Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...The FT’s Nordic correspondent had told me that Zennström is regarded as something of a “mythical presence” in his native Sweden....
...Booking Holdings has offered to make concessions to the EU in order to win the approval of its €1.6bn purchase of Sweden’s Etraveli Group, as one of the world’s biggest online travel sites seeks to overcome...
...The geographical span of the collection covers art from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland, dating from the 1910s to 1990, and is intended to tell a story of engagement between Nordic artists and...
...Sweden’s financial regulator is investigating Alecta over those investments....
...Despite, for example, British leaders regularly citing a desire to turn the UK into the next Silicon Valley, Lee’s core argument is that governments should not just aim to replicate success stories elsewhere...
...But Brussels is also pushing member states to outline “net zero industrial valleys” to boost clean technology production, and to acknowledge the need to start mining for minerals critical to the green transition...
...Sweden’s biggest pension fund has fired its chief executive after it lost almost $2bn on a failed bet on smaller US lenders that subsequently collapsed such as Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank....
...The huge outlay, which exploded after the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November 2022, highlights how the biggest Silicon Valley groups are crowding out traditional tech investors for the biggest deals in...
...Sweden’s largest pension fund is nursing losses of at least $1.1bn from its big investments in three collapsed or struggling US banks....
...Sweden’s biggest pension fund has fired its chief executive after a bet on failed US lenders Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank left it with losses of almost $2bn....
...Sequoia’s mess in Sweden Where DD last left Sequoia Capital, one of Silicon Valley’s top venture capital firms, the investment group was in the middle of a dramatic boardroom battle at the Swedish “buy...
...Letter in response to this article: Growth is possible without debt — just look at Sweden / From Marcus Svedberg, Chief Economist, Folksam, Stockholm, Sweden...
...Chart du jour: Battery champion In Sweden’s sub-Arctic pine forest lies Europe’s first homegrown battery factory; a critical test case for the continent’s ambitions to compete with the US and Asia in the...
...Asian producers that dominate the industry such as China’s CATL.Much of that cash has already gone to work, as Northvolt produced its first battery from its European factory south of the Arctic Circle in Sweden...
...Sandberg grew up in Sweden as a big science fiction fan. When he arrived at university, the internet was still in its infancy....
...Several US regional bank stocks have slumped since the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in March, while April’s euro area bank lending survey showed the pace at which lenders were tightening their credit...
...Alecta was the fourth-largest shareholder in Silicon Valley Bank and sixth-biggest in Signature Bank, which both failed....
...Here’s how Silicon Valley is helping the Pentagon in the new tech arms race. We’re also reading . . ....
...A new policy in Sweden is an interesting example of an alternative approach: the country has created what is effectively a furlough-type scheme for life-long learning....
...The pension fund was the fourth-largest shareholder in Silicon Valley Bank, the fifth-largest in First Republic Bank and the sixth-biggest in Signature Bank....
...Blending the best of its Mediterranean neighbours with its own distinct Aran culture, Val d’Aran (the “valley of valleys”) is home to Spain’s top ski resort, Baqueira Beret, with 167km of pistes plus startlingly...
...Sweden’s EQT, a private capital and growth investment group, fell 8 per cent to the bottom of index....
...With free education and free healthcare, Sweden is a “fantastic society” where everyone is equally valued....
...Exclusive: JPMorgan is hiring dozens of bankers globally to capitalise on Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse in March....
...One of its biggest motivations has been watching the evolution of Sweden’s EQT, which helped pioneer an IPO model that allows public investors to benefit from its management fees while still keeping most...
International Edition