AGP Executive Report
Last update: 9 hours agoTrade Policy Shock: The US is proposing fresh forced-labour tariffs, with duties of 10% or 12.5% covering dozens of economies; Switzerland is listed among those facing the higher 12.5% rate, adding uncertainty for Swiss exporters and supply chains. Swiss Finance & M&A: J. Safra Sarasin is buying Denmark’s Saxo Bank stake in a major private-banking consolidation move, underlining how Swiss wealth managers are pairing scale with fintech access. Insurance & Risk: Swiss Re says the global natural-catastrophe protection gap has climbed to about $424bn, with uninsured losses rising as asset values grow—an issue that matters for Swiss insurers and reinsurers. Payments & Digital Commerce: Juspay has joined Mastercard’s Click to Pay ecosystem to speed up online checkout across Asia, pushing passkeys and tokenisation into mainstream merchant flows. Tech & Quantum Security: SEALSQ is backing Quobly’s €130m Series A to industrialise silicon quantum processors and expand post-quantum security infrastructure. Automation in Retail: An Eastern Switzerland University project is rolling out an autonomous “shopping cart that knows the way” for independent supermarket trips by visually impaired users.
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