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| 25.03.2026 | PSD3 Takes Effect in July 2026 and Most European Banks Are Not Ready | Share
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The EU’s Payment Services Directive 3 takes effect on July 1, 2026, and most European banks are not ready. A February 2026 survey by the European Banking Authority found that 61% of EU-licensed payment institut... |
| 19.02.2026 | Stockholm-based Agaton secures €8.4 million to turn customer conversations into revenue insights | Emerging from stealth, Agaton, a Swedish agentic AI platform identifying and actioning sales opportunities based on customer conversations, today announced it has raised €8.4 million ($10 million) in total Seed funding.
The Seed round was c... |
| 08.02.2026 | Bits Technology Secures €12M. Redefines European Financial Compliance. | Bits Technology secured €12 million Series A funding. The firm revolutionizes compliance for European fintechs and banks. Its platform unifies AML and fraud detection. It streamlines onboarding, risk assessment, and continuous monitoring. T... |
| 03.02.2026 | Bits Technology: €12 Million Series A Raised To Unify AML And Fraud Workflows for European Fintechs | Bits Technology announced it has raised a €12 million Series A round to accelerate product development and expand across Europe, positioning its compliance infrastructure platform as a single system for onboarding, risk assessment, and cont... |
| 02.02.2026 | Swedish startup Bits raises €12 million to deepen automation across FinTech compliance workflows | Bits, a Stockholm-based provider of compliance and onboarding infrastructure for regulated FinTech companies and banks, has raised €12 million in Series A funding in order to deepen automation across financial crime workflows and expand cov... |
| 21.08.2025 | Growth Hackers Boosts Market Position with Lovable SEO Partnership | Growth Hackers Sthlm AB has announced a strategic partnership with Lovable, Europe’s fastest-growing AI startup, marking a significant milestone in the agency’s mission to re-establish itself as the leading growth partner for AI-focused com... |
| 19.06.2025 | Visa's Bold Moves: Redefining Payments and Expanding Horizons | In the ever-evolving landscape of digital finance, Visa is making waves. The company is not just keeping pace; it’s setting the tempo. With the launch of the Visa Flex Credential in Vietnam and a new office in Stockholm, Visa is reshaping h... |
| 18.06.2025 | Visa establishes new office with Hufvudstaden | Visa establishes new office with Hufvudstaden
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Hufvudstaden has signed a long-term lease agreement with global payments company Visa, which will establish its new office in Hufvudstaden's prope... |
| 20.08.2024 | How Many Brits Are Using Digital Financial Management? | Consumers across the UK who are using digital financial management tools report being on average £37.08 better off per month, or £445 better off per year, compared to pre-adoption.
Today, as many as 7.6 million Brits are already using digit... |
| 14.06.2024 | The Complexities and Contradictions of Microservices: A Comprehensive Examination of the Tech Industry's Architectural Landscape | In the ever-evolving realm of technology, the adoption of microservices has emerged as a prevailing trend, promising scalability, flexibility, and efficiency in software development. However, beneath the surface of this seemingly revolution... |
| 11.06.2024 | Spotify and Klarna top Scandi founder factory charts amid “talent war” | All of tech and beyond know of the so-called PayPal Mafia, luminaries such as Elon Musk, Max Levchin and Steve Chen, who went on to greater fame, setting up the likes of Tesla, Affirm and YouTube.
Likewise, Sweden and Denmark have their own... |
| 27.04.2024 | Volt: Meet the fintech taking on Visa and Mastercard’s duopoly | For six decades, the global payments industry has been dominated by Visa and Mastercard. In 2021, the American giants had 99 per cent market share of UK debit and credit card payments.
Cue Volt. Founded in 2019, the London-based fintech is ... |
| 25.04.2024 | Chilean instant payments API startup Fintoc raises $7 million to turn Mexico into its main market | Open banking may be a global trend, but implementation is fragmented. The fintech startups doing the legwork to make it a reality in smaller markets could become M&A targets for incumbents like Visa.
