Interim report January-June 2018: Strong finances for Swedish exporters
Activity levels are high in the Swedish export industry. However, due to healthy access to financing in the market, the positive trend for Swedish exports was not fully reflected in SEK’s lending. New lending for the first six months of the year was lower than in the prior year period at Skr 26.6 billion.“Despite a higher export order intake, exporters believe that the need for export financing remains unchanged. The access to financing in the market is healthy and the companies’ finances has been strengthened” says SEK’s CEO Catrin Fransson. Operating profit for the first six months of