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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]
According to Bank of Lithuania, three banks held 68% of Lithuania's banking market in 2023. The three banks were – Swedbank , SEB Group and Luminor , all three with Scandianvian roots. [ 2 ]
Latvia's four largest banks are Swedbank, SEB Group, Citadele Banka and Luminor. [2] In 2023, Swedish Swedbank and SEB Group held more than half of Latvia's banking market. [3] [4] The largest banks and financial institutions in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are largely the same and mostly dominated by Swedish companies. [5] [6] [7]
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 .
In October 2007, the bank was renamed as JSCB TAS-Commerzbank. [6] [7] 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]
Online banking, also known as internet banking, virtual banking, web banking or home banking, is a system that enables customers of a bank or other financial institution to conduct a range of financial transactions through the financial institution's website or mobile app. Since the early 2000s this has become the most common way that customers ...
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 Denmark, Finland, Norway, Germany, and the United Kingdom, the bank's operations are focused on corporate and investment banking services to corporate and institutional clients. The bank was founded in 1972 by the Swedish Wallenberg family , which is still SEB's largest shareholder through major investment company Investor AB .