Nordea Bank Abp, commonly referred to as Nordea, is a Nordic financial services group operating in northern Europe with headquarters in Helsinki, Finland. The name is a blend of the words "Nordic" and "idea". The bank is the result of the successive mergers and acquisitions of the Finnish, Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian banks of Merita Bank, Nordbanken, Unidanmark, and Christiania Bank og Kreditkasse that took place between 1997 and 2001. The Nordic countries are considered Nordea's home market, having finalised the sales of their Polish bank in 2014, Baltic operations in 2019 and completed the exit from Russia in early 2022 following a 2019 decision to close the business there. Nordea is listed on Nasdaq Nordic exchanges in Helsinki, Copenhagen, and Stockholm and Nordea ADR is listed in the US.
The global headquarters of Nordea is located in Vallila, Helsinki
Nordea's Swedish HQ in Stockholm, Sweden.
Nordea's office in Mariehamn, Åland
Swedish headquarters in Stockholm
A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans. Lending activities can be directly performed by the bank or indirectly through capital markets.
This 15th-century painting depicts money-dealers at a banca (bench) during the Cleansing of the Temple.
Sealing of the Bank of England Charter (1694), by Lady Jane Lindsay, 1905.
Interior of the Helsinki Branch of the Vyborg-Bank [fi] in the 1910s
Banco de Venezuela in Coro.