Nordea was once again strongly represented at this year's Nordic Fintech Week. Kirsten Renner, Nordea’s Group CIO, gave a keynote on how the ability to scale AI safely may become one of the most important competitive advantages in financial services. In this article, she expands on the themes from her keynote.
From innovation to scale: The next chapter of Nordic fintech
Nordic Fintech Week 2026 is in full swing, bringing together founders, investors, fintechs and financial institutions from across the region. As an official partner of the event and sponsor of the Nordic Fintech Awards, Nordea is helping celebrate the innovation and talent driving the future of financial services.
Despite AI’s rapid growth, Nordea’s Kirsti Sunde Midttun and Ole Håkon Eek-Nielsen see several challenges to profitability and present a more sceptical view of the industry’s prospects.
Creating value with responsibility – this is how we build AI skills
Artificial intelligence is changing both customer expectations, and how financial services are being developed and delivered. As the largest financial services partner in the Nordics we realise the potential by not only investing in technology, but investing in our people's skills, judgement and confidence.
AI-powered research transforms our service for corporate clients
Our latest innovation, Research Librarian, demonstrates how AI is transforming the way we support large corporates, financial institutions and professional investors.
First ever Finnish AI Agent payment: Mastercard and Nordea completes live agentic transaction
Nordea and Mastercard have jointly completed the first AI-assisted online purchase and payment transaction in Finland. This collaboration is an example of Nordea’s ambition to build increasingly smooth and secure payment solutions for its customers, while actively driving the development of digital services.
Nordea continues partnership with Nordic Fintech Week in 2026 to support fintech collaboration and innovation
Nordea returns for Nordic Fintech Week 2026 in Copenhagen on 23–24 September. Under the partnership, Nordea will once again sponsor the Nordic Fintech Awards and take part in discussions shaping the future of financial services in the Nordics.
Nordea and Aalto University to explore the future of AI and human-machine interaction
Nordea and Aalto University are launching a long‑term research and education partnership to explore how machine agency will shape the future of services, including banking.
Nordea joins a major European stablecoin consortium
Nordea joins Qivalis, a consortium of European banks, working to establish a regulated, euro-denominated stablecoin. This digital payment instrument, leveraging blockchain technology, aims to become a trusted European payment rail in the digital ecosystem.
Today, AI is integrated across our organisation, supporting processes and workflows and helping us work more efficiently. In a recent podcast, Mattias Fras (Head of AI Adoption) and Olof Månsson (Lead AI Engineer) share how we got here and where we started.
AI Hackathon cutting manual work from days to minutes
Over two days, Nordea colleagues working with payments and financial transactions turned AI curiosity into working solutions. The focus was clear: solve real daily challenges, not just explore cool tech.
At the Microsoft AI tour in Stockholm in March 2026, thousands of attendees from a wide range of backgrounds connected with experts, explored tangible business applications, and learned how organisations are using AI to drive real impact.