Abg Sundal Collier Asa (ABGSF) Q3 2025 Earnings Call

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Good morning, all, and a warm welcome to our Q3 results presentation. Before we kick off the presentation, I would like to mention that we will, as usually, have a Q&A session after the presentation. And should you want to raise a question, please use the Q&A function in Teams, and we will answer all questions in turn. We delivered a strong set of numbers in the quarter. And in fact, our second highest third quarter revenues ever with healthy operational leverage and strong growth of EPS. This is important since it proves our ability to deliver strong results today while investing in profitable long-term growth. We're also happy to observe continued strength in our debt capital markets and M&A operations. And we also observe higher activity in equity capital markets overall, especially in Sweden. In fact, when it comes to IPOs, Stockholm is the leading listing venue in Europe year to date. And looking at our pipeline of Swedish IPOs, we have reasons to be optimistic when it comes to our own performance in this area. regard the next couple of quarters furthermore we continue to improve work to improve our firm to become the nordic investment bank of choice the investment bank of choice for clients, talents and investors. We continue to focus on strengthening our positions in our core operations as well as developing our business by broadening our offering to new client groups such as our recently launched private bank and alternative investments operations. We are pleased with the reception of our private bank from clients Not least looking at the most important metric, i.e. the conversion from initial dialogues to actual onboarding of clients. While it will take some time before these new business initiatives make some meaningful contribution to our revenues, they wi...