups today rely heavily on banks to enable their innovative services. The success of financial innovations like Apple Pay for instance is happening with a great deal of participation and cooperation between companies and financial institutions.

    This relationship between banks and fintech underscores the reality of the financial services industry’s future. Yes, finance is evolving alongside the accelerating curve of technology, and yes, fintech is driving much of this change, but banks are – and will remain – squarely at the center of the financial universe for quite some time to come.

    For one, banks have been the backbone of the modern economy since its inception. They are far too ingrained in the financial system to be removed within any foreseeable time frame.

    Banks also have deep pockets, infrastructure and experience. Large market caps and long track records are clear signals to customers that banks can weather the inevitable downturn. Startups, on the other hand, are more susceptible to turbulence and market volatility — things banking customers, especially business customers, would rather avoid.

    Big data is yet another boon to banks’ staying power. Banks have been collecting data on customer transactions and behavior for decades. This creates major advantages for banks. When used in the right way, this data can be leveraged to do things like identify customers that are ripe for new payment services or to mitigate and underwrite risk in innovative ways.

    But despite all this, there is one hazard currently menacing banks: disintermediation. Starting with the ATM, technology has been distancing consumers from banks for quite some time. Today, their relationship with the consumer is slimmer than ever.

    Meanwhile, fintech is picking up the slack. While traditional banking experiences can feel clunky, fintech products and services are designed to work with people’s lives and deliver value in new and unexpected ways. These upstarts pride themselves on delivering superior customer experiences — banking that is intuitive, mobile, cloud-based, responsive, available 24/7, you name it.

    Fintech companies are also agile and built for rapid iteration — skill sets banks don’t yet have internally. This allows fintech companies to focus heavily on usability and keeping their user interfaces modern. At Bill.com, for instance, we iterate our onboarding experience every two weeks. By comparison, most banks have outsourced many key functions to third-party service providers like Fiserv and Jack Henry, severely limiting their ability to make product changes outside of rigid, long-term release cycles.

    The comparative lack of innovation by banks is no surprise. For decades, banks have spent most of their resources driving to meet quarterly earnings targets, delivering consistent results and ensuring compliance — the key objectives most highly-regulated, publicly-traded financial institutions must focus on to meet its obligations to shareholders — leaving fewer resources and funds for experimentation, learning and new product development. This makes it difficult for banks to keep up with shifts in customer preferences and behavior the way that fintech can. Banks know this and it is exactly why they are starting to shift their strategies to reflect being a platform and not just the pipes.  

    When banks become platforms for their customers and fintech partners, they increase the value of what they have built over the past several decades and disintermediation on the consumer front becomes irrelevant. Instead, as banks fuse their platforms with fintech, innovation will accelerate creating tremendous value for everyone in the food chain.


    [linkedinbadge URL=”https://www.linkedin.com/in/renelacerte” connections=”off” mode=”icon” liname=”René Lacerte”] is CEO/Founder Bill.com and this article was originally published on linkedin.

     

     
  • user 12:18 pm on August 4, 2016 Permalink | Reply
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    Platform Traded Funds (PTFs): the Next Innovation? 

    The wealth management industry is behind the digital curve compared to other parts of financial services. There aren’t any noteworthy innovations in financial assets subsequent to the subprime crisis, which tainted structured products. ETFs are most certainly the only one item that has scaled and gained broad acceptance, especially inRead More
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  • user 12:59 am on July 14, 2016 Permalink | Reply
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    After $10m Round OpenDoor Becomes First Women-Owned Bond Trading Platform 

    Emerging firm gets $ 10m for its .
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  • user 12:59 am on July 6, 2016 Permalink | Reply
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    Fintech Startup Kavout Launches A.I. Driven Investment Platform 

    Seattle-based , , unveils its AI- today.
    FinTech – Finance Magnates | Financial and business news

     
  • user 6:59 pm on June 29, 2016 Permalink | Reply
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    Overbond Eyes Digitizing Primary Bond Origination with New Platform Launch 

    Emerging startup ‘s looks to transform markets.
    FinTech – Finance Magnates | Financial and business news

     
  • user 6:59 am on June 28, 2016 Permalink | Reply
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    Fiserv Launches Notifi Platform for Mobile and Digital Users 

    provides a range of alerts to that helps streamline several banking functions.
    FinTech – Finance Magnates | Financial and business news

     
  • user 3:35 am on June 23, 2016 Permalink | Reply
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    Deutsche Börse Group: A new platform to Foster Strategic Investments in Fintech Firms 

    announced the launch of a dedicated corporate venture capital (CVC) DB1 Ventures – which fosters in .

