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The sustainable loan market: A snapshot of recent developments

Since the publication of the Sustainability-Linked Loan Principles in 2019, global sustainability-linked loan volumes have shot past green loan levels. Sustainability-linked loans provide a good complement to green loans for companies pushing a broader sustainability strategy and are a relevant alternative for entities within sectors that are not green by nature.

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Nordea On Your Mind

Industry 4.0 is a business model revolution, not a technological revolution

Sandik's Hugo Nordell, Vice President of Strategy & Business Development, and Ulf Hermansson, Director of Strategic Execution share their view on level of digitalisation within Sandvik and what AMT actually does.

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Investing in the fight against food waste

Investments that reduce food loss and waste can deliver two big wins: improving food security and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, according to the World Bank, which recently issued two bonds to raise awareness of the issue.

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Podcast

Podcast: Ever heard about Industry 4.0?

Industry 4.0 refers to the upcoming fourth industrial revolution, which is urgently needed to revive growth.

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Nordea On Your Mind

Industry 4.0 – Evolution, revolution or something else?

Industry 4.0 is the fourth industrial revolution, which is badly needed to revive stalled productivity growth in the G7 economies.

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New equity capital was a matter of ‘safety first’​

What do you do when a global pandemic breaks out while you are right in the midst of a major working capital reduction programme to bring down leverage? Stein Eriksen, CFO of XXL, highlights their rights issue, accelerated customer migration from stores to online shopping, and stronger preferences for staycation.

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Lessons from the infant sustainability-linked bond market

In September 2020, the first bonds aligned to the Sustainability-Linked Bond Principles (SLBPs) were issued. Even though the fledgling market provides endless opportunities for structuring sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs), a comparison of the current issuers and their bonds reveals unexpected similarities.

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Nordea launches its own ESG ratings for Nordic companies

The ratings system caters to a variety of investment strategies, allowing investors to tailor the output for their specific preferences. Marco Kisic, Nordea’s Head of ESG Research, explains the ins and outs.

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Nordea On Your Mind

Capital markets discount a V-shaped recovery from COVID-19

We explore what kind of recovery from COVID-19 is being forecast and and what is actually priced in by markets.

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Nordea On Your Mind

Aviation: The extreme of the extremes

Finnair CEO Topi Manner discusses the difficult decision to be first in the industry to do a big equity issue.

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Nordea On Your Mind

Coronavirus: Plan B – Hope for the best, prepare for the worst

Covid-19 has given an unprecedented shock to the world economy, as lockdowns caused sudden and sharp declines in demand, and we cannot safely assume that development of a vaccine or other therapy will make it go away entirely.

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Podcast

Podcast: Coronavirus – Plan B

Capital markets have rebounded from the COVID-19 shock, and consensus forecasts expect 2021 to be even better than the pre-pandemic 2019.

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