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5 days ago · finews.com is Switzerland’s leading news site for all professionals in the financial sector and delivers real-time and constantly-updated news about the Swiss financial industry.
What Did Investors Learn in 2024, And What’s Next?
2 days ago · The latest episode of finews.tv (in English) is particularly worth watching.Gérard Piasko from Swiss-based private bank Maerki Baumann, and Dan Scott, from Swiss investment firm Vontobel, reflect on the market developments in 2024 and provide an outlook for 2025.
Swiss Financial Hub on the Brink of a Major Breakthrough
Dec 27, 2024 · The Swiss Franc Is Being Tokenized. This Will Transform the Financial Center, Says David Newns of SIX Digital Exchange. Last spring, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) and SIX Digital Exchange (SDX) launched an initiative that could significantly impact the financial world: the tokenization of the Swiss franc. This project aims to revolutionize traditional interbank trading by introducing a digital ...
Best Wishes for 2025!
3 days ago · The editorial team at finews.ch, finews.com, finewsticino.ch, and finews.asia wishes you, dear reader, a wonderful start to the new year and all the best for 2025.. As 2024 comes to a close, we reflect on a year filled with challenges, innovations, and …
How Switzerland is Missing the Fintech Train in Asia
Nov 8, 2024 · Andreas Berger, CEO Swiss Re (Image: finews.asia) On the other hand, a different, multi-day event in the tropical city-state this week showed how things could be done better: At the 20th Singapore International Reinsurance Conference (SIRC), the entire reinsurance industry gathered under the theme «Revolutionize (Re)Insurance!» At the forefront was Swiss Re, whose CEO Andreas Berger, in ...
A Year On: Is Credit Suisse Going to be the Exception or the Rule?
Mar 19, 2024 · It remains unclear as to whether all the lessons have been learned from the rescue of what was once Switzerland’s second-largest bank, writes editor Andrew Isbester for finews.com. . It is easy to showcase direct democracy as …
Swiss Banking – No More Excuses
Dec 23, 2024 · The Swiss parliamentary investigation into the collapse of Credit Suisse sounds the death knell of FINMA’s principles-based regime. Hundreds of pages of reports examining what happened can also be boiled down to a glaring finding - a regulatory filter that significantly skewed the now-defunct bank’s capital ratio to the point that …
Leadership Renewal at finews.ch
Jul 30, 2024 · Sixteen years after its launch, finews.ch, Switzerland's leading online media outlet for the financial industry, is renewing and rejuvenating its leadership team. Founder Claude Baumann is passing the board's chairmanship to his long-time colleague Sibylle Peter.Simultaneously, the current Editor-in-chief Dominik Buholzer will take over as CEO, effective August 1, 2024.
Finma Reaches its Limits and Now Calls for Power to Impose Fines
Dec 19, 2023 · The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority has presented its report on the Credit Suisse crisis. The authority is calling for more options for sanctions, stricter regulatory standards, and the ability to impose additional capital charges.
Government and UBS Split Losses on Credit Suisse Investment Bank
Mar 21, 2023 · The guarantees for UBS in its takeover of Credit Suisse go deeper than it initially appeared, according to an investor presentation UBS held late Sunday night.