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SEB and other Nordic companies led by Finnish energy company Fortum has initiated a pioneer project to create a marketplace for trading in certificates for the removal of carbon dioxide.

British oil company BP will aligning company strategy with the Paris Agreement after criticism from SEB and other investors. “This feels very good,” says SEB's Christina Strand Wadsjö.

SEB is setting up a new venture capital fund and going in as the largest investor. Frederick Johansson will be CEO of the new company.

Today, SEB and the other owner banks have entered into an agreement to sell Danish mortgage credit institution LR Realkredit A/S to Nykredit Realkredit A/S.

“It’s enlightening and enriching to live and work in an international environment,” says Hanna Langwagen, who works with transformation management at SEB Kort and who previously worked in the Insurance division in Dublin. 

“It’s important that the bank understands our business and our objectives”, says Magnus Billing, CEO of the Swedish occupational pensions company Alecta.

"It’s when times are tough that you really need a good banking relationship – a mutual trust and understanding for your business,” says Edvard Kälvesten, CEO of Silex Microsystems.

SEB participates in the Swedish co-lab pavilion at the large industrial fair in Germany April 1^st to 5^th.

SEB's first microfinance fund reached 6.1 million entrepreneurs – of which more than half were women – in 27 different emerging markets during the period July 2013 to August 2018.