Sweden Ousts Top Financial Services Regulator After Public Outcry April 11, 2025 By Kati Pohjanpalo and Jonas Ekblom Sweden ousted the country’s chief financial regulator amid a controversy over an apparent conflict of interest. Daniel Barr, head of...
Finland Ranks World’s Happiest Again With US at Worst-Ever Level March 19, 2025 By Kati Pohjanpalo Finland’s unbroken streak as the world’s happiest country continued for an eighth year while the US fell to 24th place,...
Finland Finds Anchor Drag Marks Left by Tanker That Broke Cables December 31, 2024 By Kati Pohjanpalo Finnish authorities investigating damage to subsea power and data cables found drag marks on the seabed likely left by the...
Finland and Lithuania Report Severed Undersea Data Cables November 19, 2024 By Leo Laikola, Kati Pohjanpalo and Milda Seputyte An undersea data cable connecting Finland and Germany was cut in the early hours of Monday by what was likely...
Russia Gas Pipelines Now Have Four Leaks, Blamed by Some on Sabotage September 29, 2022 By Christopher Jungstedt and Kati Pohjanpalo Another leak on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 natural gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea has been disclosed, bringing...
Finland Battles Malware Attack Spread by Text Messages December 1, 2021 By Kati Pohjanpalo Finland is working to stop a flood of text messages of an unknown origin that are spreading malware. The messages...
Finland’s Sampo Sells $1.7B Stake in Nordea Bank, as It Moves Ahead with Planned Exit May 26, 2021 By Kati Pohjanpalo The biggest shareholder in Nordea Bank Abp offloaded another chunk of its stake as it moves ahead with a planned...
Finland and Estonia Pioneer with World’s First Hacker-Proof Digital Highway April 24, 2018 By Kati Pohjanpalo and Ott Ummelas In this age of social media leaks and foreign election hacking, the ability to transmit sensitive personal information securely across...