Swiss Financial Innovation Desk

Stablecoins in Switzerland 🇨🇭: Where Do We Stand? As stablecoins continue their global rise 📈 – now surpassing USD 250B in market cap – the question "What’s Switzerland’s position?" is more relevant than ever. 🔍 At the Swiss Financial Innovation Desk (FIND), it’s one of the questions we’re asked most often. And rightly so: between Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA’s 2024 guidance, the upcoming federal proposal on innovative business models, and international frameworks like MiCAR and the GENIUS Act, Switzerland is navigating a fast-evolving regulatory landscape. 💡 In this article, we: 1️⃣ Explain why stablecoins are needed – and by whom 2️⃣ Explore MiCAR & the GENIUS Act as regulatory accelerators 3️⃣ Examine illicit use – the flip side of the (stable)coin 4️⃣ Highlight how compliance-by-design could shape the future 5️⃣ Argue for global regulatory convergence over fragmentation 🗝️ One key takeaway? Stablecoins aren’t here to replace cash. They’re here to give people – and businesses – choice. 📄 Read the full article by Eva Selamlar-Leuthold: The State of Stablecoins in Switzerland – available in our library 📚. Link in comment below ⬇️ . #Stablecoins #DigitalFinance #Digitalassets #FinancialInnovation #MiCAR #GENIUSAct #ComplianceByDesign #ConciergingFinancialInnovation 

🚀 SwissHacks 2025 – #PitchYourIdea Series We’re continuing our summer series spotlighting some of the ideas that emerged from SwissHacks — Switzerland’s very first hackathon fully dedicated to financial innovation. 💡 Today, we are back with the Innosuisse + Startupticker.ch challenge: Empowering Swiss startups and investors with AI-driven data insights. 🎯 The mission? To develop an AI-powered prototype to unlock Startupticker’s rich startup data, enabling sector trend analysis and benchmarking tools for startups, investors and support organizations. 👾 Meet Team Pedro’s and their project based on WebAssembly developed by Enrique Molina Giménez, German Telmo Eizaguirre Suarez and Miquel Alvarez. 📥 Check the factsheet below and the demo on YouTube https://lnkd.in/eTFhmjin 👏 Kudos to the team! Don’t hesitate to reach out and connect with them. 🤩 Inspired? Want to join the next edition — as a hacker or a challenge sponsor? We’d love to hear from you. 📬 Contact us: [email protected] Eva Selamlar-Leuthold Vénusia Bertin Adrian Bruggmann Andreas Iten Brigitta Gyoerfi, CFA Virginia Schumacher  Jürg Wüst #SwissHacks2025 #ShowcaseYourPitch #FromIdeaToImpact  #conciergingfinancialInnovation #FinancialInnovation

🚀 SwissHacks 2025 – #PitchYourIdea Series We’re continuing our summer series spotlighting some of the exciting ideas that emerged from SwissHacks — Switzerland’s very first hackathon fully dedicated to financial innovation. 💡 Today, we showcase some of the Innosuisse + Startupticker.ch challenge: Empowering Swiss startups and investors with AI-driven data insights 🎯 The mission? To develop an AI-powered prototype to unlock Startupticker’s rich startup data, enabling sector trend analysis and benchmarking tools for startups, investors, and support organizations. 👾 Meet Team Innobyte, Challenge winner and their project developed by Alona Zherdetska, Maksym Hudinovych, Shakir Sultanov, Shirley Lau, Stanislav Makov. 📥 Curious? Check the factsheet below… The demo (https://lnkd.in/efPS5JaT) and the clickable app (https://lnkd.in/eHKZkRPA). 👏 Huge congrats to the team! Don’t hesitate to reach out and connect with them. 🤩 Feeling inspired? Want to join the next edition — as a hacker or a challenge sponsor? We’d love to hear from you. 📬 Contact us: [email protected] Eva Selamlar-Leuthold Vénusia Bertin Adrian Bruggmann Andreas Iten Brigitta Gyoerfi, CFA Virginia Schumacher  Jürg Wüst #SwissHacks2025 #ShowcaseYourPitch #FromIdeaToImpact  #conciergingfinancialInnovation #FinancialInnovation

