Tagged: norway

January 20, 2023 @ 7:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

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

December 4, 2022 @ 2:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

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

October 31, 2022 @ 7:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

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

October 2, 2022 @ 11:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

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

September 9, 2022 @ 10:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

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

July 19, 2022 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

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

July 11, 2022 @ 8:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

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

June 29, 2022 @ 4:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

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

June 4, 2022 @ 7:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

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

May 18, 2022 @ 3:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

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

March 29, 2022 @ 10:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

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

January 25, 2022 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

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

August 25, 2021 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

EedenBull, a Fintech firm focused on B2B commercial payments tech, has formed a partnership with Sparebanken Vest, which is Norway’s third-largest savings bank. Through the partnership, the companies will offer banking services tech to the bank’s 13,600 business clients across Western Norway. Working cooperatively with… Read More

August 18, 2021 @ 9:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CLEVR, the low-code and no-code software-with-a-service specialist, reveals that it has acquired Digitread, one of the emerging companies focused on Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system integration and a “platinum-level” solution partner of Siemens. The acquisition should help raise CLEVR‘s profile and support its geographic and… Read More

July 14, 2021 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Norway’s software firm Commercial Banking Applications (CBA) reveals that it has released the latest annual version of its IBAS GBF – Global Banking Factory software to all clients. Notably,  the release has come more than three months ahead of schedule, which should allow for more… Read More

May 21, 2021 @ 8:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Norges Bank has released its Financial Infrastructure Report 2021 and Norges Bank Papers 2/2021, titled “Retail payment services 2020.” Norges Bank notes that there have been significantly fewer disruptions in the Norwegian financial infrastructure during the past few years, and the infrastructure has been working… Read More

March 10, 2021 @ 11:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stanimir Vassilev, Co-Founder at Management Financial Group (MFG), reveals that Settle is now live in Bulgaria. Vassilev confirmed that Bulgarians are now able to send and receive money “instantly for free” with this new Fintech app that requires “no top-up.” He also mentioned that local… Read More

March 9, 2021 @ 5:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at BitOoda, a global digital asset financial technology and services platform providing “next-gen” risk management solutions, “best-execution” brokerage and expert market analysis, has published their Weekly Hash (3/8/21) Report. The report covers custody battles that are heating up in the crypto space, along… Read More

January 6, 2021 @ 10:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Norwegian Block Exchange, founded by Bjørn Kjos, who also founded Norwegian Airlines and Bank Norwegian, has received a 60 million NOK investment (USD$ $7.135 million). According to a note by Oslo based NBX, the funding will provide the financial robustness to pursue a banking… Read More

November 10, 2020 @ 7:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The reserve bank in Norway has confirmed that it’s not in a rush to issue a digital Krone, even though a recent research study indicates that cash usage in the country is now down to only 4% of all financial transactions. Declining cash usage is… Read More