Qred

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Qred
Formation2015
Legal statusBanking company
HeadquartersStockholm, Sweden
Website en.qred.se

Qred (founded 2015) is a Swedish fintech company [1] [2] headquartered in Stockholm. [3] [4] [5]

History

In 2023, Qred was granted a banking license by The Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (SFSA). [3] [6] [7] Having acquiring a banking license, Qred offer its services across the European Union. [8] [9]

The board elected Mattias Carlsson as its new chairman. [10]

Qred issued the Qred Visa to aid small firms in releasing short-term capital. [11]

Qred entered the B2B payments market after receiving €10 million in funding from the company's founding investor, Nordic Capital. [12]

The company has appeared on the Financial Times' list of the 1,000 firms in Europe with the fastest rate of growth each year for the previous four years. [8] [13]

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