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'Our companies are becoming excellent at surviving and worse at scaling': what's gone wrong with Nordic fintech

Fintech's share of Sifted's Nordics growth leaderboard has halved


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The Nordics have made a name for themselves as a hotbed of fast-growing fintech startups, thanks to the rise of giants like Klarna, iZettle and Tink.

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Damisola Sulaiman

Damisola Sulaiman is Sifted's fintech reporter, based in London. She writes Sifted's weekly Fintech newsletter . You can find her on LinkedIn

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