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SEB offers no products nor participates in structures whose sole purpose is to avoid taxes, says SEB in a commentary on Friday's media reports that the bank carried out financial transactions in Sweden.

SEB has not offered or financed transactions in Germany for the purpose of recovering unpaid taxes. We distance ourselves from that type of arrangement, says  SEB in a comment on Thursday's media reports.

Pay increases in major advanced economies have speeded up in recent years. But in Sweden, we have not seen any similar pay acceleration, says Håkan Frisén and Olle Holmgren in this week's Reflections.

In December last year a reverse mentoring initiative started where members of SEB's Group Executive Committee were paired with a few of the bank's millennials to gain new perspectives. For Mats Torstendahl and Maria Bernstål, sales manager for the SME segment, it was a good match.

As opposed to before, the Swedish currency now has some defensive qualities and may therefore not fall in value and provide a cushion for the economy when the next slowdown arrives.

SEB's result for the third quarter 2018 will be announced on Thursday, 25 October, at 07:00 (Swedish time). 

Joachim Alpen, co-head of Large Corporates & Financial Institutions at SEB, joins the board at the newly founded Stockholm Sustainable Finance Centre, SSFC. 

Sweden’s largest real estate company Vasakronan on 21 September issued the world’s first green certificates.

The IT Young Professional Programme, ITYPP, started 2008 to attract new competences to SEB. Kamil Herzog was one of the first to participate and still has a lot to thank the program for.