Nordic
Investment Bank Company Information ( NIB )
About
The Nordic Investment Bank Company ( NIB )
The Nordic Investment Bank ( NIB ) is the joint international
financial institution of the Nordic countries.
NIB
can offer its customers, comprising businesses and organisations
in both the private and public sectors, long-term loans on competitive,
commercial terms. NIB can help to finance projects presenting adequate
security and good risk classification, both within and outside the
Nordic area.
Basic
facts
- NIB
finances investment projects and project exports, both in the
Nordic area and outside the Nordic countries. High priority is
given to investments furthering economic co-operation within the
Nordic area.
- NIB's
provision of credits is highly suited to investments which secure
energy supplies, improve the infrastructure or support research
and development.
- Focal
points of the Bank's activities include the neighbouring regions
to the Nordic area, with priority for investment and environmental
loans for private sector projects and loans to national governments
or with governmental guarantees in the in the Baltic states, Poland
and Northwest Russia.
- NIB's
head office is in Helsinki, and the Bank has other offices in
Copenhagen, Oslo, Reykjavik and Stockholm, as well as a representative
office in Singapore.
- NIB
is a multilateral financial institution and has financed over
a thousand projects since it began operating in 1976.
Mission
& Strategy
- The
Nordic Investment Bank's primary purpose is to promote the growth
of the Nordic economies by means of long-term financing of projects
in the private and public sector.
- NIB
finances projects of mutual interest for the borrower countries
and the Nordic countries.
- The
bank operates on the basis of sound banking principles, and strives
to create added value for its clients by providing loans which
supplement other financing sources.
- NIB
participates in the financing of cross-border investments as well
as industrial projects which affect more than one Nordic country.
- NIB
finances projects in the emerging markets outside the Nordic countries.
The Baltic Sea and Barent Sea regions are priority areas for the
bank's operations.
- NIB
acts as a catalyst for Nordic industrial co-operation by financing
new investments, infrastructure projects and structural improvements,
particularly cross-border investments.
- NIB
participates in the financing of environmental improvement investments
in the Nordic countries and in the Baltic Sea and Barent Sea regions.
- NIB
co-operates with and supplements other Nordic or international
lenders.
- NIB
strives to maintain the highest possible credit rating, in order
to be able to supplement other Nordic lending institutions with
long-term loans on favourable terms.
HEADQUARTERS
Fabianinkatu 34
P.O. Box 249
FIN-00171 Helsinki
Finland
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