The Swedish banks face an immediate but probably manageable problem in bad loans to borrowers in the hard-hit Baltic states and see looming the bigger and less quantifiable worry of just how badly the European and global recession will hit corporate and retail borrowers at home in Sweden.
As they seek the capital they need to survive mounting loan losses, Swedish banks have one key advantage over banks in the UK and the rest of Europe.
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