One of these is Y Combinator alum Fi... |
| 02.04.2024 | Bridging the gender diversity gap: Insights from women leaders and founders in European fintech | - |
| 24.07.2023 | Open Banking Fintech Tink Shares Research Findings: UK Consumers Want Bank to Offer Tools to Track Environmental Impact | Tink, which claims to be one of Europe’s leading open banking platforms, reveals research finding that “an estimated 40% of people in the UK would like their bank to offer tools to track their environmental impact.”
Based on a survey of ove... |
| 26.01.2023 | Fintech Consolidation Set to Intensify This Year | 2022 saw the start of a significant consolidation phase for the fintech sector, a trend which is set to accelerate this year as the economic climate continues to deteriorate in the face of elevated inflation, higher interest rates and reduc... |
| 22.11.2022 | JPMorgan decides against prospective investment in open banking startup Yapily, sources say | JPMorgan has opted against a deal to back Yapily. Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
JPMorgan has cooled on a deal... |
| 09.05.2022 | Yapily to acquire finAPI in open banking consolidation move | Fintech startup Yapily is announcing that it plans to acquire finAPI — the transaction is subject to regulatory approvals before it closes. Both companies offer open banking solutions in Europe.
With this move, Yapily is consolidating its p... |
| 31.03.2022 | Klarna launches new Klarna Kosma division for its open banking platform | Last year, Visa surprised the European fintech industry as it announced that it would acquire Tink for €1.8 billion ($2.15 billion at the time of the deal). Klarna now wants to compete directly with Tink with a new business unit that has it... |
| 04.02.2022 | Numeral wants to turn bank accounts into microservices | Meet Numeral, a French startup that wants to upgrade corporate bank accounts. While clients interact with Numeral using a modern application programming interface (API), the startup connects directly to bank servers to upload payment files ... |
| 17.01.2022 | The Swedish Open Banking Ecosystem | In the last 15 years, technology has evolved and has transformed the world around us. In the financial services industry, “Open Banking,” which refers to the use of open APIs enabling third-party developers to build applications and service... |
| 23.12.2021 | Tink Completes Acquisition of FinTecSystems | Tink, a Swedish open banking platform, completed the acquisition of FinTecSystems, a Germany based open banking infrastructure fintech companyy, following regulatory approval.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
Following the acquisit... |
| 06.12.2021 | Tink Research Reveals 47% of European Financial Firms Increased Open Banking Spend in 2021 | New research published by open banking platform Tink reveals an increase in spending among Europe’s financial executives, with 47 per cent saying their open banking budgets have risen in 2021. This follows a challenging year in 2020, where ... |
| 06.12.2021 | Open banking needs better consent handling to allay consumers’ security worries | The news: Banks and third-party financial-services providers can revamp how they manage consumers’ consent for sharing the data needed to underpin open banking, per a new PYMNTS report that outlines an international landscape.
How we got he... |
| 01.12.2021 | UK regulator streamlines open banking by axing 90-day re-authentication mandate | The news: The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has repealed an open-banking requirement for customers to re-authenticate sharing account data with outside vendors every 90 days.
The change is effective on March 26, 2022 and will repla... |
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| 24.06.2021 | Visa buys Swedish fintech startup Tink for $2.1 billion | Visa announced Thursday that it is acquiring Swedish financial tech startup Tink for $2.1 billion (1.8 billion euros) which includes cash and retention incentives. The deal will help bolster the payment giant’s digital ambitions.
The annou... |
| 24.06.2021 | Visa to buy Swedish fintech Tink for €1.8bn | Visa announced Thursday that it had signed an agreement to acquire Swedish open banking platform Tink for €1.8bn, a landmark acquisition for European tech and open banking.
