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Ideal owners: Always long-term, always impatient

What are the benefits with family owned businesses? Caroline Berg shares her experience as fifth-generation family owner and chair of the board of Axel Johnson AB.

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Podcast

Podcast: Basel IV – A game changer for bank lending to corporates

Did you think you would find drama in a podcast on bank regulations? Nordea On Your Mind how will Basel IV shape corporate lending in the future.

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Podcast

Podcast: Coronavirus and supply chains

Listen to the podcast episode were Johan Trocmé and Viktor Sonebäck argue it is crucial to have financial contingency plans with funding to be able to weather disruption to supply chains, also if it lasts longer than a few weeks or months.

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Insights

ECB calls for mandatory EU Green Bond standard

The European Commission this summer released its proposed voluntary standard for European green bonds. Now the European Central Bank argues that the standard should be made mandatory. Nordea’s Sustainable Finance Advisory team takes a closer look at the ECB’s view on risks, benefits and practical implementation.

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Insights

Science Based Targets initiative launches new net-zero corporate standard

Net-zero commitments from companies have taken off in recent years. Now, the Science Based Targets initiative has launched a new science-based certification for those corporate targets. Can it make net-zero pledges more credible?

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What did COP26 achieve? A Nordea climate specialist’s key takeaways

COP26 turned out to be the net zero COP, says Nordea climate specialist Stefan Henningsson, who recently returned from the UN climate summit.

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Financing

Filling short-term financing needs the green way

Nordea's green securities finance loans are an attractive source of cheap, short-term capital for green projects that can complement longer-term green financing structures companies may have.

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Raising awareness of sustainable financing options at COP26

Sustainable finance experts from Nordea, Ericsson and Credit Agricole CIB gathered at the virtual COP26 Backdoor to discuss the upsurge in sustainability-linked debt.

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FX

Exciting times for FX automation

FX trading is undergoing a digital transformation, with automated solutions eliminating the manual, repetitive tasks and making more time for brain work. Matti Honkanen, Nordea’s head of Next Gen FX, talks to e-Forex’s Larry Levy in a podcast about the rapid change that’s underway.

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Insights

People and processes need to catch up with technology

How far behind are people and processes compared with our technological developments? In our latest NOYM, Johan Trocmé, talks to, Dr. Thomas L. Hager, who runs IBM's Banking and Financial Services industry segment in Europe.

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Insights

Usage-based business models require new payment solutions

What does the fourth industrial revolution Industry 4.0 have to do with banks? Ville Sointu and Marina Repo, who lead Nordea's project to develop a pay-per-use platform for manufacturing at Nordea Runway 2019 project helps us answer the questions.

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Insights

SFDR: What’s new in the updated Regulatory Technical Standards?

Updates to the SFDR Regulatory Technical Standards aim to strengthen disclosure requirements on financial market participants at the product level and detail alignment with environmental objectives under the EU taxonomy.

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