Finews

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Meeting place for the financial world
Online news portal for the financial sector
languages German English
operator Finews AG
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On-line 2009
https://www.finews.ch/

Finews is an independent Swiss online news portal for the financial industry . The offer is aimed at all employees in banks and insurers , fund managers , asset managers , headhunters , lawyers, trustees , IT specialists, management consultants , communication specialists and representatives of authorities.

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The company was founded in 2009 and has 12 employees (as of January 2017). Editor-in-chief is Peter Hody. At the beginning of 2018, he replaced Claude Baumann, the author of various books on financial topics. Per month recorded finews.ch 560,000 unique visits , with 1.25 million pages accessed are.

Finews provides information about the world of finance, reports on company news, reports on changes in staff or changes in the job market , provides analyzes, comments and opinions and follows the most important industry trends. Finews articles are regularly picked up or quoted by other media .

Since September 2015, articles have also been published in English on finews.com . In early 2016, the offering was expanded to include finews.asia and news in English for the financial industry in Asia.

Finews regularly conducts representative surveys of its readership and publishes a statistical survey on the development of the job market in the Swiss financial sector, the so-called Job Directory Index. Together with a jury of financial experts, Finews selects the Swiss financial word of the year at the end of each year.

On its own web TV channel, Finews offers interviews with personalities from the financial sector as well as analyzes and comments on current events and trends.

Guest authors

Awards

  • 2016: comdirect finanzblog award, 1st prize
  • 2015: Media Prize for Financial Journalists, 1st Prize Online
  • 2014: State Street Financial Journalist Award, Blog Department

Web links

  • News in German for the Swiss financial sector: finews.ch
  • News in English on the Swiss financial center: finews.com
  • News in English for the financial industry in Asia: finews.asia

Individual evidence

  1. Peter Bohnenblust, Claude Baumann and Ralph Pöhner launch finance portal. In: Klein Report . December 24, 2008, accessed March 9, 2017 .
  2. Peter Hody becomes editor-in-chief. In: persoenlich.com . 15th January 2018.
  3. ^ Claude Baumann: Robert Holzach. Biography of a Swiss banker. NZZ Libro, 2014, accessed on March 10, 2017 .
  4. NET-Metrix-Audit.finews.ch . Retrieved March 9, 2017 (usage statistics).
  5. finews.ch in the media. In: finews.ch. Retrieved March 9, 2017 .
  6. Bankers advise against their profession. In: 20 minutes. November 8, 2016, accessed March 9, 2017 .
  7. ↑ The financial sector and banking jobs are becoming increasingly unattractive. In: look . November 7, 2016, accessed March 9, 2017 .
  8. Michael Ferber: Banks in search of specialists. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . July 6, 2015, accessed March 9, 2017 .
  9. Tina Haldner: Fewer jobs in the financial sector. In: Finance and Economy. April 10, 2012, accessed March 9, 2017 .
  10. “Negative interest” is the Swiss financial word of the year. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. November 28, 2016. Retrieved March 9, 2017 .
  11. finews.ch-TV: Interviews, background information and analyzes. In: finews.ch. Retrieved March 9, 2017 .
  12. ^ Adriano B. Lucatelli: "How the crisis began ten years ago". In: finews.ch. February 3, 2017, accessed March 9, 2017 .
  13. Peter Kurer: "Europe has become provincial overnight". In: finews.ch. July 9, 2016. Retrieved March 9, 2017 .
  14. Beat Kappeler: "The secret grave diggers of the financial center". In: finews.ch. May 6, 2016, accessed March 9, 2017 .
  15. ^ Dieter Ruloff: "The attempted coup in Turkey and its consequences". In: finews.ch. July 29, 2016. Retrieved March 9, 2017 .
  16. Maurice Pedergnana: “When central bankers become pop stars”. In: finews.ch. September 9, 2016, accessed March 9, 2017 .
  17. Martin Dahinden: “We become the image that others make of us”. In: finews.ch. November 18, 2016, accessed March 9, 2017 .
  18. Thorsten Polleit: "Preserve economic globalization!" In: finews.ch. February 17, 2017. Retrieved March 9, 2017 .
  19. Walter Wittmann: We are on the way to disaster. In: finews.ch. November 6, 2013, accessed March 9, 2017 .
  20. Finews.ch wins first prize at the comdirect finanzblog award. October 14, 2016, accessed March 9, 2017 .
  21. Media Prize for Financial Journalists 2015, Swiss Television. (PDF; 1.02 MB) May 7, 2015, accessed March 9, 2017 .
  22. State Street Prize for Financial Journalists 2014 awarded. (PDF; 338 kB) November 27, 2014, accessed March 9, 2017 .