The blockchain has evolved alongside digital currencies stored there(Keystone) The world’s big financial institutions are wrestling with a cryptocurrency dilemma: whether to stand by and denounce a technology many distrust but also fear — or join those investing in it.After a surge in the combined m...

Might there be another way for banks like UBS to deal with the next financial crisis?(Keystone) A new technology -xa0blockchain -xa0could prove more effective at containing a financial crash than regulations or safeguards built into the current system.In 2008, a financial crisis began to unfold that...

The Angoulême Inte ational Comics Festival in Francexa0has kicked off under the chairmanship ofxa0Swiss artistxa0Cosey. His work is at the heart of a retrospective at the event. Last year he won the Grand Prix.xa0Created in 1973, the Angoulême Festival is the main comics festival in Europe.xa0Cosey,...

This content was published on January 26, 2018 5:00 PMJan 26, 2018 - 17:00 The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos has always attracted movers and shakers from a wide range of countries and fields. This year, however, the number of A-list guests was particularly high, with one ...

Trump tried to reassure the WEF audience his "America first" agenda also benefits the rest of the world(Keystone) United States President Donald Trump told World Economic Forum (WEF) delegates on Friday that America is “open for business” under his leadership, while reassuring thexa0audience thatxa0...

Until 1992 Swiss expatriates wishing to take part in votes and elections in Switzerland had to retu to their country of origin to cast their ballot(Keystone) The right to take part in votes and elections for Swiss citizens living abroad was hard to come by. Critics regularly call for restrictions bu...

Multinational companies are being urged to contribute more to the battle against global warming at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos.Christiana Figueresexte al link, former United Nation’s climate chief and now a leading light at the environmental NGO Mission 2020exte al link, said ...

Tama Vakeesan was bo in Switzerland to Tamil parents from Sri Lanka. As she winds up her vlog series, Tama explains what she lea ed and shares some of her favourite moments. One highlight was meeting a small boy, Firaz, at a refugee centre in Aarwangen. Another was working with comedian,xa0Tony aka ...

A long exposure shot of US President Donald Trump speaking atxa0the opening session of the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York on September 19, 2017(Keystone) When Donald Trump came into office last January, Geneva officials predicted a tumultuous time for the multila...

"If Switzerland cannot say, 'under no circumstances will we use nuclear weapons', how can we expect North Korea to do that?"xa0This is the question posed byxa0Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the Nobel Peace Prize-winningxa0Inte ational Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weaponsexte al linkxa0(iCAN),xa...

'One is a lonely number': US president Donald Trump disembarking from Marine One in Davos.(Keystone) African delegates are planning to boycott United States President Donald Trump’s closing speech at the World Economic Forum’s flagship annual meeting in Davos on Friday. This follows leaks that he ca...

US President Donald Trump has arrived in snowy Davos as this year's most-anticipated WEF attendee. What do the townspeople think of it all?A ski lift operator would gladly help the American leader on to the slopes, but doubts he'll venture that far from the WEF conference centre. Others are happy ab...

A demonstrator calls for the child protection authorities to be stripped of their powers following the case of a mother who killed her two children to stop them being retu ed to care. She later killed herself in jail.xa0(Ennio Leanza/KEYSTONE) Child protection authorities are among the most unpopula...

Solar Impulse pilot Bertrand Piccard has embarked on a new project seekingxa01,000 cleantech solutions to help meetxa0the goals of the Paris climate accord.Piccard made history when he flew his solar-powered aircraft around the globe in 2016. Now he has come back to earth with a new venture called T...

The Solar Impulse round the world flight is one example of how technology can be put to good use in the environment(Keystone) Transforming smoke-belching, river-polluting industrial dinosaurs into environmentally-friendly businesses is key to achieving the targets of the Paris climate accord, the Wo...

The mounting threat of autonomous weapons systems and cyberattacks on critical infrastructure are the issues keeping ICRC President Peter Maurer up at night.xa0 He addressed both subjects at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos. Speaking to swissinfo.ch, Maurer said he is worried about...

This week, thexa0Swiss resort towns of Andermatt, Zermatt and Davos havexa0all seenxa0record or near-record snow levels. But it's an outlier in a years-long trend of declining snowfall totals. 2012xa0was the last time in the past decade that so much snow fell in a single day. In Davos and Zermatt, t...

Value Added Tax is one of the main sources of revenue for the national gove ment. Together with the federal tax it accounts for two thirds of the annual tax revenue (Keystone) Swiss voters will have the final say in March on the gove ment’s right to tax its citizens and companies, including value ad...

Swiss in the UK express conce over the split with Europe.xa0 (swissinfo.ch) Relations between Switzerland and the United Kingdom are close, but the prospect of Brexit has cast a dark cloud over Swiss citizens living in the UK, who are uncertain about what the future may hold.xa0 We talked to three d...

eva 1 Eva Witschi vor Graffitti Before eventually retu ing to Switzerland, where she would like to bring up her children, 25-year-old Eva Witschi wants to “have adventures in the big wide world for a while.” Since 2016, she has been living in Britain with her 26-year-old partner. She sees no risks t...