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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.

SEB comments on the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority announcement that it will initiate a sanction evaluation process regarding SEB AB’s internal control and governance of its subsidiary banks in the Baltics.

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).

SEB responds to a number of claims made by the programme Uppdrag granskning from Sveriges Television's, SVT, broadcast on 27 November 2019.

In the opinion of the CFOs of large Swedish companies, business opportunities are less favourable compared with in the spring survey, says CFO Survey for Autumn 2019.

Since 2006, SEB has taken considerable measures in order to minimize the risk of being exploited for money laundering in the Baltics. This is shown in the historical transactional data for Estonia 2005–2018, which SEB publishes today.

Global growth is decelerating, and corporate earnings forecasts are being lowered, but stock markets are climbing to record highs. All else being equal, this suggests that caution is advisable, write SEB’s experts in a new issue of Investment Outlook.

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