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Funding and advertised pay are reported in USD; filed accounts retain their stated source currency and basis.

Exchange-rate basis

Indicative conversions use ECB reference rates dated 2026-09-14, applied consistently across all periods. They are not historical exchange rates. Indian rupees may use crore (1 crore = 10 million); other currencies use K, M and B. CSV downloads, source documents and quoted news headlines retain their original currencies.

THE SWEDEN EDITION 2026

Sweden’s
financial services industry,
in focus.

The companies, capital and talent shaping financial services in Sweden. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.

Snapshot: Funding in USD
Illustrated cover for Financial Services Industry Landscape of Sweden
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COMPANIES · CAPITAL · TALENT

An industry ecosystem,
measured in context.

Financial Services illustration
MEET THE COMPANIES

Explore Sweden’s financial services leaders

24 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.

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Financial Services company highlights in Sweden, snapshot 1 September 2026
Company
CHARM Solutionscharmsolutions.ai$3.5M13
Swimbirdswimbird.com$2.75M
Red Flagredflag.se$1.88M13
Nightingalenaktergal.tech$1.12M14
Bokoredobokoredo.se$681.42K48
Texeliotexelio.com$637.89K9
SenseInvestsenseinvest.net$443.81K
Volvo Financial Servicesvolvofinancialservices.com$226.72K
Borgohypotek Abcborgohypotek.se5 roles46
AB Transitiotransitio.se4 roles
BlueStepbluestep.se2 roles
Futurfutur.se2 roles
Hjertahjerta.se2 roles150
Loomisloomis.com2 roles25,400
PS Finance Grouppsfinancegroup.com2 roles
solid forsakringssolidab.se2 roles78
Afa Insuranceafaforsakring.se
Alektum Groupalektumgroup.com700
Avidaavidafinance.com130Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
Folksamfolksam.se2,862
Handelsbankenhandelsbanken.com11,832
Hoist Financehoistfinance.com1,319
Intrumintrum.com10,907
Ludvig & Coludvig.se1,400
24 featured companies

Locked revenue figures are available in Radar; the eight company financial previews stay the same throughout this page. A dash means the figure is outside these featured lists. Revenue years vary by company; the figures are not a like-for-like revenue comparison. Compare annual accounts ↗

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Recorded evidence only

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THE KEY SIGNALS

Financial Services industry KPIs in Sweden

A few useful ratios bring the size of this ecosystem into perspective.

1 September 2026
Hiring participation5.3%

42 of 797 tracked companies have open roles.

Funding participation1.9%

15 of 797 tracked companies have a recorded round.

Top 3 funding share71.4%

Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.

Median disclosed round$443.81K

Midpoint of 11 rounds with a disclosed amount.

Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 71.4% of disclosed capital, while 98.1% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.

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CAPITAL & COMPANY FORMATION

How Sweden financial services has grown

Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.

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2016 — 2025

Disclosed funding by year

Sum of recorded funding rounds · USD

Sweden financial services
$0$1.95M$3.89M$5.84M$7.79M2016: $020162017: $2.79M20172018: $020182019: $020192020: $020202021: $1.76M20212022: $020222023: $6.83M20232024: $020242025: $02025
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Annual financial services funding and company formation in Sweden
YearFunding (USD)FoundedRaising
2016$0260
2017$2.79M213
2018$0210
2019$0170
2020$0200
2021$1.76M262
2022$0140
2023$6.83M94
2024$030
2025$010
WHERE CAPITAL SITS

Funding concentration

Share of all disclosed company funding.

  • CHARM Solutions30.7%
  • Swimbird24.2%
  • Red Flag16.5%
  • Other companies28.6%

Funding by stage

15 recorded rounds since 2016

NUMBER OF ROUNDS
Seed & Angel9 60.0%
Series A–B0 0.0%
Series C+ / PE1 6.7%
Grants, debt & other5 33.3%

Recent recorded rounds

Latest recorded rounds · USD
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Largest and notable recorded rounds

Each card is one recorded round
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THE BUSINESS BEHIND THE ACTIVITY

Revenue, profitability & financial strength

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Annual accounts availability

No reviewed exact national-ID connector has yet been qualified for Sweden; this is a checked implementation boundary, not evidence that filings are absent.; No reviewed exact national-ID connector has yet been qualified for Sweden; this is a checked implementation boundary, not evidence that filings are absent.

DIGITAL FOOTPRINT

Web traffic, app reach and release cadence

How the Sweden companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.

