DNB Bank ASA (0O84) Q1 2026 Earnings Call

Investor webinar replay

Replay transcript excerpt

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the presentation of the first quarter results for DNB and also welcome to everyone following the stream. Just for information, the emergency exits are in the front and also in the back and there are no planned drills this morning. Spring is here. The sun is shining and we are really eager to present the results for you. CEO, Gersten Braaten will kick off and then our CFO, Rasmus Fiegenskaya will continue with the details. And there will be time for questions afterwards. Gersten, the floor is yours. Thank you so much, Evan, and particularly warm welcome we can say since it's spring, as Evan said, and the sun outside is shining. That nonetheless does not mean that there are calm waters around us in the world because this quarter the turbulence around geopolitics has continued certainly with the increasing conflict and the war in The Middle East. This is something that has led to high and very volatile energy prices and the level of uncertainty is as we have seen now for several quarters and years higher than what we have been used to. Despite the geopolitical backdrop and despite energy prices being higher, the market reactions overall we would qualify as relatively benign and the Norwegian economy continues to be resilient in this environment. Business activity overall across the Nordic markets, which does represent the majority of our activity, we would consider at healthy levels and the Norwegian households are robust. So despite the turbulent environment, we are relentless in our focus, which remains with our customers focusing on giving them good customer experience, good customer experiences contributing with value creation and focus on the business short term and longer term. As always, I would like to start also with the custo...