P27 Nordic Payments - News, Articles & Research

NextGen Nordics 2024: NPC’s Camilla Åkerman on navigating payment complexities

NextGen Nordics is returning to Stockholm on the 23rd of April and we are pleased to announce Camilla Åkerman, secretary general of the Nordic Payments Council (NPC), will be joining us as our keynote speaker.

23 February 2024

News/retail

NextGen Nordics: Managing innovation risk with regulation and education

Rounding out the NextGen Nordics’ afternoon sessions, Anna Milne, editor at Finextra, took to the stage for a fireside chat with Einar Eidsson, product director, for buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) provider, indó iceland.

27 April 2023

News/crypto

NextGen Nordics: Retail CBDCs could jeopardise commercial banks’ deposit base

Exploring CBDCs and the future of technology in the Nordics and across Europe, Paige McNamee, senior reporter at Finextra discussed the painpoints central bank digital currencies could help to alleviate and what level of cybersecurity, AML and KYC is required.

25 April 2023

News/payments

P27 Nordic Payments withdraws second clearing application

The future of P27 Nordic Payments (P27), the largest regional, cross-border, instant payment project to be attempted in history, is uncertain.

20 April 2023

News/payments

NextGen Nordics 2023: Speakers announced!

NextGen Nordics will return to Stockholm on 25 April 2023, and we will be welcoming a range of speakers who will discuss topics such as P27, cross border payments, open banking, BNPL, CBDCs, digital assets and Web 3.0.

27 March 2023

News/payments

P27 CEO Paula da Silva to give keynote at NextGen Nordics 2023

Ahead of NextGen Nordics, which will return to Stockholm on 25 April 2023, Finextra will be publishing a series of ‘sneak peeks’, covering the topics and interviewing the panellists speaking at the event.

17 February 2023

News/payments

NextGen Nordics: Highlights since our last Nordic event

As we prepare for our upcoming NextGen Nordics conference on the 25th of April in Stockholm, we are publishing a series of ‘Sneak peeks’, which will take a dive into some of the topics and speakers covered at the event.

10 February 2023

Finextra TV/Sibos

Reimagining cross-border payments with P27

Martin Georgzen, Head of Customers & Relations at P27 Nordic Payments Platform, speaks to FinextraTV at Sibos 2022, discussing the upcoming launch of P27 next year, what its future looks like and how as an infrastructure provider P27 will respond to an increasingly destabilized geopolitical situation.

18 October 2022

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

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

News/payments

Denmark approves role of P27 as new national clearing house

P27, the cross-border payments platform being developed by a group of Nordic banks, is to become the new national clearing house for Denmark, replacing the current infrastructure run by Finance Denmark.

05 January 2022

News/payments

P27 names SEB's Paula da Silva CEO

P27, the cross-border payments platform being developed by a group of Nordic banks, has appointed SEB's Paula da Silva as CEO, replacing Lars Sjögren.

01 November 2021

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

Finextra TV/payments

P27's key message to the market & authorities in the leap-up to EBAday 2021

Lars Sjögren, CEO, P27 Nordic Payments shares his insights before EBAday 2021. He highlights the challenges presented by 2020, the key trends and most ambitious initiatives we can expect this year from Central Banks and the Commission & Financial Stability Board, where P27 fits in, and what work they are doing in the light of these developments.

07 June 2021

Company announcement/payments

Banking Circle joins P27 initiative

Global financial infrastructure provider, Banking Circle, has joined the P27 Nordic payment initiative as a front-runner bank in creating bulk-clearing for the Danish Krone, underlining its commitment to building a global payments infrastructure.

11 May 2021

News/payments

Nordic payments project P27 appoints chairman

P27, the cross-border payments platform being developed by six Nordic banks, has named Martin Andersson as independent chairperson as the project prepares for operational roll out.

22 January 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

Finextra TV/payments

P27 - Overcoming the setbacks of 2020

Lars Sjögren, CEO, P27 Nordic Payments speaks during EBADay 2020 about P27's progress in building the world’s first real-time, cross-border payment system in multiple currencies. He tells us how P27 has handled the disruption caused by Covid-19, what their plans are for implementation moving into 2021 and why P27 is still essential for trade across the Nordic countries.

23 November 2020