Roger Storm new Country Manager at SEB in France

Roger Storm has been appointed country manager and head of Merchant
Banking division of SEB in France and takes on his new position 1 May
2008. Storm joined SEB in 1989 and most recently held a position as
Head of Markets & Infrastructure in Global Transaction Services
within Merchant Banking.

Roger Storm has been appointed country manager and head of Merchant
Banking division of SEB in France and takes on his new position 1 May
2008. Storm joined SEB in 1989 and most recently held a position as
Head of Markets & Infrastructure in Global Transaction Services
within Merchant Banking.


Storm has held a range of positions within the group most recently
coordinating SEB's SEPA Program. Storm has also held several external
positions on behalf of SEB and the other Swedish banks for example as
Member of the Board of SWIFT scrl, and on behalf of SEB as Member of
the Board of BGC AB and EBA Clearing SA.
 
As the world's sixth largest economy and the second largest EU
economy, France is a market of natural interest to corporates and
financial institutions expanding abroad. Today more than 2,500 Nordic
and German corporates do business in France, and a large number of
them already use SEB as their local banking partner.
 
SEB has been active in Paris since 1971 and has maintained a full
branch office there since 1991. SEB in France is represented by
Merchant Banking in Paris and Private Banking in Nice. The Merchant
Banking activities consist mainly of corporate banking and other
financial services to Nordic and German Corporates and financial
institutions established in France. Services include cash management,
structured finance and trading and capital markets with a focus on
advisory and risk management.
 
 
SEB is a North European financial group serving some 400,000
corporate customers and institutions and five million private
individuals. SEB has a local presence in the Nordic and Baltic
countries, Germany, Ukraine and Russia, and a global presence through
its international network in another ten countries. On 31 December
2007, the Group's total assets amounted to SEK 2,344bn while its
assets under management totalled SEK 1,370bn. The Group has about
20,000 employees. Read more about SEB at www.sebgroup.com.
 
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