瑞典银行(Swedbank)是瑞典的
中央银行,成立于1656年,总行设于
斯德哥尔摩。1661年成为欧洲首家发行
纸币的银行,1668年改组为
国家银行并被认定为全球首个中央银行,直属
国会并对国会及其所属的财政执行委员会及
监察人负责,
董事会与行长任免需经国会批准,兼具
货币发行、
政策制定及
商业银行职能。1997年瑞典储蓄银行与联合银行合并组建FöreningsSparbanken,2006年更名为Swedbank。该行在
波罗的海地区设有分支机构,2001年在
上海设立首个北欧银行代表处,与
纽约联邦储备银行签有互相透支3亿美元的协定,2021年位列
福布斯全球企业2000强第501位。
瑞典银行集团在
瑞典、
爱沙尼亚、
立陶宛和
拉脱维亚共有890万零售客户和45.9万公司客户。目前,瑞典银行上海分行为中国、北欧及波罗的海国家的公司客户,提供全面外汇服务,包括存贷款、支付、贸易融资、外汇交易产品和与银行业务相关的咨询服务。
The Swedbank logo (1997-2006). FöreningsSparbanken was created in 1997 through a merger between Sparbanken and Föreningsbanken. The unusual corporate name and logo were compromises of the merger of two different corporate cultures
Swedbank(formerly called FöreningsSparbanken) is a leading Nordic-Baltic banking group with 8.8 million retail customers and 441,000
corporatecustomers in Sweden, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. In Sweden, the group has more than 470 branches. In the Baltic countries, it has another 280
branches. Elsewhere, the group is present in Copenhagen, Helsinki, Kaliningrad, Luxembourg, Moscow, New York, Oslo,
Shanghai, Saint Petersburg and Tokyo.
On September 8, 2006, FöreningsSparbanken AB changed its name to Swedbank AB. The name change took place in the afternoon local time, after the Swedish Companies Registration Office registers the changes in the company’s articles of association. On the same date the subsidiary AB Spintab changed its name to Swedbank Hypotek AB (Swedbank Mortgage AB in English). At the same time, FöreningsSparbanken Jordbrukskredit AB changed its name to Swedbank Jordbrukskredit AB. Other subsidiaries will change their names at later dates.