If completed, this would be the third-largest acquisition of a Euro... |
| 24.06.2021 | Visa acquires European open-banking fintech Tink for over $2B | Visa, the largest card network in the US, has agreed to purchase European open-banking service provider Tink for $2.15 billion (€1.8 billion), according to a press release.
The Swedish-based digital financial service startup utilizes the EU... |
| 24.06.2021 | Visa acquires European open-banking fintech Tink for over $2B | Visa, the largest card network in the US, has agreed to purchase European open-banking service provider Tink for $2.15 billion (€1.8 billion) according to a press release.
The Swedish-based digital financial service startup utilizes the EU ... |
| 24.06.2021 | Visa charges ahead, swipes up open banking platform Tink for €1.8 billion | Payments giant Visa has announced a definitive agreement to purchase Stockholm’s open banking platform Tink for €1.8 billion, including cash and retention incentives. Tink will continue to operate as its own brand and no management team cha... |
| 24.06.2021 | Visa to acquire open banking platform Tink for more than $2 billion | Visa has announced plans to acquire Tink for €1.8 billion, or $2.15 billion at today’s exchange rate. Tink has been a leading fintech startup in Europe focused on open banking application programming interfaces (APIs).
Today’s move comes a ... |
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| 18.05.2021 | Stockholm-based Tink makes major headway into DACH region, acquires Munich’s FinTecSystems | Stockholm’s open banking platform Tink has acquired Munich-based FinTecSystems. With the purchase, Tink will make large inroads into the DACH region, while FinTecSystems’ leading market position will only be strengthened. Tink is reporting ... |
| 11.05.2021 | Today in European Tech: A ‘complex’ joint venture with SoftBank, a Hedosophia-flavoured SPAC and some BIG funding rounds | Hello!
Here's what happened today in European Tech. Deals
- Hedosophia, the London-based fund manager, plans to raise an initial €400 million through a SPAC in Amsterdam. Dubbed 'Hedosophia European Growth', it then plans to merge with a Eu... |
| 14.12.2020 | Tink lands €85m for continued expansion into 2021 | Tink, a Swedish open banking start-up, has landed another €85 million following a year full of overseas acquisitions.
Tink CEO Daniel Kjellen and CTO Fredrik Hedberg
Co-led by new Parisian investor Eurazeo Growth and existing backer Dawn Ca... |
| 11.12.2020 | PayPal-backed Swedish fintech startup Tink valued at more than £600M after £78M of fresh funding | Over the next decade, we will see more changes in the open banking industry not only due to technological advancement but also a confluence of inter-related structural factors.
According to the report published by Allied Market Research, th... |
| 11.12.2020 | Stockholm-based fintech Tink secures €85M to fuel its European expansion & expand payment initiation in Europe | This year, funding rounds were quite affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. As we have previously reported, the funding for various sectors has changed in Europe. As expected, while travel startups are lagging in terms of funding, startups in o... |
| 11.12.2020 | Open Banking Platform Tink Secures €85 Million Through Latest Investment Round Co-Led By Eurozea Growth & Dawn Capital | Tink, a Sweden-based fintech that provides APIs to create next-generation banking services, announced on Friday it secured €85 million through its latest investment round, which was co-led by Eurozea Growth and Dawn Capital with participati... |
| 11.12.2020 | Swedish fintech startup Tink raises €85 million to strengthen its position as Europe’s leading open banking platform | Tink, a pioneering open banking platform from Sweden just secured €85 million of additional funding, led by Eurazeo Growth. This brings the total investment in Tink during 2020 to €175 million (€90 million were raised in January of this yea... |
| 11.12.2020 | Sweden’s Tink raises $103M as its open banking platform grows to 3,400 banks and 250M customers | Open banking platforms, where services that might not have previously lived next to each other are now joined up by way of APIs, has been one of the emerging trends of the last couple of years, and today one of the leaders in the space out ... |
| 03.12.2020 | Nordigen unveils free open banking platform to industry’s dismay | Nordigen, a Latvian fintech, has launched its free open banking platform, but not everyone in the industry is happy about it.
