Sweden

• Risk management

CROs respond to Swedish stress tests

Chief risk officers have given muted support to the recent stress-testing exercise by Swedish regulator Finansinspektionen to assess whether the country's largest banks have enough capital to survive future stresses.

• 23 Jun 2009

• Structured products

Sweden's $202 billion guarantee fails to help markets

The Swedish finance minister, Anders Borg, promised SKr1500 billion ($202 billion) in loan guarantees to Swedish banks yesterday, but the country's markets remained sluggish today.

• 21 Oct 2008

• Risk management

Profile: SEB strives for total operational risk acceptance

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Within the discipline of operational risk, it's often fancy mathematical models and souped-up databases that executives choose to focus on. But Lars Hansén, manager of Swedish financial company SEB's group op risk team, says it's the…

• 10 Mar 2003

• Credit risk

Sweden’s credit risk maverick

“We don’t like portfolio management,” says Björn Börjesson, executive vice-president and head of the central credit department at Svenska Handelsbanken in Stockholm.

• 15 Sep 2002