    The DB1 Ventures team will be primarily based in Frankfurt and will undertake new investments as well as actively manage Deutsche Börse’s existing minority shareholdings. While Deutsche Börse has already made several strategic investments in early stage and mature companies, the new approach allows the Group to actively manage its existing and new portfolio to realize the full potential of these strategic shareholdings.

    DB1 Ventures will invest only in areas that are strategic to Deutsche Börse. The focus will primarily be on early to growth stage fintech firms in order to establish mutually beneficial partnerships. DB1 Ventures will initially be funded via the significant resource base of Deutsche Börse’s balance sheet. The strategic investments will be governed by a dedicated Investment Committee, which will be chaired by Deutsche Börse CEO Carsten Kengeter and have a cross functional and business perspective.

    Carsten Kengeter

    Carsten Kengeter, CEO of Deutsche Börse.

     

    “Our objective with DB1 Ventures is to continue to be active in investing in early to growth stage ventures which are core or adjacent to our client, product, geographic and strategy. And as part of our active management, we will also deepen and extend promising partnerships with some of our current portfolio companies,” said Carsten Kengeter, CEO of Deutsche Börse.

    Ankur Kamalia, Managing Director Deutsche Börse, Head of Venture Portfolio Management and responsible for DB1 Ventures, explained: “This dual approach will allow us to bring in our professional expertise as a market infrastructure provider and offer value creation opportunities for fintech companies. In return, we will benefit from new ideas and technological developments in an early stage. Simultaneously, we continue to actively manage our existing portfolio of investments, including divestments where necessary.”

    New study “Future of Fintech in Capital Markets”

    Deutsche Börse, in collaboration with Celent, a financial technology research and advisory firm, has analyzed the significance of fintech firms and its potential impact on market infrastructure incumbents. The new report “Future of Fintech in Capital Markets” highlights the opportunity for market infrastructure providers to interact with fintech firms and drive a higher degree of strategic partnership. Since 2008, capital flow into fintech investments has grown six-fold. Last year, about $ 19 billion in capital was invested globally in fintech across approximately 1,200 deals. CVCs now represent 25 percent of global fintech capital flows.

    Future of Fintech in Capital Markets2

    David Easthope, Senior Vice President and responsible for the Securities and Investments practice of Celent: “Major parts of the financial services ecosystem are being transformed by pioneering financial technology firms. Instead of going alone, fintech firms can decide to pursue a collaborative approach with leading incumbents through partnerships, including market infrastructure firms. Combining forces will allow fintech firms to shape the future of capital provision, technology, and other industry workflows.”

    Download the full study: Future of Fintech in Capital Markets

    Recent Fintech developments of Deutsche Börse

    &; In April 2016, Deutsche Börse opened its Fintech Hub in Frankfurt to support the Hessian State Government’s initiative to set up a fintech cluster in Frankfurt. With this Hub, Deutsche Börse aims to promote Germany’s start-up and investment culture.

    &8211; In February 2016, Deutsche Börse sold its 50 percent stake in Infobolsa S.A. to
    its joint venture partner BME.

    &8211; In January 2016, Deutsche Börse also took part in a capital increasing round for Digital Asset Holdings, a developer of distributed ledger technology for the financial services industry. Launched in 2015, Digital Asset’s mission is to improve efficiency, security, compliance and settlement speed while reducing costs through the implementation of distributed ledger technology. Digital Asset software radically improves post-trade processing efficiency, reducing cost, latency, errors, risk and capital requirements.

    &8211; In November 2015, Deutsche Börse Group invested in Illuminate’s IFM Fintech  Opportunities Fund: This fund focuses on fintech companies in areas such as compliance, regulation and connectivity, among others, which fits into Deutsche Börse’s growth strategy to extend its service portfolio.

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  • user 2:45 pm on June 14, 2016 Permalink | Reply
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    Australia’s PromisePay, a payment platform for online marketplaces, raises $10M 

    wallet amex , an Australia-headquartered startup that specializes in payments for , has raised $ 10 million in fresh capital for growth. Read More


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