More Than Money – NIB’s history book published

The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) marks 50 years of operations with the publication of More Than Money, a history of the Bank published by Finnish publishing company Otava.

When NIB opened its doors in 1976, it had only a handful of employees, offices rented from a Helsinki newspaper, and a deliberately loosely defined mission: to finance projects that served the “Nordic interest.”

Over the following decades, the Bank grew in both size and ambition. To better support the goals of its member countries, NIB developed innovative approaches to funding and to assessing the impact of the projects the Bank financed.

Tracking the history of NIB, historian Byron Z. Rom-Jensen explores the issues, people, decisions, and controversies that shaped the Bank as a unique institution in Nordic-Baltic financial cooperation.

“As I discovered more about NIB’s role and influence on its region, it became clear to me that this was an important piece of Nordic-Baltic history that had not yet been fully told,” Rom-Jensen says.

You can download the complete book here (PDF).

Printed copies of the book can be purchased here: More Than Money | Otava

Byron Z. Rom-Jensen is an American historian and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oslo. His research focuses on the international history of the Nordic countries and the ways in which Nordic identity has been shaped throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) is the international financial institution of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, and Sweden. NIB strengthens the competitiveness, sustainability, and resilience of the Nordic-Baltic region. The Bank is headquartered in Helsinki with a regional hub in Riga. NIB has the highest possible credit rating, AAA/Aaa, with S&P Global Ratings and Moody’s.  

Contact:

Arild Moen, Associate Director, External Communications Lead, +358 1061 804 96, arild.moen@nib.int