Aktia_Savings_Bank

Aktia Bank

Aktia Bank

Finnish bank

Aktia Bank Plc is a Finnish asset manager, bank and life insurer with offices in the Helsinki, Turku, Tampere, Vaasa and Oulu regions.[3]

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Aktia has three business areas: Banking, Asset Management and Life Insurance. Aktia has three reporting business segments: Banking Business, Asset Management and Group Functions.[4]

Aktia has about 250,000 private customers and 20,000 corporate and institutional customers.[4]

Aktia is owned by Finnish savings bank foundations, institutions and private individuals.[5]

The name Aktia is derived from the Greek language word akti, which means coast. Aktia used to serve as the central financial institute for savings and local co-operative banks.

Aktia Bank has been designated as a Significant Institution since the entry into force of European Banking Supervision in late 2014, and as a consequence is directly supervised by the European Central Bank.[6][7]

History

Aktia originated from the oldest deposit bank in Finland, founded in 1825 as Helsingfors Stads Sparbanks Inrättning. In 1891 the bank changed its name to Helsingfors Sparbank (Helsinki Savings Bank).[citation needed]

Some banks that have merged with Aktia include: Kirkkonummen Säästöpankki in 1956, Säästöpankki Torkkeli in 1979 and Espoon Säästöpankki in 1980.[citation needed]

Aktia attained its current form in 1991, when the savings bank of Bromarv, Hanko, Ingå, Karjaa-Pohja, Sipoo, Siuntio, and Tenala merged to form Säästöpankki Aktia (Savings Bank Aktia). Later, the savings banks of Porvoo and Vaasa were merged. The name was changed to Aktia Säästöpankki Oy (Aktia Savings Bank Oy) in 1994. In 1996, Aktia acquired the retail banking operations of SKOP Bank (fi), which went bust in the early-1990s Finnish banking crisis and the recession that followed.[citation needed]

The Annual General Meeting in the spring of 2018 decided to merge Aktia's share series: previously the shares were divided into A and R series, of which each R share entitles the holder to 20 votes and each A share to one vote at the Annual General Meeting.[8]

References

  1. [1]
    "Managing director". Aktia. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  2. [2]
    "Aktia Bank 2020 Annual & Sustainbility Report" (PDF). Aktia. 31 December 2021. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  3. [3]
    "Annual and Sustainability Report 2019". 15 May 2020.[permanent dead link]
  4. [4]
    "Annual Review 2021" (PDF). Aktia Bank Plc. 17 June 2022 [16 March 2022]. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  5. [5]
    "Tietoa Aktiasta – Aktia". www.aktia.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 2017-05-02.
  6. [6]
    "The list of significant supervised entities and the list of less significant institutions" (PDF). European Central Bank. 4 September 2014.
  7. [7]
    "List of supervised entities" (PDF). European Central Bank. 1 January 2023.
  8. [8]
    Saarinen, Merja. "Aktia yhdistää osakesarjansa – R-osakkeiden omistajille hyvitys". Arvopaperi (in Finnish). Retrieved 2022-06-29.


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