Insights

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.

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Podcast

Party over for cheap and ample corporate funding

The Nordea On Your Mind team takes a deep dive into corporate funding in their latest podcast.

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Sustainability

Nordea ramps up ESG training to stay relevant towards our clients

Our Large Corporates & Institutions unit at Nordea has scaled up its ESG education efforts for staff to ensure that we can play a material and meaningful role in supporting our clients' transition towards a more sustainable and net-zero future.

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Meet our experts

The Finnish athlete with her eyes on the ‘red dragon’

As a young orienteering talent in Finland, Tuuli Koivu dreamt about a career in sports. Now the Nordea chief economist strives to be on top of the global economy – and especially the future direction of China.

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Nordea On Your Mind

Nordea On Your Mind: The financial flak vest

Is there a leverage problem in the Nordic region? Will higher interest rates be a source of pain for corporates going forward? Our Nordea On Your Mind team returns to the theme of corporate funding in their latest report, “The financial flak vest.”

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Responsible investments

Using our voting power to influence how companies are run

Did you know that Nordea is the largest portfolio manager in the Nordics and actively use its voting rights at almost 4,000 annual general meetings with around 50,000 items on the agenda and 1,200 proposed motions each year?

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Open banking

What is PSD2?

PSD2 is an EU directive about payments, data and security. PSD stands for Payment Services Directive, and the number 2 means that it is an update to the original PSD from 2007. PSD2 came into effect in 2018 in Denmark, Finland and Sweden and in 2019 in Norway.

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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.

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Open banking

What is Open Banking?

Open Banking is the practice of providing access to financial services, like for example your bank account information and payments, to other providers than your bank.

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Economy

This is what affects how optimistic we are about our financial future

In our new study, the Nordic Pulse, we asked the people in the Nordics about their financial situation and how they value different areas of life. In some areas, the discrepancies between men and women seem to differ a lot. Our experts explain why.

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Sustainable finance

The net-zero path: updates and outlook

As the need for decisive action on climate change becomes ever more pressing and present, so does the need for corporate accountability and well-defined pathways towards a lower-emissions future. We use SBTi’s latest full-year dataset to bring you insights into the world of net-zero targets.

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Sustainable finance

ECB’s journey to decarbonise its corporate bonds holdings: an update

The European Central Bank (ECB) has committed to strengthening its efforts to combat climate change. With upcoming monetary policy set to dampen the effect of the bank’s existing flow-based approach to decarbonising its corporate bond holdings, we take a look at the proposed stock-based approach and assess progress so far.

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