Tagged: nordics

Nordic Fintech Two and Dutch Banking Platform ABN AMRO to Streamline B2B E-Commerce Payments

Nordic fintech Two collaborates with Dutch banking platform ABN AMRO to enhance B2B e-commerce payments. Two, a European enabler of B2B payments technology today announces a strategic collaboration with ABN AMRO (abnamro.com), a leading financial institution in the Netherlands. Together, they are reportedly launching a… Read More

Lithuanian Fintech Torus Receives Investment from Goose Valley Ventures

Goose Valley Ventures (GVV), a FinTech-focused VC firm supporting  startups in the Nordic and Baltic regions, is pleased to announce its investment in Lithuanian FinTech Torus, an SaaS intelligence platform for banks and paytechs. With this investment, GVV underscores its commitment to backing startups that… Read More

Nordic Challenger Bank Lunar Launches Standalone Enterprise Payments Division

Lunar, the Nordic challenger bank, is taking a step to redefine payments for enterprises by over time transitioning its Banking Services division into a new standalone entity within Lunar Group: Moonrise. This move underscores Lunar’s commitment to scaling its operations and unlocking the immense potential… Read More

Denmark’s Challenger Bank Lunar Remains Focused on Growth in 2025 with New CFO

Lunar, the Nordic challenger bank, is reportedly focused on becoming one of the best “every day banks” in the Nordics region. Lunar is a digital challenger bank focused on simplifying and enriching customers’ financial lives by creating a frictionless everyday banking platform. Founded in Aarhus,… Read More

Coinmotion and Bitpanda to Expand Digital Assets Offering in the Nordics

Bitpanda and Coinmotion have revealed a new partnership. Coinmotion is a crypto broker operating in the Nordic region. Bitpanda is a successful Austrian firm that has expanded its reach into services beyond crypto and other countries. Bitpanda Technology Solutions will be utilized by Coinmotion to… Read More

Nordic Region’s Tietoevry Banking Extends Partnership with Netherlands based Geldmaat

Tietoevry Banking is pleased to announce the renewal of its strategic partnership with Geldmaat. Following years of successful collaboration, Geldmaat has “reaffirmed their commitment to Tietoevry Banking and extended the partnership for an additional five years for use of ATM SaaS solutions.” Tietoevry Banking has… Read More

Nets, Klarna, Partner on BNPL in Nordic Region

Nets, part of Nexi Group – a Paytech, has formed a partnership with Klarna to offer buy now pay later (BNPL) services. Nets is an AI-powered global payments network and shopping assistant. Klarna works with over half a million global retailers to facilitate transactions and… Read More

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

Bondora Reports Rebound for Originations and Investments in October 2023

Bondora reports that the month of October 2023 saw a rebound for originations and investments. Bondora notes in a blog post that after decreasing slightly in September, investments and originations rebounded in October. Both these statistics “totaled just over €15M, with a growth rate of… 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

European Digital Challenger Bank Lunar Doubles Revenue in H1 2023

Lunar doubles net interest and fee income in the first half of 2023 “compared to the same period last year.” At the same time, Lunar continues its investments in “developing the business and the product range to become the best everyday bank in the Nordics.”… 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

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

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