OUR vision is our mission
MISSION STATEMENT
Expanding the ecosystem and bringing together its players is of key importance for NRW as a financial and business centre. It is easier to boost transformation financing, strengthen the financial centre and create new solutions if we all work together. The NRW financial ecosystem in particular is multi-faceted and a significant competitive and location factor. The aim is to highlight and further develop the strengths that NRW has through its ecosystem. This includes better visibility, communicating „awareness“, information, knowledge and competence as well as identifying medium to long-term future and action fields.
Better capital mobilisation and matching
For climate-neutral and digital transformation financing
Fin.Connect.NRW is a central networking platform for capital providers, capital seekers and other interested parties – and for cooperation partners to help finance climate-neutral and digital transformation. In this way companies can seize opportunities on the market.
Innovation and cooperation open up opportunities
Fin.Connect.NRW is expanding the financial ecosystem
The aim is to close information and financing gaps for sustainable investments, to intensify interaction and to increase awareness. The ecosystem – together with interaction and cooperation between players – is of vital importance for innovation, transformation and sustainable finance.
The sheer diversity in the financial centre is a strength and fits with the economic structure of North Rhine-Westphalia. Fin.Connect.NRW brings together a wide cross-section of partners – ranging from science institutions to financial players and local companies – on a level playing field. The stakeholders of this initiative include companies, banks, savings banks, insurance companies, the stock exchange, consultants, private equity and science.
A strong real economy needs a strong financial centre
Leverage potential and improve visibility
Networking allows future-oriented solutions to be found more quickly and more effectively. By harnessing synergies, the whole becomes more than the sum of its parts. Better networking increases the visibility of the financial centre – particularly for investors.
Links to the topic
Articles by Fin.Connect.NRW
Fin.Connect.NRW: Konzept und Entwicklungsperspektive
frankfurt-main-finance.com
A strong state in transition to more sustainability
germany-finance.com
New impulses from Fin.Connect.NRW
germany-finance.com
A new departure in transformation and its financing
germany-finance.com
Erfolgsgeschichte NRW Finance
Article from Stuttgart Financial
Change as an opportunity: NRW on the way to the „economic miracle 2.0“
germany-finance.com
Innovation und Kooperation eröffnen Chancen
insurlab-germany.com
Start-ups als Treiber der Transformation
Article in the Börsenzeitung (24.09.2022)
Specialist contributions about Fin.Connect.NRW
Instruments of transformation finance and their relevance for NRW
germany-finance.com
The role of portfolio emissions in transformation financing
germany-finance.com
The significance of the European capital market for the transformation of the economy in NRW
fin-connect-nrw.de
The opportunities of securitisation for transformation financing of the economy in NRW
fin-connect-nrw.de
The financing and networking of key technologies
fin-connect-nrw.de
Sustainable Finance – a challenge for small and medium-sized enterprises?
fin-connect-nrw.de
Networking to promote transformation financing
fin-connect-nrw.de
Cooperation and networking of financing for infrastructure projects
fin-connect-nrw.de
Our areas of focus
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.
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