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Nordea Bank Abp
Julkinen osakeyhtiö
Traded as
Nasdaq Helsinki: NDA FI
Nasdaq Stockholm: NDA SE
Nasdaq Copenhagen: NDA DK
2000; 19 years ago (2000), 1848 as Christiania Bank
Helsinki, Finland[1]
Björn Wahlroos (Chairman), Casper von Koskull (President and CEO)
Corporate and retail banking, asset management
€9.303 billion (2016)
$615.659 billion (2016)
€32.409 billion (2016)
31,596 (FTE, end 2016)
Sampo Group
Footnotes / references
Nordea old logo (2000–2016)
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. The largest shareholder of Nordea is Sampo, a Finnish insurance company with around 20% of the shares. Nordea is listed on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange, Helsinki Stock Exchange and Stockholm Stock Exchange.
Nordea operates across both the Nordic and Baltic regions with over 1,400 branches; the bank is present in 20 countries around the world, operating through full-service branches, subsidiaries and representative offices, although it primarily provides services in Finland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Nordea serves 11 million private[6] and 700,000 active corporate customers; the group also operates an Internet bank, which has more than 5.9 million online customers and performs more than 260 million payments per year.
2 Ownership
3 Nordea Markets
4 Online theft
5 Panama document leak
6 Tax evasion and the Paradise Papers
7 Drug money laundering
8 Subsidiaries
10 Nordic headquarters
Nordea is the result of the successive mergers and acquisitions of the Swedish, Finnish, Danish and Norwegian banks of Nordbanken, Merita Bank, Unibank and Kreditkassen (Christiania Bank og Kreditkasse) that took place between 1997 and 2000.
PK-banken was formed in 1974 by a merger between Postbanken (formed 1884) and Sveriges Kreditbank (formed 1923), both state-owned.
The private Nordbanken was formed in 1986 by a merger of two smaller private local banks, Uplandsbanken and Sundsvallsbanken; the Swedish banking crisis of 1991, resulting from deregulated markets and a housing price bubble, forced the government to nationalise Nordbanken for 64 billion kronor. Bad debts were transferred to the asset-management companies Securum and Retriva, which sold off the assets.
The name Nordea comes from the Swedish bank Nordbanken; this developed from PK-banken (Post och Kreditbanken) which in 1990 purchased the smaller private bank Nordbanken, and picked up that name; the name is also a contraction of the words Nordic and ideas.[7]
Merita Bank was a 1995 merger of the former main rivals in Finland, the originally Svecoman Union Bank of Finland (Suomen Yhdyspankki) founded in 1842 and the Fennoman National Share Bank (Kansallis-Osake-Pankki) founded in 1889.
In August 2017, DNB ASA and Nordea combined their operations in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to create Luminor Bank.[8]
Ownership[edit]
Nordea is owned by:
Sampo, 21.3%
Nordea Fonden, 3.9%
Swedbank Robur Funds, 3.3%
AMF Insurance and Funds, 2.1%
Nordea Markets[edit]
Nordea Markets is the international markets operation of Nordea, it handles a broad range of investment banking products and services including fixed income, currencies, commodities, equities, debt capital markets, and corporate finance. It also supplies advisory services and internationally acknowledged economic research and analysis.
There are approximately 2,200 employees including Financial Risk Control and Capital Markets Services, its main operational centres are in Copenhagen (also the main trading floor), Helsinki, Oslo and Stockholm, and with regional offices also in Brazil (São Paulo), China (Beijing and Shanghai), Estonia (Tallinn), Germany (Frankfurt), Latvia (Riga), Lithuania (Vilnius), Luxembourg (Luxembourg City), Poland (Warsaw), Russia (Moscow), Singapore, Switzerland (Zurich), the United Kingdom (London), and United States (New York City).[9]
Online theft[edit]
Nordea was the subject of an online phishing scam in 2007; the amount of money involved was "between seven and eight million SEK".[10] The theft was perpetrated by targeting Nordea customers with phishing emails containing a trojan horse, that was especially made for this robbery. Apparently these emails were sent out over a period of 15 months. According to Nordea, at least 250 people had unwittingly installed the trojan; the thieves evaded detection by limiting their transfers to small sums. Nordea refunded all the victims and has implemented a new security system, Chip Authentication Program[11]
Panama document leak[edit]
The largest financial group in the Nordic region, Nordea has, despite warnings from the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (FI) been active in using offshore companies in tax havens according to the Panama papers.[12]
The Nordea section in Luxembourg, between the years 2004 and 2014, founded nearly 400 offshore companies in Panama and the British Virgin Islands for its customers.[12]
The Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (FI) has pointed out that there are "serious deficiencies" in how Nordea monitors money laundering, and has given the bank two warnings. In 2015, Nordea had to pay the largest possible fine - over 5 million EUR.[12]
In 2012, Nordea asked Mossack Fonseca to change documents retroactively so that three Danish customers power of attorney documents had been in force since 2010.[12]
