Get the latest insights on the economy, industries and emerging trends that can help your business tackle the challenges it faces in today’s market. We share the learnings and perspectives of leading experts and innovators in the Nordics, both from Nordea and beyond.
What skill sets will be critical in the treasury of the future?
As digitalisation progresses and the financial landscape evolves, treasury teams face rapidly changing demands. Employees will require an increasingly diverse range of skills to succeed and thrive — and to ensure the treasury’s future relevance.
Industry 4.0 is the name broadly used for the fourth industrial revolution, which has seen entire industries starting to move towards fully digital value chains and manufacturing processes. Ville Sointu, Head of Emerging Technologies at Nordea, discusses how linking industrial IoT data streams to payments and financing will make it possible to create innovative new solutions and services.
The Finnish company Ropo Capital specialises in managing the corporate invoicing process right along the invoice lifecycle. At a restaurant in Helsinki harbour, Maija Rinttilä, Cash Management Adviser from Nordea met Toni Rönkkö, CFO at Ropo Capital, and Ilkka Sammelvuo, CTO at Ropo Capital, to hear how Ropo are re-imagining traditional business models and helping their customers turn invoices into cash faster.
Beyond the hype: How far away is the real-time treasury?
Many treasuries are still reliant on end of day reports and manual processes. But change is within sight. Here are some exciting innovations that are bringing treasuries closer to being truly real-time — from open banking APIs to robotics and artificial intelligence.
Keeping pace with the changing Nordic payments landscape
During a busy Sibos conference in London, Tino Kam, Head of Transaction Banking Solutions at Nordea, met up with Lauren Jones from InstaPay, to discuss the latest developments in Nordic payments. This article was independently edited by InstaPay and is reprinted here.
The Finnish technology company Yonoton specialises in providing mobile solutions to improve the digital ordering and buying process for both consumers and businesses. At MS Louisiana restaurant in Helsinki, Teemu Karenius, Founder and CEO of Yonoton, met Juha Risikko, Head of Mobile & Emerging Payments at Nordea, to discuss Yonoton's partnership with Nordea and how Yonoton's versatile platform is simplifying and streamlining the customer experience.
After the construction company H+H switched bank for the first time in 110 years to join Nordea, the implementation of a new global cash pool has given the company direct access to all of their liquidity in one place.
Providing businesses with an instant and easy overview of their key financial figures is an important aim of banks in leveraging new digital tools to help their customers make more empowered decisions. Nordea’s new Dashboard promises to help financial decision makers from companies of all sizes move to centre stage in the strategy making process.
Project 27 began as a multibank initiative to establish a Nordic cross border payment infrastructure that will bring real benefits to the 27 million inhabitants of the region. After a series of milestones, P27 is now well on the way to creating the world’s first area for domestic and cross-border payments in multiple currencies.
Spreadsheets may have been your FX go-to when trading in the past but, as Nordea's Kristoffer Jansell explains, automation in tandem with digitalisation is changing the way we trade.
As society’s traditional safe place to store assets and wealth, the role of banks as the potential guardians and facilitators of sharing personal data has gained traction. If data is the new asset class of the digital age and ‘personal data management’ is a natural direction for banks, creating a system that can work in practice is not without its challenges.