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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.
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]
In February 2019, Computer Sweden revealed that all calls made to 1177 since 2013 that were answered by the subcontractor Medicall were stored as audio files on a server that lacked both encryption and user authentication.
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]
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 .
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.
Skandiabanken (founded on October 3, 1994) is a Swedish online bank owned by Skandia.It has its headquarters in Stockholm, and conducts most of its business over the internet and via telephone.
Historically in Sweden, it was the banks and the Swedish postal service that first saw a need that people should have identity documents. They issued identity documents for anyone having a Swedish Personal Identity Number.