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Sweden
SWE · SE · Europe
The Sweden country profile for bank credit desks, assembled from the official record: export credit agency coverage, company register and beneficial ownership access, sanctions and FATF standing, and company register events. Sources are named with each datum.
At a glance
| Indicator | Value | Edition | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| OECD country risk category | not reviewed (high income) | 2026 | OECD country risk classification |
| CPI rank | 6 | 2025 | Corruption Perceptions Index |
| Corruption Perceptions Index | 80 | 2025 | Corruption Perceptions Index |
| Control of corruption | 87.70 | 2024 | Worldwide Governance Indicators |
| Government effectiveness | 85.80 | 2024 | Worldwide Governance Indicators |
| Political stability | 76.20 | 2024 | Worldwide Governance Indicators |
| Regulatory quality | 81.20 | 2024 | Worldwide Governance Indicators |
| Rule of law | 86.70 | 2024 | Worldwide Governance Indicators |
| Voice and accountability | 87.10 | 2024 | Worldwide Governance Indicators |
Source attribution
- Source: OECD, Country Risk Classifications of the Participants to the Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits.
- Source: Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index. Licensed CC BY-ND 4.0.
- Source: Worldwide Governance Indicators, The World Bank. Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Export credit agency
- EKNEKN, the Swedish Export Credit AgencyExport credit agency
Company register access
No openly licensed company register for Sweden is under Stonewake monitoring. Registers with restricted licences are not shown here.
Beneficial ownership register
No openly licensed beneficial ownership register for Sweden is under Stonewake monitoring. Registers with restricted licences are not shown here.
Sanctions and FATF standing
Sweden holds no active listing on the public-law lists Stonewake tracks: the EU AML high-risk list, the FATF increased monitoring and call for action lists, and country sanctions programmes.
Company register events
10 company register events recorded for Sweden entities in the Stonewake dataset.
Institutional datasheet
Sweden is an EU Member State whose official export credit guarantees are issued by EKN, the Swedish Export Credit Agency, with FATF membership, EU sanctions implementation, and Bolagsverket as the companies registration office described in EU e-Justice materials. This datasheet records the institutional pointers.
Sweden export credit agency and official support
EKN is the Swedish export credit agency. Official pages publish guarantee menus addressed to SME and midcorp businesses, large corporates, banks and buyers in Swedish export transactions, including the buyer credit guarantee, guarantees for investment credits, working capital credit guarantees, letter of credit guarantees, trade receivables cover, counter guarantees, combined guarantees and green guarantee variants.
The Berne Union directory lists Exportkreditnamnden (EKN) for Sweden. International cooperation pointers on EKN pages include the OECD, the EU, the Berne Union and the Paris Club. Product terms, premiums and country risk assessments read from current EKN publications.
FATF posture for Sweden
Sweden is a FATF member. Membership denotes participation in AML and counter-terrorist financing standard setting; mutual evaluation and follow-up outcomes are published by FATF separately. Sweden does not appear on the FATF increased monitoring or call for action lists as reproduced in HM Treasury's June 2026 Money Laundering Advisory Notice.
Sanctions posture for Sweden
Sweden applies EU CFSP restrictive measures. Commission sanctions pages and the EU Sanctions Map are the public institutional pointers, and EU Official Journal texts remain the legal source for EU listings. For sanctions screening on Swedish exposures under EU measures, institutional reading starts from those EU channels and Swedish competent authorities referenced by the Commission; designations are not reproduced here.
Company and beneficial ownership registers in Sweden
EU e-Justice materials for Sweden identify Bolagsverket (the Swedish Companies Registration Office) as the register authority and state that anyone can obtain information from the register by contacting Bolagsverket or via the company register website. Stored information includes company name, address, registered office, organisation number, business activity and director information among other fields.
Beneficial ownership access conditions for Sweden are recorded as an open item pending citation of current Bolagsverket or Finance Ministry register pages; they are not inferred from other Nordic practice.
Summary
Sweden participates in Arrangement disciplines through the European Union Participant for medium and long term officially supported export credits, so OECD Arrangement rules frame EKN medium and long term guarantees where they apply. EKN guarantee menus distinguish exporter-facing loss-on-claim covers from bank-facing buyer credit and letter of credit guarantees, and EKN country risk analyses are underwriting inputs separate from FATF membership posture. Bolagsverket company information supports identity and officer checks for Swedish entities and does not replace EU sanctions screening.
Related terms
Sources
- [1]EKN, About EKN
- [2]Berne Union, Member directory
- [3]FATF, Sweden country page
- [4]HM Treasury, Money Laundering Advisory Notice on high risk third countries (June 2026)
- [5]European Commission, Sanctions (restrictive measures)
- [6]EU Sanctions Map
- [7]European e-Justice, Business registers in EU countries: Sweden
Public records only. Values are shown as published, with the publisher named beside each datum; data refreshes on each publisher's cadence.