The holiday season is almost upon us, but that doesn’t mean that the world of Nordic fintech is slowing down - quite the opposite! The Slush conference swept through Helsinki just recently and with it came a lot of fintech goodness for us to discuss in this month’s edition of Nordic Fintech Highlights in collaboration with Helsinki Fintech Farm.

Stories we covered in this episode:

• Enfuce secures a new round of funding
• Tink partners with Savings Bank
• Group Bank of Lithuania reveals five year strategy to become a leading country in fintech

In this episode of the Fintech Daydreaming podcast, co-hosts Ville and Pål are thrilled to host a distinguished guest, best-selling author Sangeet Paul Choudary, the insightful mind behind the book "Platform Revolution." Sangeet joins the conversation to delve into the seismic shifts that platform business models are inducing across the financial sector.

In the conversation, Sangeet identifies a compelling pattern in the global economy: a cycle of digitalization that alternates between the unbundling and rebundling of services and industries. He sheds light on the critical role that platforms play in this dynamic, serving as orchestrators and connectors in an increasingly digitally-converged world.

We know you never want to miss an episode of Fintech Daydreaming, but this is guaranteed to be the one episode of Fintech Daydreaming you won't want to miss.

In this engaging second episode of our collaboration with Helsinki Fintech Farm, we journey once more through the bustling Nordic fintech landscape.

Though payments and venture funding may appear routine, the Nordic fintech sector always keeps us on our toes.

This time around, we delve into the pivotal role of national infrastructure in fostering fintech adoption, and explore the impact of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in our daily lives, probing their actual relevance.

And fear not, our tradition of sharing a humorously bad joke continues in this episode, keeping the narrative lively and amusing. Will the joke be exceptionally bad this time? Tune in to find out!

If embedded banking and finance are the future of financial institutions, will the role of banks become more critical, less significant, or simply transform? Paul Staples, Head of Corporate Embedded Banking at ClearBank, joins hosts Pål Krogdahl and Ville Sointu to delve into the shifting role of banks within digital ecosystems and its long-term implications.

From atrocious quantum jokes to insights on machine-to-machine payments, this episode is a must-listen, even if you believe you've already mastered the intricacies of embedded finance.

The first ever episode of Nordic Fintech Highlights is here! Pål and Ville join Janne from Helsinki Fintech Farm to discuss what’s hot (or not) in Nordic fintech this month. In this episode we discuss:

• Alphasense becomes the first Finnish fintech biunicorn - AlphaSense, an AI-based market intel firm, snaps up $150M at a $2.5B valuation | TechCrunch
• Enable Banking partners for pan-European open banking - Enable Banking, CRIF and Strands Forge Strategic Partnership to Revolutionize Open Finance Solutions in the Nordics.
• Enigio Time secure funding from a top-tier bank for accelerating digital trade - Lloyds Banking Group Invests €3M In Enigio To Support Digital Documentation In Trade | Crowdfund Insider

Stay tuned for monthly updates of Nordic fintech news on this channel, and don’t worry - we still stick with bad jokes and of course Fintech Daydreaming will resume regular programming in the next episode 🤓