Corporate insights

2021-09-23

Nordea On Your Mind

The hunt for the right leverage

How does a company's choice of capital structure affect its value? Nordea On Your Mind has analysed the hard data.

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2021-09-23

Nordea On Your Mind

The pandemic has lured reluctant food shoppers online

Nordea Equity Research analyst Daniel Ovin describes why the online shift in food retail should continue, and how far it could go.

2021-09-23

Nordea On Your Mind

E-tailers' three-to-five year business plans already materialised in 2020

COVID-19 has turbocharged the migration of consumers online. Kinnevik CEO Georgi Ganev discusses the trend in the latest Nordea On Your Mind.

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2021-09-23

Nordea On Your Mind

Pandemic overdrive for e-commerce

In the latest issue of Nordea On Your Mind, we explore the COVID-19 pandemic's turbocharging effect on e-commerce

2021-09-21

Insights

The case for a central bank digital currency varies by country

Ida Wolden Bache, Deputy Governor at Nordes Bank, discusses ongoing testing and ambition for a Norwegian central bank digital currency.

2021-08-16

FX

Circular economy champion L&T discovers ease of FX automation

Environmental services company L&T started using Nordea's AutoFX currency robot mid-pandemic in 2020 to reduce the manual work needed to manage its currency risk. FX automation has been a game changer for the company's treasury department.

2021-08-31

Insights

Cryptocurrencies

Are cryptocurrencies likely to become a mainstream payment option, and what can corporates do to prepare? Find out in the new Nordea On Your Mind report.

2021-08-30

Insights

Nordic corporates embrace sustainability-linked loans

Sustainability in finance is fast becoming the new normal, and sustainability-linked loans continue to gain momentum among Nordic corporates. This year, the trend has taken off in Denmark, according to speakers at the Cash & Treasury Management 2021 conference in Copenhagen.

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2021-08-30

Corporate insights

Emerging privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) are the new blind spot in digital banking

A report by the Mobey Forum’s AI & Data Privacy Expert Group suggests there is a blind spot in the banking industry regarding the importance of emerging privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) in privacy risk mitigation and business innovation. The report argues emerging privacy enhancing technologies can be used to solve some of the key challenges in this space related to how to process anonymous and encrypted data without losing value even when no details about private data are shared.

2021-08-26

Corporate insights

We have Industry 4.0, why not Finance 4.0?

Manufacturers have been talking about Industry 4.0 for about a decade. Advances in sensors, networking and artificial intelligence (AI) have enabled them to track and optimise production facilities, cutting lead times, reducing waste and improving safety. But interest isn’t limited to manufacturers: retailers, healthcare companies and many others are looking at how these technologies could improve operations. That raises the question, are these ideas and technologies behind Industry 4.0 relevant to finance transformation?