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We are witnessing a legal avalanche relating to business and human rights. Our Business and Human Rights Updates will keep you advised of initiatives of relevance to your business.

The Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA) has released draft guidelines on ongoing monitoring of business relationships under the new Anti-Money Laundering Regulation.

On 28 June 2023, the European Commission presented a proposal aimed at creating a framework for open financial services.

The Swedish Financial Market has expanded rapidly during the last decade. Companies have broadened the scope of their business, and many new companies have entered the market. One important change is the bank-insurance concept, i.e. banking and insurance operations are offered by the same financial group. This position has been adopted by all the leading actors on the Swedish market and we have a new structure for the financial services industry today.

Besides providing information about current news in financial regulation, we have chosen to carry out a more detailed analysis of the report on consumers' need for gadget insurance issued by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority ...

This article aims to provide an overview of the new Digital Operational Resilience Act ("DORA") for the financial sector. The article also intends to identify and analyse...

In view of the historic financial crisis which hit the world in 2008 and still affect us it was expected that disputes within the industry would increase.

The Swedish Insurance Contract Act dates back to 1927 and is in many respects not adapted to the current conditions of the insurance market. The applicability of the act is also limited and has been partly overtaken by separate legislative solutions for the most urgent demands, such as the Consumer Insurance Contract Act and various regulations regarding items such as third-party motor insurance

In September 2003 the government presented a bill proposing a new legislation (the "Invest-ment Funds Act") regarding mutual funds and other undertakings for collective investments.

As Sweden is an EU Member State, Swedish banks are subject to laws and regulations on an EU level and a national level.

Over the last decade, the Nordic bond market has experienced significant growth in terms of volume and number of issuers and has become a viable alternative for issuers across substantially all

This article will cover investments in Sweden through mergers and acquisitions, primarily those of banks.

Den 20 november 2026 träder nya tillståndsregler i kraft som kan påverka företag som erbjuder betalningsanstånd eller förmedlar konsumentkrediter. Även butiker, e-handlare och tjänsteföretag som normalt inte betraktar sig som kreditaktörer kan behöva tillstånd från Finansinspektionen beroende på hur deras betalningslösningar är konstruerade.

The Swedish insurance industry has a long history and the Swedish insurance market has previously distinguished itself as a closed market dominated by small number of domestic companies. However, during the past decade Sweden has gradually opened the insurance market to both domestic and foreign competition