Ulf Riese of Svenska Handelsbanken (see article) remembers the pressure that the bank resisted to join its peers in the Baltic lending boom.

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When the Svenska Dagbladet, a quality Swedish paper, went tabloid in 2000, it moved slightly downmarket and aimed itself more at city dwellers, says Lars Ryding, its foreign editor.

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