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In many export sectors, existing order books helped enterprises survive in 2020. The launch of new projects slowed down, but the importance of financing in export trade negotiations grew. Finnvera’s social role was particularly significant during the coro... Read more

Finnvera Group, Stock Exchange Release 23 February 2021

Advance information about Finnvera Group’s year 2020: The separate result for export credit guarantee and special guarantee operations shows a significant loss due to loss provisions - The coronavirus pandemic increased domestic financing, export financin... Read more

The year 2020 will go down in history as the year of the coronavirus when almost everything in the economy went differently than we thought in January. According to Timo Lindholm, Chief Economist at Finnvera, what is even more important is that many thing... Read more

Finnvera’s policy on the environmental and social risk management of the financing operations was revised a year ago. Issues related to the new policy will be reflected in new export credit guarantee applications. The forms will feature questions on the u... Read more

The long-term nature of financing is a key factor in Finnish export companies’ and foreign buyers’ commitment to transactions. Trade negotiations are long processes, especially when talking about large-scale commodities such as a cruise ship.

Financing is an important part of exports and sometimes even a must for closing a deal. This is especially true if the terms and conditions of the deal are highly unusual. Finnvera, Nordea and the boat manufacturer Kewatec AluBoat worked closely together ... Read more

Finnish exporters lack the tools for financing small export transactions that foreign competitors have at their disposal. At present, Finnish export companies are clearly in a weaker position than their foreign competitors, as the supply of banks to finan... Read more

There is international interest in Africa: the EU has published its Africa strategy and the Finnish government is creating one of its own. Last year, slightly more than 2 per cent of Finnish exports of goods went to Africa but according to the Minister fo... Read more