Biodiversity: The next frontier in sustainable finance
The World Bank’s recent issuance of a sustainable development bond raising awareness for biodiversity highlights investors’ growing interest in the issue. Biodiversity loss is directly linked to climate change, both reinforcing each other, with their interaction amplifying the risk of reaching planetary tipping points.
In the latest Nordea On Your Mind, we take a moment to pause, zoom out and look back at some of the key themes that emerged in 2022, another eventful year.
Leaders from the worlds of business, government and international development gathered at the Nordea Sustainability Summit to discuss the biggest challenge and greatest investment opportunity of our time – saving the planet.
Digital banking is when banking customers use financial apps or websites to carry out financial transactions or activities online. It's about making people’s everyday lives easier and enabling them to be much more in control of their finances.
What can corporates do to balance the risks and opportunities that come with the transition to a new, sustainable economy? CEO Mads Nipper, SVP Minna Aila and CEO Frank Vang-Jensen discuss.
Where is digital banking heading? Customers have embraced the digital banking of today with its fast and convenient experience. In the future, the challenge will be to fuse in-person advisory services and digital channels into one seamless experience.
‘A little help can lead to a lot’ – how Nordea employees volunteered in 2022
In 2022 over 1,750 colleagues participated in a community engagement programme, with over half of them supporting refugees. Those who participated say the experience is rewarding – and that even a little help can go far.
What will it take to push the global energy transition forward?
Professor Tomas Kåberger of Chalmers University of Technology has unique insights into the energy system from academic, industrial and regulatory perspectives. In this interview he discusses the paramount driver for renewable energy: reduced cost.
When (not if) Open Banking becomes standard in Treasury
Open Banking has many benefits, and in this guest blog for Nordea, John Fahlvik, Manager FIS Practice at SkySparc, explains how it will benefit the life of the Treasurer and become a standard procedure in Treasury operations of the future: the Instant Treasury.
Wind has the lowest levelised cost of energy, and it keeps getting better, according to Peter Zachrisson, CEO of SR Energy. The greatest obstacle remains the painfully slow and cumbersome Swedish permitting processes, but the energy crisis could be a catalyst for reforming it.