Nordea Corporate Insights

Sep 05 2024 84 ep. 20 mins 26
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Join our experts for a discussion of current hot topics in the corporate world. We talk about a wide range of themes that can affect corporate financial performance, from artificial intelligence and M&A trends to sustainability and corporate leverage, among many others. Aimed at financial professionals, but we do our best to keep it simple.

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Nordic sustainability champions

Sep 05 2024 23 mins  
Nordic corporates have bet big and succeeded in sustainability – Can they keep it up? The Nordic countries are punching above their weight in sustainability, and so are Nordic corporates. In this Nordea On Your Mind podcast, Johan Trocmé, Viktor Sonebäck and Jonas Ankjaer discuss just how good companies are in this area, how it has evolved over time, and why there has been su

How to spend it

Apr 17 2024 21 mins  
Spending your capital right can boost the value of your business. Companies can invest or pay out capital to shareholders. They can invest in capex, R&D or acquisitions. They can pay dividends or make share buybacks. In this Nordea On Your Mind podcast, Johan Trocmé, Viktor Sonebäck and Jonas Ankjaer talk about how companies globally have used their capital since 2000, and how

Time to reconsider the euro in the Nordic countries?

Feb 21 2024 24 mins  
It is 25 years since the euro was first introduced. Finland has used it from the start, and Denmark has pegged its krone to it. But Norway and Sweden have had floating currencies since the early 1990s. In this Nordea On Your Mind podcast, Johan Trocmé and Viktor Sonebäck review how the different Nordic economies have been affected by currency. Are they happy with the outcome? Wha

AI taking over our jobs? Don’t panic

Dec 19 2023 29 mins  
The release of Open AI’s ChatGPT in November 2022 has driven a tsunami of interest in generative AI. In this Nordea On Your Mind podcast, Johan Trocmé and Viktor Sonebäck explain the ‘big new thing’, Large Language Models, what they can and cannot do, and how generative AI could affect the Scandinavian labour market in the years ahead. And yes, they do touch upon the nightm

Hitting targets in a more volatile world

Sep 18 2023 29 mins  
Does not saying anything about future performance of your business protect you from being held accountable? Or could the use of financial targets even improve the value of your business? In this Nordea On Your Mind podcast Johan Trocmé, Viktor Sonebäck and Jim Jokinen review what targets Nordic large listed companies have used from 2007-2022, how they have been changed, if they h

Cybercrime is a serious business risk, not an IT problem

May 23 2023 25 mins  
If you are reading this you are online. So are criminals. Cybercrime is soaring, with estimated global costs of USD 8 trillion in 2023 alone. Johan Trocmé, Viktor Sonebäck and Arien Haghshenas from Nordea Thematics lay out why cybercrime is growing so fast, what the key threats are for corporates, and how they can protect themselves. Disclaimer: All opinions and estimates in thi

Party over for cheap and ample corporate funding

Mar 22 2023 26 mins  
Picking up from an earlier Nordea On Your Mind report in 2019, Johan Trocmé and Viktor Sonebäck talk in this podcast about the inflation and interest rate shock in 2022 starting to reverse the decade-long trend of bonds replacing bank funding for Nordic large corporates. Is leverage a problem in the Nordic region? For all types of borrowers? How much could higher funding costs ea

Inflation – A revival we never wanted

Feb 07 2023 32 mins  
Central banks had struggled for a decade with extreme measures as shock therapy to push inflation even close to typically targeted 2% levels, with very limited success. But Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 triggered supply shocks for energy and food, which has caused a sharp and sudden inflation spike. In this Nordea On Your Mind podcast, Johan Trocmé and Viktor Soneb

Don’t panic - 2022 is almost over

Dec 21 2022 24 mins  
When did we last experience a normal year? In this podcast, Johan Trocmé and Viktor Sonebäck review the Nordea On Your Mind topics covered this year and warn that 2023 may not be peaceful and quiet either. But we should not despair; it often takes a crisis to bring positive structural change. Disclaimer: All opinions and estimates in this podcast are, regardless of source, given

Nordea On Your Mind: Never waste a good energy crisis

Nov 07 2022 41 mins  
Are you praying for greater wind speeds? Loading up with blankets ahead of the winter? Sky high electricity prices has made the European energy crisis something real and highly relevant for us all. In this Nordea On Your Mind podcast, Johan Trocme and Viktor Sonebäck talk you through what has caused the crisis, how the Nordic countries have been swept into Europe’s challenges, a