Bo Carlsson new Branch Office Manager at SEB in...

Bo Carlsson has been appointed manager of SEB's branch office and
Head of Merchant Banking division at SEB in Singapore and takes on
his new position 1 August 2008. Carlsson joined SEB in 1989 and has
been Head of Client Relationship Management (CRM) and for Merchant
Banking in Gothenburg since 2003. Carlsson succeeds Sven Björkman who
retires from the bank.

Bo Carlsson has been appointed manager of SEB's branch office and
Head of Merchant Banking division at SEB in Singapore and takes on
his new position 1 August 2008. Carlsson joined SEB in 1989 and has
been Head of Client Relationship Management (CRM) and for Merchant
Banking in Gothenburg since 2003. Carlsson succeeds Sven Björkman who
retires from the bank.


Carlsson has held a range of positions within the group. He spent
several years as Head of Commercial Banking in SEB Hong Kong, and has
otherwise spent his nearly 20 years with the bank working for Trading
and Capital Markets and Client Relationship Management in Gothenburg,
mainly as client executive covering Mid and Large Corporates.
SEB has been active in Singapore since 1979 and provides a full range
of commercial banking activities with emphasis on trade finance,
structured finance, cash management and treasury services aimed at
the needs of European companies and their counterparts in Asia.
Through the trading room in Singapore SEB offers a selection of TCM
products and other solutions to financial institutions and asset
managers in the region. Since 2005, SEB also provides a wide scale of
international offshore private banking services for individuals.
Total staff in Singapore is about 95.




SEB is a North European financial group serving some 400,000
corporate customers and institutions and five million private
individuals. SEB offers universal banking services in Sweden, Germany
and the Baltic countries - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. It also has
local presence in the other Nordic countries, Poland, Ukraine and
Russia and a global presence through its international network in
another ten countries. On 31 March 2008, the Group's total assets
amounted to SEK 2,399bn (EUR 251bn) while its assets under management
totalled SEK 1,331bn (EUR 149bn). The Group has about 20,000
employees. Read more about SEB at www.sebgroup.com.
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