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Nordea Bank Abp, [5] [6] commonly referred to as Nordea, is a Nordic [7] [8] financial services group operating in northern Europe with headquarters in Helsinki, Finland. [9] The name is a blend of the words "Nordic" and "idea". [ 10 ]
At the end of 2023, there were 123 banks in Sweden. They can be divided into four groups: Swedish corporate banks, foreign banks, savings banks and member banks. [1] 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]
Swish (Swedish pronunciation: or [1]) is a mobile payment system in Sweden. The service was launched in 2012 by six large Swedish banks, [2] [3] in cooperation with Bankgirot and the Central Bank of Sweden. [4] It had 8 million users as of July 2022 (total Swedish population: 10.2 million). [5]
50 Sweden. 51 Switzerland. Toggle Switzerland subsection. 51.1 Defunct or merged banks. 52 Turkey. ... NORDEA BANK POLSKA SA; Nykredit Realkredit A/S SA - Oddział w ...
In 1997, SEB acquired the insurance company Trygg-Hansa , and in 1998, the company changed its Swedish-market logo and brand name from SE-Banken to SEB. At the end of that same year, SEB bought its first shares of the three Baltic banks Eesti Ühispank in Estonia, Latvijas Unibanka in Latvia and Vilniaus Bankas in Lithuania. [ 10 ]
Bankgirot is a proprietary clearing system (a giro) in Sweden used for transactions such as bill payments. It is owned by multiple Swedish banking conglomerates. The clearing system is connected with the banks enabling payments to be received directly into bank accounts.
PlusGirot is one of two proprietary clearing systems used for regular transactions such as bill payments in Sweden. Postgirot, was developed by Posten , the Swedish postal service, and for a long time it was wholly separate from the banking system which made transfers between the two systems difficult.
Carnegie was established as a trading company in 1803 when David Carnegie, Sr., a Scotsman, founded D. Carnegie & Co AB in Gothenburg.The management of the company was later succeeded by Carnegie's nephew, David Carnegie Jr., who later returned to Scotland, leaving the company, which by then had considerable interests in brewing and sugar production, in the hands of Oscar Ekman.