Four reasons to choose Sweden

• Niche opportunities in retail and private banking
• Potential in corporate and private insurance, particularly related to private healthcare
• Opportunities in private equity and venture capital, to gain exposure to buyouts and emerging technology firms
• Central hub in Scandinavia

A sophisticated financial service sector

Sweden is ideally positioned as a financial center for Northern Europe. The economy is open, competitive and resilient. The financial services sector is one of the fastest-growing in the region. Sweden is widely recognized for its political stability, sound economic management and strong, transparent and independent legal and regulatory systems.

Central hub in Scandinavia

Stockholm has Scandinavia’s largest stock exchange – Nasdaq OMX – which owns and operates exchanges in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Riga, Tallinn and Vilnius, and can offer access to about 80 percent of the Scandinavian and Baltic securities markets. Many multinational corporations, banks and financial institutions have their regional head offices in Stockholm. Citibank, Calyon, GE Moneybank, Deutsche Bank, RBS, Danske Bank, ABN AMRO and HSBC Bank are just some of the companies that use Stockholm as the base for their customer contacts in Scandinavia and Northern Europe. 

Experienced management teams

A major strength of the Stockholm financial market is the private equity market. The Swedish private equity and venture capital industry is one of the most developed in Europe (The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation) with more than 140 fund managers (the Swedish Venture Capital Association) and a solid track record of generating returns. During the past ten years, Swedish private equity funds have outperformed their North American and European counterparts (Thomson Reuters performance data).