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The Denmark country profile for bank credit desks, assembled from the official record: export credit agency coverage, company register and beneficial ownership access, sanctions and FATF standing, and company register events. Sources are named with each datum.

At a glance

IndicatorValueEditionSource
OECD country risk categorynot reviewed (high income)2026OECD country risk classification
CPI rank12025Corruption Perceptions Index
Corruption Perceptions Index892025Corruption Perceptions Index
Control of corruption94.202024Worldwide Governance Indicators
Government effectiveness88.502024Worldwide Governance Indicators
Political stability792024Worldwide Governance Indicators
Regulatory quality85.302024Worldwide Governance Indicators
Rule of law91.502024Worldwide Governance Indicators
Voice and accountability902024Worldwide Governance Indicators

Source attribution

  • Source: OECD, Country Risk Classifications of the Participants to the Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits.
  • Source: Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index. Licensed CC BY-ND 4.0.
  • Source: Worldwide Governance Indicators, The World Bank. Licensed CC BY 4.0.

Export credit agency

No export credit agency for Denmark is tracked in the Stonewake reference set.

Company register access

No openly licensed company register for Denmark is under Stonewake monitoring. Registers with restricted licences are not shown here.

Beneficial ownership register

No openly licensed beneficial ownership register for Denmark is under Stonewake monitoring. Registers with restricted licences are not shown here.

Sanctions and FATF standing

Denmark holds no active listing on the public-law lists Stonewake tracks: the EU AML high-risk list, the FATF increased monitoring and call for action lists, and country sanctions programmes.

Company register events

3 company register events recorded for Denmark entities in the Stonewake dataset.

Institutional datasheet

Denmark is an EU and OECD member jurisdiction whose official export credit capacity sits with the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark (EIFO). This datasheet records EIFO as the national export credit agency, Denmark's reported Arrangement activity, FATF list posture and company register pointers.

Official export credit: EIFO

EIFO describes itself as Denmark's export credit agency and national promotional bank. The Berne Union member profile records EIFO as a state-owned, independent public company under the Danish Ministry of Industry, Business and Financial Affairs. It offers insurance, guarantees and loans to banks and companies, national or foreign, that take risks on exports and investments containing Danish economic interest, with both political and commercial risk cover. Facilities named in the profile include supplier and buyer credit facilities, lines of credit and shopping lines.

Arrangement reporting

The European Commission's review of Member State activity under Regulation (EU) No 1233/2011 records Denmark among the twenty Member States that provided officially supported export credits in 2022 within the scope of the Arrangement, and among the thirteen that also provided official financing support in addition to pure cover. Medium and long-term official Danish support is framed by OECD Arrangement disciplines applicable to the EU Participant, including minimum premium rules linked to the OECD country risk classification where those rules apply. Product terms and eligibility for individual facilities remain those published by EIFO.

FATF and sanctions list posture

Denmark does not appear on the FATF increased monitoring or call for action lists as reproduced in HM Treasury's June 2026 Money Laundering Advisory Notice, which describes the FATF as including 38 member jurisdictions and two regional organisations. List status is a jurisdiction-level AML assessment outcome, not a sanctions designation. EU, UN and UK financial sanctions can still designate parties connected with Denmark, so sanctions screening against the applicable consolidated lists remains party-based and precedes credit-file reliance.

Company and beneficial-ownership register notes

Denmark's public business self-service portal Virk is the channel for starting, changing and closing companies, with the CVR number assigned as the core enterprise identifier and annual reports filed digitally. Detailed rules on which beneficial-ownership fields are open to the general public are not described in the EIFO, Berne Union or Commission sources used for this datasheet, so beneficial-ownership public-access posture for Denmark is recorded as an open item pending citation of the competent registry authority pages.

Summary

Institutional mapping for Denmark centres on EIFO's combined export credit and promotional mandate under the Ministry of Industry, Business and Financial Affairs, Denmark's reported Arrangement-scope activity including official financing support, absence from the FATF public lists as reproduced by HM Treasury, and CVR-anchored company identity through Virk.

Related terms

Sources

  1. [1]EIFO, Export and Investment Fund of Denmark
  2. [2]Berne Union, EIFO member profile
  3. [3]European Commission, COM(2024) 402 review of Member State export credit activity
  4. [4]HM Treasury, Money Laundering Advisory Notice on high risk third countries (June 2026)
  5. [5]Virk, Danish business portal

Public records only. Values are shown as published, with the publisher named beside each datum; data refreshes on each publisher's cadence.

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