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AB SEB Bankas is a
commercial bank
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in
Lithuania. It is the Lithuanian
subsidiary of one of the largest
Swedish
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banks, the
SEB Group
Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (, abbreviated SEB, is a northern European financial services group headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. In Sweden and the Baltic countries, SEB has a full financial service offering. In Denmark, Finland, Norway, ...
.
History
It was registered as a public company in the Enterprise Register of the Republic of
Lithuania on 29 November 1990 as ''Spaudos bankas'', which was soon renamed as ''AB Vilniaus bankas''. Vilnaus bankas introduced the first
Visa
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** Visa Debit card issued by the above company
** Visa Electron, a debit card
** Visa Plus, an interbank network
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credit card to Lithuania in 1993 and launched the first
ATM machines in Lithuania in 1995. Vilnaus bankas signed a strategic cooperation agreement with
SEB Group
Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (, abbreviated SEB, is a northern European financial services group headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. In Sweden and the Baltic countries, SEB has a full financial service offering. In Denmark, Finland, Norway, ...
of Sweden in 1998 and fully rebranded itself after said Swedish parent company in 2008.
Structure
SEB Bank’s
corporate group
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in Lithuania includes SEB Bank as well as its subsidiary company SEB Investicijų Valdymas, a fully owned subsidiary engaged in provision of
investment management services,
Other SEB-owned entities operating in Lithuania are:
* SEB Gyvybės Draudimas, a life insurance company,
* Litectus, a real estate management company
* Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB, Vilnius Branch, a shared service center of the SEB Group established on 6 October 2008 in Vilnius, providing back office services (operations, IT, HR and finance) to SEB units worldwide.
The largest shareholder of SEB Bank is
Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, owning 100 percent of the bank’s shares.
See also
*
Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken
*
SEB Pank
SEB Pank is an Estonian bank, owned by the Swedish
Swedish or ' may refer to:
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(
Estonia
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)
*
SEB banka (
Latvia)
External links
AB SEB bankas
Banks of Lithuania
Banks established in 1990
Companies based in Vilnius
Lithuanian companies established in 1990
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