Nordea Bank Abp (Finnish: Nordea Bank Oyj),[3][4] commonly referred to as Nordea, is a Nordic financial services group operating in northern Europe and based in Helsinki, Finland.[5] The bank is the result of the successive mergers and acquisitions of the Finnish, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish banks of Merita Bank, Unibank, Kreditkassen (Christiania Bank) and Nordbanken that took place between 1997 and 2000. The Baltic states are today also considered part of the home market.