SEB (Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken) - News, Articles & Research

SEB leaps onto Google Cloud

Sweden's SEB is going all-in on Google Cloud, accelerating a shift that will bring a raft of new products to retail and corporate customers based on data, analytics, and AI.

23 March 2021

News/wholesale

SEB trials secure data sharing tech for Letters of Credit

Nordic bank SEB has teamed up with Finnish industrial group Wärtsilä on a secure data sharing experiment involving the exchange of digital Letters of Credit.

18 February 2021

Finextra TV/predictions

The role of AI in building resilience & managing business disruption in 2021

Salla Franzén, Chief Data Scientist, SEB, talks to FinextraTV about her predictions for 2021 taking into account the shock of the pandemic, how banks are putting building resilience and managing business disruption at the top of their agendas, where AI will be incorporated here and what other trends can we expect to emerge in the year ahead around AI.

15 February 2021

Finextra TV/predictions

How the demand for Sustainability is being reflected in business's 2021 agendas

Johan Javeus, Chief Strategist for SEB Research tells FinextraTV how Sustainability is being put high on the business agenda as climate change is becoming a snowballing concern, the significance of Covid-19 for businesses planning ahead, and what the response will be from banks, governments & regulators.

08 February 2021

Company announcement/payments

Eurocard to install automated VAT reclaim software from Danish fintech Cardlay

Eurocard will be rolling out the fintech company Cardlay’s solution Vattax for reclaiming VAT automatically to small and medium-sized enterprises across the Nordic region.

21 January 2021

News/crime

Swedish banks formalise AML information sharing pact with police

Sweden's five largest banks have formalised an information sharing pact with the country's police force aimed at cracking down on money laundering.

19 January 2021

Company announcement/payments

SEB takes payments wearables to Denmark and Finland

The Swedish tech company Fidesmo and SEB expand their collaboration with the launch of Fidesmo Pay in Denmark and Finland.

15 January 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2020: Batch processing gives way to the instant payments revolution

At EBAday 2019 in Stockholm, Deutsche Bank’s Koral Araskin highlighted that if instant payments is the new normal, banks will heavily depend on cash buffers to cover all payment flows - even those which come outside of normal working hours. "Is this really meaningfully achievable?" he pondered last year. The events of 2020 and the impact of Covid-19 have truly shown that it must be achievable.

24 November 2020

Finextra TV/payments

What Recovery Looks Like Post-Pandemic

Paula da Silva, Head of Transaction Services at SEB & Chairperson for P27 Nordics Payments Platform, gives her View From Sibos on the next stage of recovery post-pandemic, the impact Covid has had on trade in Nordic countries, where we are up to with P27 and how banks and corporates are working collaboratively managing supply chains.

08 October 2020

News/sustainable

SEB forms green tech investment unit

Nordic bank SEB has created a new unit to invest venture capital in green technology companies in the region.

17 September 2020

Company announcement/crime

SEB hit with SEK1 billion fine for failing to tackle money laundering in Baltic operations

SEB has not sufficiently identified the risk of money laundering in its Baltic operations and has had deficiencies in its governance and control of the Baltic subsidiary banks’ anti-money laundering measures.

25 June 2020

News/payments

Swedish banks set up P27 Migration Committee

The Swedish Bankers' Association has formed a P27 Migration Committee, as the country prepares to replace its payment rails with a new pan-Nordic real-time cross border platform.

09 June 2020