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Nordic Fintech Snippets – June 2023

Nordic Fintech Snippets – June

It’s July, which means it’s time for a June recap!

 

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As usual, we have gathered the most relevant industry news from June, which was an extremely busy month from new launches and partnerships to acquisitions, and saw a slight increase in the number of investments.

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

EUROe Is Now Available through Woorton’s OTC Infrastructure

Nets Finland launches pan-European payment terminal Npay

Talenom Account, created in the Banking-as-a-Service cooperation between Alisa Bank and Talenom, is available

Lemonsoft Oyj acquires Finvoicer Group Oy, directs a share issue and updates its 2023 profit forecast

Coinmotion partners Fenergo to streamline AML compliance procedures

Enable Banking and Monthia partnership announced 

Enfuce announces partnership with Kvika Bank at Money20/20 to transform financial services in Iceland

Enfuce and SEB Embedded partner to launch next-generation card programmes

Enfuce unveils radical brand evolution to raise the bar on brand creativity and purpose in fintech

Aleksi Lehtonen has been appointed President and CEO of Aktia

Nordea appoint former PM Katainen as public affairs unit chief

Coinmotion Adds Two New Strategic Board Members to Strengthen its Position in the Digital Currency Market

FIN-FSA prohibits Ermitage Partners Oy from providing investment services without authorisation

Financial watchdog investigating S-Bank operations

 

Denmark

Startup of the week: DoLand at Heartland – new investment, new business leg

Danish fintech Flatpay raises €15 million to expand its ‘flat rate’ POS offerings, as it vies for unicorn status

Danish neobank raises EUR 12 million to expand business lending and platform development

Northstake Raises $3M to Boost Institutional Crypto Staking

Januar Introduces API Webhooks

Januar now supports operational transactions

Mastercard and Subaio launch subscriptions control solution

Danske Bank partners Infosys to support its digital transformation

Lunar launches its Nordic account infrastructure

Fintech company NES TECH partners with Gabler to provide a new IT platform for the Norwegian pension market

Uniify and Scrive join forces to enhance the customer onboarding process

 

Sweden

Kryptoskatt Attracts Strategic Investments from Binance Labs and Gate Labs

Mitigram secures fresh investment, names temporary CEO

StockRepublic gears up and raises SEK 30 million with Avanza’s subsidiary Placera Media as the lead investor

Brite Payments expands in Belgium

Axfood is advancing in the development of payments and financial services

Navian acquires Pepins and creates a unique solution for alternative investments

SEB to acquire AirPlus to create a leading European provider in corporate payments

P27 and Bankgirot in collaboration to secure current and future Swedish payment infrastructure

Borgo launches partnership with Lysa Sparkonto Auto leveraging Vilja Platform

Froda, Lunar, and Visa augment SMEs with card-based embedded loans

Safello partners with Januar to broaden its financial infrastructure

Sipay and Sileon launch a new BNPL solution in Spain

Tink will embed ecolytiq’s solution into its platform to scale sustainability-based services

BNP Paribas Personal Finance selects Vilja Platform to power their next-generation deposit offerings

Klarna goes live in Romania with its ‘Pay in 3’ offering

Klarna helps users make more informed purchasing decisions

Intrum has issued SEK 1.5 billion notes

Nordax Bank AB (publ) changes name to NOBA Bank Group AB (publ)

Söderberg & Partners raise £171m to support expansion

Storskogen successfully issues bonds of SEK 2 billion

 

Norway

Gjensidige Mobility Group invests in smarter payments for the car industry

Simplifai launches world-first generative AI tool for insurance

Monio is sold to Folkeinvest

Gjensidige has agreed to acquire PenSam Forsikring A/S in Denmark

Stacc expands mortgage loan initiative to Sweden

Neonomics equips the Finnish Red Cross with Open Banking donations

Neonomics and Spense gear up to streamline open banking payments in the Automotive Industry

ZTL Payment Solution raises €1.2m

 

Iceland

Meet Luci: Your AI-powered copilot

Lucinity and Neterium Partner to Provide Real-Time Transaction and Counterparty Screening 

 

 

 

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