Busiest websites

21 of the 797 companies on this page carry a measured traffic record (2.6%); these are the largest of those, by monthly visits. The median among them is 330,403 visits.

CompanyMonthly visitsAuthorityMobile
Lansforsakringarlansforsakringar.se2,245,4396057.9%
Skandinaviska Enskilda Bankenseb.se1,743,9705631.1%
Folksamfolksam.se1,717,8505882.4%
Svea Banksvea.com1,381,2475368.2%
Tryggtrygghansa.se787,0345373.2%
SBABsbab.se540,9974858%
Ifif.se436,6024764.5%
Resurs Bankresursbank.se424,0614673.2%
Marginalenmarginalen.se333,3004087.8%
Forex Bankforex.se331,9285281.8%

Visits and authority are third-party web estimates, not company-reported figures.

Most-installed apps

30 of these companies (3.8%) publish at least one Android app — 40 apps in all, carrying 5.3M installs between them.

AppInstallsRatingStore category
SEBSkandinaviska Enskilda Banken1.3M3.9Finance
LänsförsäkringarLansforsakringar1.1M3.4Finance
ResursResurs Bank818.5KFinance
SBABSBAB340.4K4.8Finance
AgriaAgria308.1KMedical
Svea PaySvea Bank245.5KFinance
FOREX ValutaForex Bank151.5KBusiness
Folksam FörsäkringsbolagFolksam145.2KFinance
SEB - FöretagSkandinaviska Enskilda Banken113.7K5Finance
AssistansbolagetAssistansbolaget110.7KTravel & Local

Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.

App reach by segment

The busiest app inside each of this page’s own segments, with the quarterly release trend behind it (2023Q1–2025Q4).

SegmentAppsInstallsLeading appRelease trend
Banks103.8MSEB 1.3M
Insurance Distribution7450.1KAgria 308.1K
Insurance Carriers7385.8KFolksam Försäkringsbolag 145.2K
Consumer And Sme Loans3317.6KSvea Pay 245.5K
Services For Investment Industry273.6KIndecap Guide 54.5K
Service Providers To Banks261.9KBankomat 61.9K
Asset Management327.2KSöderberg & Partners - Online 24.6K
Finance & Accounting Services622.3KMyBusiness 15.3K

A company can carry several segment tags, so these rows overlap and should not be added together. Trend lines are zero-based and share one quarter grid, so a flat line is a quiet segment, not a missing one.

Release cadence by quarter

New apps published, beside apps whose most recent update landed in that quarter — the second bar is how much of the shelf is still being maintained.

2023Q1: 12023Q1: 02023Q12023Q2: 12023Q2: 02023Q22024Q4: 42024Q4: 12024Q42025Q1: 12025Q1: 12025Q12025Q2: 12025Q2: 02025Q22025Q4: 12025Q4: 42025Q42026Q1: 12026Q1: 62026Q1

Darker bars are new releases, lighter bars apps updated. 20 of 40 apps carry a release date. The series ends at 2026Q1, the last quarter that closed before the June 2026 reading.

INSIDE THE INDUSTRY

The Sweden financial services market map

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Where companies are building

Rank segments by scale, hiring or disclosed funding.

Nbfc lenders36
Enterprise tech14
Fintech10
Enterprise software8
Saas6
Consumer digital6
Global 20005

Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.

SEGMENT TO EXPLORE

Nbfc lenders

The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.

36companies
11.1%have hiring activity

4 companies hiring · $4.76M disclosed funding

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How companies make money

Common revenue models; a company can use more than one.

Fee-for-service537
Commission on transaction364
Subscription87
E-commerce - service51
Lending43
Advertising37
E-commerce - product22
Physical commerce11
THE COMPANIES IN MOTION

Who is listing, hiring leaders, launching and winning work

Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.

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Recent corporate headlines 10 dated reports
Mergers & acquisitionscarasent.com ↗

Carasent has acquired Infosolutions for $14 million.

Mergers & acquisitionsskysparc.com ↗

SkySparc, a trusted global provider of digital transformation solutions for treasury and finance institutions, announced the acquisition of Covarius Group Limited (“Covarius”) and Uniun Technology Limited (“Uniun”).

Funding roundssoderbergpartners.se ↗

Former investor TA Associates returns through new share issue to support Söderberg & Partners continued Nordic and European expansion Söderberg & Partners has agreed to close a new share issue, raising approximately 2,5 billion SEK.

