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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]
Swedbank AB is a Nordic-Baltic banking group based in Stockholm, Sweden, offering retail banking, asset management, financial, and other services. [2]
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.
In 2005 Swedbank made a buy-out offer to the minority shareholders and as of today Hansabank is a fully owned subsidiary of Swedbank Group. In July 1999, Hansabank's Lithuanian subsidiary Hansabankas opened its doors to clients in Vilnius, adding commercial banking to the services provided by Hansabank Group in Lithuania.
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]
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 .
Nowadays, its main rivals in the Latvian banking market are Swedbank, Luminor and Citadele bank. [2] SEB banka has been designated as a Significant Institution since the entry into force of European Banking Supervision in late 2014, and as a consequence is directly supervised by the European Central Bank. [3] [4]
During the Sweden financial crisis 1990–1994, a number of them merged in 1992 to form a commercial banking group that has been branded Swedbank since 2006. Dozens of other savings banks survive, such as Westra Wermlands Sparbank in Värmland County (est. 1856).