Financial skills

Financial literacy is about having the skill set to make sound financial decisions and ultimately achieve financial well-being. It’s about understanding various financial concepts, products and risks, and applying this understanding in real-life situations.

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Financial skills

How we support financial literacy among children and young people

At Nordea, we want to help people build the financial skills that are important for financial stability and a good quality of life. Our employees teach these skills to thousands of children and young people every year.

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Financial skills

How we work with financial literacy and financial well-being

Nordea strives to improve financial well-being by offering personalised advice and building skills to improve financial literacy, while also raising fraud awareness among our customers and in society.

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Volunteering

Smart kids and raw human connection: my time as a volunteer

All Nordea employees can spend 16 hours a year volunteering through our community engagement programmes. Kadri Tiilen, who works in our financial crime prevention unit in Estonia, threw herself into several different assignments – which opened up the world to her in unexpected ways.

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Volunteering

New financial skills programme already in great demand

A new volunteering programme where Nordea Estonia employees visit schools and educational institutions to share their knowledge has already given more than 1,400 students basic financial skills and tools to spot fraud and financial crime.

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Financial skills

“Managing your own economy well is about taking care of your own future”

On a yearly basis, Nordea supports more than 200,000 children and young people in building basic financial skills. Already when you have learned to add and subtract, you can understand the value of money and learn how to budget.

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Insights

Feeling in control of your finances leads to less worry – regardless of income

Having control over one's finances makes us less worried – regardless of income. This correlation is significant in our Nordic survey, Nordic Pulse, and the result is equally clear in all Nordic countries.

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