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If you have experience from working with policy analysis and research and share the vision of making the financial sector prosper in a way that is sustainable for employees, companies, consumers and society, then we will be happy to hear from you.
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The Management Board of Nordic Financial Union has appointed Carin Hallerström as new General Secretary of NFU. She will take up her new position as General Secretary of NFU from September 1, 2020.
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In my previous post, we were counting down to the first one hundred days in for the (new) Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and the flagship initiatives and priorities, such as the Green Deal, minimum wage discussions, AI, and more. That weathering through a pandemic would be added to the mix, just close to the hundred day mark, was out of anyone´s scope, surely even to those curious about VDL´s training as a medical doctor.
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While I have recently returned to the NFU secretariat (although not returning to the physical workplace) after finishing my thesis, it feels like ages since I went on study leave in the beginning of March this year. Since then, a global pandemic has broken out, shaking our society at its core. Not only are the effects on individual’s health and everyday life devastating, but it has also sent ripples throughout the global economy and labour markets.
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On May 7, 2020, NFU President Michael Budolfsen together with the Nordic trade union movement sent an open letter to the Nordic Council of Ministers, welcoming the initiative from the Nordic Ministers for Enterprise on a Nordic post Covid-19 strategy for the economy. The Nordic tripartite dialogue should play a key role in the development of the strategy.
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The NFU family grows as UNIO, the Finish Union representing financial sector employees in Nordea Bank, joins as a new member union. It becomes the eighth member union in NFU
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If you have experience from working with policy analysis and research and share the vision of making the financial sector prosper in a way that is sustainable for employees, companies, consumers and society, then we will be happy to hear from you.
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The Management Board of Nordic Financial Union has appointed Carin Hallerström as new General Secretary of NFU. She will take up her new position as General Secretary of NFU from September 1, 2020.
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On May 7, 2020, NFU President Michael Budolfsen together with the Nordic trade union movement sent an open letter to the Nordic Council of Ministers, welcoming the initiative from the Nordic Ministers for Enterprise on a Nordic post Covid-19 strategy for the economy. The Nordic tripartite dialogue should play a key role in the development of the strategy.
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The NFU family grows as UNIO, the Finish Union representing financial sector employees in Nordea Bank, joins as a new member union. It becomes the eighth member union in NFU
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Susanne Lindberg, Forena, has been elected new Vice President of Nordic Financial Unions by the NFU Management Board, as they met in Stockholm on 20 March 2020.
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Are you a proactive and visionary leader with a strong commitment to trade union values? Do you thrive in a fast-paced and professional international setting? Then you might be the one we are looking for to be the next General Secretary for Nordic Financial Unions.
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In my previous post, we were counting down to the first one hundred days in for the (new) Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and the flagship initiatives and priorities, such as the Green Deal, minimum wage discussions, AI, and more. That weathering through a pandemic would be added to the mix, just close to the hundred day mark, was out of anyone´s scope, surely even to those curious about VDL´s training as a medical doctor.
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While I have recently returned to the NFU secretariat (although not returning to the physical workplace) after finishing my thesis, it feels like ages since I went on study leave in the beginning of March this year. Since then, a global pandemic has broken out, shaking our society at its core. Not only are the effects on individual’s health and everyday life devastating, but it has also sent ripples throughout the global economy and labour markets.
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That is my key takeaway from my eleven years at NFU. When I started in November 2008, the big picture in the Nordic and European finance sectors was changing dramatically. The biggest financial crisis in a century unfolded before our eyes, destroying trillions of euros and dollars in assets and hundreds of thousands of finance jobs all over Europe. The big and the small, the faraway and the close, the perspectives blended rapidly together and NFU had to navigate through it all.
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At NFU we are constantly monitoring the development in the sectors, both at Nordic, European and global level. 2019 has been characterized by an increasingly intense focus on sustainability, and particularly relating to the environment and climate change. In the wake of this green focus, another issue has (re)emerged at European level, namely the issue of Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD).
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The transition into a digital age is challenging the future of work and the occupational structures in society. In the financial sector, we see this development through the introduction of AI, Robo-advisors, big data and Regtech, which requires extensive reskilling and upskilling of employees. It is, however, essential to take control of the narrative on the digital transformation so that employees are not left alone in this societal transformation.
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March 4th 1933 marks the inauguration date of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, and the first one to use the term ´first hundred days´ in a political context. Since then, following both praise and criticism, the first hundred days in office have been a benchmark for the performance of high-ranking officials and a testimony of their ambition and leadership.
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The NFU Conference 2019 "Finance for All: Finance for a European Society”, a two-day inspiring discussion on the
current and future role of the financial sector for achieving inclusive and sustainable societies, in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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NFU and UMF is organizing a joint meeting in Rome.
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The NFU Management Board consists of eight representatives from the NFU member unions who normally convene four times a year.
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In a new survey, respondents representing 35.000 employees from the finance sector in the Nordic countries evaluate the impact of the new regulatory requirements - and the results are worrying. Nordic Financial Unions (NFU) invites you to a conference to discuss effects, trends and the future of financial regulation.
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How have EU finance reforms affected the Nordic model in the financial sector? CBS and Nordic Financial Unions (NFU) invite you to a seminar to discuss the latest research on the Nordic implementation of EU financial rules.
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The Nordic model disrupted: A seismic shift or a natural development?
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