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Sweden's largest banks regardless of measurement type (employees, revenue, capitalisation, assets) is typically a list of four – Swedbank, Nordea, SEB and Handelsbanken. [2] [3] Swedish banks and financial institutions dominate the financial market in the Baltic states – Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. [4] [5] [6]
BankID is an electronic identification system in Sweden.With a usage rate of 94% among smartphone users, it is the single largest such service in Sweden by a large margin, and is administered by Finansiell ID-Teknik BID AB that is owned by several Swedish and Scandinavian banks.
In 2001, a deal to merge Swedbank (then FSB) with SEB failed as the European Commission thought that the merged company would have had too dominant a position in the Swedish banking market. Today, Swedbank has 7 million private customers and 555 000 corporate customers. Swedbank is the largest bank in both Estonia and Latvia. [7]
The bank is subject to the Bank Act and is independent, but has a close coroparation with Swedbank. Its business area includes Arvika (headquarters), Eda and Årjäng municipalities serving via seven offices. The bank has over 100 employees and is an active member of the Savings Banks Association.
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SEB is one of the largest banks in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, where Swedbank, another of Sweden's big four banks, is amongst its primary rivals. The SEB Group also has operations in most other Nordic countries , as well as larger foreign markets like Germany and the United Kingdom .
SpareBank 1 Gruppen is owned by the participating banks. SpareBank 1 Østlandet (12%), SpareBank 1 SMN (19.5%), SpareBank Nord-Norge (19.5%) and SpareBank 1 Sør-Norge (19.5%) all own part of the company directly while the remaining banks own through Samarbeidende Sparebanker (19.5%).
In December 2007, the company was headed by a new foreign investor from the Swedbank Group and the bank was renamed as Swedbank Invest. [8] [9] In 2009, the form of ownership and the name of the bank was changed to PJSC Swedbank. [10] [11] In 2013, the Swedbank Group decided to exit the financial market of Ukraine.