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Nordic Credit Rating invites you to our upcoming webinar focusing on our expectations for Nordic niche banks following their end-year results. Join us for a discussion of capital and earnings performance, rising credit risks and how hiccups in the non-performing debt market could affect niche banks' performance in 2024. 

• Time and place: Webinar Teams - 13 March at 13:00-13.45
• Registration: event has ended.

The presentation will be held by NCR analysts Sean Cotten and Ylva Forsberg with an opportunity for Q&A. 

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• Read more about Sparbanken Skaraborg AB (publ)

Sparbanken Skaraborg is one of Sweden's largest savings banks in terms of total business volumes (including transferred loans and savings). The bank operates primarily in four municipalities in the county of Västra Götaland in southwestern Sweden; Skara, Vara, Essunga, and Götene. The bank is also active in other areas of what was previously Skaraborg county, including the municipalities of Falköping, Skövde and Mariestad. The bank was established in 1847 and is wholly owned by Sparbanksstiftelsen Skaraborg, a foundation that receives dividends from the bank.

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Sparbanken Alingsås is one of Sweden's largest savings banks in terms of total business volumes (including transferred loans, plus external and other off-balance-sheet products). The bank operates in four municipalities in the county of Västra Götaland in southwestern Sweden; Alingsås, Lerum, Herrljunga, and Vårgårda, with a minor presence in nearby Gothenburg, the country's second-largest city. Together, the four core markets have just over 100,000 inhabitants, many of whom commute into Gothenburg.

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