Tagged: sweden

August 24, 2021 @ 7:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

It’s been almost a year since Briqpay unveiled the launch of its B2B checkout solution together with the closing of a €606K pre-seed round. On Tuesday (August 24, 2021), Briqpay announced the closing of a €2M seed round that has been co-led by partners from… Read More

July 16, 2021 @ 12:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

Tink, an open banking platform, has appointed Rowan Taylor as its new role of Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Taylor previously worked at AWS and is said to have 26 years of experience in banking technology including stints at Accenture, KPMG and Gartner. Taylor will be… Read More

July 10, 2021 @ 7:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The European Commission reveals that it has approved the merger request from the P27 Nordic Payments initiative in order to form its pan-Nordic payments platform. This latest approval from the European Commission marks a key milestone for the project which is focused on working towards… Read More

July 5, 2021 @ 11:46 am By JD Alois  |  

Klarna, a top European Fintech, is under investigation by the Swedish regulator Finansinspektionen for a possible security breach and transgression of the bank secrecy act. In a statement by Finansinspektionen, the financial regulator referenced an “IT incident” that took place in May 2021 where customers… Read More

July 3, 2021 @ 12:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bigbank, a global Estonian-owned bank providing personalized financial products, has selected European payment services firm Nets, to offer issuer processing and digital services, such as virtual cards and mobile payment capabilities. As noted by its management: “We’re a new type of bank – a truly… Read More

July 1, 2021 @ 5:20 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

While Sweden, the United Kingdom and a few Asian Pacific countries have created roadmaps to a cashless society, most countries will still need to chart their own paths, a report from Global Data finds. The Cashless World – Evolving Payment Environments in Key Asia Pacific… Read More

June 29, 2021 @ 8:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech firm Klarna has chosen embedded business finance platform Liberis in order to help it with providing its digital commerce customers with revenue-based financing options. The deal between Liberis and Klarna will see the BNPL Fintech company’s 250,000+ merchant partners in 17 different countries provided… Read More

June 24, 2021 @ 8:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) will be acquiring European Open Banking Fintech Tink for €1.8 billion. The acquisition should help with filling a Plaid-shaped hole in Visa’s existing portfolio after a $5.4 billion deal to acquire the financial data-sharing firm was unsuccessful (following pushback from regulatory authorities)…. Read More

June 23, 2021 @ 8:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Billhop and ICS have teamed up to improve working capital access for SMEs across the Netherlands. Through the partnership, ICS commercial cardholders, based in the Netherlands, will have access to Billhop’s service “at a preferential rate,” according to a release shared with CI. As mentioned… Read More

June 23, 2021 @ 8:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Konfio has announced a $125 million Series E round with VEF investing an additional $20 million in the company’s operations. The team at VEF announced on Tuesday (June 22, 2021) a $20 million follow-on investment into Konfio, which is one of Mexico’s leading SME-focused Fintech… Read More

June 22, 2021 @ 1:35 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Buy now pay later (BNPL) startup Klarna’s second raise of 2021 has it valued at close to 50 percent above its post-raise valuation in March. It now sits at $45.6 billion. The latest raise brought in another $639 million and was led by SoftBank’s Vision… Read More

June 17, 2021 @ 11:39 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Goobit Group and Xpecunia Nordic are collaborating on “green” cryptocurrency. The deal gives Goobit exclusivity to sell Xpecunia Nordic-produced crypto across the Nordic countries. Those coins are produced with green energy like solar and will be available on Goobit’s BTCX exchange. “BTCX is Sweden’s oldest… Read More

May 31, 2021 @ 7:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sweden’s reserve bank will reportedly be working cooperatively with commercial lender Handelsbanken in order to test out how the nation’s proposed digital currency, the e-krona,  may handle payments in the real world, the Riksbank revealed on Friday (May 28, 2021). Reserve banks across the globe… Read More

May 19, 2021 @ 2:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Sweden-based Insurtech Hedvig has announced an expansion across Europe starting with Denmark. Hedvig reports that hundreds of Danes have signed onto Hedvig’s waiting list for a new type of home insurance. The digital-first insurance platform claims that it can manage claims in about eight minutes…. Read More

May 18, 2021 @ 6:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sweden’s Open Banking Fintech Tink has reportedly acquired German equivalent FinTecSystems. The latest acquisition by Tink should help the firm further expand its business operations across Europe. FinTecSystems aims to offer advanced data analytics, digital or online account checks, account aggregation and also supports Open… Read More

May 1, 2021 @ 3:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ClearBank, the UK’s first “new clearing bank” in over 250 years which aims to bring open competition and transparency to the nation’s financial services sector, has published a report covering the working relationships between banks and Fintechs. The report is titled, How Well are Fintechs… Read More

April 15, 2021 @ 10:19 am By JD Alois  |  

Solar investment marketplace Trine is reporting that a debt offering seeking €750 000 closed in just 5 hours, the fastest loan funded through Trine’s impact investment platform to date. The investment platform said that the debt financing for Redavia, a firm offering solar farms to… Read More

April 15, 2021 @ 10:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Kris Vaivods, CEO at Vorto Gaming, a blockchain startup planning to carry out an initial public offering (IPO) on the Swedish stock exchange later this year. Kris is the Founder of the Vorto Games subsidiary vz games and is part… Read More

April 12, 2021 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As it prepares to introduce services in Sweden, Freetrade, a commission-free trading app that’s regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has hired Karl Broomé to serve as ts MD to oversee the market activities. Broomé has joined Freetrade after having worked previously in… Read More

March 29, 2021 @ 9:22 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Safello, an online cryptocurrency brokerage that is regulated as a financial institution with Finansinspektionen (Swedish FSA), announced on Monday it has acquired Rational Money AB, the company behind Bitcoin.se, a Sweden-based educational portal on cryptocurrencies. Safello claims that since 2012, Bitcoin.se has played a vital role in… Read More