Information in the Swedish media regarding a supervisory matter within Handelsbanken’s UK branch
Swedish media are today reporting on a matter relating to the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority’s supervision of Handelsbanken’s UK operations. Among other things, this matter relates to questions that the Bank previously discussed and reported in its Pillar 3 Report, which was published in February 2018. It is important to emphasise that, in the Bank’s assessment, the observations made by the Supervisory Authority do not infer an increased risk of loan losses within Handelsbanken UK. This supervisory matter concerns, for example, how decision data for risk rating in the Bank’s