Tagged: norway

February 12, 2020 @ 11:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Norway-based DNB, the European nation’s largest bank, is reportedly expanding its account aggregation tool. The bank will be adding the option of making account-to-account payments from any bank supported by its mobile banking app. DNB first launched its account aggregation tool in October 2019 using… Read More

November 20, 2019 @ 12:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OPay, a Nigeria-based mobile money service and ride-hailing app, revealed on November 18 that it had acquired $120 million in funding through a Series B investment round just months after it raised $50 million in a separate round. The African venture capital market has been… Read More

October 10, 2019 @ 9:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DNB, Norway’s largest financial institution, is introducing a new version of its mobile banking app.  DNB’s app will reportedly be powered by open banking platform Nordic API Gateway. The mobile-based app will allow the bank’s customers and other users to access all their personal and… Read More

July 13, 2019 @ 9:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Bitcoin Norway has shut down all operations according to its website and posts on Facebook. Bitcoin Norway is a cryptocurrency exchange that claims to have served over 25,000 Norwegians since 2013. Last week, via Twitter, the exchange said they are dealing with extraordinary problems: Hei… Read More

June 6, 2019 @ 9:02 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Germany-based global provider of digital payments and commerce solutions Wirecard announced on Thursday it has teamed up with NK department stores to accept Chinese mobile payment methods. According to Wirecard, NK welcomes over 9 million visitors annually to its luxury stores in Stockholm and Gothenburg. The… Read More

April 4, 2019 @ 4:51 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Fintech innovator Fenixera has launched its reporting and tracking platform. Fenixera, a global debt recovery platform tool designed to protect people from having to write-off international debt, is based in Norway. The platform account software aims to enable users to check people’s credit and payment history… Read More

January 21, 2019 @ 10:12 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Zwipe, a Norway-based fingerprint payment startup, announced on Monday it secured NOK 120 million (USD 14 million) in the offering of new shares ahead of a planned admission to trading on Merkur Market, Oslo Børs. Founded in 2009, Zwipe describes itself as a biometric tech startup that… Read More

January 9, 2019 @ 10:25 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Police and Norwegian media are reporting that the wife of one of Norway’s richest people went missing from her home October 31st, and hasn’t been seen since. According to Norwegian police, “the main hypothesis” is that 68-year-old Anne-Elisabeth Hagen was abducted. Police say they found… Read More

January 3, 2019 @ 4:26 pm By Cali Haan  |  

HIVE (TSX.V:HIVE) (OTC:HVBTF), a cryptocurrency mining outfit with locations in Canada, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, and Sweden, has rebuked the Norwegian government for requiring crypto mines there to pay standard electricity rates. Elsewhere, Hive recently received approval for a 50% Increase in ASIC capacity to mine… Read More

November 29, 2018 @ 12:54 pm By Cali Haan  |  

NTC Services, a consulting firm that assists “data centre” companies looking to establish themselves in Norway, says it has lost a billion dollar client thanks to a recent budget decision by the Norwegian government authorizing an electricity rate hike to local cryptocurrency mining farms, e24… Read More

November 22, 2018 @ 5:45 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Until now, “data centres” mining cryptocurrencies in Norway have qualified for the same reduced electricity rates enjoyed by other power-intensive industries- 0.48 øre per kilowatt, rather than 16.58 øre- but that is about to change, Aftenposten reports. The sector has reportedly raised the ire of the local Directorate… Read More

October 8, 2018 @ 9:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Innovation Norway and the School of Business and Law at the University of Adger (UiA) have partnered to offer a master’s course in crowdfunding. In addition to lectures and teaching, participating students will be working with real campaigns from real companies. Reportedly, more than 20 companies and… Read More

August 23, 2018 @ 1:58 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A Norwegian crypto mine that endured a bomb threat earlier this month is now being imperiled by a raft of noise complaints, The Local Norway reports. Noise from fans used to cool Kryptovault’s extensive cryptocurrency mining facility in Hønefoss, north of Oslo, is reportedly seriously… Read More

August 20, 2018 @ 10:03 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Two young braggarts who took to the Norwegian media to boast about millions in crypto profits last year are backpedalling now after media showed they disclosed minimal gains on their 2017 tax returns, Dagens Naeringsliv reports. Crypto-mining partners Philip Eriksen and Roy Arne Olsen, both… Read More

August 19, 2018 @ 12:27 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The operators of two crypto-mining facilities in rural Norway received a rather stern noise complaint last week in the form of a bomb threat, Vaksdalposten reports. According to a loose translation, Norwegian firm Krytpovault say the threatening note came in after the company’s operations in… Read More

July 2, 2018 @ 8:54 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Nordea announced on Monday it has into an agreement with Gjensidige Forsikring ASA to acquire all shares in Gjensidige Bank ASA. The company reported that it purchased the bank for an estimated cash consideration of NOK 5,500 million (€578 million), that will be adjusted for the… Read More

June 22, 2018 @ 7:44 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Danish fintech Clearhaus announced on Thursday it has launched Apple Pay in its Norwegian Webshop. This news comes just a few months after the company revealed its support for the payment method. As previously reported, the company explained that Apple products have always been popular in the Nordics,… Read More

June 4, 2018 @ 8:59 am By JD Alois  |  

Norwegian Fintech Blockbonds has partnered with I&M Bank Rwanda on SPENN – a mobile banking app for both individuals and businesses. SPENN is said to be 100% “cost free” – including money transfers, cost free payments in stores and cost free cash out and deposit… Read More

September 9, 2017 @ 1:16 pm By Xu Gao  |  

Online Marketplace Lenders Banned from Lending to College Students in China On September 6th, Zhao Jianjun, deputy director of the Department of Finance at Ministry of Education, announced at a press conference that online marketplace lenders are banned from lending to college students in China…. Read More

June 5, 2017 @ 12:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

      LATTICE80 and Nordic Finance Innovation (NFI) have announced a new partnership to “bridge Asia and the Nordic’s Fintech ecosystems.” LATTICE80 is the creation of Marvelstone Group, a private investment firm.  The two entities signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to seal the… Read More