Meniga raises €7.5M round led by Industrifonden
Nordic venture capital investor Industrifonden with participation of Velocity Capital and Frumtak Ventures leads a €7.5M funding round in Meniga, a global finte...
Banking
Bondora's Master Plan
Bondora, Estonian P2P marketplace for loans, plans to expand it's offering to become increasingly like Procter&Gamble, which manages many different brands ...
Nordea launches an accelerator for Nordic FinTech startups
Nordea, a financial services group in Northern Europe, announces starting an accelerator program for Nordic FinTech startups in autumn 2015. The application per...
Holvi to open in 19 European countries, staff acquisitions in three
It’s been roughly three months and half since Holvi had the Financial Supervisory Authority ratify its EU-wide permission to expand across Europe; once the appr...
Holvi lets startups compare their finances to Apple's first year
You may have read about Holvi before, the modern Finnish banking company that do things quite differently to your ordinary bank. Today they are launching a new...
IsePankur Enters Finland and Reports 2655% Overall Growth
Has the peer lending revolution finally started taking off in Europe? IsePankur, the Estonian based peer to peer lending network has announced last year that t...
Elisa Launches An E-Wallet That Supports Virtual Credit Cards And MasterCard PayPass
Elisa announced that they have launched Elisa Lompakko in Finland, which is basically an online wallet that you can put money into using a bank transfer. Once y...
Another Attack On The Banking Industry: uBank Raised $8 Million From Runa Capital
It seems that a lot of companies in our region are setting their sights onto the banking industry. After all, according to Gartner the worldwide mobile payment ...
Rocketbank Of Russia Joins Holvi, Transferwise and Isepankur In Disrupting Banking
The idea of disrupting one of the largest industries in the world has become quite popular in our region. After all, even if you get a minuscule part of the pi...
Kim Forsman Of Maventa: Customers Are Your Lifeline
In the past few years even the biggest and most traditional organizations have taken steps to modernize their services. In the banking business, E-invoicing is ...