Mergers & acquisitionshoistfinance.com ↗

Hoist Finance has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire UK debt purchaser Azzurro Associates, a specialist in SME Non-Performing Loans (NPLs), with a portfolio book value of £200 million.

Mergers & acquisitionsfcgfonder.se ↗

Universal Investment Group and the sole shareholder of FCG Fonder AB, Advisense Group AB, today jointly announce that they have signed an agreement, subject to approval by the Swedish regulatory authority Finansinspektionen, for the acquisition of FCG Fonder AB by Universal Investment Group.

Funding roundspoint.se ↗

In early November, the companies announced a $390 million HEI securitization, with assets originated and serviced by Point.

Mergers & acquisitionsconsensusam.se ↗

Last week, Nordic financing institution Norion Bank announced that it is acquiring Consensus Asset Management. The deal is intended to give Norion — which currently has no asset management business — a strong foothold in the industry by adding about SEK 9 billion (EUR 818.2 million) in assets under management.

Mergers & acquisitionssek.se ↗

With the approval of CADE, SEK, the leader in cybersecurity in Latin America, concluded the acquisition of Netbr, a reference in identity management and access (IAM) solutions in Brazil.

Mergers & acquisitionsprognosia.se ↗

Earlier in June, Lunit acquired Prognosia's 'core technology asset,' according to Lunit's public filing on Aug. 13.

Mergers & acquisitionsstabelo.se ↗

The deal comes just weeks after Swedbank’s purchase of Swedish digital mortgage firm Stabelo for SEK 350 million (£27 million), signalling an appetite for expansion in retail financial services.

Full recorded event mix

Top 10 categories among 116 recorded events in the 24-month window.

Mergers & acquisitions
30
Leadership moves
26
Board Updates
19
Earnings
15
Company announcements
9
Contracts
8
Funding rounds
4
Asset acquisitions
2
Buyback
1
Layoffs
1
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Leadership moves

15 tracked people moves

SEK ↗
Reinhold Geijer

Resignation Previously Board Member of SEK

Loomis ↗
Johan Wilsby

Resignation Previously Chief Financial Officer

SEK ↗
Elisabeth Beskow

Appointment Board Member

Dani Coe

Appointment Branch Manager

Markus Johansson

Appointment Chief Financial Officer

Ian Duthie

Appointment Regional Executive Director, Americas

Terri Jay

Appointment Head, Charterers & Traders

Nexer ↗
Jon Carvell

Appointment Vice President

Contract wins

4 recorded customer wins

Intrum ↗

Customer: ibercajaReal estate

Nexer ↗

Customer: kammarkollegietPublic sector IT security

Nexer ↗

Customer: Swedish Armed ForcesDefense

Workforce actions

1 companies with reported reductions

Loomis ↗

Scale not stated rolesgrowth

Mergers and acquisitions

Company-linked deal reports; status is preserved as recorded.

Acquirer → targetStatusDateValue / context
CarasentinfosolutionsAnnounced2026-05-04$14.0M
SkySparccovariusAnnounced2026-04-22Not stated in snapshot
SkySparcUniun Technology LimitedAnnounced2026-04-22Not stated in snapshot
Hoist Financeazzurro associatesAnnounced2026-02-10Not stated in snapshot
Soderberg and PartnersartoriusAnnounced2026-02-09Not stated in snapshot
Universal Investment GroupFCG Fonder ↗Announced2026-01-22Not stated in snapshot

A discussion or rumour is not a completed transaction. An unstated value is not zero.

PEOPLE & OPPORTUNITY

The talent market

Recorded hiring and workforce signals from the available source snapshot.

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Most advertised job titles

No repeated job title is supported by this snapshot.

0 internship postings

0 tracked postings mention remote work.

THE PEOPLE BUILDING THE FIELD

Founders and leaders

162 founders and chief executives across 139 companies.

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12 profiles

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Education networks

16 profiles with education records.

Stockholm University
7
INSEAD
2
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
2
Lund University
1
MIT Sloan School of Management
1
McGill University
1
Technische Universität Berlin
1
Cornell University
1

Prior employers

1 profiles with prior-work records.

Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.

NEWS INTELLIGENCE

How this industry appears in the news

198,540 articles in the measured 12-month window.

