Tagged: nordic region

Billhop Teams Up with Eurocard, a Commercial Card Issuer in the Nordics

Billhop AB, a card-enablement platform, is collaborating with Eurocard, a card issuer in the Nordics. The partnership will is expected to allow corporate clients within the Nordic region to pay any bill or invoice with Eurocard’s virtual cards. This payment approach enables businesses “to take… Read More

Coinbase Strengthens Business Operations in Benelux and Nordic Region

Following the announcement of Ireland as our MiCA entity location, Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) are pleased to announce that they are strengthening our presence in Benelux and the Nordics, a key market for Coinbase. This move underscores Coinbase‘s increased commitment to continental Europe. Elke Karskens will reportedly… Read More

Digital Currencies: Safello Introduces Apple Pay, Google Pay for Crypto Purchases

Safello, the crypto exchange in the Nordics, announces the integration of Apple Pay and Google Pay, “expanding its payment options and providing customers with a seamless and secure method to purchase cryptocurrencies.” Following Safello’s recent agreement with Worldpay, “enabling the processing of card payments for… Read More

Savings Banks Group Finland to Renew Lending Platform in Partnership with Tietoevry

Tietoevry is pleased to announce its collaboration with The Savings Banks Group Finland in order “to renew its lending platform, where Tietoevry’s Lending Suite, the leading credit solution in the Nordic markets, will serve as the foundation.” This strategic partnership is part of “a broader… Read More

Norway: Knowit, Mambu Enhance Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund’s Platform for Housing Loans

The Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund (SPK) has announced a contract agreement with Mambu, a cloud banking platform, and Knowit, a Nordics-based digital consultancy. The partnership is set “to modernize SPK’s housing loan solution, allowing the institution to build a flexible, user-friendly, and complete component-based… Read More

Danske Bank Selects Infosys as Partner to Accelerate Digital Transformation

Infosys (NYSE: INFY), which claims to be a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, announced that it has signed a strategic collaboration with Danske Bank, a Nordic Bank, to accelerate the bank’s digital transformation initiatives with speed and scale. This collaboration will help… Read More

Digital Payments: Lunar Introduces Infrastructure to Enable Instant Payment Options in the Nordics

Lunar opens up infrastructure to enable instant payments in the Nordics. Strong demand from both national and international payment players “drives Lunar to open up its Nordic payment infrastructure to partners.” Starting August 1st Swedish Fintech Trustly will be the first partner “to tap into… Read More

Nordic Region’s Danske Bank Announces Forward ‘28 Strategy, Financial Targets for 2026

In recent years, Danske Bank has made fundamental changes to the bank, resulting in a more focused business with a reduced risk level and a strengthened organization. Simultaneously they have “focused on strengthening our commercial momentum, and Danske Bank is on a clear trajectory to… Read More

Nordic Open Banking Provider Neonomics Expands Launch of Checkout Solution to Danish Market

Neonomics, a Nordic open banking provider, has expanded the launch of their core open banking driven Checkout solution to the Danish market. This payment solution makes it easy for any business “to get started with account-to-account payments through a frictionless front-end user interface, delivering higher… Read More

Open Banking, Credit Scoring Fintech Kreditz Receives Investment from Ingka Investments

Ingka Investments has made a minority investment together with Creades in Swedish based credit information startup called Kreditz, a Nordic market leader in credit scoring and verification services based on Open Banking and PSD2 data. The investment is “part of Kreditz’s latest funding round with… Read More

Mars Growth Capital, Liquidity Group Enter the Nordics with Investment in Sweden’s Kognity

Mars Growth Capital, a joint venture between MUFG and Liquidity Group, announced their first Nordic deal, with a $5 million funding in Kognity, an edtech company headquartered in Sweden. Kognity offers a digital teaching and learning platform “used by more than 140,000 students in 1,300… Read More

SEB Enters Partnership and Invests in Nordic Insurtech Hedvig

SEB is entering a strategic partnership with the insurance provider Hedvig, a Nordic insurtech-company within property insurance for private individuals. As part of this, SEB Venture Capital is “making a strategic investment in Hedvig in conjunction with a financing round led by Adelis Equity.” Jonas… Read More

Cloud-Native Issuer Processor Enfuce, Orka Ventures Introduce Consumer Lending Offering

“Pioneering” issuer processing powerhouse, Enfuce, announced a new partnership with Orka Ventures, the Nordic-Czech fintech holding company, “to launch Orka Card, a new consumer lending card and mobile app that challenges the traditional understanding of ‘Buy Now Pay Later’ (BNPL) lending.” Until now, Orka Ventures… Read More

Open Banking Provider Neonomics Support UNICEF Norway by Introducing Holiday Donation Campaign

Nordic open banking provider, Neonomics, has decided to support UNICEF Norway in order “to make donating this holiday period easier and more secure by harnessing the power of open banking payments.” The holiday period is “the most important time of year for charities, but with… Read More

A P27 Solution Introduced by PaymentComponents for the Nordic ISO20022 Adoption

After delivering some innovative solutions for FedNow in the US and MEPS+ in Singapore, PaymentComponents delivers a P27 solution for the Nordics. Enhancing its Finaplo Financial messaging solution with P27 payments “allows banks in the area to alleviate the burden of transitioning to this new… Read More

Mastercard Teams Up with Copenhagen Fintech to Strengthen Collaboration with Nordic Fintechs

Copenhagen has a strong fintech ecosystem and a “leading” position among fintech hubs globally, according to an update from Mastercard (NYSE: MA). The hub connects both start-ups, established companies and organizations “focusing on innovation and new opportunities.” Mastercard is “committed to empowering the growing fintech… Read More

SEB Strengthens Work Against Combatting Financial Crime

SEB (Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB) is recruiting Nicklas Lundh, from the Swedish Police, and Ravi Shankar Sharma, Head of Intelligence Development, Investigations and Analytics at Nordea, to jointly “lead a new Financial Intelligence unit within SEB’s Financial Crime Prevention unit (FCP).” Nicklas Lundh and Ravi… Read More

Enfuce Teams Up with Mastercard to Expand Card as a Service Platform in the Nordics

Enfuce is pleased to confirm an extended partnership with Mastercard (NYSE: MA) in order to expand the company’s Card as a Service platform in the Nordics. Through the partnership, Mastercard powers Card as a Service “with tokenized multi-currency BINs in the Nordics, enabling Enfuce’s customers… Read More

Nordic Digital Asset Exchange NBX Teams Up with Enfuce to Introduce Cashback Payment Cards

Via Enfuce’s “turnkey” service, NBX can offer credit and debit cards “with loyalty-boosting crypto rewards.” NBX, which claims to be the “leading” Nordic crypto exchange, has selected Enfuce, one of Europe’s major Fintech companies, “as its card service provider.” The partnership allows NBX “to offer… Read More

DZ Bank Supports Collaborative Trade Finance with Surecomp’s RIVO

Surecomp recently announced that two financial institutions have subscribed to its newly launched RIVO platform “for collaborative trade finance.” DZ Bank is the first bank “to sign-up, alongside the leading provider of guarantee insurance in the Nordics.” Frankfurt-based DZ BANK – which also acts as… Read More

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