Sustainable finance
As a bank, Nordea has a unique opportunity to facilitate our clients' transition towards a more sustainable and net-zero future. Regulations and policy measures must support banks in this task, says Martin Persson, Head of Large Corporates & Institutions, in Views: The Eurofi Magazine.
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Sustainable finance
While the global sustainable bond market made a definite, if somewhat muted, return to growth in Q1 2023, the Nordic market stood out once again, showing strength despite some concerns carried over from 2022. With record sustainable volumes in Q1 and notable traction in the corporate Eurobond market, sustainable financing has found a successful home in the Nordics.
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Sustainable finance
The European Sustainability Reporting Standards are a core component of the sustainability reporting landscape within the European Union, providing the mandatory reporting framework to be followed under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive. As alignment across EU regulation increases, it is important to be aware of definitions and concepts introduced under each new proposal.
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Sustainability
In-depth building energy renovations can mitigate risks and help property owners seize financial support opportunities.
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Nordea On Your Mind
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.
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ESG
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.
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Nordea On Your Mind
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.
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Insights
Strong financial muscle to drive the green transition in the right direction is crucial. The Norwegian investment company Verdane will provide this muscle power together with one of Europe’s largest growth funds for sustainable, technology-based companies – and backed by Nordea.
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Sustainability
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.
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Corporate insights
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.
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Nordea On Your Mind
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.
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Diversity & 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?
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