Nordea Bank Polska

Nordea Bank Polska was a name of bank, part of Nordea in Poland - the largest Scandinavian financial group.

Established first as "Bank Komunalny" in 1992, the Nordea Group became a strategic investor in 1999. By the end of 2001, Bank Komunalny was fully consolidated into Nordea.

It had identified itself as a modern bank offering banking services via the Internet, telephone, free-of-charge personalized SMS’s, WAP, and a network of branches. Its electronic banking had been created on the basis of the Scandinavian Solo system, which processes banking operations executed via the Internet.

Sale off to PKO

On Jun 12, 2013, Nordea came up with news it is about to sell its Polish operations to PKO.^[1] Source cites reasons as "increased competition and lower revenue from lending after demand for goods and services fell"^[1] and "tougher rules, including the need to float 25 percent of the local subsidiary on the stock market".^[2] Later story added up on various sides of situation in banking of Poland: external causes to exit market by foreign banking conglomerates, internal pressure in Poland and PKO particular ambitions in area.^[3]

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