Corporate venturing is growing strongly. In 1H2016, Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) accounted for 20% of all 3,113 venture-backed deals, with a deal value of $12.7 billion*. The number of active CVCs has doubled since 2012, with at least 100 new CVCs making their first investment during 2016. Europe...

Author: Ben Robinson. Digitization of the banking industry is making new banking business models possible. But, it is the combination of regulation and technology that is making new business models a necessity. There are 4 strategic options open to banks, shown below. These vary in terms of the scop...

In the tech start-up scene (globally), it often feels like a company’s progress is measured by funding milestones  such as Seed Funding, Series A and Series B, rather than real business milestones such as revenue targets, turning cash flow positive and reaching profitability. The question all too...

In a disruptive age, established business models are under attack. Discover how incumbent companies can reframe them. Let’s face it: business models are less durable than they used to be. The basic rules of the game for creating and capturing economic value were once fixed in place for years, even...

“Entrepreneurs identify the gap in the market and sell products. Engineers build products.” This is how it was. Engineers knew their place. They were focused on designing and building the best product, but were not necessarily thinking about the broader value proposition, value chain, pricing mo...

This was a 180° pivot – not just a jump to the left or a step to the right, but an about-turn in the less than mature Saas/Mobile environment of 2010, when an intimate knowledge of a strategic customer provided an ideal basis to drive a transformational opportunity. As I described in my artic...

Over the lifetime of any company, there will be a handful of potential deals that could dramatically transform the outcome. Although every company theoretically has access to transformational opportunities, few actually manage to identify them, let alone seize them. It could be a deal that saves yo...

By Professor Howard Yu Anyone who sends money abroad knows how inconvenient it is. Banks take days, sometimes weeks, to clear payments, and they collect a hefty fee in between. And God forbid, when errors occur, money vanishes into thin air. “Banking now is like sending a letter—you send it ...

June 29, 2016     By : Marc P. Bernegger, First appeared in Lets Talk Payments  Switzerland has everything it takes to advance to the league of leading FinTech nations. First-class financial institutions, leading banking software manufacturers and research departments of ICT heavyweights such ...