In 2021, Danske Bank entered into a partnership with ReDI School – an organisation that helps women with a non-Danish ethnic background into the tech industry. The bank’s development organisation have now employed the first women and has also jump-started a new round of recruitment for trainees.

It has just become possible to set up, delete and adjust regular transfers in the Danske mobile bank app, making it even easier for customers to do their banking where and when they want.

After #metoo, many companies are conducting employee surveys of harassment and discrimination, but few have undertaken as comprehensive a survey as Danske Bank has just done. The results will be used as a springboard to becoming an even better workplace.

Higher interest rates, risk of recession, and consumer spending eroded by lower real incomes all point to a weaker outlook for the Nordic economies, writes Danske Bank’s macroeconomists in their latest Nordic Outlook analysis.

As the first Nordic Bank, Danske Bank have signed up to Partnership for Biodiversity Accounting Financials (PBAF). The partnership enables us to measure, and in the long term, set concrete targets for our impact on biodiversity.

"We have made a clear commitment to being a leading bank in the Nordic region in terms of sustainability and sustainable finance. We have already taken – and will continue to take – significant action in pursuit of our aspiration," says Martin Blessing, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Danske Bank.

In 2021, projects funded by green loans from Danske Bank and Realkredit Danmark have saved the atmosphere from CO2 emissions equivalent to 4 million flights from Copenhagen to Paris.

Danske Bank is following the tragic situation in Ukraine closely, and our thoughts are with all those affected by the war in Ukraine.

We support our customers with advice and ongoing expertise related to our customers’ activities and finances, and we naturally comply with the sanctions imposed by the UN, the EU and the UK, as well as US sanctions. In addition, Danske Bank has taken a number of other initiatives.