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A new working capital solution from Nordea allows companies to bridge gaps in the trade cycle by extending credit from the production or purchase of goods to the final sale. The key benefits include improved working capital, flexibility and global reach.
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Importing electric buses from China to the Nordics, Eurobus Nordic knows first hand the risks that come with international trade. One tool to help manage those risks is Nordea's trade term loans, which help the company bridge gaps in the trade cycle and improve its working capital.
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Geopolitics, market structures and customer relationships all affect the risk you need to consider for your exports and imports. Here are 4 tips before you enter into agreements across borders.
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Corporate insights
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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Corporate insights
By taking an innovative approach to the design and marketing of baby products, Twistshake has become a Nordic success story, exporting to markets all over the world. As Twistshake’s trade and working capital needs became more complex, Nordea’s Trade Solutions team were on hand to provide advice and solutions to optimise liquidity management and ensure continued success.
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Nordea’s Trade Solutions team has moved into top spot in this year’s Prospera customer satisfaction survey for Trade Finance related services. Following a series of interviews with Nordic organisations conducted by the Prospera team, Nordea’s overall performance was ranked the highest.
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Insights
Nordea's Overdues Report 2021 reveals that large Nordic companies have displayed an incredible amount of resilience in protecting their risk profile and maintaining solid liquidity management. When the previous report was published in 2020, in the midst of the economic crisis generated by the COVID-19 pandemic, Nordea's working capital experts warned about the consequences of such a financial shock on liquidity and overdue payments. This year's analysis finds if COVID-19 proved to be the wake-up call for liquidity and risk management that companies needed, now is the time to maintain and strengthen newly implemented capabilities.
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Nordea’s Trade Solutions team has come out on top at the recent Global Finance Trade Finance Awards. Nordea was named as the ‘World’s Best Trade Finance Providers 2022’ for Denmark, Finland and Norway. There was also success for we.trade as the ‘World’s Best DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology) Platform’.
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You may have heard the buzz around guarantee formats and the SWIFT standards release 2021 – here’s what you should know, both in general, and as a user of Trade Finance Global.
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Trade finance
At the Trade Finance awards organised by Coalition Greenwich, Nordea was named as the Nordic leader in quality and market penetration in a survey of European large corporates. Nordea also won Western Europe Excellence Awards for Frequency of Visits, Quality of Advice and Error-free Execution.
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Insights
As economies around the world begin to get back to pre-pandemic levels, some parts of the global supply chain have struggled to adapt to the return to full speed. Richard Hayes, Acting Head of Trade Solutions Denmark at Nordea, argues that alongside the pandemic, today’s dislocation and fragility in global supply chains originates from a combination of factors that began to impact the global trade ecosystem long before the emergence of COVID-19.
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Insights
Nordea’s Trade and Working Capital team return to their Working Capital Report 2020, this time from the perspective of SMEs (Small & Medium sized Enterprises) to assess their challenges with financing growth and investments and to suggest alternative solutions for funding growth if there is a shortage of capital.
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