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Euroclear Sweden
Euroclear Sweden is the main central securities depository (CSD) in Sweden, headquartered in Stockholm. It is a fully-owned subsidiary of the Euroclear Group. Overview Värdepapperscentralen AB (VPC) was established in 1971 as the sole CSD for Sweden. It was owned jointly by Sweden's main banks: as of 2003, 98.6 percent of its capital was held by SEB, Handelsbanken, Nordea, and FöreningsSparbanken, with the residual 1.4 percent held by minor banks and investment firms. On , VPC announced its merger with its Finnish peer Arvopaperikeskus (APK) to form the Nordic Central Securities Depository (NCSD). As a consequence of the transaction, OM HEX AB, the owner of both the Finnish and Swedish stock exchanges, became owner of nearly 20 percent of NCSD, the rest remaining mainly owned by the four large Swedish banks. In subsequent years, the Swedish banks bought out the share of OM HEX, which had been renamed OMX in August 2004. On , Euroclear announced its acquisition of the NCSD, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Waterfront may refer to: *Waterfront (area), the dockland district of a town Music *Waterfront (band), a 1980s British pop duo * Waterfront Records, an Australian record label * "Waterfront" (song), a 1983 song by Simple Minds *Waterfront Blues Festival, in Portland, Oregon * ''Waterfront'' (album) Film and television * ''Waterfront'' (1928 film), directed by William A. Seiter * ''Waterfront'' (1939 film) a Warner Brothers film directed by Terry O. Morse * ''Waterfront'' (1944 film), starring John Carradine * ''Waterfront'' (1950 film), directed by Michael Anderson, starring Richard Burton and Robert Newton * ''Waterfront'' (1955 TV series), a 1955 television series starring Preston Foster * ''Waterfront'' (miniseries), a 1984 Australian miniseries * ''The Waterfront'' (TV series), a 2025 television series created by Kevin Williamson Places *Camden Waterfront, the docklands district of Camden, New Jersey, U.S. * Waterfront, Swansea, a community and electoral ward in Swansea, Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Securities Depository
A central securities depository (CSD) is a specialized financial market infrastructure organization holding securities such as shares or bonds, either in certificated or uncertificated ( dematerialized) form, allowing ownership to be easily transferred through a book entry rather than by a transfer of physical certificates. This allows brokers and financial companies to hold their securities at one location where they can be available for clearing and settlement. In recent decades this has usually been done electronically, making it much faster and easier than was traditionally the case where physical certificates had to be exchanged after a trade had been completed. In some cases these organizations also carry out centralized comparison and transaction processing such as clearing and settlement of securities transfers, securities pledges, and securities freezes. In modern corporate debt markets, investors achieve collateralization through CSDs. The CSDs operate as trustee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic country by both area and population, and is the List of European countries by area, fifth-largest country in Europe. Its capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a population of 10.6 million, and a low population density of ; 88% of Swedes reside in urban areas. They are mostly in the central and southern half of the country. Sweden's urban areas together cover 1.5% of its land area. Sweden has a diverse Climate of Sweden, climate owing to the length of the country, which ranges from 55th parallel north, 55°N to 69th parallel north, 69°N. Sweden has been inhabited since Prehistoric Sweden, prehistoric times around 12,000 BC. The inhabitants emerged as the Geats () and Swedes (tribe), Swedes (), who formed part of the sea-faring peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockholm
Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately 1 million people live in the Stockholm Municipality, municipality, with 1.6 million in the Stockholm urban area, urban area, and 2.5 million in the Metropolitan Stockholm, metropolitan area. The city stretches across fourteen islands where Mälaren, Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea. Outside the city to the east, and along the coast, is the island chain of the Stockholm archipelago. The area has been settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by Swedish statesman Birger Jarl. The city serves as the county seat of Stockholm County. Stockholm is the cultural, media, political, and economic centre of Sweden. The Stockholm region alone accounts for over a third of the country's Gros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euroclear Group
Euroclear, or the Euroclear Group, is a Belgium-based financial market infrastructure group that specialises in the central securities depository (CSD) segment. It traces its origins to the Euro-clear System developed in 1968 by Morgan Guaranty (a predecessor of JPMorgan Chase) in Brussels to settle trades on the then developing eurobond market. The service was rebranded Euroclear (without hyphen) in 1990. In late 2000, the Euroclear System was transferred to a new entity, Euroclear Bank, a fully-owned subsidiary of the Euroclear Group that has remained one of the world's two leading international CSDs, the other being Clearstream Banking SA in nearby Luxembourg. Other entities of the Euroclear group include major national CSDs acquired by Euroclear in the 2000s in Belgium, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the UK. The name "Euroclear" is often misinterpreted as indicating a clearing activity of the Euroclear group, which is actually not the case. This confusion co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SEB Group
Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (; lit. "Scandinavian Private Bank"), abbreviated SEB, is a Swedish bank headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. In Sweden and the Baltic countries, SEB has a full financial service offering. In Denmark, Finland, Norway, Germany, and the United Kingdom, the bank's operations are focused on corporate and investment banking services to corporate and institutional clients. The bank was founded in 1972 by the Swedish people, Swedish Wallenberg family, which is still SEB's largest shareholder through major investment company Investor AB. SEB is the largest Swedish bank by both market capitalisation and total assets. The SEB Group traces its origins to the Stockholms Enskilda Bank and Skandinaviska Banken, established in 1856 and 1864 respectively. Both banks played an important role in Scandinavia's industrialisation throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially in Sweden. After a period of strong growth throughout the twentieth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Handelsbanken
Svenska Handelsbanken AB is a leading Nordic countries, Nordic bank with international operations, providing a comprehensive range of financial services including corporate banking, investment banking, trading, and consumer banking such as loans, savings, and insurance. Headquartered in Sweden, Handelsbanken has a strong nationwide branch network and maintains a significant presence in other key markets including Norway, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, where it operates with a focus on decentralised decision-making and long-term customer relationships. 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 would focus on its main markets Britain, Sweden and Norway and sell its operations in Finland and Denmark. History Founding as Stockhol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nordea
Nordea Bank Abp, commonly referred to as Nordea, is a Nordic financial services group operating in northern Europe with headquarters in Helsinki, Finland. The name is a blend of the words "Nordic" and "idea". The Nordic countries are considered Nordea's home market, having finalised the sales of their Polish bank in 2014, Baltic operations in 2019 and completed the exit from Russia in early 2022 following a 2019 decision to close the business there. Nordea is listed on Nasdaq Nordic exchanges in Helsinki, Copenhagen, and Stockholm and Nordea ADR is listed in the US. Nordea serves 9.3 million private and 530,000 active corporate customers, including 2,650 large corporates and institutions. Nordea's credit portfolio is distributed across Finland (21%), Denmark (26%), Norway (21%), and Sweden (30%). There are four Business Areas (BAs) at Nordea, Personal Banking, Business Banking, Large Corporates & Institutions, and Asset & Wealth Management. Assets under Management (AUM) were € ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FöreningsSparbanken
Swedbank AB is a Swedish multinational banking group headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. It operates primarily in the Nordic and Baltic regions, offering services such as retail banking, asset management and other financial services. Swedbank has extensive retail operations in Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. History The first Swedish savings bank was founded in Gothenburg in 1820. In 1992, a number of local savings banks merged to create Sparbanken Sverige ("Savings Bank Sweden"). In 1995, this bank was listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange and in 1997, it merged with Föreningsbanken under the combined name FöreningsSparbanken (abbreviated FSB). During the 2008 financial crisis, Swedbank accepted government assistance due to its losses from loans made to neighboring Baltic economies. On 8 September 2006, Föreningssparbanken AB changed its name to ''Swedbank AB''. The name change took place in the afternoon local time, after the Swedish Companies Registration Offi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arvopaperikeskus
Euroclear Finland is the central securities depository (CSD) of Finland, headquartered in Helsinki. It is a fully-owned subsidiary of the Euroclear Group. Overview In June 1989, the Bank of Finland, the Finnish government and the Helibor banks established Helsingin Rahamarkkinakeskus Oy (HRMK, ) as the national CSD for government bonds, other bonds, and bank certificates of deposit. The central bank was HRMK's controlling shareholder. That same year, Osakekeskusrekisteri Osuuskunta (OKR, ) was established as a CSD for shares listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange. Both HRMK and OKR started operations in the spring of 1992. They were both replaced in 1995-1996 by Arvopaperikeskus Oy (APK, ), a single system fostered by the Finnish government, which took over the operations of both HRMK and OKR. In December 1998, APK merged into the Helsinki Exchange, by then known as HEX. On , OM HEX AB, by then the owner of both the Finnish and Swedish stock exchanges, announced that APK would merg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Central Securities Depositories Association
European Central Securities Depositories Association (ECSDA) is the official trade association for the Central Securities Depository industry in Europe. The association provides a forum for Central Securities Depositories (CSDs) to exchange views and take forward projects of mutual interest. It aims to promote a constructive dialogue between the CSD community, European and Global public authorities and other stakeholders aiming at contributing to an efficient and risk-averse infrastructure for financial markets. It is one of five regional CSD associations oWorld Forum of CSDs History The history of the ECSDA dates back to the early 1990s, when CSD chief executives started to meet on a regular basis to exchange best practices and prepare for the adoption of the euro. The idea of formalising these contacts in an association emerged in 1995 at a meeting taking place at the European Monetary Institute in Frankfurt. The association was established in November 1997 with the signature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
