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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]
This is a list of banks in Sweden, updated from official Swedish financial regulator Finansinspektionen on 2008-03-11.. 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.
Westra Wermlands Sparbank is a savings bank providing services in Värmland County. The bank is subject to the Bank Act and is independent, but has a close coroparation with Swedbank. Its business area includes Arvika (headquarters), Eda and Årjäng municipalities serving via seven offices. The bank has over 100 employees and is an active ...
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 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]
In the Baltic states, the main competitor of the Hansabank Group is the Swedish banking group SEB, which owns SEB Eesti Ühispank, SEB Unibanka and SEB Vilniaus bankas. Following the decision to rebrand the bank under the Swedbank name, a number of branches were renamed as Swedbank in autumn 2008. The legal name of the bank changed in spring ...
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]
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]