🚀 SwissHacks 2025 – #PitchYourIdea Series We’re continuing our summer 🌞 series showcasing some of the most exciting ideas born at SwissHacks — the very first hackathon in Switzerland dedicated to financial innovation. 💡 Last but not least, today we spotlight the Arch Re challenge: AI-Powered Writeups for Next-Gen Underwriting. 🎯 The mission? Design a tool that streamlines underwriting by generating contract summaries, data visualizations, and market insights — all to boost decision-making while reducing manual tasks. 👾 Meet Team Constructor and their project ReConstruct developed by Georgi P., Iva Miksa Dumancic, Martin Itten, Timothy Frei, Yvonne Crever. 📥 Check the factsheet below… And the demo 💡(https://lnkd.in/eT-y-pr4 ). 👏 Bravo to the team – and don’t hesitate to reach out to connect! 🤩 Feeling inspired by these talents and ideas? Thinking about joining the next edition? Whether you're a hacker or a challenge sponsor, we’d love to hear from you. 📬 Contact us: [email protected] Eva Selamlar-Leuthold Vénusia Bertin Adrian Bruggmann Andreas Iten Brigitta Gyoerfi, CFA Virginia Schumacher  Jürg Wüst #SwissHacks2025  #ShowcaseYourPitch  #FromIdeaToImpact  #conciergingfinancialInnovation  #FinancialInnovation

Join us on the 9th September to hear from  Ingo Baumann, Founding Partner at BHO Legal Title: “Overview of legal issues for Quantum industries” With a changing regulatory landscape and a move to sovereignty its important to understand all of the legal issues that can surprise and  impact a Quantum company. Bio: Dr. Ingo Baumann is a founding partner of BHO Legal. a boutique technology law firm based in Cologne, Germany. He specializes in national, European and international high technology projects, mostly in the space industry. His clients include leading stakeholders such as the European Commission, European Space Agency, German Space Agency, large satellite operators, SME and NewSpace start-ups. Dr. Baumann studied law in Münster and Cologne. He received his PhD from the famous Cologne Institute for Air and Space Law under Prof. Dr. Hobe on the international law of satellite communications. 

🚀 SwissHacks 2025 – #PitchYourIdea series continues We’re back with our summer 🌞 series spotlighting some of the exciting ideas developed during the latest edition of SwissHacks. 💡 Once again, we zoom in on the Arch Re challenge: AI-Powered Writeups for Next-Gen Underwriting. The mission 🚀? Build a tool that simplifies underwriting by generating contract summaries, visualizations, and market insights – boosting decision-making and cutting down manual work. 👾 Meet Team Finetic and their project Reinsight, developed by Ali Şenel, Ana Pedra, Eduard Tiron, Olivier Lüthy, and Yasaman Oktaei. 📥 The factsheet speaks for itself – and there’s even a demo on YouTube if you’re curious to see it in action (https://lnkd.in/ePDkcVXk). 👏 Kudos to the team – and don’t hesitate to reach out to connect! 🤩 Feeling inspired by these talents and ideas? Thinking about joining the next edition? Whether you're a hacker or a challenge sponsor, we’d love to hear from you. 📬 Contact us: [email protected] SwissHacks 2025 is the leading Swiss government-driven hackathon about financial innovation, initiated by the Swiss Financial Innovation Desk, powered by Tenity and officially endorsed by the Global Finance & Technology Network (GFTN), the organizer of Singapore FinTech Festival and Point Zero Forum. Eva Selamlar-Leuthold Vénusia Bertin Adrian Bruggmann Andreas Iten Brigitta Gyoerfi, CFA Virginia Schumacher  Jürg Wüst #SwissHacks2025 #ShowcaseYourPitch #FromIdeaToImpact  #conciergingfinancialInnovation  #FinancialInnovation

🚀 SwissHacks 2025 – #ShowcaseYourPitch Series Begins! 🗓️ Already three months since the second edition of #SwissHacks2025! 226 hackers from 70 nationalities, 54 projects, 5 challenges… And only 48 hours to reshape the future of finance... What a ride ✨! This summer 🌞, we’re spotlighting some of the exciting projects born in just two days of collaboration, creativity… And caffeine ☕ . A defining moment of the hackathon? The pitch 🎤. ⏱️ Three minutes to present, explain, motivate… and convince a high-level jury. That’s the spirit behind this summer #SwissHacks series: #ShowcaseYourPitch. We’re handing the mic to the hacker teams – let them tell you about their project in their own words. Feel free to reach out to them directly via LinkedIn to connect, collaborate or continue the momentum! 💡 We kick off with the Arch Re challenge: AI-Powered Writeups for Next-Gen Underwriting ➡️ Goal was to create a tool that streamlines underwriting by generating contract summaries, visualizations, and market insights - enhancing decision-making while reducing manual tasks. 👾 Meet the team DonnerIsAllYouNeed and their project REIN/SIGHT, developed by Mert Delibalta, Abdullah Alka Kandilli, Esra Öz, Ph.D. 🗒️ The factsheet says it all 📥. 👏 Bravo to the team – and don’t hesitate to connect! 🤩 Inspired by these talents and ideas? Want to join the next edition? Whether you're a hacker or a challenge sponsor, we would love to hear from you. Contact us: [email protected] 📬 Eva Selamlar-Leuthold Vénusia Bertin Adrian Bruggmann Andreas Iten Brigitta Gyoerfi, CFA Virginia Schumacher Jürg Wüst #SwissHacks2025 #ShowcaseYourPitch #FromIdeaToImpact #conciergingfinancialInnovation #FinancialInnovation