The freemium model arrives less than three years after open banking landed in the UK. It disrupts a sector still i... |
| 04.11.2020 | Tink Completes Acquisition Of Eurobits Technologies | Tink, a Stockholm, Sweden-based open banking platform, completed the acquisition of Eurobits, a Spanish account aggregation provider.
The €15.5m acquisition was originally announced on 27 March 2020.
Eurobits is thereby becoming part of Tin... |
| 07.10.2020 | Lydia partners with Tink to improve open banking features | French fintech startup Lydia is going to work with financial API startup Tink for its open banking features in its app. Lydia started as a peer-to-peer payment app and now has 4 million users in Europe.
Lydia’s vision has evolved to become ... |
| 21.09.2020 | Swedish fintech star Tink makes its third acquisition this year in deal with UK-based OpenWrks | Stockholm, Sweden-based Tink has acquired the ‘Open Banking Aggregation Platform’ from UK-based OpenWrks (via Breakit).
After acquiring Instantor and Eurobits earlier this year, Tink notes that this asset purchase and partnership strengthen... |
| 21.09.2020 | Open Banking Platform Tink Acquires OpenWrks’ Aggregation Platform | UPDATED VERSION 10.48 AM 21/09/2020
Tink, a Stockholm, Sweden-based open banking platform, acquired the aggregation platform of London, UK-based OpenWrks.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
Through the acquisition of the aggregation ... |
| 17.07.2020 | Tech startups weekly: Woman-led insurtech on rise, detecting fake news and potential COVID-19 vaccine | The COVID-19 pandemic effect is easing gradually and businesses are returning to their normal state. Since the debut of this pandemic, businesses across categories have been facing a plunge in demand except for telehealth and other digital ... |
| 16.07.2020 | Tink Acquires Instantor | Tink, a Stockholm, Sweden-based open banking platform, Instantor, a Stockholm, Sweden-based provider of credit decision solutions based on open banking technology.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
The deal will enable Tink to conti... |
| 23.06.2020 | These 7 ambitious European tech startups got featured in 50 global future unicorns list | Unicorns are the startups that reach a high valuation of $1 billion and above. Attaining this coveted status will position any company in a competitive business landscape. As per reports, there are over 400 unicorns in the world with most o... |
| 21.06.2020 | Сервис для управления расходами компании и поиск: CB Insights и Fast Company выбрали 50 будущих стартапов-«единорогов» Статьи редакции... | Около 20% будущих «единорогов» занимаются финтехом, а 70% компаний из США — главное из исследования.
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| 05.06.2020 | Stockholm-based fintech platform Tink gets second investment from PayPal, extends open banking support | The Stockholm based open banking platform Tink raised €90 million in funding, back in January this year. The company again received investment from PayPal and is extending support for the latter payment system in Europe. Tink is an open ban... |
| 05.06.2020 | Open banking: скоро будет жарко | Почему европейские банки закроют 40 000 отделений, какие данные будет собирать скоринговая модель WeChatPay, кто из финтех-«единорогов» вдвое увеличил капитализацию, а кто ― потерял и другие новости мировой индустрии open banking.
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| 03.06.2020 | Tink Receives Strategic Investment from PayPal | Tink, a Stockholm, Sweden-based open banking platform that enables banks, fintechs and startups to develop data-driven financial services, received a strategic investment from PayPal (Nasdaq: PYPL).
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.... |
| 03.06.2020 | Swedish open banking startup Tink takes funding from PayPal (again) | Stockholm-founded cloud-based open banking platform Tink has announced that it’s raised strategic funding from the US payment giant PayPal. The startup did not disclose the amount, but this is the second time PayPal injects money in Tink; b... |
| 17.04.2020 | Mastercard held deal talks with Sweden’s Tink | US payments company Mastercard held talks with Swedish fintech Tink late last year about a possible investment, according to three people with direct knowledge of the discussions.
