Fintech Norway
Fintech Norway is the industry association for financial technology companies that operate in the Norwegian market. The association was founded in December 2020 to speed up the work of the Norwegian banks on PSD2 and open banking, and today its members come from payments, lending, insurance, crowdfunding and crypto.
About 50 fintechs belong to Fintech Norway, from early-stage startups to established companies, and each pays an annual fee that depends on its revenue. The association represents them in regular meetings with the Norwegian supervisory authorities, the ministries and the banks. Members work together in a shared Slack workspace and in working groups on PSD2, AML, DORA and crowdfunding.
Members and membership fees
Among the members of Fintech Norway are the payment app Vipps, the crowdlending platform Kameo, the open banking provider Tink and the companies K33, Fiken, Firi and Neonomics. PwC, DLA Piper, Advisense and the law firm Simonsen Vogt Wiig support the association as partners.
Fintech members pay an annual fee that rises with revenue: 5,000 Norwegian kroner for revenue up to 10 million kroner, 10,000 for 10 to 20 million, 20,000 for 20 to 50 million, 30,000 for 50 to 200 million and 45,000 above 200 million. Companies and individuals outside fintech can become support members for 200 kroner a year as private persons, or for 2,000 or 10,000 kroner as companies, depending on their assets. Every member gets access to the Slack workspace and the working groups and priority entry to the events of the association.
Secretary general and board
Daniel Isdal Furset is secretary general of Fintech Norway and runs its daily work, supported by Haakon Alfheim as consultant and website administrator. Alf Gunnar Andersen chairs the board, and Walter M. Salicath, Pearl Sustiguer-Wartiainen, Eric Macody Lund, Morten Johan Mellbye, Henrik Nygård Sjølie and Baard Slaattelid are its members. Henrik Nygård Sjølie is also chief executive of the insurance data company Intellitech, which belongs to the association as a member.
Crowdfunding in Norway
Fintech Norway merged with the Norwegian Crowdfunding Association and has since described itself as the largest fintech industry association in Norway. Norwegian crowdfunding platforms are members, and the association wants crowdfunding to become as common in Norway as it is in the United Kingdom. Linn Hoel Ringvoll, general counsel of the crowdlending platform Kameo, advises members on crowdfunding questions.
Since 2021 Fintech Norway has pushed for Norwegian rules based on the European crowdfunding regulation ECSP-R. On 26 September 2025 the Ministry of Finance presented the bill Prop. 167 LS (2024–2025), which would let Norwegian platforms and investors work on the same terms as the rest of the EU and the EEA.
Upcoming fintech events in Europe
Work with Norwegian authorities
Fintech Norway meets the Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway every six weeks and has set up forums with the competition, data protection and consumer authorities. With the banks and their infrastructure operator the association runs an API forum, and it credits itself with having sped up the PSD2 work in Norway by one to two years. Members exchange experience on PSD2 and PSD3, AML and KYC, electronic identification, CBDC and DORA.
In September 2026 Fintech Norway met the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries and the Ministry of Finance together with representatives of member companies. The delegation asked for proportionate rules, faster adoption of EU and EEA law and earlier dialogue between authorities and newly regulated firms. Fintech Norway also offered fintech and regtech tools for automated reporting and digital identity to the simplification program of the government.
Open finance and the work in Brussels
Fintech Norway is a member of the European Digital Finance Association, which carries the views of its members to Brussels although Norway is not part of the European Union. On 23 April 2026 the association and the Swedish Fintech Association SweFinTech held a closed breakfast meeting in Brussels on the FIDA regulation for members of the European Parliament, a member of DG FISMA and industry experts.
The meeting had the support of Copenhagen Fintech and of EDFA, and about 30 people took part in it. Intellitech showed how customers can move their insurance data between providers, and Swimbird showed how it brings portfolio data from many sources together for banks, asset managers and family offices.
Address in Bergen
The registered address of Fintech Norway is in care of Horde AS at Lars Hilles gate 20A, 5008 Bergen. The association is entered in the Brønnøysund Register Centre under organization number 926447424, with 22 December 2020 as its founding date. Horde AS, the company at that address, is itself listed among the members of Fintech Norway.
Fintech Norway and Finance Loop
Fintech Norway works on the same European rules that shape fintech in Germany, from PSD2 and the FIDA proposal to DORA and the crowdfunding regulation, which reach Norway through the EEA agreement. Finance Loop members discuss open finance and payments regulation at their events, and the Norwegian experience with bank APIs and crowdfunding rules gives them a direct comparison with Germany.
Finance Loop is a professional network and has the goal of driving the institutional use of emerging technologies in finance, such as AI, tokenization, stablecoins, and DeFi. Finance Loop helps its members build skills and personal networks in these fields: Investment & Digital Assets, Payments & Digital Money, Digital Infrastructure & Sovereignty, and Risk & Compliance.