Swedbank

Founded in 1820, Swedbank is a Nordic-Baltic banking group based in Stockholm, Sweden, offering retail banking, asset management, financial, and other services. In its home country it is one of the Big Four commercial banks, along with Handelsbanken, Nordea and SEB. Besides Sweden, it has a large presence in the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
==1997–2006==
In February 1997, Sparbanken Sverige and Föreningsbanken announced that they were going to merge to form Föreningssparbanken.
The logo was created by Lars Hall and presented to the public in September 1997. It combines two logos of the two banks as well as the 19-letter name into a copper coin. In the center we see Sparbanken's old oak symbol and three sheafs to represent Föreningsbanken.
*Designarkiv.se
==2006–present==
The bank has used the name Swedbank for its international activities since 1983. A failed attempt to merge Föreningssparbanken with SEB in 2001 was called "SEB Swedbank".
The name change was officially made on September 8, 2006. The coin was kept, but was redesigned and had the sheafs removed.
*Press release
*Press release
*Resumé
*Fredrik Andersson
*Researcher
Swedbank 2006.svg|Flat variant.
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Category:Banks in Sweden
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Category:Banks in Lithuania
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