The international magazine Global Finance has selected Handelsbanken Capital Markets as the Best Foreign Exchange Bank in Scandinavia. It was also awarded the price as Best Foreign Exchange Bank in Sweden. The criteria used to select the winner for 2007 included: transaction volume, market share, scope of global coverage, customer service, competitive pricing and innovative technologies. The prize will be published in the January issue of Global Finance. Global Finance has over 250,000 readers in 158 countries and is aimed at the world's largest portfolio managers.

 

Mikael Ericson, head of Handelsbanken Capital Markets states, "We are very pleased that the independent magazine Global Finance has ranked us as Scandinavia's best foreign exchange bank."

 

 

 

 

 

 

Handelsbanken Capital Markets is Handelsbanken's investment bank. It is responsible for Handelsbanken's transactions in the fixed income, foreign exchange and stock markets, including macroeconomic, equity, credit and financial research, corporate finance, debt capital markets and structured products. More than 500 staff on three continents specialise in financial solutions for Nordic requirements. Handelsbanken Capital Markets is an integral part of Handelsbanken, which has 600 branches, operations in 20 countries, total assets of SEK 1,581 billion and an operating profit of SEK 15.7 billion for 2005. The Bank has around 10,400 employees.