Nordic Fintech Snippets – August 2022

Nordic Fintech Snippets – August

Welcome to our monthly industry review. September is here and so are many activities. You can find us at Nordic Fintech Week this month, at Slush in November and at Digital Finance Forum in December. Have a look at the calendar at the bottom.

Below you can find the industry insights, including funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions and new launches from August 2022.

You can find all the monthly Nordic Fintech Snippets from the past over here.

This is Nordic Fintech Snippets, the combined effort of all the Nordic Fintech Hubs, sharing the most important and latest news in fintech and digital finance from each country.

Country specific news

Finland

ReceiptHero Joins Visa Fintech Partner Connect to bring Digital Receipts to Visa’s Clients and Partners

ReceiptHero to roll out eco-friendly digital receipting solution using Payments Platform as a Service (PPaaS) from Ingenico

Enfuce partners with Mastercard to expand its Card as a Service platform in the Nordics

OP Financial Group’s new sustainability programme: A sustainable economy builds on responsibility for the environment, people and corporate governance

Karri Alameri is the new CEO of Savings Bank Group 

Banks join Finnish initiative to build digital identity network

Denmark

CIBC Innovation Banking Provides €35M in Growth Capital Financing to Ageras Group

Boyum IT buys Danish Paperflow

Moneyflow raises EUR 250 million

Sweden

Creades invests SEK 102 million in Findity

Bricknode bags loan to aid licenced brokerage subsidiary launch

Billogram and Tink partner to streamline invoice payments

Moank is live with Vilja banking platform for its new savings offering

Zimpler teams up with Gigapay to provide instant payouts for content creators

Zimpler appoints new chairwoman and chief growth officer

Tink introduces affordability verification product

SEB establishes new financial crime intelligence unit

Klarna extends shopping app to track all online purchases

Klarna losses quadruple

Norway

Nordic firm Axo snaps up digital credit-scoring platform Defero

MAI Capital Management Acquires Pareto Wealth Management

Thoma Bravo Completes Acquisition of Mercell Holding ASA

Zimpler expands to Norway

Nordnet launches passive fund platform in Norway

Iceland

Meniga appoints Simon Shorthose as new CEO

Future events

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