Tag: Sweden

The total volume of fines levied against firms for breaking money laundering, data privacy, MiFID and know your customer rules jumped by 141% and amounted to $10.4bn in total so far this year.

FinTech Anyfin has found itself in the Swedish Consumer Agency's crosshairs again after two new commercials possibly broke the law.

These 33 FinTech funding rounds from last week highlight the rise of Scandi challenger banks, the importance of cybersecurity and how competition in the buy now, pay later space is heating up.

Swedish e-commerce company tretti.se's owner Whiteaway Group has seen confidential customer information being compromised in a ransomware attack.

The Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (SFSA) has given Nordic bank SEB with a SEK1bn ($112m) administrative fine after failings in its anti-money laundering efforts.

Klarna's losses grew sevenfold in the first six months of 2020 and now its ongoing conflict with the Swedish government has taken another turn.

Eurofins Digital Testing, the end-to-end quality assurance and testing services provider, has acquired cybersecurity Commissum Associates. Terms were not disclosed.

Swedish open banking company Tink has filled its coffers by signing an extended commercial agreement with PayPal which now sees it include all countries within the European Economic Area (EEA).

Sweden’s financial regulator Finansinspektionen has named BearingPoint RegTech as it new partner to help collect and analyse financial and prudential data.

German company Siemens has tapped Safetures to use its enterprise platform to protect its employees and corporate travellers.