Nordic Fintech Snippets – December
Last month of the year, and still so much going on. 2021 was truly groundbreaking for Nordic fintech. Fintech companies raised a record sum of funding and showed some bold plans to take over the world. New partnerships between new and old players were established weekly, and the incumbents are really working on new solutions.
You can find all the monthly Nordic Fintech Snippets from 2021 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
Tuum provides core services for new digital bank from Ferratum
Denmark
Pleo scores $200m Series C extension
Payroll start-up Pento raises $35m in Series B
Tradeshift raises $200m in debt and equity
Nets and Ethoca partner to reduce chargebacks, friendly fraud and transaction confusion
Risika raises DKK 35M in their largest investment round to date
Iceland
Meniga wins Most Authentic ESG at the FF Awards
Landsbankinn prepares for PSD2 with Salt Edge
Meniga appoints Gunter Saurwein as COO
Sweden
Ola Laurin appointed CEO of PayEx; Swedbank’s Pål Bergström takes the chair
Klarna taps GoCardless for bank debit payments in the US
Klarna enters 13 new European markets with Marqeta
SEB to automate billing ops globally with SunTec
Norway
Visma acquires Danish fintech Acubiz
Future events
12.1. What is TIBER and what should I know about it?
18.1. Why Should Banks Be Open to Ecosystems?
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