Nordic Payments Area – P27

News/people

Silicon Valley Bank expands to Sweden

Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) UK has announced further Nordic expansion with the establishment of a representative office in Stockholm. SVB previously opened an office in Denmark in late 2019.

28 September 2022

News/identity

Banks and technology partners join EU-wide pilot of digital IDs

A new multi-country consortium of European identity experts has firmed up a proposal to deliver a large-scale, cross-border payments pilot.

14 September 2022

News/identity

Banks join Finnish initiative to build digital identity network

The Finnish Ministry of Finance has granted the Findynet Cooperative, which includes Nordea Bank and OP Financial Group among its members, a €3 million government grant to build a pilot environment for a self-sovereign identity network.

01 September 2022

News/payments

Walletmor sells payment implant number 1000

British-Polish startup Walletmor has sold its thousandth biopolymer payment device that can be implanted just under the surface of the skin.

16 August 2022

News/startups

Circular economy fintech Fairown expands to Poland

Sustainability-focused fintech, Fairown, has announced plans to expand into central Europe and develop a circular economy, by helping banks and vendors offer products as a service. The platform will join forces with Apple Premium Reseller Cortland and Inbank for its launch in Poland.

27 July 2022

News/payments

Tietoevry considers spin-off and listing of banking unit

Finnish IT services provider, Tietoevry, has announced that it is mulling over the option of separating and listing the Tietoevry Banking unit, as part of a wider strategic review.

22 July 2022

News/startups

Lightyear expands across Europe on $25 million fund raise

Lightyear, a commission-free investment platform founded by two early Wise employees, has raised $25 million as it launches into 19 European countries.

14 July 2022

News/payments

Paytrail and Mastercard hit monthly open banking milestone

Paytrail and Mastercard’s partnership through Aiia - an open banking platform, is now enabling more than one million open banking payments each month.

04 July 2022

News/payments

Klarna valuation to drop from $46bn to $6.5bn in new funding round - WSJ

Klarna is closing in on a funding round that would see the BNPL giant's valuation slashed from $45.6 billion last year to just $6.5 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal.

01 July 2022

Research/Nordic Payments Area – P27

Real Time Payments: Solving today's problems for tomorrow's success

23 June 2022 835 downloads

News/payments

Swedish banks to commence testing of P27

After two years of painstaking prepartion, more than a dozen banks connected to Swedish mobile payments system Swish are set to test the pan-Nordic payments platform P27 by the end of the year.

10 June 2022

Research/Nordic Payments Area – P27Survey

Payments Modernisation: The Big Survey 2022

30 May 2022 895 downloads

Research/Nordic Payments Area – P27

The Future of Payments 2022

27 May 2022 1741 downloads

Finextra TV/payments

Live @ NextGen Nordics 2022 - Event Highlights

Setting the blueprint for payments innovation to help shape the future. Highlights from the NextGen Nordics 2022 event in Stockholm, Sweden on 27 April 2022, hosted by Finextra. Topics and latest trends in the Nordic payments ecosystem include the status of the P27 initiative, CBDCs, ESG goals, cross-border & real-time payments, liquidity management, the metaverse, and what is driving upcoming changes. Join us again next year for NextGen Nordics 2023.

10 May 2022

Finextra TV/payments

P27's social economical position & the promise of standardisation

LIVE @ NextGen Nordics, Paula da Silva, CEO, P27 Nordic Payments, speaks about the progress of the P27 initiative since the pandemic, the social-economical impact it will have across the Nordics, and the promise of standardisation.

29 April 2022

Finextra TV/payments

LIVE @ NextGen Nordics: Driving the value of Open Banking across Europe

LIVE @ NextGen Nordics, Paiak Vaid, Head of Global Partnerships, TrueLayer speaks about what value is Open Banking driving right now and making it mainstream, how things have moved on in Europe and the Nordics, and how the consumer is benefitting from this progress.

29 April 2022

Finextra TV/crypto

LIVE @ NextGen Nordics: CBDC's & digital currencies - Transforming the payments landscape

LIVE @ Nextgen Nordics, Ville Sointu, Head of Emerging Tech, Nordea speaks about CBDCs and digital currencies. We hear how they are transforming the payments landscape for the better, some the of challenges around regulation and crime, and whether CBDC's will become part of the Nordic payments infrastructure in the future.

29 April 2022

Finextra TV/sustainable

LIVE @ NextGen Nordics: The road to achieving ESG goals with meaningful action

LIVE @ NextGen Nordics, Angela Hultberg, Global Director of Sustainability, Kearney, speaks just off her panel about the road to achieving ESG goals with meaningful action. We hear how organisations are now responsible for driving positive change, the challenges Nordic players need to overcome when considering climate-related losses and whether enough progress is being made.

29 April 2022

News/crypto

NextGen Nordics: Who started the rumour that CBDCs will replace cash?

Niamh Curran, Finextra reporter, took to the stage to question Faisal Islam, fintech/regtech specialist at Sentinels; Anders Olofsson, head of payments at Finastra; and Ville Sointu, head of emerging technology at Nordea about digital currencies and whether they will have the capacity to transform payment systems and how cash is used.

28 April 2022

News/payments

NextGen Nordics: P27 provides updated timeline

NextGen Nordics marks the first in person event run by Finextra since 2019, and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on payments was something Gary Wright, head of research at Finextra, reflected on in his keynote speech.

27 April 2022