Month: March 2026

A platform built in Switzerland has just made a concrete promise to people living in Zurich and Geneva: explore your city through the naoo app, check in at places you discover, and earn rewards for doing so. naoo AG, headquartered in Zug and listed on the Dusseldorf Stock Exchange, has released Generation V of its social media and commerce platform. Among five global launch cities — Zurich, Geneva, Berlin, London and New York — Switzerland holds two slots. For residents of both Swiss cities, the experience is live and available today. The Day-One Experience A Zurich resident opening naoo for the first time on Generation V will find a map populated with curated local places — spots selected by creators, tagged with content, and pinned to real locations across the city. The user browses, finds somewhere interesting, and goes there. Upon...

There is a specific category of startup risk that rarely gets discussed: the cost of outgrowing your own architecture before the product thesis is proven. naoo AG just addressed it head-on — replacing both frontend and backend simultaneously, shipping its most commercially significant feature to date, and activating a real user-facing rewards mechanic, all in a single release. Generation V is not a minor version bump. The Zug-based social and commerce platform has rebuilt on an enterprise-grade Java backend, redesigned its entire navigation system, and shipped naoo business: a merchant integration layer built directly into the main application, with a live check-in and points mechanic that works from day one. The Core Loop The user experience is deliberately simple: open the app, go to the map, find a highlighted place nearby, go there,...

Brand and marketing leaders have spent the past decade optimising digital campaign spend while watching the connection between that spend and in-store or in-location outcomes grow progressively harder to measure. naoo AG’s Generation V release is built around a fundamentally different mechanic — one where the user’s physical visit is not inferred from impression data, but confirmed by a check-in and rewarded immediately. The Swiss-listed media technology group has activated naoo business within its rebuilt platform. Users who discover a brand or merchant location on the naoo map, visit it in person, and check in via the app receive naoo points — currently approximately 5 points per qualifying visit, redeemable across a range of rewards. For brand partners, this creates a directly attributable, incentivised footfall mechanism embedded inside...

First regulated European asset manager to structure a strategy spanning DeFi lending, institutional secured lending, RWA yields, and basis arbitrage within a single institutional-grade product,  powered by the Kiln’s Railnet orchestration layer. 18 March 2026 | SAINT HELIER, JerseyCoinShares International Limited (“CoinShares” or “the Group”) (Nasdaq Stockholm: CS; US OTCQX: CNSRF), with an announced merger with Vine Hill Capital Investment Corp (Nasdaq: VCIC), a leading global asset manager specialising in digital assets, today announced a strategic partnership with Kiln, the institutional on-chain yield infrastructure provider. The firm will leverage its Railnet protocol to launch its first on-chain asset management strategy, with Railnet providing the verifiable trust layer for the future of capital allocation....

Technip Energies – Verso EnergyTechnip Energies – Verso EnergyTechnip Energies (PARIS: TE) has signed an agreement with Verso Energy to acquire a minority equity stake in the DEZiR project, a synthetic aviation fuel (“eSAF”) plant located in Rouen, France. This investment demonstrates Technip Energies’ support for this major industrial initiative, which has been selected under the France 2030 program and the European Innovation Fund. Technip Energies will contribute to the DEZiR project through the implementation of its carbon capture solution, Canopy by T.ENTM powered by Shell CANSOLV, to capture biogenic CO2 from nearby industries and enable the utilization of this CO2 for eSAF production. In addition, Rely – Technip Energies’ joint venture with John Cockerill dedicated to Power-to-X solutions – is carrying out the...

NEW YORK, March 18, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Freedom Holding Corp. (Nasdaq: FRHC), an international fintech group founded by entrepreneur Timur Turlov, announces that Moody’s Ratings has assigned its subsidiary, Freedom Bank Kazakhstan, a long-term deposit rating of Ba3 with a stable outlook. This marks Moody’s first rating of the bank and an important milestone in its development and international recognition. The rating reflects the bank’s solid capitalization, dynamic growth in its customer base and deposit portfolio, and continued development of its retail and digital businesses. Moody’s also highlights the important role of Freedom Bank within the ecosystem of Freedom Holding Corp., which integrates financial and digital services. The stable outlook reflects the agency’s expectation that the bank’s financial performance and...

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