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Svenska Handelsbanken is a Swedish bank providing universal banking services including traditional corporate transactions, investment banking and trading as well as consumer banking including life insurance. As the oldest company on the Swedish stock exchange, Handelsbanken is one of the major banks in Sweden with over 460 branches. Its legal department is headed by chief legal officer Martin Wasteson, who leads a team of talented and capable in-house lawyers. The legal team is highly praised and advises the bank on various important legal and regulatory matters. Recently, the team helped the bank obtain approval from the European Commission and achieve collaboration with five other major Nordic banks to form a joint KYC (Know Your Customer) company, developing an effective platform for handling KYC data.