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An overview of Swedish financial markets

Staffan Olsson
Gärde Wesslau
Stockholm

In October 2008, the Swedish government approved a guarantee programme, which aims to insure the medium-term borrowing of banks and mortgage institutions. The main element of the programme is that the state offers a guarantee for new borrowing of such financial institutions. If an institution that has applied for the guarantee fails to pay, the state steps in. Following the Act on state aid to credit institutions, the programme is administered by Sweden's debt office, which also has been given a broad mandate to intervene if a financial institution gets into serious difficulties.

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Since the financial storm reached Sweden, the M&A market has significantly calmed down. It is much harder for companies to get financing, with banks not eager to finance risky takeovers....

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