Markus Maier becomes COO at Upvest

Berlin-based infrastructure fintech brings former UBS executive on board.

Fintech Upvest is adding Markus Maier to its management team as the new Chief Operating Officer (COO). In his new role, Markus Maier is to focus on building automated and fully digitized operations processes for the Upvest platform. This is intended to shorten the onboarding time of new B2B customers. Previously, Maier worked at UBS and Deutsche Bank, among others. He brings 25 years of management experience in the transaction and derivatives business.

Martin Kassing founded Upvest in 2017. The company describes itself as a "fintech that empowers other fintechs to provide their end clients with access to the full range of investment opportunities." In short, Upvest has developed an investment interface.

According to Kassing, the startup's strengths are its "tech DNA" on the one hand and its knowledge of capital markets and crypto on the other. "With Markus Maier, we strengthen the intersection of these two areas, make our processes more scalable and thus come a decisive step closer to our goal of making our investment API available to as many savers as possible," says Kassing.