Comment on Bloomberg article
On Wednesday, 3 October 2018, Bloomberg published an article on AML related issues in Estonia that caused strong markets reactions. In addition to the comments already made by the central bank of Estonia on the misleading claims in the article, Swedbank’s CEO, Birgitte Bonnesen, would like to make the below comments:“First of all, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are together with Sweden home markets to Swedbank. We run full banking operations and focus on domestic customers and business. As the market leader we have continuously worked with AML and have a systematic approach to assure that we