Nordea

thumb|Nordea old logo (2000–2016) 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 (its primary listing), Copenhagen, and Stockholm and Nor

thumb|Former head office of Kansallis-Osake-Pankki, Aleksanterinkatu 42 in Kluuvi, [[Helsinki]] ' (KOP, ), also known as ', was a commercial bank operating from 1889 to 1995 in Finland. It was created by the Fennoman movement as a Finnish alternative to the then-dominant bank largely associated with the Swedish-speaking community, Suomen Yhdyspankki (SYP, ). Its emblem was a blue stylized squirrel.

thumb|Head office building from 1898 to 1936; lately thumb|Head office building from 1936 to 1995, photographed in 2016 with the Nordea logo on top Yhdyspankki () was a major bank in Finland, from its establishment in 1862 until its merger in 1995 with its longtime rival Kansallis-Osake-Pankki (KOP) to form what would become Nordea.

Norwegian bank, 1848 to 2000

thumb|PK-Huset building in Stockholm, former head office of PKbanken (1974-1990) then Nordbanken (1990-1997)