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Bank of Finland strong box which moved to Helsinki with the bank when it relocated from Turku Sederholm House [] in Helsinki, the Bank's seat from 1819 to 1824 Government Palace in Helsinki, the Bank's home from 1824 until relocation to its current building in 1883 The Bank's current head office completed in 1883, with statue of J.V. Snellman by sculptor Emil Wikström in front
In Finland, two sign languages have official status, the Finnish Sign Language and the Finland-Swedish Sign language, both of which belong to the Swedish Sign Language family. [13] Finnish Sign Language is the sign language most commonly used in Finland. There are 5,000 Finnish deaf who have Finnish Sign Language as a first language.
The institution that eventually became the Bank of Finland, founded in Turku in 1811, received the right to print banknotes, starting from small banknotes of 20, 50 and 75 kopek on August 1812. After the bank moved to Helsinki in 1819 it continued printing banknotes there. In 1819 larger banknotes of 1, 2 and 4 roubles were printed.
The Finnish Local Cooperative Bank Group consists of 42 independent co-operative banks, each operating in its own region. The group was established in 1997 to enable the member banks to continue operating independently as the other co-operative bank group in Finland was seen as too centrally administered. [5]
Kansallis-Osake-Pankki (KOP) was a Finnish commercial bank operating from 1889 to 1995. It was created by the fennoman movement as a Finnish language alternative to the largely Swedish language bank, Suomen Yhdyspankki (Swedish: Föreningsbanken i Finland). The two banks were merged in 1995 to form the Merita Bank.
The markka (Finnish: markka; Swedish: mark; sign: mk; ISO code: FIM), also known as the Finnish mark, was the currency of Finland from 1860 until 28 February 2002, when it ceased to be legal tender. The markka was divided into 100 pennies ( Finnish : penni ; Swedish : penni ), abbreviated as "p".
'Finnish language struggle') was a major conflict in mid-19th century Finland. Both the Swedish and Finnish languages were commonly used in Finland at the time, associated with descendants of Swedish colonisation and leading to class tensions among the speakers of the different languages. It became acute in the mid-19th century.
Rolf Evert Kullberg (3 October 1930 in Pojo, Finland – 3 September 2007 in Helsinki) was the Governor of the Bank of Finland from 1983 to 1992. [1] He was a member of the board since 1974. Before that he worked in the ministry of finance and in a private bank. At the end of his term as a governor Finland experienced its worst recession ...