🔜 The countdown is on: Only 5 weeks to go until the Open Banking Summit 2025! On August 21, we’ll gather at GIESSEREI OERLIKON for this year’s edition - packed with exciting insights into #Open #Finance and #consent-#driven #data #sharing. 🚀 Use this LinkedIn event to start #networking before, during, and after the summit. Join the conversation, connect with fellow participants, and stay up to date on the latest news! 🎙️ A detailed #agenda is now live: https://lnkd.in/gitAvcX9 ✅ You can get your #official #ticket here: https://lnkd.in/gtnpgrQm We look forward to seeing you there! #OpenFinance #innovation #banking #OpenBankingSummit Ergon Informatik AG, finnova AG Bankware, Finstar, Universität St.Gallen (HSG), Business Engineering Institute St. Gallen AG, amétiq banking, Freiburger Kantonalbank FKB, Contovista, DIDAS - Digital Identity & Data Sovereignty Association 🇨🇭, Swiss Financial Innovation Desk, G+D Netcetera, Intrum, KYC Spider, PostFinance, PPI Schweiz, Procivis • Securing Digital Trust, Swisscard AECS GmbH, Swisscom, Swiss Safe, Thurgauer Kantonalbank

FIND @AFBS Get Together 2025 🗣️ “A Bank is not a Law enforcement agency” 🗣️ "Time to step out of the comfort zone, beyond the country’s conservativeness" These two statements framed the discussions at the AFBS Association of Foreign Banks in Switzerland Get Together 2025 in Zurich last month, focused on how to position Switzerland in a volatile world. 💡 The Swiss Financial Innovation Desk (FIND) was honoured to take part, alongside 100+ C-level leaders, government officials and industry experts. 🎤 Eva Selamlar-Leuthold, Head of FIND, opened the event by reminding the audience of Pathway 2035 for Financial Innovation – Your Navigator and issued a clear call to action to rethink the model, act early on emerging technologies and collaborate across the ecosystem. 📌 Key topics approached: 🇨🇭 Global Positioning ⚖️ Regulatory Challenges 🧠 Rise of Artificial Intelligence 🔐 Quantum-Safe Readiness 📝 Full event highlights and key takeaways on our website (link in comment ⬇️) Adrian Bruggmann 🙏 Thank you AFBS Association of Foreign Banks in Switzerland, Raoul Wuergler and Jonathan Deneys for the invitation and flawless organisation! 📸 Photos: Eva Selamlar-Leuthold, Raoul Wuergler, Jonathan Deneys, Cuendet Edouard (Fondation Genève Place Financière), Adrian Noesberger (Chair AFBS, CEO Schroders, Christian Kunz (Bär & Karrer), Enna Pariset (Deputy Chair AFBS, BNP Paribas) and Bjørn Sibbern (SIX), moderated by Lisa Osofsky (AlixPartners). #Pathway2035 #AI #QuantumSafe #DigitalAssets #DigitalTrust #ConciergingFinancialInnovation #FinancialInnovation

FIND @Global Government Fintech Lab 2025 On 11 June 2025, Switzerland, through the Swiss Financial Innovation Desk (FIND), took part for the first time in the Global Government Fintech Lab, held in Dublin, Ireland. Eva Selamlar-Leuthold, Head of FIND, joined the provocatively titled panel “Governments and fintech: comfortable bedfellows?” alongside peers from other governments. This unique conference brings together public sector professionals working on financial innovation, offering a rare opportunity to promote international dialogue, exchange best practices and actively shape the development and regulation of fintech. More about the conference on our website (link in comment). #GGFintechLab #GGFintechLab2025 #Fintech #ConciergingFinancialInnovation