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AI and enhancing the human element in financial services

At SIBOS 2019, industry experts will be discussing how the financial services sector is in the vanguard of deploying AI on a global scale and whether the technology will be a transformative force or has the potential to act as an existential threat.

06 September 2019

Company announcement

SEB adds account aggregation to mobile app

Beginning in July it will be possible for SEB customers in Sweden to view information from all of their banks in one and the same place.

15 July 2019

Company announcement/ai

SEB and SAS co-invest in Combient mix to build AI hub for Nordic industries

Backed by their network of Nordic large enterprises, Combient is scaling its leading AI service with SEB and SAS co-investing in the spin-off Combient mix.

10 July 2019

News/regulation

Nordic banks get EC green light for shared KYC platform

A group of six top Nordic banks is forging ahead with plans to set up a joint platform for handling Know Your Customer (KYC) data.

08 July 2019

News

EBAday 2019: How to champion women in payments

EBAday 2019 takes a fresh look at diversity during a lunchtime debate on best practices in national and corporate work policies, culture and how to ensure that dynamic work environments work for all genders in this industry.

18 June 2019

Company announcement

Traydstream, Nokia and three banks team to pilot AI-based rules engine

Traydstream, the machine learning-based trade rules and compliance-checking platform, is excited by a new pilot partnership with Finnish multinational exporter, Nokia Corporation and several of its major advising banks.

11 June 2019

News/devops

SEB tests mob programming

Sweden's SEB has begun experimenting with mob programming - putting an entire team of developers at the same computer at the same time to work on the same thing.

29 May 2019

Company announcement/regulation

SEB selects DTCC trade repository for SFTR reporting

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced that Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (SEB) has selected its multi-award winning Global Trade Repository (GTR) service in order to meet their regulatory obligations under the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR), which is expected to apply from April 2020.

18 March 2019

Finextra TV

International payments and pan-Nordic payment infrastructure initiative

Paula da Silva, Head of Transaction Services, SEB, speaks at Sibos 2018 in Sydney about the implications of the pan-Nordic payment infrastructure for Nordic banks, whether the increasing role of fintechs within the international payments market is acting as a threat or opportunity to banks, and what is driving the adoption of SWIFT GPI.

06 November 2018

News

Sibos: Blockchain to the fore with Voltron; Accenture makes DLT interoperability play

Voltron, a coalition of banks building a blockchain-based network for automating Letters of Credit and trade finance documentation, has thrown open its doors to other banks and corporates ahead of a planned roll out in 2019.

23 October 2018

Company announcement

SEB goes live with DTCC Alert Regional Custodian workflow to manage SSIs

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced that Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (SEB) has recently gone live with DTCC’s new ALERT for Regional Custodian workflow via global custodian Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH).

04 September 2018

News

Nordic banks explore shared KYC utility

Leading Nordic banks DNB Bank, Danske Bank, Nordea Bank, Svenska Handelsbanken, and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken have announced plans to set up a KYC utility as a joint venture company to explore the creation of a shared infrastructure for know-your-customer processing.

31 May 2018