Category: Accounting / Financial
Norway’s central bank is revealing how it tried to support its economy at the height of the oil crisis that hit the nation in 2014. It reached for the most powerful tool it had: the nation’s floating currency. In an interview in Oslo on Wednesday, Governor Oystein Olsen said that back then it was clear […]
Source: Bloomberg
Category: Accounting / Financial
Norway expects to withdraw less from its giant sovereign wealth fund this year as a recovery in oil prices is boosting the country’s coffers. Western Europe’s biggest oil and gas producer is turning the page on the oil industry’s deepest downturn in at least a generation after output cuts from OPEC and others, coupled with […]
Source: Bloomberg
Category: Accounting / Financial
Norway’s central bank kept its signal intact to start raising interest rates in the second half of this year, undeterred by a cooling economic recovery in western Europe’s biggest oil producer. In an interim decision on Thursday, Norges Bank, as anticipated, held its key rate at 0.5 percent. The bank reiterated its message from March that […]
Source: Bloomberg
Category: Accounting / Financial
Norwegian company Idex is collaborating with Mastercard to create fingerprint readable credit cards. Mastercard today unveiled a technology advancement for its biometric cards. With biometrics representing the next generation in securing payments, Mastercard developed a way for people to easily and conveniently register their fingerprint onto the biometric card in the comfort of their home. […]
Source: Mastercard
Category: Accounting / Financial
Digital disruption is rapidly changing the competitive landscape for corporates, prompting a strong drive to adopt and apply new technologies and capabilities. And Nordea is no exception. On Friday 23rd of March, researchers Jeanne Ross and Nils Fonstad from MITi CISR delivered dynamic presentations at Nordea’s head office in Stockholm about the increasing importance of digitalization and […]
Source: Nordea