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Nordea On Your Mind

What will it take to push the global energy transition forward?

Professor Tomas Kåberger of Chalmers University of Technology has unique insights into the energy system from academic, industrial and regulatory perspectives. In this interview he discusses the paramount driver for renewable energy: reduced cost.

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Open banking

When (not if) Open Banking becomes standard in Treasury

Open Banking has many benefits, and in this guest blog for Nordea, John Fahlvik, Manager FIS Practice at SkySparc, explains how it will benefit the life of the Treasurer and become a standard procedure in Treasury operations of the future: the Instant Treasury.

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Nordea On Your Mind

Our greatest competitor is tomorrow's wind power

Wind has the lowest levelised cost of energy, and it keeps getting better, according to Peter Zachrisson, CEO of SR Energy. The greatest obstacle remains the painfully slow and cumbersome Swedish permitting processes, but the energy crisis could be a catalyst for reforming it.

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Corporate insights

Managing business risk from the Russia-Ukraine war

How are Nordic corporates handling the risks from their business exposure to Russia, Ukraine and Belarus? We asked them in our Treasury Survey 2022: Re-assessing risk.

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Nordea On Your Mind

The problem is a price spike, not market functionality

To get a glimpse from inside the storm, we talk to experts from Swedish state-owned power utility Vattenfall about the volatile European energy markets and what lies ahead.

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Sustainable finance

EU Taxonomy reporting: A first look at the challenges and best practices

The EU Platform on Sustainable Finance's long-awaited Recommendations on Data and Usability of the EU Taxonomy offers valuable insight into emerging best practices.

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Sustainable finance

How sustainability risks factor into credit ratings

The integration of ESG factors into credit ratings is an exercise distinct from the ratings and evaluations carried out by ESG service providers, although the two are often compared and confused. We take a look at the differences between the two approaches.

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Markets and investment

Danish bond market offers benefits for investors

Anders Aalund, Head of Trading Strategy in Nordea Markets, shares insights into the current Danish bond market, strategy and golden opportunities.

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Nordea On Your Mind

Nordic energy supply: Never waste a good crisis

Is there a way out of Europe’s big energy crisis? What will the next steps be for the world-class electricity systems in the Nordics? Energy supply in the European and Nordic markets is front and centre in the latest Nordea On Your Mind.

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Markets and investment

Is Xi making the right decisions for China?

At China’s Party Congress in October, Xi Jinping continued to strengthen his role as China’s leader, and his position is now much stronger than that held by his predecessors. However, it is not clear what this implies for the Chinese economy.

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Podcast

Nordic large corporates re-think risk and supply chains in a harsher new reality

In Nordea Thematics annual treasury study, 160 Nordic large corporates have answered questions about what they consider to be the greatest risks and how they manage them.

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Sustainable finance

EU Platform’s usability recommendations add clarity to EU Taxonomy in practice

The EU Platform on Sustainable Finance on 11 October released one of the last outstanding reports on the usability of the EU Taxonomy. It provides recommendations on interpretation of the existing Taxonomy and guidance for the remaining environmental objectives as well as alignment with other European sustainable finance regulation.

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