Sanctions on employees – a dangerous trend

av | jun 24, 2016 | NFU Blog

NFU Blog 2016-06-24NFU Blog I attend many conferences around Europe on behalf of NFU. So I’ve listened to my fair share of panel discussions, keynotes and speeches during spring. Some of them were very interesting, others missing the point. But what is most...

Arvid Ahrin comments the NFU Key Issues Paper

av | jun 5, 2016 | NFU Blog

NFU Blog 2016-06-05NFU Blog Today, NFU publishes a Key Issues Paper on the important of traditional finance in achieving growth in the Nordic and European economies and societies. So what does traditional finance mean? The concept represents a number of core values...

You called us for evidence

av | maj 23, 2016 | NFU Blog

NFU Blog 2016-05-23NFU Blog Last autumn the European Commission launched a massive consultation, or exercise if you will, to get evidence from all interested stakeholders on the impact, gaps and inconsistencies of EU’s finance legislation. There were practically no...

Do you measure up?

av | feb 29, 2016 | NFU Blog

NFU Blog 2016-02-29NFU Blog Performance measurement systems are widespread in the Nordic financial sectors. They are systems that collect, analyse and/or report information regarding the performance of an individual or group and can for example include measurements of...

Rebuilding trust in finance

av | jan 28, 2016 | NFU Blog

NFU Blog 2016-01-28NFU Blog As some of readers might have noticed, NFU has the topic of trust in finance as its top policy priority in 2016. So why is trust in finance important? Finance, whether bank or insurance, is fundamentally a social activity. Finance is about...