Sparebanken Nord-Norge
Type | Savings bank |
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Industry | Banking |
Founded | 1836 |
Headquarters | Tromsø, Norway |
Area served | Northern Norway |
Key people | Hans Olav Karde (CEO) |
Revenue | NOK 1,666 million (2005) |
NOK 794 million (2005) | |
NOK 557 million (2005) | |
Number of employees | 839 (2006) |
Website | www.snn.no |
Sparebanken Nord-Norge (OSE: NONG), branded as SpareBank 1 Nord-Norge is a Norwegian savings bank. The bank has 90 branch offices in Nordland, Tromsø, Finnmark and Svalbard and a head office in Tromsø. It has 250,000 private and 40,000 institutional customers with total assets of NOK 48 billion. The bank is a founding member of the bank alliance SpareBank 1, with a 19.5% ownership.
History[]
The first of the many savings banks that now is part of Sparebanken Nord-Norge was Tromsø Sparebank, founded in 1836. After that, especially in the mid-19th century many savings banks were established in Northern Norway.
In the 1960s and onwards to the 1980s there were was a trend of merging local savings banks to larger unites. Tromsø Sparebank merged with nine other banks in Troms and Finnmark to form a large Tromsø Sparebank in the period 1963-1984 while another savings bank, , arose consisting of a merger between ten other banks in the same counties. In Nordland the bank emerged in 1985 after the merge of 14 local savings banks.
In 1988 Norway was struck by a bank crisis and this forced Tromsø Sparebank and Sparebanken Nord to merge to form Sparebanken Nord-Norge. In 1991 and in 1992 Sparebanken Nordland also joined.
In December 2018, the bank gained international attention when a man tried to steal NOK 70 000 from the Longyearbyen branch, the world most northerly bank making it the most northernmost bank robbery.[1]
References[]
- ^ "BREAKING: Man arrested after armed robbery at bank; believed to be first bank robbery in Longyearbyen's history". icepeople.net. Retrieved 2018-12-24.
External links[]
- SpareBank 1
- Banks of Norway
- Banks established in 1836
- Companies based in Tromsø
- Companies listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange
- Norwegian companies established in 1836