Chambers and Partners, a legal research company, has released its Chambers Fintech 2024 guide, an annual report which recognizes the top fintech advisors and litigators worldwide. In this year’s Swiss edition, Chambers and Partners ranked MME Legal | Tax | Compliance, MLL Legal, Baer and Karrer, and Lenz and Staehelin as the top Swiss law firms in the fintech legal category, recognizing them for their expertise, diligence and customer service. MME is a law firm based in Zurich and Zug that’s widely regarded for its work in the fintech sector. The company offers legal, tax and compliance advice ..read more

Apiax has launched a new compliance solution today, aiming to enhance operational efficiency and the accuracy of policy searches. The solution is a synthesis of Apiax’s compliance expertise, rule-based technology, and Generative AI, creating a new standard for financial institutions in accessing and verifying company policy details with ease. Apiax, a leading provider of embedded compliance solutions for the financial industry, released its AI Policy Assistant , an innovative Generative AI-driven solution transforming compliance policies into dynamic conversations. Based on Microsoft’s Azure O ..read more

Jumio, a provider of identity verification solutions, has been recognized as a Representative Vendor in the latest Gartner Market Guide for Identity Verification. This is the fifth consecutive year that Jumio has received this recognition. Vendors are selected for the Market Guide based on a number of criteria, including their capabilities and their representation of particular market segments or geographic regions among others. The Market Guide notes, “The purpose of identity verification is to establish confidence in the identity of a user during a digital interaction. As a result, across a ..read more

Onfido, the global leader in automated identity verification, announced the appointment of Daniel Keller as Chief Technology Officer. Daniel brings over two decades of leadership experience to the company’s executive team alongside a track record of transforming and expanding tech-driven products and platforms on a global scale. Daniel joins Onfido from Visable Group where, under his direction, the company transformed from a B2B directory provider to Europe’s leading B2B marketplace. As CTO, Keller led the innovation roadmap across product development, engineering, IT and business intelli ..read more

Swissquote has chosen NetGuardians to enhance fraud mitigation and comply with the AML requirements. The NetGuardians AI-based financial crime solutions will monitor all transactions at the bank and on the digital finance app ‘Yuh’, a joint venture between Swissquote and PostFinance, another of Switzerland’s leading banks. Software designed by NetGuardians will help Swissquote to reinforce bank’s protection to catch scams such as Authorized Push Payment (APP) and other types of payment fraud. It will also help Swissquote to maintain regulatory anti-money laundering (AML) requirements through s ..read more

London-based regtech firm Ondato has launched an expanded Know Your Business (KYB) solution to give local and international organisations operating in Poland automated tools for fully compliant business customer onboarding. The extended coverage provides complete data about Polish entities, including the latest sanctions lists. This enables online banks, Electronic Money Institutions (EMIs), credit institutions, cryptocurrency marketplaces, gambling services companies, legal and audit advisors, and more to verify the legal status and compliance of customers in Poland Unlike KYC, which add ..read more

Jumio, a US-based provider of automated, end-to-end identity proofing, risk assessment and eKYC solutions, has appointed Jon Jones as the company’s new Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales. With more than 25 years of experience in the fraud and identity space, Jones will drive the company’s global sales strategy in his new role. He joins Jumio from consumer credit reporting company Experian, where he most recently served as Senior Vice President of Sales Operations and focused on the company’s fraud and identity, software, analytics and consulting product lines. Prior to that, he was the p ..read more

Inscribe, a fraud detection and document automation platform, announced that it has raised $25M in Series B funding. The round was led by Threshold Ventures and joined by existing investors Crosslink Capital, Foundry, and Uncork Capital, as well as angel investors including Box co-founder Dylan Smith and Intercom co-founder Des Traynor, bringing the company’s amount raised to $38M. Many organizations have responded to this uncertainty by introducing additional steps or requirements in their KYC/KYB and underwriting processes — in which hundreds of hours each week are spent manually reviewing d ..read more

Online mobile payments and identity verification company Jumio announced that it had cleared over US$200 million in bookings last year. Jumio also reported that it had closed both the largest new deal and the largest total deal in the company’s history in Q4 2022. The firm said in a statement that it will continue to further accelerate its investment in its core technology and innovation to combat fraud. Jumio also made several key executive hires – Susan Walker joined Jumio as Chief Financial Officer in May, bringing more than 25 years of corporate, Wall Street and business strategy experienc ..read more

Der Bundesrat hat am 16. Dezember 2022 die neue Strategie Digitale Schweiz genehmigt. Die Strategie wurde vereinfacht und sieht neu jährlich wechselnde Fokusthemen vor, die vom Bundesrat bestimmt werden. Die Fokusthemen adressieren Themen, in denen der Bundesrat eine besondere Priorität für die digitale Schweiz sieht. Für das nächste Jahr 2023 sind die Fokusthemen: digitalisierungsfreundliches Recht, Digitalisierung im Gesundheitsbereich und digitale Souveränität. Die Strategie Digitale Schweiz definiert seit 2018 Leitlinien für das Handeln des Staates im Bereich der digitalen Transformation ..read more