Tagged: seb

April 4, 2023 @ 2:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SEB and Crédit Agricole CIB are jointly launching so|bond, a “sustainable and open” platform for digital bonds built on blockchain technology. Through the platform, issuers in capital markets will be able “to issue digital bonds onto a blockchain network, aiming at improving efficiency and enabling… Read More

March 14, 2023 @ 11:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

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

August 24, 2022 @ 11:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

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

June 22, 2022 @ 7:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SEB reveals that it’s entering into a strategic cooperation with tech firm Leneo, acquiring a part ownership stake through SEB Venture Capital. The company has “developed a platform that helps companies to switch to new business models, where instead of selling products they sell a… Read More

June 17, 2022 @ 6:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SEB Venture Capital is making an investment in one of Europe’s “fastest-growing” automated savings platforms, Lysa. As part of the investment, SEB will “support the company’s continued growth and international expansion.” Lysa was founded in 2015 and has recently “become one of the largest and… Read More

March 23, 2022 @ 8:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SEB is reportedly going to use TreasurUp’s automated foreign exchange hedging module for their Commercial Banking customers. SEB and TreasurUp will also work jointly “on integrating the platform with the clients’ ERPs, enabling full automation of FX risk hedging.” James Prasad, Head of FX Business… Read More

June 18, 2020 @ 1:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

The saga of the collapse of peer to peer lender Envestio keeps getting more interesting as a report published today points a finger at two politically connected individuals who may have been recipients of lost funds. Earlier this week, CI reported on an article in… Read More

June 16, 2020 @ 11:21 am By JD Alois  |  

A new report claims that established banks Swedbank and SEB enabled “suspected fraud networks” to operate in the Baltics and mentions bankrupt peer to peer lending platform Envestio by name. Envestio, and similar platform Kuetzal, recently filed for bankruptcy in Estonia. Earlier this year, both… Read More

October 10, 2019 @ 6:00 am By JD Alois  |  

UK-based Fintech Thought Machine has partnered with Swedish financial group SEB. The agreement will see SEB’s innovation studio SEBx deploy Thought Machine’s cloud-native banking platform, Vault. Though Machine has already secured partnerships with Atom bank, IBM and a major UK bank – last year securing… Read More

December 17, 2017 @ 3:26 pm By Rae Steinback  |  

We’ve been hearing a lot of talk about chatbots lately. Some of these conversations are about the ways that companies are having success with chatbots, but others are about brands that have failed to implement them properly. What is A Chatbot? A chatbot is a… Read More

November 9, 2017 @ 10:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Uniti, a Swedish electric car company that is in the midst of an investment crowdfunding round, has announced the creation of a new cryptocurrency and forthcoming Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Uniti states it is in the midst of  launching the “world’s first Certified Green” ICO. The… Read More

March 29, 2017 @ 9:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Sweden-based investment crowdfunding platform FundedByMe has launched a secondary trading platform in partnership with Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken.  The new platform was announced during a breakfast event at Stockholm’s Stureplan and is designed to provide liquidity for investors in crowdfunded securities. Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken or SEB,… Read More