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Navigating the Nordic financial landscape: 2025 challenges and priorities

28 April 2025 349 downloads

Flex accelerates consumer expansion through Maza acquisition

Flex, a fintech that helps business owners automate their back offices, has acquired Maza a fintech app aimed at Spanish-speakers in a $40 million deal.

25 April 2025

Company update/crypto

Permutable launches free AI-driven pattern-spotting tool for crypto traders

Permutable AI today announced it's giving away its powerful R2 Pattern Detection tool to all cryptocurrency traders for free.

24 April 2025

Company update/ai

Finhabits ships bi-lingual financial planner for novice investors

Finhabits, the leading bilingual consumer fintech platform in the U.S., launches Emma, an AI-driven financial planner designed to empower investors with 24/7, bi-lingual and culturally-nuanced financial guidance.

24 April 2025

News/ai

TD to open New York AI office

Canada's TD Bank is opening a New York outpost of its Layer 6 AI research and development centre.

24 April 2025

News/payments

The 150 leading organisations confirmed to attend NextGen Nordics 2025

The Nordic region has long stood at the forefront of digital payments, open banking, and financial technology. This legacy of innovation continues at full pace with the return of NextGen Nordics, a premier event gathering the most influential players in the financial services ecosystem. Set against the dynamic backdrop of the Nordic fintech scene, the 2025 edition of NextGen Nordics on 29 April 2025 at the Münchenbryggeriet in Stockholm, Sweden promises to be the most impactful yet.

23 April 2025

Company update/ai

Norm Ai assembles an AI Agent Advisory Committee

Norm Ai, a Regulatory AI agent company, is announcing the formation of two strategic advisory bodies composed of industry leaders to guide the responsible development and deployment of AI agents in highly regulated industries.

22 April 2025

Company update/startups

Terra Security raises $8 million for AI-based white hacker

Terra Security, an Agentic AI-native penetration testing service-as-a-software platform, raises $8M in a seed round led by SYN Ventures and FXP Ventures with participation from Underscore VC and notable angel investors including former Google CISO Gerhard Eschelback, Ofer Ben-Noon and Ohad Bobrov, founders of Talon Security, Travis McPeak and Itamar Friedman.

22 April 2025

Finextra TV/wealth

Influx of Self-Directed Investors Sparks Conversation About Education

At the Communify Fincentric Experience 2025 in Miami, FinextraTV were joined by Sarlota Hohwald and Randolph Johnson, LSEG, to discuss the growing rise of the self-direct market brings a renewed importance to the debate around financial education. On top of this, they discussed the use of AI to replace typical advisors and how a human touch is still essential in these moments.

22 April 2025

Company update/ai

CSI releases AI-powered AML compliance and fraud detection platform

CSI, a leading provider of end-to-end financial software and technology, announced the launch of its AI-powered AML compliance and fraud detection solutions: TruDetect and TruProtect.

22 April 2025

News/ai

10x Banking unveils suite of core banking AI products

10x Banking has unveiled a suite of new AI capabilities being integrated into its meta core to accelerate banking transformation, improve operational efficiency, and enhance decision-making for banks.

22 April 2025

News/ai

Investing.com unveils AI-driven financial researcher

Investing.com, a provider of financial news, tools and data to retail investors, has launched an AI-driven researcher called WarrenAI.

21 April 2025

News/ai

BNY strengthens compliance with Behavox Quantum

BNY has boosted its compliance monitoring by rolling out Behavox's AI-powered electronic and voice communication surveillance system.

18 April 2025

Company update/payments

Alipay launches payments server for AI agents

Alipay unveiled its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for payment services this week, enabling merchants and AI developers to use natural language to access Alipay payment services through their preferred MCP clients or AI agents.

17 April 2025

Company update/ai

Allvue Systems unveils 'inteligent' data management system for private capital markets

Allvue Systems, LLC, a leading provider of technology solutions for investment managers, has announced the launch of the Allvue Nexius Intelligent data platform, an AI-ready, cloud-native solution designed to eliminate data silos, automate workflows, and deliver real-time insights for private capital markets.

17 April 2025

Company update/wealth

Practifi taps AI from Zocks to improve wealth management workflows

Zocks, an innovative, privacy-first AI platform that turns client conversations into actionable data and insights, has announced a strategic partnership with Practifi, the leading CRM built for wealth management.

17 April 2025

News/security

Google used AI to banish half a billion scam ads in 2024

Google has been using AI to crack down on advertising fraud, meeting a key demand from banks and politicians to bear down on scam accounts.

17 April 2025

News/retail

Latin American open finance platform Belvo raises $15m

Mexico City-based open finance API platform Belvo has raised $15 million in a round led by Quona Capital and joined by Citi Ventures.

17 April 2025

Company update/ai

Xceptor aligns data automation with OnCorps AI agents

Xceptor, the intelligent data automation platform for financial markets, and OnCorps AI, a leading provider of pre-trained AI and agents for financial operations, are partnering to bring advanced reconciliations and confirmations solutions to the industry.

15 April 2025

News/ai

Friday Harbor raises $6m for AI-powered mortgage origination

Friday Harbor, an AI-powered platform that helps loan officers assemble complete and compliant loan files in real time, has closed a $6 million seed round.

15 April 2025