Catch up with the hottest subjects impacting the fast evolving and rapidly developing area of transaction banking. Topics include cash management, trade, payments, working capital, liquidity management, digitalisation, e-commerce, mobile payments, cards, emerging technology and much more. Stay informed on the latest developments in the TxB space and find out how they impact people and companies in the Nordics and beyond.
Corporate insights
Moving towards real-time in the Nordics
Breakthroughs in technology, combined with regional initiatives and increasing standardisation, are moving the Nordic region even closer to real-time payments as the norm. For Nordea, leveraging evolving infrastructure and technology is all about bringing greater value to customers.
Keep your online customers coming back: Three myths debunked
When e-commerce puts the world at every consumer’s fingertips, how can you make sure they choose your online store? And not just once, but time after time?
An in depth analysis of 124 large Nordic companies in 2019 showed aggregated overdue payments of EUR 18.5 billion, equal to 22% of total gross accounts receivables. With total overdue payments already increasing by 4% from 2018, the after effects of the coronavirus are expected to create an even larger growth in overdue payments in the coming months.
Flower power – Open Banking help Majblomman track donations in real time
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.
Supply chains: Become less lean or step up risk management
Nordea's Viktor Sonebäck interviewed Patrik Zekkar, Global Head of Trade Finance & Working Capital Management at Nordea, to hear more about how the COVID-19 outbreak will disrupt global supply chains, as occurred during the SARS outbreak in 2003-04 and the Fukushima accident in 2011. Patrik elaborates on how China plays a greater role today, how corporates should think about their supply chains and how Nordea can offer short-term help.
Selecting KPIs – Empowering finance departments by measuring what matters
Nordea’s Treasury KPI Report showed that treasuries are increasingly embracing KPIs to monitor the effectiveness of their activities. For Treasurers and CFO’s in the process of selecting operational and strategic KPIs, choosing the right mix can often be dependent on company size.
Although it was regulatory requirements that sparked the move towards Open Banking, Sofia Ericsson Holm, Head of Strategic Partnerships and Open Banking at Nordea, explains how it is the demand for instant and better user experiences that will really drive innovation.
Nordea has been successfully introducing robots to take care of manual repetitive processes in order to create more time for employees to focus on value adding tasks. After a period of development, the bank now has one of the most advanced robotics programmes in the Nordics.
Taking a holistic approach to equipping the modern Treasurer
Nordea aims to stay one step ahead of the rush to deliver new products and services by understanding and anticipating the needs of customers, elevating traditional functional transaction banking offerings to dynamic tools that support strategic decision making.
What skill sets will be critical in the treasury of the future?
As digitalisation progresses and the financial landscape evolves, treasury teams face rapidly changing demands. Employees will require an increasingly diverse range of skills to succeed and thrive — and to ensure the treasury’s future relevance.
Industry 4.0 is the name broadly used for the fourth industrial revolution, which has seen entire industries starting to move towards fully digital value chains and manufacturing processes. Ville Sointu, Head of Emerging Technologies at Nordea, discusses how linking industrial IoT data streams to payments and financing will make it possible to create innovative new solutions and services.
The Finnish company Ropo Capital specialises in managing the corporate invoicing process right along the invoice lifecycle. At a restaurant in Helsinki harbour, Maija Rinttilä, Cash Management Adviser from Nordea met Toni Rönkkö, CFO at Ropo Capital, and Ilkka Sammelvuo, CTO at Ropo Capital, to hear how Ropo are re-imagining traditional business models and helping their customers turn invoices into cash faster.