Interim Report January-June 2017: SWEDISH EXPORTS ARE STRONG
Swedish exporters have experienced high activity levels with increased exports in the first half of the year. SEK’s efforts to broaden the scope of business with existing customers and to attract new customers generated good results in the first half of the year. Year-on-year, new lending was higher in Q2 and amounted to Skr 31.2 billion (Q2 2016: Skr 15.3 billion). In total, new lending in the first half of the year amounted to Skr 48.7 billion (1H16: Skr 36.4 billion). “New lending is allocated between various forms of financing solutions and between new and existing clients, which is