Category: Press & Media

Sonect is the first Swiss FinTech company to obtain the e‑money licence in Lithuania, which will fuel its European Expansion. Sonect, the location-based match­mak­ing platform that connects people who have cash with people who need cash, has obtained its Elec­tron­ic Money Insti­tu­tion licence from the Bank of Lithuania, which enables the company to operate in…

Sonect was awarded the renowned iF Design Award 2019 in the category «Corporate Identity/Branding», thanks to its com­pre­hen­sive and community-focused corporate identity with a colorful logo made up of semi-circles, quarter-circles and squares. read more

Sonect mobil­isiert seine digitalen Gel­dau­to­mat­en. Statt nur an fixen Locations von Shops, Restau­rants und Bars gebunden, funk­tion­iert der Bargeld­bezug über die Sonect-App auch dort, wo nur temporär ein Event für Shop­pinglaune, Appetit und Durst sorgt. Zum Beispiel am Wei­h­nachts­markt. In der diesjähri­gen Adventszeit sind die virtuellen Gel­dau­to­mat­en mit vor Ort. So muss niemand mehr unfrei­willig auf dem Trockenen sitzen oder zum nächsten Gel­dau­to­mat­en laufen. read more

The Swiss FinTech startup Sonect revealed that cash man­age­ment spe­cial­ist Loomis and global FinTech venture fund SixThirty recently invested in the
company. Loomis entered into a global part­ner­ship with Sonect and will help to accel­er­ate Sonect’s growth with its expertise and large customer-base. Fur­ther­more, Sonect was selected for the SixThirty go-to-market program, receiving yet another recog­ni­tion of belonging to the most inno­v­a­tive and
promising FinTech startups from around the world. These invest­ments follow Sonect’s recent suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of the 2018 VC FinTech Accel­er­a­tor
program, sponsored by leading financial tech­nol­o­gy provider FIS. read more

GENEVA, Switzer­land – 13.09.2018 – Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, today announces that this year’s Inno­va­tion Jam winner SONECT is now live on Mar­ket­Place, its platform for con­nect­ing banks and fintech companies. The solution with its ‘virtual ATMs’ beat over 80 other fintech companies to win the global com­pe­ti­tion and earn their place on Mar­ket­Place. read more

Sonect ranks as one of eight fintech startups in the TOP 100!
Only eight Swiss fintech startups made it into the TOP 100 ranking. One of them is the Zurich-based Sonect which went live just a year ago and already received several notable national and inter­na­tion­al recog­ni­tions. read more

Loomis and Sonect AG (“Sonect”) have reached an agreement to enter into a part­ner­ship. The part­ner­ship is very much in line with Loomis strategy to offer advanced digital solutions to customers and build a bridge between physical and digital payments. Sonect will be able to build on Loomis existing customer base and know how in cash man­age­ment to make cash available for consumers in many more locations than today. Sonect’s digital solution fits very well into Loomis existing service offerings such as CIT, CMS and SafePoint.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark., July 18, 2018 – More than 400 banking exec­u­tives, business leaders, and investors attended Demo Day 2018, held here today, to see pre­sen­ta­tions of the 10 startup companies par­tic­i­pat­ing in the VC FinTech Accel­er­a­tor program, sponsored by FIS™ (NYSE: FIS), the Venture Center (VC), and the State of Arkansas. read more

SONECT and Belleron were announced as the winners of this years final. Each fintech company was given seven minutes to demon­strate their solution live on stage. The winners faced strong com­pe­ti­tion from eight other fintech companies with diverse solutions ranging from fric­tion­less secure authen­ti­ca­tion, smart regtech and blockchain to (spurred by the GDPR) privacy by design. read more

The leading banking-software provider, Temenos, is con­stant­ly searching for new inno­v­a­tive solutions for its clients. To achieve this, it organises a series of com­pe­ti­tions, «inno­va­tion jams» to get in contact with out­stand­ing fintech companies. This year jams are organised in Dublin, Miami, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, London, Geneva, Abu Dhabi and Luxemburg. read more