Tiun and Taurus win Swiss FinTech Awards

(CONNECT) The winners of this year's Swiss Fintech Awards were announced in Zurich at an event organized by the Finanz und Wirtschaft Forum. According to a press release, tiun and Taurus came out on top from the four finalists. The finalists had previously been selected from more than one hundred applicants.

In the Early Stage category, tiun, based in Technopark Zurich, won the race for the prize. The company offers digital payment systems for online services such as newspapers, videos and podcasts. Companies can use it to improve their subscriber acquisition. Tiun received prize money of 30,000 Swiss francs.

Taurus from Geneva emerged as the winner in the Growth Stage category. Taurus developed an infrastructure for digital assets. More than half of Swiss banks work with the company's platform in the area of digital assets. A new addition is an interbank settlement system, with which Taurus intends to build the capital market infrastructure of the future, according to the press release.

Marc Bernegger, co-founder of Finance 2.0, the first major fintech conference in Switzerland, has been voted Fintech Influencer of the Year directly by the jury. ce/ww