Challenger bank Lunar partners with Danish esports firm Astralis
Denmark and Sweden lead European esports usage.
Denmark and Sweden lead European esports usage.
The services will help develop APIs alongside evolving regulations.
The fresh capital will initiate an “aggressive growth” plan to achieve pan-European coverage.
Suppliers will benefit from “several hundred million euros” early.
Also this week, Wirecard teamed with Southeast Asian ride-sharing firm Grab.
30 million payments have already been made on the new system.
“Open banking has a tendency […] to do stuff globally or do it pan-European,” says CEO.
The challenger already has 200,000 customers largely in Finland and Germany.
Nordic payments group snaps up new firms to boost terminal services.
Finland’s largest financial group calls the partnership “the right match”.
The news was unveiled at Madrid’s UN Climate Change Conference COP25.
Enfuce is dubbed the biggest fintech start-up in Finland.
OP Financial is looking for partners focusing on CX, reliability and security.
The bank has racked up a €1.3 billion bill for one-off items.
Spyros Retzekas, COO at Qualco says agility is the key.
The fintech partners with Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken.
The banks predict P27 will start generating revenue in 2021.
Businesses can see transactions in seconds rather than days.
The pair installed Finnish firm Pivo’s technology in an ice cream truck.
Combined, TietoEvry will have 24,000 employees and annual revenues of €3 billion ($3.4 billion).
The partnership seeks to take advantage of the popularity of online bank payments in the region.
Finnish start-up serves “everyday entrepreneurs” with business current accounts.
Temenos’ regional partner Cognizant will implement and manage the new platform.
Will also build and operate a shared core banking platform for three companies.
Evry will provide Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) core banking and payment solutions.
Joined by Asiakastieto, OP, Privanet and Tieto for a feisty fintech force.
Two have joined forces to help Uber’s drivers manage their finances.
MobilePay becomes independent as nation’s regulator grants it payments licence.
Offering alternative financing solutions for growth companies.
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Savings and deposits now done on the new core banking platform, Temenos’ T24.
From India via Israel to Finland – starring MoneyOnMobile, Tipalti and Zervant.
Danske Bank, DNB, Handelsbanken, Nordea, OP Financial Group, SEB and Swedbank in talking mood.
Group of Chinese travellers conclude first ever cashless journey to Finland.
Nordea has connected APIs to its production system and made its open banking live in Finland.
Helsinki-based credit institution Municipality Finance (Kuntarahoitus) has gone live on Profile Software’s Acumen treasury solution to manage and automate its operations. Acumen will be used to manage deal capture, pricing, middle office, reporting, collateral management, back office and risk management processes. Profile says Acumen can integrate with “numerous” systems and pricing platforms to import real […]
Norway-based banking tech vendor Evry will provide Finland’s Aktia Bank with the “entire value chain for card payments”, including virtual debit and credit cards for the bank’s digital proposition, Aktia Wallet.
Finland-based Aktia Bank has completed “the full-scale implementation” of its new core banking system, Temenos’ T24.
Nordea has chosen Estonian start-up Feelingstream’s artificial intelligence (AI) software to speed up response times for customers. Feelingstream’s AI solution analyses and categorises messages sent by customers so they can be forwarded automatically to the right person or unit in Nordea for further processing. The software can analyse hundreds of messages per second. The solution […]
OP Bank, Nordea and Danske Bank have launched a new real-time, multibank mobile payments platform in Finland. The platform was built by Tieto and Automatia (the latter operates the three banks’ shared ATM network).