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Payment Infrastructure Fintech Token.io Announces Scandinavian Expansion with Paysafe

Token.io, the account-to-account (A2A) payment infrastructure provider has announced the expansion of its direct open banking connectivity network to Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland, where it now “offers Account Information Services (AIS) and Payment Initiation Services (PIS) services.” This unlocks new opportunities “for Payment Service… Read More

Handelsbanken Norway, Tietoevry to Prioritize Client Growth in Wealth Management

As part of modernizing its IT landscape and enhancing the customer experience, Handelsbanken Norway has chosen to consolidate on Tietoevry Banking’s wealth management solution. This enables Handelsbanken “to offer financial products, including mutual funds, equities, ETFs and more, through one modern self-service platform for its… Read More

Nordea to Acquire Danske Bank’s Norwegian Personal Customer and Private Banking Business, Asset Management Portfolios

Nordea has entered into an agreement with Danske Bank to acquire its Norwegian personal customer and private banking business and associated asset management portfolios. The acquisition is an ideal strategic fit “for Nordea and will strengthen Nordea’s market position in Norway among household customers.” The… 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

European Fintech Enfuce Issues NBX Credit Card with Bitcoin Cashback

Card issuing and processing pioneer Enfuce has been chosen by leading Norwegian crypto exchange NBX to issue a Visa®-branded credit card offering Bitcoin cashback on purchases. Powered by Enfuce’s cloud-native issuing platform, the launch of the card is a turning point in the crypto market,… Read More

Cryptocurrency Mining Firm Bitdeer Announces Latest Operations Updates

Bitdeer Technologies Group (NASDAQ: BTDR), a technology company for the cryptocurrency mining community, announced its unaudited mining and operations updates for May 2023. Linghui Kong, Chief Executive Officer of Bitdeer, commented: “We maintained stable operations during the month of May while remaining dedicated to the… 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

Norway’s KapitalKontroll, a Debt Management Service, Teams Up with Neonomics

KapitalKontroll, an innovative Norwegian provider of debt management and collection services has partnered with Neonomics in order “to launch a fully automated debt collection system that manages all payments through Neonomics open banking platform, enabling increased efficiency and security for its customers who include an… 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

Swedish Fintech Payer, American Express to Support B2B Payments Across the Nordics

Payer, the B2B technology company specializing in digital conversion, payments, and finance automation, with a mission to digitalize the B2B industry wherever payments play a central role, has announced that it will now facilitate American Express payments “across the Nordics in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and… Read More

CBDCs: Israel, Norway, Sweden, BIS to Explore Retail CBDC for Payments

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the central banks of Israel, Norway and Sweden are launching Project Icebreaker, a joint exploration of how central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) can be “used for international retail and remittance payments.” Cross-border payments “continue to be plagued by… Read More

BankID Expands Digital Identity Protection with OneSpan

OneSpan (NASDAQ: OSPN), the digital agreements security company, announced a significant expansion of its OneSpan Cloud Authentication service with BankID. BankID first launched with OneSpan in September 2021 and has already “reached a multi-million user milestone that is expected to continue growing as BankID’s technology… Read More

Fintech Zimpler Enters Norway as Part of Global Expansion Efforts

Zimpler, which claims to be a leading Fintech company born in Sweden, recently announced that it has gone live in Norway. Following Sweden, Finland, Germany, Estonia, The Netherlands, Latvia and Lithuania, Norway becomes the eighth market “to offer Zimpler’s account-to-account payments solutions.” The first merchant… 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

Norway to Use Ethereum Blockchain for Government Register

According to a series of Tweets, the Norwegian government will dip its toes into leveraging blockchain technology. As shared in the Tweets, the Norwegian government will be utilizing Ethereum via Arbitrum for cap tables of private firms. Earlier today the Norwegian government announced they're using… Read More

Bulder Bank Teams Up with Snowdrop to Improve UX via Data Enrichment Services

Norwegian financial services provider Bulder Bank has officially introduced new enriched data transaction services for their retail banking clients. Powered by Snowdrop’s Merchant Reconciliation System API, the new service transforms previously messy payment data and instead “returns enhanced and intuitive information that displays the clean… Read More

CBDCs: Nahmii to Work with Norges Bank on Central Bank Digital Currency Sandbox Project

Nahmii AS are pleased to confirm that they have been chosen to work with Norges Bank (the central bank of Norway) on their upcoming experimental CBDC (central bank digital currency) sandbox project. This “prestigious” award confirms Nahmii AS’s position as “a global leader in the… Read More

Nordic Fintech Challenger Lunar Offers €132M to Acquire Instabank

Nordic Fintech challenger Lunar has reportedly made a cash offer valued at €132 million in order to acquire all outstanding shares of Norway’s virtual banking platform, Instabank. Established back in 2016, Instabank currently serves over 60,000 clients based in Norway, Finland and Germany with secured… Read More

Norway’s Digipost, a Digital Mailbox Provider, Selects Neonomics to Support Acct-to-Acct Payments

Digipost, one of Norway’s largest digital mailbox providers, has reportedly chosen the Neonomics unified API platform in order to support the introduction of account-to-account payments to its 2,7 million clients. Digipost is one of the most actively used digital invoicing services in the Nordic region…. Read More

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