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.
Selecting KPIs – Empowering finance departments by measuring what matters
Nordea’s Treasury KPI Report showed that treasuries are increasingly embracing KPIs to monitor the effectiveness of their activities. For Treasurers and CFO’s in the process of selecting operational and strategic KPIs, choosing the right mix can often be dependent on company size.
Although it was regulatory requirements that sparked the move towards Open Banking, Sofia Ericsson Holm, Head of Strategic Partnerships and Open Banking at Nordea, explains how it is the demand for instant and better user experiences that will really drive innovation.
Nordea has been successfully introducing robots to take care of manual repetitive processes in order to create more time for employees to focus on value adding tasks. After a period of development, the bank now has one of the most advanced robotics programmes in the Nordics.
Taking a holistic approach to equipping the modern Treasurer
Nordea aims to stay one step ahead of the rush to deliver new products and services by understanding and anticipating the needs of customers, elevating traditional functional transaction banking offerings to dynamic tools that support strategic decision making.
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.