What crypto investment opportunities are available to institutional investors?

Today, private investors around the world have a variety of opportunities to become involved in digital assets. For institutional investors, this is a somewhat more difficult undertaking. An overview of current hurdles and available instruments. Particularly in Switzerland, which has been a global leader in innovation and regulation of crypto-currencies and block chaining since 2015, […]

“Discount call warrant” on Bitcoin tradable on SIX for the first time worldwide

A discount call warrant belongs to the category of exotic warrants. In general, exotic warrants are the securitized combination of various options and thus a further development of classic (“vanilla”) warrants. Structured products include strategies that are composed by combining financial instruments and derivatives. This combination allows investors to trade a complex derivative strategy in […]

Leading communications companies want to optimize roaming costs using the blockchain technology

The three telecommunications companies Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone are working on a block chain solution to simplify the billing of roaming costs. The system should make it possible to generate roaming billing results within a few minutes. As part of the project, Spain’s Telefonica, as well as Deutsche Telekom, already contributed $13 million to […]

Cryptoeconomics challenges the banking sector

The five current technological megatrends in the banking sector include blockchain technology and the resulting cryptoeconomy. After initial hesitation about blockchain, most leading financial institutions now recognize the opportunities it offers. Last winter, the Institute for Financial Services IFZ presented the Banking Trend-Map 2019. In a professional article based on this, a focus on the […]

Israeli start-up wants to enable cancellation of crypto-transactions

The unchangeability of the block chain ensures transaction security. An Israeli start-up wants to use “revocable transfers” to offer the senders of crypto-currencies the possibility of cancelling transactions that have been carried out incorrectly. According to Kirobo CEO Asaf Naim, the aim of the innovation is to make blockchain transactions as simple and secure as […]