Digital banks have long eschewed physical branches in favor of direct, digital customer engagement. Digital banking’s convenience has been a competitive advantage for challenger or neo banks, increasingly allowing their customers to do their banking tasks on a smart phone or at the kitchen table....
Swedish FinTech Froda has launched a card-based embedded lending solution in Denmark. Developed in partnership with digital challenger bank Lunar and Visa, this offering was successfully tested in Denmark during the spring and became available to all Lunar customers in the country Tuesday (June 20), Froda said in a Tuesday press release....
Visa, Froda and Lunar have partnered to launch a digital solution for business loans. With this collaboration, Nordic digital bank Lunar will be able to offer its small and medium-sized business (SMB) clients access to business loans via Froda’s embedded lending platform as well as...
From Europe’s first banknotes, issued in Stockholm in 1660, to the Danish government’s world-first abolition of paper bond certificates in 1980, the Nordic countries have long been at the vanguard of European payment and banking trends. To consider a more recent development, Nordic countries were...
June 13, 2024
Digital banks have long eschewed physical branches in favor of direct, digital customer engagement. Digital banking’s convenience has been a competitive advantage for challenger or neo banks, increasingly allowing their customers to do their banking tasks on a smart phone or at the kitchen table. This approach not only aligns with contemporary digital lifestyles but […]
March 14, 2022
They may be small in size and each with a population of fewer than 6 million people, but countries in the Nordic region like Norway, Denmark and Finland are global...
June 17, 2020
The shift to Digital 3.0 will include sports — in fact it will have two business models. One will be live gaming with teams competing for cash and prizes in...
June 20, 2023
Swedish FinTech Froda has launched a card-based embedded lending solution in Denmark. Developed in partnership with digital challenger bank Lunar and Visa, this offering was successfully tested in Denmark during the spring and became available to all Lunar customers in the country Tuesday (June 20), Froda said in a Tuesday press release. This new loan solution uses card rails for payouts and […]
February 16, 2023
Visa, Froda and Lunar have partnered to launch a digital solution for business loans. With this collaboration, Nordic digital bank Lunar will be able to offer its small and medium-sized...
March 29, 2022
Challenger bank Lunar is acquiring digital bank Instabank for 132 million euros (about $146 million), a move that will increase Lunar’s reach in Norway and open the door to the...
January 18, 2022
Nordic FinTech Lunar has selected cloud-native core banking tech Thought Machine to modernize its system and develop new services, the companies announced Tuesday (Jan. 18). Per the announcement, Lunar’s goal...
