Nordea Specialised Financial Services has gone live with APAK’s wholesale finance system (WFS) across the Nordic region.
WFS has been implemented in four countries: Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland.
Specialised Financial Services consists of Nordea Finance and NF Fleet companies operating in the Nordic and Baltic countries and Poland. Specialised Financial Services offers range of financial services to vendor, point of sale and bank corporate customers. The focus areas are asset based financing and sales finance.
As part of its strategy to expand its asset finance business, Nordea required a unit stocking facility that would provide an enhanced wholesale finance service for clients.
Following an extensive selection process, APAK was chosen for its knowledge of automotive finance, gained from its long-term experience of implementing stock finance systems. WFS provides Nordea with a web enabled, fully integrated wholesale finance system giving Nordea customers access to WFS in their local language via a web browser.
Importantly for Nordea, WFS interfaces with the companys international payments system known as Corporate E-Gateway – which automates all incoming and outgoing payments from one centralised point across all countries. This gives Nordea customers the choice of using direct debit or instigating payments themselves. Regardless of the payment method, WFS supports the automatic allocation of funds.
“With APAKs WFS system, Nordea is able to provide a unified and streamlined stocking facility throughout the Nordic countries. Functionally, WFS will help Nordea to offer improved customer service, through its multi country, currency and language capabilities,” says Jukka Salonen, head of Specialised Financial Services, Nordea.
“Nordea is a significant addition to our European customer portfolio through the implementation of WFS in four new countries. APAK is now well positioned to support major European markets with live operations in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Holland, Norway, Sweden, and the Republic of Ireland as well as the UK,” adds Tony Allen, director, APAKs Business Unit.