In thousands of cases, consumers see their cards abused following online shopping. And it is far from always due to careless behaviour when consumers have their credit or debit card abused online.

Rather, the reason is often that consumers used their card in a webshop that is subsequently hacked or which in some other way leaks data such as card information. As a bank, we have taken a number of steps to protect customers.

New Danske Bank report done by analysts at Epinion shows that optimism is growing among Danish companies of smaller size. 

The report covers 900 decision makers in companies sized 2-249 employees and Head of Business Banking in Denmark, Niels Bang Hansen says: "This report confirms what’s also our impression during daily meetings with our business banking clients".  

Eliminate market jitters! That is what our investment strategist Lars Skovgaard Andersen is hoping will happen in the financial markets in February.

Financial markets have been very volatile in recent years, leading to several periods with considerable equity market sell-offs. However, beneath the volatile surface the global economy is doing quite well, and corporate earnings remain robust. According to Lars Skovgaard Andersen, developments in the equity markets will depend more or less on how 5 issues play out. 

How can businesses help solve some of the worlds biggest challenges? Danske Bank have chosen to support that agenda by inviting nine Nordic startups to participate in an intensive 12 week training programme. The criteria to participate have among other things been a scalable business model and a publicly declared goal of contributing to meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

Now the first litter of startups have graduated from the +impact accelerator. One of the start-ups is Everfells, that is building a sustainable travel platform.

Danske Bank and Nets have entered into a five-year agreement to issue and develop the Dankort card.

This means that Danske Bank’s customers will still be able to use the Dankort card for payments as they do today. Furthermore, the parties will cooperate to develop the payment infrastructure in Denmark.

Creating profitable retail business is a difficult thing in all the Nordic countries, concludes a new analysis by Danske Bank. Why? Fierce competition and consumers moving online, says private economist at Danske Bank Louise Aggerstrøm.

The analysis is based on the biggest 300 corporations in the Nordic retail industry and on the development in financial results among certain parts of the industry from 2013-2017.