11 Facts About Nordea

1.

Nordea Bank Abp, commonly referred to as Nordea, is a European financial services group operating in northern Europe and based in Helsinki, Finland.

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2.

Nordea is listed on Nasdaq Nordic exchanges in Helsinki, Copenhagen, and Stockholm and Nordea ADR is listed in the US.

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3.

Nordea divested of Polish operations in 2013, with the sale to PKO Bank Polski for €694 million.

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4.

Nordea was one of the Nordic banks, including Danske Bank, SEB and Swedbank, allegedly involved in the money laundering scandal, involving ex-Soviet states, that emerged in 2017.

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5.

Nordea announced plans to move its corporate headquarters from Stockholm, Sweden to Helsinki, Finland in September 2017.

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6.

In October 2018, Nordea completed the move of its corporate headquarters to Helsinki, Finland.

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7.

Nordea was the subject of an online phishing scam in 2007.

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8.

Largest financial group in the Nordic region, Nordea was, despite warnings from the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority active in using offshore companies in tax havens according to the Panama papers.

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9.

In 2012, Nordea asked Mossack Fonseca to change documents retroactively so that three Danish customers power of attorney documents had been in force since 2010.

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10.

Nordea bank loaned billions of euros to shipping companies that own vessels in secrecy jurisdictions such as Bermuda, Cyprus, Panama, BVI, the Cayman Islands and the Isle of Man.

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11.

Nordea was the biggest Nordic lender allegedly involved in the multi-million-dollar money laundering scheme, according to Bloomberg.

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