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198,540articles in the measured year
29,973articles in 2026Q1
26.6%positive tone in the latest complete year

News volume trends

Financial Services coverage across Sweden · articles per complete quarter

033,04766,09399,140132,1872021Q2: 27,1722021Q22021Q3: 27,1702021Q4: 26,5162022Q1: 31,2692022Q2: 34,5202022Q22022Q3: 30,9482022Q4: 38,1502023Q1: 40,1932023Q2: 38,6312023Q22023Q3: 40,1732023Q4: 35,4172024Q1: 43,4132024Q2: 49,8372024Q22024Q3: 47,1942024Q4: 48,6952025Q1: 66,0292025Q2: 40,2102025Q22025Q3: 114,9452025Q4: 22,3362026Q1: 29,9732026Q1
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QuarterArticles
2021Q227,172
2021Q327,170
2021Q426,516
2022Q131,269
2022Q234,520
2022Q330,948
2022Q438,150
2023Q140,193
2023Q238,631
2023Q340,173
2023Q435,417
2024Q143,413
2024Q249,837
2024Q347,194
2024Q448,695
2025Q166,029
2025Q240,210
2025Q3114,945
2025Q422,336
2026Q129,973

Article volume measures coverage, not market sales.

Tone of coverage over time

2021
38,343 positive · 31,131 neutral · 17,710 negative
2022
53,230 positive · 48,520 neutral · 32,971 negative
2023
59,612 positive · 61,012 neutral · 33,589 negative
2024
61,507 positive · 95,826 neutral · 31,654 negative
2025
64,790 positive · 150,095 neutral · 28,460 negative

Leading coverage topics

Financial Services coverage across Sweden · ranked by full-period article count.

International And Transnational Geographic Entities300,058 articles in the full recorded period
108,075 recent · 81,371 prior
Geopolitical Disputes And Contested Areas300,050 articles in the full recorded period
108,074 recent · 81,365 prior
Administrative And Political Subdivisions300,036 articles in the full recorded period
108,068 recent · 81,365 prior
International Sports Competitions16,391 articles in the full recorded period
3,533 recent · 2,828 prior
International Political Relations13,704 articles in the full recorded period
2,000 recent · 2,056 prior
Olympic Games Coverage9,994 articles in the full recorded period
2,182 recent · 2,114 prior
Security And Defense Policies9,436 articles in the full recorded period
1,407 recent · 1,418 prior
Winter Sports Coverage7,163 articles in the full recorded period
1,852 recent · 1,593 prior
Championship Event Highlights6,679 articles in the full recorded period
1,620 recent · 1,129 prior
International Relations And Diplomacy6,493 articles in the full recorded period
1,048 recent · 957 prior

Recent and prior counts use the source comparison windows.

Topics gaining and losing attention

Financial Services coverage across Sweden

KeywordRecentPriorChange
countries4,1931,858126%
tariff negotiations701123470%
trade dispute mechanisms37048671%
final match recaps363142156%
free trade deals36256546%
women\'s champions league35919881%
bilateral trade35344702%
ski competitions32520062%
thrash rock elements316271070%
ice sports31393237%
summer olympics athletics36277-87%
olympic career milestones69273-75%
olympians career highlights69270-74%
budget motel7268-97%
motel1262-100%

Event and signal lenses

Financial Services coverage across Sweden

All complete annual cohorts shown
Rising

Regulatory Risk

498,400 classified articles

territories, disputed islands, countries

8.8% critical · 7.5% positive
Rising

Funding Momentum

24,272 classified articles

ice hotel, ice palace hotel, budget motel

35.4% critical · 43.0% positive
Rising

Growth

33,478 classified articles

quarterly results, earnings report, quarterly financials

29.8% critical · 48.6% positive

Financial Services coverage across Sweden. Topic labels describe recorded classifications and can include broad context.

GEOGRAPHIC FOOTPRINT

Where companies are based

Company counts, hiring and disclosed funding across the recorded hubs.

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UNDERSTAND THE LANDSCAPE

Financial Services in Sweden: key questions

Clear definitions for making better comparisons.

What does this landscape measure?

It measures the tracked company ecosystem, recorded funding, hiring and other available evidence. It is not a market-size estimate.

Can segment counts be added together?

No. A company can belong to several segments, so segment counts and funding can overlap.

What does a missing figure mean?

A dash or unavailable panel means the current reviewed source snapshot does not support that figure.

Company ecosystem snapshot: 1 September 2026. Funding is recorded in USD; filed accounts retain their stated currency and reporting basis. Each section identifies its own coverage. The news and research behind these sections is explorable in Prism.

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