update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information . october 2016 swedbank ab type publicly traded aktiebolag nasdaq stockholm swed industry financial services founded 1820 ; 196 years ago 1820 headquarters stockholm 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 sw d b k 1 is a nordic baltic banking group based in stockholm sweden offering retail banking asset management financial and other services . 2 contents 1 history 2 organisation 3 market position 4 references 5 external links history edit 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 stockholm stock exchange and in 1997 it merged with f reningsbanken under the combined name f reningssparbanken 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 f reningssparbanken 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 f reningssparbanken jordbrukskredit ab changed its name to swedbank jordbrukskredit ab swedbank farm credit ab . other subsidiaries will change their names at later dates . organisation edit swedbank sign above an automated teller machine in karlskrona . the swedbank logo 1997 2006 . f reningssparbanken was created in 1997 through a merger between sparbanken and f reningsbanken . the unusual corporate name and logo were compromises of the merger of two different corporate cultures . 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 . swedbank has a close cooperation with about 60 local but still independent saving banks who chose not to join during the 1992 merger . these banks use fsb logos and customers have the same access to independent banks and branches belonging to fsb . two relatively large independent savings banks including the one in sk ne have chosen not to cooperate with swedbank and continue to use the logo used by sparbanken before the merger with f reningsbanken . together with the independent savings banks swedbank has branches all over sweden . the bank has more than 16 000 employees across its operations in sweden and abroad . michael wolf is the chief executive officer and lars idermark is chairman . market position edit swedbank is one of the primary banks in sweden together with nordea handelsbanken and seb . 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 4.1 million private customers in sweden . references edit 1 company profile for swedbank ab sweda . bloomberg . retrieved november 2012 . check date values in access date help external links edit official website v t e omx stockholm 30 companies of sweden abb alfa laval assa abloy astrazeneca 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