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Supply chain attacks – Threats and protection mechanisms (part 1)

Traditionally, software applications have been the target of attacks to steal or manipulate data or to influence processes. In recent years, however, the focus has increasingly shifted to attacks on the supply chain: attacks on components that development teams use to develop, deliver and operate applications.

Patrick Mell-Lunemann - Apr 8, 2025

Special, Digital Banking

Can a regional bank survive in the race for digitalization?

acrevis // 57,000 customers, 200 employees, eight branches: The regional bank acrevis is without question one of the smaller Swiss banks. How does it manage to provide its customers with state-of-the-art banking despite its limited resources?

Andreas Bosshart - Apr 7, 2025

Special, Digital Banking

Quantum computing – opportunities and challenges for Switzerland as a center of innovation

With institutions such as the University of Basel, ETH Zurich and EPFL, as well as initiatives such as the further development of the Center for Quantum Computing and Quantum Coherence (QC2) by QuantumBasel and the University of Basel, Switzerland is a leader in quantum research. This infrastructure attracts international researchers and industry partners and strengthens Switzerland’s position as a major center for quantum technologies.

Damir Bogdan - Mar 17, 2025

Special, Digital Banking

Cloud as an opportunity: Banks balance tradition and transformation

Green // Once optional, now mandatory: The cloud is indispensable these days. Technological developments, fierce competition, and rising customer expectations are forcing banks to migrate to the cloud. IT systems are the key to success today. Their agility and scalability are crucial to our future. Organizations that fail to embrace cloud technology risk losing touch and competitiveness.

Roger Süess - Mar 3, 2025

Special, Digital Banking

“AI democratizes access to professional investment knowledge”

SwissCognitive // By combining emotional and artificial intelligence, Switzerland can fully exploit its strengths in quality and customer orientation and redefine its role as a global financial center. In this interview, AI expert Dalith Steiger-Gablinger explains why AI is not just a technical innovation, but also a “human” revolution that will enable Switzerland to set new standards worldwide.

Dalith Steiger-Gablinger - Feb 27, 2025

Special, Digital Banking

Digital transformation – from processing efficiency to advisory services

Luzerner Kantonalbank // The elements of “reliability”, “security” and “simplicity” are highly dynamic and influence trust, the most important factor in banking. Taking these elements into account is all the more demanding when it comes to providing advice and maintaining relationships. Functional networks make change even more complex.

Simon Kauth - Feb 24, 2025

Special

How ti&m makes core banking data accessible through flexible integration solutions

ti&m Banking Integration // To develop new products and services tailored to individual customers or customer segments, banks need easy access to their data. With ti&m Banking Integration, we offer banks a core banking system-agnostic solution to efficiently and flexibly access data from core banking systems, merge it in a configurable way, and make it available for use cases as OpenAPIs.

Daniel Leumann - Feb 21, 2025

Special, Digital Banking

How financial services providers are already benefiting from GenAI

Microsoft Switzerland // With Copilot and the Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, Microsoft provides trusted and legally compliant tools on its Azure platform for using AI-based solutions in sensitive and regulated areas such as the financial industry. Three examples from Swiss Re, Vontobel, and the Pictet Group.

Christian Thier - Feb 17, 2025

At the dawn of an IT revolution: From instruction-based to intention-based computing

NVIDIA has played a key role in shaping the development of accelerated computing and AI. Marc Stampfli, Business Director Switzerland, talks to us about the “iPhone moment” of AI and how NVIDIA wants to democratize AI with a combination of hardware, a comprehensive software stack and concepts such as NVIDIA Inferencing Microservices (NIM).

Marc Stampfli - Feb 13, 2025

“This year, we are focusing on introducing the ti&m banking solution”

WIR Bank // The cooperative WIR Bank is actively driving digitalization. Following the successful launch of the unyt ecosystem with its own digital currency, the focus this year will be on modernizing e-banking. The previous system will be replaced by ti&m’s modern mobile and e-banking system.

Andreas Rogler, Matthias Pfeifer - Jan 27, 2025

MoMo is the new Micro

For new projects, a modular monolith may be the better choice over a microservice architecture.

Simon Bächler - Jan 23, 2025

Special, Digital Banking

Promoting collaborative business intelligence with Open Datastack

Our new business intelligence platform, Open Datastack, utilizes the innovative power of modern open-source technologies and creates a collaborative environment with interactive dashboards, data pipelines and workflows to efficiently extract, process and visualize data. The platform reduces the Time to Insight needed to implement data-based measures and decisions.

Pascal Wild, Zur Vonarburg - Jan 20, 2025

Special, Digital Banking

“The e-ID is a crucial building block for Switzerland’s digital transformation”

In 2026, the Swiss federal government will be rolling out a secure, SSI-based identification system in the form of the e-ID. In recent months, banks have been asking us whether they will still need to offer their own online identification service for their customers, given the e-ID. We put this question – along with a few others – to Dirk Lindemann, Director of the Federal Office of Information Technology, Systems and Telecommunication (FOITT).

Dirk Lindemann - Jan 18, 2025