Nordic Payments Area – P27

News/payments

Swedish banks to commence testing of P27

After two years of painstaking prepartion, more than a dozen banks connected to Swedish mobile payments system Swish are set to test the pan-Nordic payments platform P27 by the end of the year.

10 June 2022

Research/Nordic Payments Area – P27Survey

Payments Modernisation: The Big Survey 2022

30 May 2022 895 downloads

Research/Nordic Payments Area – P27

The Future of Payments 2022

27 May 2022 1741 downloads

Finextra TV/payments

Live @ NextGen Nordics 2022 - Event Highlights

Setting the blueprint for payments innovation to help shape the future. Highlights from the NextGen Nordics 2022 event in Stockholm, Sweden on 27 April 2022, hosted by Finextra. Topics and latest trends in the Nordic payments ecosystem include the status of the P27 initiative, CBDCs, ESG goals, cross-border & real-time payments, liquidity management, the metaverse, and what is driving upcoming changes. Join us again next year for NextGen Nordics 2023.

10 May 2022

Finextra TV/payments

P27's social economical position & the promise of standardisation

LIVE @ NextGen Nordics, Paula da Silva, CEO, P27 Nordic Payments, speaks about the progress of the P27 initiative since the pandemic, the social-economical impact it will have across the Nordics, and the promise of standardisation.

29 April 2022

Finextra TV/payments

LIVE @ NextGen Nordics: Driving the value of Open Banking across Europe

LIVE @ NextGen Nordics, Paiak Vaid, Head of Global Partnerships, TrueLayer speaks about what value is Open Banking driving right now and making it mainstream, how things have moved on in Europe and the Nordics, and how the consumer is benefitting from this progress.

29 April 2022

Finextra TV/crypto

LIVE @ NextGen Nordics: CBDC's & digital currencies - Transforming the payments landscape

LIVE @ Nextgen Nordics, Ville Sointu, Head of Emerging Tech, Nordea speaks about CBDCs and digital currencies. We hear how they are transforming the payments landscape for the better, some the of challenges around regulation and crime, and whether CBDC's will become part of the Nordic payments infrastructure in the future.

29 April 2022

Finextra TV/sustainable

LIVE @ NextGen Nordics: The road to achieving ESG goals with meaningful action

LIVE @ NextGen Nordics, Angela Hultberg, Global Director of Sustainability, Kearney, speaks just off her panel about the road to achieving ESG goals with meaningful action. We hear how organisations are now responsible for driving positive change, the challenges Nordic players need to overcome when considering climate-related losses and whether enough progress is being made.

29 April 2022

News/crypto

NextGen Nordics: Who started the rumour that CBDCs will replace cash?

Niamh Curran, Finextra reporter, took to the stage to question Faisal Islam, fintech/regtech specialist at Sentinels; Anders Olofsson, head of payments at Finastra; and Ville Sointu, head of emerging technology at Nordea about digital currencies and whether they will have the capacity to transform payment systems and how cash is used.

28 April 2022

News/payments

NextGen Nordics: P27 provides updated timeline

NextGen Nordics marks the first in person event run by Finextra since 2019, and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on payments was something Gary Wright, head of research at Finextra, reflected on in his keynote speech.

27 April 2022

News/inclusion

NextGen Nordics: Banking app for Ukrainian refugees launched

Ahead of our NextGen Nordics conference on 27th April 2022, we will be putting together a weekly briefing of selected top stories that are emerging out of the region and setting the blueprint for payments innovation across Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.

08 April 2022

News/payments

P27 Nordic Payments secures merger approval from EU Commission

The European Commission today announced merger approval for the P27 Nordic Payments initiative to establish its pan-Nordic payments platform. This approval marks a significant milestone for the initiative which is working toward the creation of a common payments infrastructure across the Nordic region.

09 July 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2021: Modernisation, a catalyst for payments utopia

With day two now under our belt, we are only just beginning to digest the eyewatering number of insights shared across six panel sessions, two roundtables, a lively chatroom forum and of course, non-stop networking on the EBAday platform.

29 June 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2021: The road to payments transformation

After the success of EBAday 2020, the event will again run in digital format on 28-30 June 2021 for its sixteenth year, welcoming a host of board directors, chief executive officers and payments and technology heads from Europe’s leading banks.

12 March 2021

News/payments

Nordic change is in the air for 2021

As part of Finextra’s Predictions Series for 2021, Hannah Wallace spoke to Erik Zingmark, Nordea’s head of transaction banking to unpack some of the leading trends he expects to see throughout 2021.

05 February 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2020: It’s do-or-die time for real-time payments

Launching into the session ‘Reaping the potential of real-time payments’, Dean Wallace, director of real-time payments, digital and request to pay, ACI Worldwide argues that the expectations of the market will only continue to evolve, pressuring financial institutions to finalise their real-time payments (RTP) strategy.

25 November 2020

News/payments

EBAday 2020: Batch processing gives way to the instant payments revolution

At EBAday 2019 in Stockholm, Deutsche Bank’s Koral Araskin highlighted that if instant payments is the new normal, banks will heavily depend on cash buffers to cover all payment flows - even those which come outside of normal working hours. "Is this really meaningfully achievable?" he pondered last year. The events of 2020 and the impact of Covid-19 have truly shown that it must be achievable.

24 November 2020

News/payments

Can RtP offer the agile approach needed in the post-Coronavirus recovery?

As the world recovers from the Coronavirus pandemic, it is assumed that financial institutions and other businesses will need to adopt new ways of working to navigate what is said to be one of the worst economic downturn in recent years.

23 November 2020

Research/Nordic Payments Area – P27

Can Strong Customer Authentication open the door to new end user experiences?

30 October 2020 565 downloads

News/payments

From hypotheticals to reality: P27 cogs are well and truly turning

Regulatory, technical, logistic, connectivity, and political challenges aren’t enough to slow the progress of P27. During their latest NextGen Nordics webinar by Finextra, industry players from across the European payments landscape joined to discuss the key factors impacting the project at present.

26 October 2020