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Opinion

September 29, 2026

As FlatPay soars, the rest of Nordic fintech searches for its next act

While the SME payments company enjoys a meteoric rise, everyone else contemplates the sector’s future

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the Nordic fintech slump. Fintech made up just 15% of Sifted’s latest Nordics leaderboard — our ranking of the region’s 100 fastest growing startups  — down from more than a quarter the year before.

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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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