blog · 2026-05-18 · 7 min

Switzerland’s digital-bank graveyard: radicant, FlowBank, Swiss4

FINMA does not play. The home market is small. A fourth payments app is a hobby, not a bank.

esisuisse covers CHF 100,000 per client per bank — when there is a bank. FlowBank’s 2024 bankruptcy is the expensive version of that sentence. radicant’s 2025 wind-down is the polite version: clients pointed at Alpian.

Why they die

Compliance is priced in francs. The addressable market is a few million people who already have UBS, Raiffeisen, or PostFinance. Green branding and crypto adjacency are not a deposit franchise.

Who is left

This register keeps Swiss pages short on purpose. Revolut as a foreign EMI, Wise, Swissquote as a bank/broker, and a handful of FINMA names. If a leftover landing page still ranks, we tombstone it.

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