the Report comes the day after it was reported that the rating agency S&P Global announced a review of Swedbank’s credit ratings.
the rating agencies have begun to stir after six weeks of chaotic development of Swedbank, which took off when the SVT Commissions review on February 20, reported on suspected money laundering with the help of the accounts in the bank.
and the new charges received the president Birgitte Bonnesen fired just an hour before last week’s annual general meeting. Then serious fraud office (EBM) expanded an investigation into suspected insider dealing, related to the penningtvättmisstankarna, to apply to the suspicions of serious fraud.
in Addition, the survey Swedish financial supervisory authority (FI), together with the baltic authorities about Swedbank violated the regulations against money laundering. Even the u.s. state of New York, the financial services authority, DFS are reported to investigate the bank.
who have the highest credit rating in Europe. The bank has thanks to good profitability and the high level of capital adequacy resilience according to Moody’s. Fixed the business model makes the bank dependent on market funding, according to Moody’s, means that there is a vulnerability on the confidence of the banker is reduced among investors.
the Warning comes at a time when Moody’s notes that Swedbank is only one of several european banks that are currently under investigation for similar suspicions.
in several countries against the Danish Bank, while ING’s Italian subsidiaries as a result of deficiencies in the control of suspected money laundering has been banned to bring in more new customers until remedied.
the Financier Bill Browder, who wants EBM investigating suspected money laundering in Swedbank with the link to the so-called Magnitskijhärvan, has also notified Nordea for suspected money laundering to the Finnish authorities. It has from the other direction at the same time raised suspicions of money laundering in, inter alia, Crédit Agricole, Deutsche Bank, Raiffeisen, ABN Amro and Rabobank, reports news agency Bloomberg.