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Investing in the fight against food waste

Investments that reduce food loss and waste can deliver two big wins: improving food security and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, according to the World Bank, which recently issued two bonds to raise awareness of the issue.

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Corporate insights

Finding the key to digital identities

As the digital age and enhanced connectivity makes banking more accessible and convenient for users than ever before, banks need to support ease of access while prioritising security. Adaptive authentication with digital identities confirmed from multiple devices may provide a way of ensuring banks can rely on the information being shared digitally in the future.

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Podcast

Podcast: Ever heard about Industry 4.0?

Industry 4.0 refers to the upcoming fourth industrial revolution, which is urgently needed to revive growth.

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Corporate insights

Delivering innovation fast and on time

The ground-breaking ‘Helix’ innovation model developed by Norway Post & Bring is helping the company find new and faster ways of bringing ideas and solutions to life. Keeping up with the pace of change also means expanding innovation hubs to make room for more co-creation in the future.

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Nordea On Your Mind

Industry 4.0 – Evolution, revolution or something else?

Industry 4.0 is the fourth industrial revolution, which is badly needed to revive stalled productivity growth in the G7 economies.

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New equity capital was a matter of ‘safety first’​

What do you do when a global pandemic breaks out while you are right in the midst of a major working capital reduction programme to bring down leverage? Stein Eriksen, CFO of XXL, highlights their rights issue, accelerated customer migration from stores to online shopping, and stronger preferences for staycation.

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Lessons from the infant sustainability-linked bond market

In September 2020, the first bonds aligned to the Sustainability-Linked Bond Principles (SLBPs) were issued. Even though the fledgling market provides endless opportunities for structuring sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs), a comparison of the current issuers and their bonds reveals unexpected similarities.

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Nordea launches its own ESG ratings for Nordic companies

The ratings system caters to a variety of investment strategies, allowing investors to tailor the output for their specific preferences. Marco Kisic, Nordea’s Head of ESG Research, explains the ins and outs.

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Corporate insights

Getting round to the circular economy

In the circular economy, products and services are based on the sharing, renting and recycling of resources. Companies of all sizes can already now begin to take steps towards circular business models, gaining both an economic and competitive advantage.

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Nordea On Your Mind

Capital markets discount a V-shaped recovery from COVID-19

We explore what kind of recovery from COVID-19 is being forecast and and what is actually priced in by markets.

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Corporate insights

Moving towards real-time in the Nordics

Breakthroughs in technology, combined with regional initiatives and increasing standardisation, are moving the Nordic region even closer to real-time payments as the norm. For Nordea, leveraging evolving infrastructure and technology is all about bringing greater value to customers.

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Nordea On Your Mind

Aviation: The extreme of the extremes

Finnair CEO Topi Manner discusses the difficult decision to be first in the industry to do a big equity issue.

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