International diversification counts for little in a pandemic, so shares in Sweden’s Handelsbanken have done better than most other lenders in Europe – but its loan book faces a stern test.

Proof of the Swedish supervisor’s mettle raises questions about the Danish response to money laundering.

The head of transaction banking at SEB says: 'Corporate clients ask us what we are doing to become a green bank.'

Sweden’s Handelsbanken was the perfect antidote to investors burned by the pre-2008 bubble, but investors are no longer so enamoured of its consistent strategy.

Non-banks eye new funds to triple originations; interest margins at risk across Europe.

Soviet military bunkers in Kazakhstan and portable houses in Siberia linked up to the plumbing: Bitcoin mining is moving in some interesting directions that will become even more diverse as China cracks down on its domestic industry.

Nordea shares big problems with other big European banks – it offers no easy solution to them.

Nordea is the biggest and most-diversified Nordic bank and has attributes for which Nordic lenders are admired. CEO Casper von Koskull has focused on returns over growth, cheered on by chair Björn Wahlroos. Yet it remains among the region’s least-profitable banks.

As European banks are recovering, Nordic banks are facing perhaps their biggest challenge since the 2008 crisis. Their time as the darlings of the sector may be over

As Stockholm loses its biggest bank, the threat by Nordea’s chairman Björn Wahlroos – peeved at higher Swedish resolution fees – to redomicile to Helsinki proves to have been no empty one, but the bank’s new home under the ECB could hold some disappointments in store.

With his four wives and baronial castle, Jacob Palmstierna, chief executive of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, had long been a target of the gossip-mongers in Stockholm. Not very pleasant gossip at that: his haughty manner had made Palmstierna unpopular as long ago as his college days. So when details of a juicy little scandal over his personal taxes began to leak out earlier this year, Sweden thoroughly enjoyed the whole affair, particularly the part where police raided S-E-Banken, the Wallenberg bank. But Palmstierna's resignation last month is bad news for all of the Swedish financial community, as Neil Osborn explains.