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Sustainable choice - green housing loans

2023-04-26

Sustainability

Energy inefficient commercial real estate at risk of declining market values – get ready for minimum energy performance standards

In-depth building energy renovations can mitigate risks and help property owners seize financial support opportunities.

2023-06-12

Fraud

Promises of love and riches – a common trick among scammers

Romance and investment fraud are two types of fraud on the rise. Both play on strong feelings of love or wealth to lure their victims. The ultimate goal is to trick victims into sending money.

2023-05-30

Insights

Waste food becomes quality food

Every year manufacturers throw away 80,000 tonnes of food in Norway, accounting for 3-4% of the total volume of food produced. With Nordea’s support, Plateful will reduce that to a minimum.

2023-04-18

Nordea On Your Mind

The cost of flexibility is less than the cost of financial distress

For some high-level reflection on a decade of low funding costs and soaring Nordic corporate bond issuance, the Nordea On Your Mind team talked to Nordea's Morten Ristvedt, Head of Large Corporates & Institutions Norway, and Lars Fischer, Head of Debt Solutions & Structuring.

2023-03-27

ESG

Social bonds: Investing to improve social conditions

Investors have an important role to play to steer capital towards solutions that can improve social conditions. The most direct way to impact social conditions is probably to finance or refinance social projects.

2023-03-13

Open banking

What is Open Finance?

The term Open Finance refers to a future open financial system. Open Finance will continue the development initiated by Open Banking and make your own financial data more accessible to you as a customer in a wider range of services and platforms.

2023-03-29

Sustainability

”On a good path”

At Nordea, we’ve committed to becoming a bank with net-zero emissions and have set targets for 2023 and 2025. Now, with less than a year until the end of 2023, we’ve invited Head of Group Sustainability Anja Lidgren Hannerz to a talk about Nordea’s progress.

2023-04-12

Nordea On Your Mind

A credit rating gives access to a very deep pool of capital

Stena AB is one of the largest family-owned companies in Sweden, with global operations in shipping, ferry lines, offshore, real estate and finance. How do you run and fund a capital-intensive business with a sub-investment-grade credit profile that’s investing in a sustainability journey? We asked Stena AB Finance Director Peter Claesson.

2023-03-31

Corporate insights

Danish finance minister eyes ‘golden opportunity’

Denmark’s finance minister, Nicolai Wammen, spoke to institutional clients at Nordea’s recent symposium on the Danish economy and government debt. He highlighted the strength of the economy but also the need to tackle some big challenges ahead.

2023-03-28

Nordea On Your Mind

Cash flow must be sufficiently good every year, and better in the good years

For an inside view of a comprehensive funding and leverage journey, the Nordea On Your Mind team talks to Outokumpu’s CFO Pia Aaltonen-Forsell, who shares her thinking behind the company’s new strategy and financial targets introduced in late 2020.

2023-03-24

Diversity & inclusion

“Diversity on its own doesn’t mean inclusion”

More than 1000 colleagues of 50 different citizenships, work side by side at the offices in Tallinn, making Nordea Estonia a diversity and inclusion frontrunner in Estonia. But how did a relatively small local branch grow into a multicultural mix of people from all over the world?

Aerial view of containers stacked at a port

2023-03-22

Corporate insights

Using trade instruments to support suppliers’ working capital

As the global economy slows, emerging market suppliers face the prospect of a hard landing. Richard Hayes, Head of Trade Solutions Denmark at Nordea, explains how companies can strengthen their supply chains and support their suppliers’ working capital through the use of traditional trade instruments.