Handelsbanken
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Svenska Handelsbanken AB is a Swedish bank providing banking services including traditional corporate transactions, investment banking and trading as well as consumer banking including insurance. Handelsbanken is one of the major banks in Sweden with a nationwide branch network.
Company type | Publicly traded Aktiebolag |
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Nasdaq Stockholm: SHB A | |
ISIN | |
Industry | Financial services |
Founded | 1 July 1871; 152 years ago (1871-07-01) |
Headquarters | Stockholm, Sweden |
Key people | Pär Boman (Chairman) Michael Green[1](President and Group CEO) |
Products | Banking and insurance |
Revenue | 43.35 billion kr (2021)[2] |
23.48 billion kr (2021)[2] | |
19.54 billion kr (2021)[2] | |
Total assets | 3.35 trillion kr (2021)[2] |
Total equity | 181.73 billion kr (2021)[2] |
Number of employees | 10,793 (Dec 2021)[2] |
Rating | AA (Fitch Ratings)[2] |
Website | www |
Since the mid 1990s Handelsbanken has been expanding its universal banking operations into the other Nordic countries, and also in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. The largest of these is in Britain with more than 150 branch offices. In October 2021 Handelsbanken announced that it will focus on its main markets Britain, Sweden and Norway and sell its operations in Finland and Denmark.[3]