Sources told Sifted that the talks were short-lived, with Ti... |
| 27.03.2020 | Tink Acquires Eurobits Technologies, for €15.5M | Tink, a Stockholm, Sweden-based open banking platform, acquired Eurobits Technologies, a Madrid, Spain-based provider of account aggregation services, for €15.5m.
The acquisition, conditional upon approval from the national competent author... |
| 20.01.2020 | Stockholm-based fintech platform Tink raises €90M for market expansion strategy | Based out of Stockholm, Tink is an open banking platform that enables banks, fintechs, and startups to develop data-driven financial services.
In the latest development, Tink has raised €90 million in a new funding round co-led by Dawn Capi... |
| 20.01.2020 | Tink Closes €90M Funding Round | Tink, a Stockholm, Sweden-based open banking platform, raised €90m in funding.
The round was co-led by Dawn Capital and HMI Capital — together with existing investor Insight Partners, with participation from Poste Italiane as a new investor... |
| 20.01.2020 | Stockholm-based Tink secures €90 million to expand its open banking platform further across Europe | Today the Swedish startup Tink announces it has completed a €90 million investment round, co-led by Dawn Capital, HMI Capital and Insight Partners.
Tink, founded in 2012, is one of Europe’s leading open banking platforms that enables banks,... |
| 19.01.2020 | Open banking platform Tink raises €90M at a post-money valuation of €415M | Tink, the European open banking platform, is disclosing €90 million in new funding, just 11 months after the Sweden-headquartered company announced a €56 million round of funding.
Co-leading this new round is Dawn Capital, HMI Capital and I... |
| 12.12.2019 | Here are 10 Stockholm-based startups that raised maximum funding in 2019 | Stockholm’s tech startup ecosystem is booming and the city is considered to be one among the leading tech hubs in 2019. The growth of the city’s business ecosystem is attributed to the presence of popular fintech companies, creative tech st... |
| 22.08.2019 | Tink sends open letter to European regulators seeking flexibility around PSD2 deadline | Tink, the Stockholm-based open banking platform, sent an open letter to European regulators to request some flexibility around the Sept. 14 deadline for PSD2, a warning that not a single financial institution has met the requirements to be ... |
| 04.06.2019 | Top tech startup news for today, Tuesday, June 4, 2019 | Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Tuesday, June 4, 2019.
Apple announces iOS 13, new OS for iPad and a slew of features for Apple Maps. Yesterday, Apple made a series of announcements during its Apple’s W... |
| 04.06.2019 | PayPal invests $11.2 million in Swedish fintech startup Tink | PayPal has made a $11.2 million (10 million euros) strategic investment in Swedish Open Banking platform Tink, a fintech startup that enables banks and financial technology startups to access financial data more easily, the companies said o... |
| 04.06.2019 | Tink Receives Strategic Investment from Paypal | Tink, a Stockholm, Sweden-based open banking platform, received a strategic investment from PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL).
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
The company intends to use the funds to continue its expansion across Europe.
With ... |
| 03.06.2019 | Tink, the European open banking platform, announces PayPal as a strategic investor | Tink, the European open banking platform that recently raised €56 million in new funding, is disclosing that PayPal has become a strategic investor.
The online payments giant joins a long list of existing backers that includes U.S.-based In... |
| 31.05.2019 | Европейские банки хотят работать с финтех-стартапами, но боятся открывать API | Материалы рубрики FIN(TECH) создаются в партнёрстве с компанией exp(capital)
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| 08.05.2019 | Tink, the European banking platform, partners with British incumbent NatWest | It’s easy to push a narrative of fintech upstarts versus the big incumbent banks, but the more subtle reality is that as well as competing on numerous fronts, there are partnerships being formed across the board. The latest such move sees T... |
| 08.02.2019 | Шведский финтех-стартап Tink привлёк $64 млн от Insight Venture Partners, главы Revolut и других Статьи редакции | Он предоставляет свои решения крупным банкам.
