Peter Grabe
Head of Investor Relations
Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to this call ahead of our silent period that starts on April 8. This is Peter Grabe, Head of Investor Relations speaking. And with me today, as always, I have the whole Investor Relations team, Lars Kenneth Dahlqvist, Andreas Skogelid and Per Aronsson. We would like to remind you that this call will be recorded.
The call is intended for sell-side analysts and will not include any communication of new information, information that is not publicly known or any new guidance. The aim of this call is to remind about publicly communicated matters for housekeeping purposes of estimates and expectations ahead of the interim report. In this call, we are not aiming at steering you towards any specific numbers, and the outcome of the quarterly results will occasionally deviate more or less from the trends we comment on in this call. And we will only answer questions related to public information. [Operator Instructions]
Now let’s go through the respective lines and start with NII. First, in terms of volume development, we always refer to the official statistics. Our communication in the Q1 report was that Swedish mortgages saw a slight pickup, while corporate lending growth remained muted. Volumes are gradually increasing or were gradually increasing in the U.K. and the Netherlands, while the growth remained muted in Norway.
Second, in terms
