Swedish paytech Trustly strengthens risk management with new hires
Anna Bjurefeldt (left) & Mia Bjurkell (right), Trustly
Swedish paytech Trustly has appointed Anna Bjurefeldt as head of internal audit and Mia Bjurkell as director of risk and compliance.
Trustly says the hires “reinforce the company’s ambition to strengthen its compliance and risk management competencies as it continues its sustainable growth journey”.
Bjurefeldt will start her tenure on 1 October, joining from the Swedish Pensions Agency, where she is currently chief risk officer.
Previously, she was head of internal audit at the Swedish National Debt Office, and before that she worked at audit consultancy firm Deloitte.
Bjurkell, who has started in her new role as Trustly’s director of risk and compliance, moves from Ark Kapital, a financing company for technology businesses. Her experience includes working at KPMG, P Capital Partners (a credit investor and loan provider to European companies), and Finansinspektionen (Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority).
Founded in 2008, Trustly claims it has “forged a path for open banking” and handles the complete payment journey “at an unmatched scale”, working with 8,300 merchants in 33 markets, connecting them to 650+ million consumers through 12,000 banks.
Trustly is a licensed payment institution under the Second Payment Services Directive (PSD2). It operates under the supervision of the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority in Europe and through the Temporary Permissions Regime (TPR) under the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the UK. Last year, it acquired an open banking payments company in the UK, Ecospend.
It also operates in the US, where it is state regulated.
