Tag: Sweden

The coronavirus has transformed businesses in a very short time, but could also provide insurers with an opportunity to rethink their old ways of estimating risks.

On the back of closing a €1m seed round, Icelandic challenger bank indó is almost ready to go live.

Swedish InsurTech startup omocom has netted €3.7m in funding to help it grow into new verticals outside of the Nordics.

Swedish FinTech platform Anyfin has reportedly secured $30m in its Series B round, which was led by EQT Ventures.

Sweden’s financial regulator Finansinspektionen has named BearingPoint RegTech as it new partner to help collect and analyse financial and prudential data.

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.

Kidbrooke has already helped several of Sweden’s largest banks and insurers to automate some of their wealth management services, but this WealthTech startup is just getting started.

Swedish FinTech unicorn Klarna is "continuing to invest strategically" by buying Nuji for an undisclosed amount.

Open banking payments platform Trustly will help students pay for their insurance through a new partnership with Swedish insurer Folksam.

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...