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Company announcement/sustainable

Nordea joins the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials

Nordea takes an important step to further strengthen its work to track and measure its climate change risks and impacts by joining the industry-led Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF).

16 December 2020

News/payments

From hypotheticals to reality: P27 cogs are well and truly turning

Regulatory, technical, logistic, connectivity, and political challenges aren’t enough to slow the progress of P27. During their latest NextGen Nordics webinar by Finextra, industry players from across the European payments landscape joined to discuss the key factors impacting the project at present.

26 October 2020

Company announcement/startups

Nordea hosts virtual speed dates for startups and investors

Nordea is a main partner of Slush, the world’s leading startup and tech event. Nordea’s focus is on helping investors and startups find their best matches.

09 September 2020

News/payments

Sweden bids to steer customers away from installment payments amid fears over mounting debt

New rules in Sweden to discourage online shoppers from paying with credit could put a dent into the performance of local buy now, pay later company Klarna and other installment-based payment services.

02 July 2020

News/payments

ING spin out Cobase welcomes Nordea and Crédit Agricole CIB as new shareholders

ING spin-out Cobase, a provider of multi-bank treasury management services, has raised €10 million in funding from Nordea and Crédit Agricole CIB.

10 June 2020

News/regulation

Swedish banks join forces to fight money laundering

The five largest banks in Sweden have teamed up with the country's police to launch an anti-money laundering initiative.

29 May 2020

Company announcement/sustainable

Nordea and Nasdaq join forces to make the sustainability footprint of investments visible

As the world faces the consequences of climate change, resource depletion and pressing human rights issues, the call for sustainable products, services and companies has never been louder.

15 May 2020

News/retail

Nordea switches on account aggregation from Tink

Nordea is to provide its mobile banking customers with account aggregation and personal financial management tools from Swedish vendor Tink.

15 May 2020

Company announcement/payments

Nordea's suppliers receive faster payments

As many businesses urgently need liquidity at the moment, we will now process the payment of invoices much faster.

06 April 2020

News/sustainable

ReceiptHero aims to plant one million trees by 2025

Finnish fintech ReceiptHero is to donate $1 to conservation charity One Tree Planted for every new merchant that joins the digital receipt platform, setting a five-year goal to plant one million trees.

04 February 2020

Company announcement/retail

Nordea hires Ian Smith from Virgin Money as group CFO

Ian Smith, Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Virgin Money UK PLC, will join Nordea as Group CFO and Head of Group Finance. He will also become a member of the Group Leadership Team.

31 January 2020

News/retail

Banking predictions for 2020 – more competition, more collaboration and new sources of revenue

As 2019 draws to a close, financial services commentators and vendors have made their customary end-of-year predictions for the 12 months ahead, with increased competition through supercharged PSD2 the principal driving force.

23 December 2019