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20 Top Funded Fintech Companies in Finland in 2022
The Helsinki Fintech Farm has published a list of 20 fintech companies in Finland that have received the most funding as of June 2022, based on funding rounds that have been shared publicly. The list of top funded fintech companies
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Tink Adds Four Senior Hires to Its London-Based Payments Team
Swedish open banking platform Tink has made four additions to its London-based payments team with hires for variable recurring payments, payment sales, strategic account management, and delivery and solutions architecture. Firstly, Andrew Boyajian joins Tink as Head of Variable Recurring
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Sweden’s SEB Creates New Banking-as-a-Service Business Unit
Nordic financial services group SEB has created SEB Embedded, a new business unit to commercialise the banking-as-a-service concept and promoted Christoffer Malmer to head the unit. Malmer’s current role as the head of SEB’s innovation studio SEBx will be taken
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Sweden’s Zimpler Expands to Latin America With New São Paulo Office
Swedish payments company Zimpler announced plans to expand to Latin America and that it has established its regional headquarters in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s financial center. A recent study conducted by Zimpler showed that nearly half of all online consumers in
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Atlar Raises €5M Seed Funding Led by Index Ventures for Automated Bank Payments
Swedish bank payments platform Atlar has closed a €5 million seed round led by Index Ventures, with the participation of European venture capital firms La Famiglia VC and Cocoa. A number of angel investors also participated in the round, including
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Top 20 Established Fintech Companies in Finland in 2022
The Helsinki Fintech Farm has published its annual list of the top established fintech companies in Finland, ranked based on the companies’ latest reported revenues. The Finnish fintech industry—consisting some 200 fintech startups, fintech scaleups and established companies—saw revenues growing from
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Klarna Launches Price Comparison Tool in Sweden, Denmark and the UK
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) solution provider Klarna has launched a new in-app price comparison tool to provide an alternative to Google or Amazon as a starting point for consumers’ online shopping journeys. Consumers will be able to view product
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McKinsey: Sweden Emerges as One of The Best Fintech Ecosystem in Europe
In Europe, fintech activity is growing in virtually all countries, but performance and maturity levels are found to be the greatest in the UK and Sweden, the two countries that are now leading the region for the size of their
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