Insights
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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Insights
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
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
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
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
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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ESG
At Nordea we're now seeing broad interest in sustainable companies as an attractive long-term investment theme.
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Insights
Ever since Poland became the first sovereign to issue a green bond back in December 2016, the race has been on to see which countries would follow. Now the market looks set to grow rapidly, with Sweden recently publishing its Green Bond Framework, Germany planning to issue its inaugural green bond in September and Denmark exploring an innovative new model for sovereign green bonds.
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Insights
Majblomman is a well-known Swedish charity that raises money with the annual sale of special paper flower pins. When Majblomman implemented a fully digital campaign, Nordea’s Open Banking team enabled a real time overview of all incoming donations.
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Insights
Nordea's Johan Trocmé and Viktor Sonebäck take a look at the outlook for the oil industry, which is facing its third major shock in only 12 years.
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Podcast
In the latest podcast episode of Nordea On Your Mind Johan Trocmé, Viktor Sonebäck and Shirin Haddad discuss how the oil industry will deal with likely persistent price volatility.
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Insights
The current corona crisis has given rise to a new label of sustainable bonds: COVID-19 bonds. With no established market practices for these bonds, issuers and investors are working together to find existing and new solutions for COVID-19-related funding, while safeguarding the integrity of the sustainable finance market.
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