Travala and Expedia enable crypto payments for travel

The US-American online travel agency behind the expedia.com website will in future enable the payment of the more than 700,000 accommodations using crypto-currencies. A partnership with Travala.com has also been agreed. The company, which was founded in 1995 and has its headquarters in Washington, employs around 20,000 people. In the first quarter of 2020, Expedia […]

Reverse convertible on Bitcoin wins Swiss Derivative Award

Payoff, the investor portal focusing on structured products, again presented the Swiss Derivative Awards this year. The most innovative products in various categories were honoured. A Bitcoin Reverse Convertible was chosen as the best product on alternative underlyings. For the fifteenth time, the Swiss Derivative Awards 2020 honoured the best structured products and their issuers. […]

Leonteq extends range of reverse convertibles to Bitcoin

Leonteq is expanding its range of listed products to include crypto-currencies. In addition to a total of 17 tracker and actively managed certificates, the expert for structured investment products is expanding its range with new SIX listed reverse convertibles. In addition to the Reverse Convertible already listed, Leonteq AG is issuing two new products with […]

KPMG launches asset management tools for digital assets

The product range with analysis functions, which is based on cryptoasset data and infrastructure products, is intended to enable financial services companies to offer cryptoasset functions and services in institutional quality. The nature of the block-chain technology that drives crypto-assets such as Bitcoin and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) is fundamentally different from the traditional […]