Newsroom

26 November 2020

• Press releases

The po­wer from the North Sea’s winds to be tran­smit­ted to UK homes by Swed­ish tech­no­lo­gy

26 October 2020

• Press releases

New Head of Unit for Med­tech, In­dust­ry and Com­mo­di­ties

EKN has appointed Kristian Orrbeck as a new Head of Unit for Medtech, Industries and Commodities within the Large Corporates Business Area. The customer team currently handles a large number of transactions, which is expected to increase during 2021.

24 September 2020

• Press releases

Extensive crisis measures and expanded regular operations

EKN’s Interim Report Jan–Aug 2020: EKN’s regular guarantee operations increased 27 per cent to SEK 52.1 billion year-on-year. Temporary crisis measures with working capital credit guarantees for large corporates amounted to SEK 52.1 billion.

04 September 2020

• Press releases

EKN sub­mits re­port to the Swed­ish Go­vern­ment

An export finance system that contributes to climate transition.

01 July 2020

• Press releases

New board member

The government has decided to appoint Stefan Sjöquist as new board member of EKN for the coming year (July 1, 2020 – June 30, 2021).

27 May 2020

• Press releases

Booming demand for EKN’s crisis measures

EKN issued guarantee offers totalling more than SEK 120.7 billion in the first four months of 2020. The more than six-fold increase is due to booming demand for working capital credit guarantees. “They’ve given companies essential assistance for financing working capital during the crisis,” says Anna-Karin Jatko, Director-General of EKN.

20 April 2020

• Press releases

Record in­te­rest for EKN’s gua­ran­tees

covering Working Capital Credit Financing for large companies.

17 April 2020

• Press releases

EKN can now in­sure ex­port tran­sac­tions with­in the EU

A new EU decision now enables EKN to insure short-term risk for export transactions within the EU and to high-income countries, which was previously not permitted.

16 April 2020

• Newsroom

Debt ser­vice su­spen­sion for poor­est count­ries

On March 24, the World Bank Group and the IMF called upon Official Bilateral Creditors to suspend debt payments for the poorest countries of the world.