Dec 11 2023
Düsseldorf
Dec 18 2023
Düsseldorf
The financial centre initiative
for North Rhine-Westphalia
Our economy is faced with major challenges associated with implementing and financing the climate-neutral and digital transformation. Because of this, more venture capital and a better awareness of transformation processes are to be mobilised. After all, innovation and cooperation open up opportunities and are the key to meeting these challenges.
What is Fin.Connect.NRW?
Fin.Connect.NRW is an initiative that aims to expand the financial ecosystem. It is concerned above all with financing the economic transformation and initiates solution proposals and projects.
In the first phase of the project (2020 to October 2023), a network was created that brought together primarily the financial and credit industry (banks, insurance companies, private equity) and some companies from the real economy. In events and studies, the participants analyzed and explained in particular the necessity and importance, but also the difficulties and challenges of transformation financing.
Project start of phase II / establishment of an office
Fin.Connect.NRW is now being expanded and strengthened on the initiative of MWIKE. To this end, a separate office for Fin.Connect.NRW will be established in November 2023 in order to further expand the network and deepen the networking and close integration of the financial and real economy. The aim is to establish a competence center for transformation financing in NRW that supports the real economy and the financial sector in a variety of ways. The Fin.Connect.NRW office is supported by three partners, the Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft (IW) with its scientific expertise, ZENIT with its innovation, transformation and networking expertise and the IHK NRW with its professional training and qualification expertise.
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Transformation financing
The climate-neutral and digital transformation in NRW calls for high investment and financing volumes – by both the private and public sector.
There is enough capital available for this in NRW. The central task is to bring together investors and capital seekers here.
Fin.Connect.NRW aims to network all relevant players, thereby actively driving forward the digital and climate-neutral transformation.
Location factors
NRW is a key commercial and financial centre with innovative and export-oriented companies and a creative start-up scene. Many foreign companies and international banks have set up offices here.
One of NRW’s great strengths as a financial centre is the sheer diversity of new and established companies not only from the financial sector but also from the real economy, start-ups and science as well as its proximity to policymakers.
Human resources
North Rhine-Westphalia offers a leading financial ecosystem of business and science that is constantly being expanded.
Some 768,000 students at 68 universities are studying here for their future careers. This makes NRW Germany’s number one region for developing new talent.
NRW is also an important location for science. In addition to a large number of universities and excellence clusters there are numerous research centres from a wide variety of areas.
Innovation, fintechs and insurtechs
A vibrant, dynamic fintech scene is developing in NRW.
Because their innovation allows them to speed up and support the necessary transformation, fintechs are valuable cooperation partners in digitalising the financial sector and rendering it sustainable.
Insurtechs help to transform the German insurance sector through digitalisation and sustainability and to create and optimise business models.
COOPERATION partners
In our network, we work together with partners from the realms of science, finance and the real economy. This ecosystem of cooperation partners and financial centre players forms the heart of the initiative.
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