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SEB has been named one of the world's 100 most sustainable companies by the Canadian media and analysis company Corporate Knights.

Mathias Appelblad has been appointed Global Creative Director. This newly instated role will help steward the journey of the brand into the future. 

SEB was named best bank overall in 2019 when Kantar Sifo Prospera interviewed 192 financial institutions across the four Nordic countries.

SEB has completed the divestment of the minority shareholding in LR Realkredit A/S to Nykredit Realkredit A/S. 

AS SEB banka (SEB Latvia) and the Latvian Financial Supervisory Authority, Financial and Capital Market Commission (FCMC), have reached an agreement to conclude a supervisory review regarding SEB Latvia’s implementation of the fourth Anti Money Laundering directive (AML4) from 2017 as well as a single case connected to the European Union’s sanction list. SEB will pay an administrative fee.

In our daily work we regularly detect deviations that we handle and report to the financial police when there are suspicions of money laundering. We do this today, and we have done this historically, in accordance with applicable regulations. 

With SEB as lead manager, The World Bank has launched its first green bond denominated in Danish kroner (DKK).

Kristian Skovmand has been named global head of Investment Banking within SEB’s division Large Corporates & Financial Institutions. 

Several Nordic banks have scaled back their international operations, but not SEB. “Our customers can trust that our strategy remains firm", says Carl Christensson,

This year SEB has climbed to the top position in a survey of real estate companies and property management companies with operations in Sweden conducted by Kantar Sifo Prospera.