Banking Barometer 2026
In 2025, real growth of the Swiss economy reached 1.5%, remaining below its multi-year average.
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In 2025, real growth of the Swiss economy reached 1.5%, remaining below its multi-year average.
Swiss real GDP growth is projected to reach 1,0 Prozent in 2026 and 1,4 Prozent in 2027.
Overall invested capital declined by 15.5% compared to the first half of 2025.
The report presents findings from 307 family offices across more than 30 markets worldwide, with an average net worth of USD 2.7 billion.
Total European B2C e-commerce turnover increased by 7%, rising from €842 billion to €911 billion in 2025.
Deloitte interviewed 35 decision makers, including COOs, CTOs, and heads of transformation at wealth management firms globally.
In 2024, the Swiss financial sector directly generated a gross value added of CHF 73.2 Mrd. and supported 245’800 jobs (FTE).
The note categorizes single-ledger arrangements into 4 operating models: integration, distribution, separation, and permissionless.
In 2024, Swiss real gross domestic product (GDP) growth slowed to 1,0 %, while the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) forecasts a slight recovery to 1,3 % for 2025.
The total number of financing rounds fell by 10.1% year-on-year to 124 rounds.
More than 93 percent of the material requirement for the Swiss economy originates from primary materials rather than recycled sources.
Swiss VC funds allocate an average of 30% of invested capital and 50% of their total number of investments to Swiss start-ups.
Biotech attracted the highest amount of capital among all sectors at CHF 405.3 million, representing a 44% increase in invested capital.
The Swiss insurance sector generated CHF 28.1 billion in direct gross value and managed investments totaling CHF 528 billion.
A new record of 397 financing rounds was set for Swiss start-ups in 2023.
reached 483 companies by the close of 2023, reflecting a yearly growth of eleven percent, while Liechtenstein hosted 22 FinTech companies.
In the first half of 2022, total invested capital in Swiss start-up financing rose to almost CHF 2.6 billion across more than 160 financing rounds.
ICT/Fintech investment more than doubled to achieve a record volume of over CHF 1.5 billion.
Investments in Swiss start-ups recorded an increase of 44 % in invested capital, reaching 3059 CHF m in 2021.
Swiss venture capital investment experienced a 7% decrease overall.
Investment in Swiss start-ups reached CHF 1.7 billion across 124 financing rounds in the first half of 2021.
During the first half of 2020, CHF 763 million was invested into Swiss start-ups across 105 financing rounds.
The Swiss venture capital market recorded an overall growth rate of 86%.
In 2019, almost CHF 2.3 billion was invested in 266 Swiss start-ups, representing an 85.5% increase compared with the previous year.
Swiss startups raised CHF 1236 million in funding in 2018.
In 2018, nearly CHF 1.24 billion in venture capital was invested in Swiss start-ups, representing an increase of 31.8% on the previous year.
In 2017, Swiss startups received total venture capital funding of CHF 938 million.
Total venture capital investment in Swiss start-ups reached CHF 937.7 million in 2017 across 175 financing rounds.
Switzerland's financial sector employs over 200,000 people and generates nearly ten per cent of the country's gross domestic product.
In 2016, 151 financing rounds of Swiss start-ups were reported, representing an increase of 26% compared with 2015.