In Switzerland, women represent about 27.8% of managers and 23.9% at the Board Directors level. Ten years ago, the equivalent ratios were lower than this: 23.8% at the management and 20.5% at the Board level. The Canton of Aargau boasts the highest proportion of women at the management level, at 30.5%.

In 2022, the number of bankruptcies grew by 23.2% compared with the previous year. The construction industry suffered the highest number of bankruptcies, while the building construction sector reported the highest percentage rise at 48.6%. In 2022, there were more than 50,000 new business start-ups – which is just 1% behind the record set in 2021.

In 2022, Black Friday was once again the most popular online shopping day. However, online shops are increasingly generating their sales on the days before and after Black Friday. This is shown by an analysis of CRIF.

CRIF sponsored the Connect Digital Commerce conference and the Digital Commerce Award. Daniel Gamma presented the award in the Lifestyle and Hobby category to the winner, Digitec Galaxus. Congratulations.

On 7 May 2019 the 8th annual meeting with CRIF took place in Lugano in the Italian part of Switzerland. CRIF presented various studies based on their data and clients and partners presented their success stories.

The traditional CRIF Update customer event took place in Zurich at the end of September. This tackled topics such as address management, Financial Intermediary Casino and innovations and analyses from CRIF.