Шведская компания Tink привлекла $64 млн инвестиций. Об этом говорится в блоге компании.
Tink работает с 2012 года, на старте компания предлагала финтех-сервис для частных клиентов, которые могл... |
| 07.02.2019 | Tink Completes €56M Funding Round | Tink, a Stockholm, Sweden-based open banking platform, completed a €56m funding round.
The round was led by Insight Venture Partners, with participation from Sunstone, SEB, Nordea Ventures and ABN AMRO Digital Impact Fund. They were joined ... |
| 07.02.2019 | Tink Raises €56M | Swedish startup Tink Tink
Founded: 2012
Headquarters: Stockholm, Sweden
Total Funding: $308.43M
See full company profile "> , “the rails and brains of open banking,” has raised €56 million in new funding led by Insight Venture Partn... |
| 06.02.2019 | Tink, the European open banking platform, scores €56M in new funding | Tink, the European open banking platform headquartered in Sweden, has deposited €56 million in new funding. Leading the round is U.S.-based Insight Venture Partners. Existing backers Sunstone, SEB, Nordea Ventures and ABN AMRO Digital Impac... |
| 20.05.2016 | Fintech Startup Tink Raises $10M in Series B Venture Capital Funding | Tink, a Stockholm, Sweden-based fintech startup, raised $10m in Series B venture capital funding.
Backers included Creades and SEB Venture Capital, the venture capital arm of Nordic financial services group SEB.
The company will use the fun... |
| - | UK regulator streamlines open banking by axing 90-day re-authentication mandate | The news: The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has repealed an open-banking requirement for customers to re-authenticate sharing account data with outside vendors every 90 days.
The change is effective on March 26, 2022 and will repla... |
| - | Visa to buy Swedish fintech Tink for $2.1 billion after abandoning Plaid takeover | Visa has agreed to acquire Swedish financial technology start-up Tink for 1.8 billion euros ($2.1 billion).
The deal comes after Visa’s bid to buy Plaid, an American rival to Tink, was torpedoed by U.S. regulators.
Plaid and Tink both opera... |
| - | Today in European Tech: A 'complex' joint venture with SoftBank, a Hedosophia-flavoured SPAC and some BIG funding rounds | Hello!
Here's what happened today in European Tech. Deals
- Hedosophia, the London-based fund manager, plans to raise an initial €400 million through a SPAC in Amsterdam. Dubbed 'Hedosophia European Growth', it then plans to merge with a Eu... |
| - | Stockholm-based Tink makes major headway into DACH region, acquires Munich’s FinTecSystems | Stockholm’s open banking platform Tink has acquired Munich-based FinTecSystems. With the purchase, Tink will make large inroads into the DACH region, while FinTecSystems’ leading market position will only be strengthened. Tink is reporting ... |
| - | Visa купит финтех-стартап Tink за €1,8 млрд для создания банковской платформы в Европе Статьи редакции | Технология Tink позволяет сторонним сервисам и приложениям получать доступ к банковской информации.
С помощью Tink компания рассчитывает ускорить внедрение открытого банковского обслуживания в Европе.
Закон Евросоюза требует, чтобы банки пр... |
| - | Visa charges ahead, swipes up open banking platform Tink for €1.8 billion | Payments giant Visa has announced a definitive agreement to purchase Stockholm’s open banking platform Tink for €1.8 billion, including cash and retention incentives. Tink will continue to operate as its own brand and no management team cha... |
| - | Open banking needs better consent handling to allay consumers’ security worries | The news: Banks and third-party financial-services providers can revamp how they manage consumers’ consent for sharing the data needed to underpin open banking, per a new PYMNTS report that outlines an international landscape.
How we got he... |
