Swedbank

Swedbank AB

Type	Publicly traded Aktiebolag (Nasdaq Stockholm: SWED)
Industry	Financial services
Founded	1820; 197 years ago (1820)
Headquarters	, Sweden
Key people	Birgitte Bonnesen (President and CEO), Lars Idermark (Chairman)
Products	Retail banking, mortgage loans, corporate banking, merchant processing services
Revenue	SEK 33.515 billion (2010)
Operating income	SEK 15.423 billion (end 2011)
Profit	SEK 11.744 billion (end 2011)
Total assets	SEK 1.857 trillion (end 2011)
Total equity	SEK 98.133 billion (end 2011)
Number of employees	16,287 (FTE, end 2011)
Subsidiaries	Swedbank Luxemburg, Swedbank Russia, Swedbank Estonia, Swedbank Latvia, Swedbank Lithuania, Swedbank Ukraine
Website	www.swedbank.com

Swedbank AB (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈswɛdːbæŋk]) is a Nordic-Baltic banking group based in , Sweden, offering retail banking, asset management, financial, and other services.

The first Swedish saving bank was founded in Gothenburg in 1820. In 1992, a number of local savings banks merged to create Sparbanken Sverige ("Savings Bank Sweden"). In 1995, this bank was listed on the and in 1997, it merged with Föreningsbanken under the combined name FöreningsSparbanken (abbreviated FSB). During the late 2000s global financial crisis, Swedbank accepted government assistance due to its losses from loans made to neighboring Baltic economies.

On 8 September 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 registered 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") and FöreningsSparbanken Jordbrukskredit AB changed its name to Swedbank Jordbrukskredit AB ("Swedbank Farm Credit AB"). Other subsidiaries will change their names at later dates.

Swedbank has 9.5 million retail customers and 622,000 corporate customers in Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. The group has 317 branches in Sweden and more than 200 in the Baltic countries. It also maintains a presence in Copenhagen, Helsinki, Luxembourg, Marbella, New York City, Oslo, Shanghai.