Tag: Nordics

Open banking startup Tink has integrated its software into Nordea’s mobile banking app to deliver a personalised financial overview for the bank’s customers in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark.

The Nordics are already at the forefront of cashless payment solutions. Now social distancing rules have fuelled the growth of contactless payment by 12 percentage points in the region in the first four months of 2020, according to payments company Nets.

FinTech companies in the Nordics raised $321.6m in the first quarter of the year with Klarna and Tink closing large investments The FinTech industry...

Challenger banks in the Nordics are on the rise with Danish Lunar being the latest neobank to fill its coffers.

Sweden’s RegTech scene has been slow to emerge. While its starting to wake up, it still has many challenges to overcome.

While the UK and France may prefer credit cards and e-wallets, the rest of Europe would rather pay other ways when buying things online.

Swedish lender Swedbank has named Rolf Marquardt as its new chief risk officer as the bank doubles down on its efforts to strengthen its anti-money laundering (AML) structures after the Danske Bank scandal.

The Swedish FinTech ecosystem has ambition to become a global leader. However, companies in the region struggle to find the right staff.

A money laundering investigation into Swedbank has found that transactions totalling around $4.8m constitute as sanction violations.

Buy now, pay later company Klarna has signed a partnership with the Dune Group as it keeps expanding.