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EU sovereignFintech & NeobanksHeadquarters: SE

Qred: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Qred provides business loans to small companies through a digital lending platform. Companies apply online, and the service is marketed through country websites in Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Norway and Germany; in the Netherlands the brand is Qeld. It is delivered as a web service rather than as software installed by the customer. The operator is Qred Bank AB, a Swedish bank with an office in Stockholm that is supervised by the Swedish financial supervisory authority Finansinspektionen.

Because Qred Bank AB is established in Sweden, it is an EU bank, and its processing of personal data falls under the GDPR. The company's owners are not stated on the pages reviewed, so no non-EU parent can be confirmed. The sources do not state where customer data is stored. The hosting location and sub-processors should be confirmed with the provider before use. The platform is proprietary and not open source, so a European organisation uses it under the bank's own terms.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 11, 2026
HeadquartersSE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantNoVendor-stated
CategoryFintech & Neobanks
TypeProduct
Websiteqred.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Qred

The European alternatives to Qred come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Qred

Qred is headquartered in SE and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Qred scores best on data residency.

Qred is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Qred together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Qred?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Qred include 1822direkt, ActivoBank and Air Bank. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Qred?

Our list of EU alternatives to Qred is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Qred GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Qred is headquartered in SE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Qred an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 11, 2026.

Sources

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Compliance evidence

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