The director for Nordea Private banking Thorben Sanders admits that before 2009 they did not screen for customers that tried to evade tax. "At the end of 2009 we decided that our bank should not be a means of tax evasion" says Thorben Sanders.[12]
As a consequence of the leaked documents, the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (FI) stated on 4 April 2016 that it had started an investigation into the conduct of Nordea, the largest financial group in the Nordic region; the Swedish minister of Finance Magdalena Andersson characterized the conduct of Nordea as "a crime" and "totally unacceptable".[13][14] Nordea CEO Casper von Koskull stated that he was disappointed with the shortcomings within Nordea's operating principles, saying that "this cannot be tolerated".[15]
Other Swedish banks are mentioned in the documents, but mention of Nordea occurs 10,902 times and the second-most mentioned bank has 764 matches.[16]
Stefan Löfven, Prime Minister of Sweden, said in 2016 that he was very critical of the conduct of Nordea and its role, and said "Â- They are on the list of shame too".[17]
Tax evasion and the Paradise Papers[edit]
Nordea bank loaned billions of euros to shipping companies that own vessels in secrecy jurisdictions such as Bermuda, Cyprus, Panama, BVI, the Cayman Islands and the Isle of Man. In the Paradise Papers, Nordea was shown to have lent a significant amount of money to customers based in tax havens.[18]
Drug money laundering[edit]
Nordea was involved in the laundering of drug money in Denmark, by allowing withdrawal of 500 euro note bills despite the Danish police advising against this.[19] Nordea has admitted its involvement in the money laundering, and has claimed it has stopped these activities.[20]
Subsidiaries[edit]
The global headquarters of Nordea is located in Vallila, Helsinki.
Nordea Bank Danmark A/S
Nordea Bank Finland Abp / Nordea Pankki Suomi Oyj
Nordea Bank Latvia
Nordea Bank Lithuania
Nordea Bank Norge ASA
Nordea Bank Russia
Nordea Bank Malta AB
Banks portal
Companies portal
PlusGirot – open clearing system in Sweden owned by Nordea
European Financial Services Roundtable
Inter-Alpha Group of Banks
Kansallis-Osake-Pankki
Unibank (Denmark), for the history of the banks that formed Nordea in 2000.
List of oldest companies, as Nordea is the oldest bank in Sweden, with roots from 1820.
List of investors in Bernard L. Madoff Securities
Nordic headquarters[edit]
Swedish headquarters in Stockholm
Danish headquarters in Copenhagen
The former Norwegian headquarters in Oslo
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The Age of Enlightenment, the subsequent French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars shaped the continent culturally and economically from the end of the 17th century until the first half of the 19th century. The Industrial Revolution, which began in Great Britain at the end of the 18th century, gave rise to radical economic and social change in Western Europe and the wider world. Both world wars took place for the most part in Europe, contributing to a decline in Western European dominance in world affairs by the mid-20th century as the Soviet Union and the United States took prominence. During the Cold War, Europe was divided along the Iron Curtain between NATO in the West and the Warsaw Pact in the East, until the revolutions of 1989 and fall of the Berlin Wall. In 1949 the Council of Europe was founded, following a speech by Sir Winston Churchill, with the idea of unifying Europe to achieve common goals, it includes all European states except for Belarus and Vatican City. Further European integration by some states led to the formation of the European Union, a separate political entity that lies between a confederation and a federation.
The EU originated in Western Europe but has been expanding eastward since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. The currency of most countries of the European Union, the euro, is the most used among Europeans. In classical Greek mythology, Europa was a Phoenician princess; the word Europe is derived from her name. The name contains the elements εὐρύς, "wide, broad" and ὤψ "eye, countenance", hence their composite Eurṓpē would mean "wide-gazing" or "broad of aspect". Broad has been an epithet of Earth herself in the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European religion and the poetry devoted to it. There have been attempts to connect Eurṓpē to a Semitic term for "west", this being either Akkadian erebu meaning "to go down, set" or Phoenician'ereb "evening, west", at the origin of Arabic Maghreb and Hebrew ma'arav. Michael A. Barry, professor in Princeton University's Near Eastern Studies Department, finds the mention of the word Ereb on an Assyrian stele with the meaning of "night, sunset", in opposition to Asu " sunrise", i.e. Asia.
The same naming motive according to "cartographic convention" appears in Greek Ἀνατολή. Martin Litchfield West stated that "phonologically, the match between Europa's name and any form of the Semitic word is poor." Next to these hypotheses there is a Proto-Indo-European root *h1regʷos, meaning "darkness", which produced Greek Erebus. Most major world languages use words derived from Europa to refer to the continent. Chinese, for example, uses the word Ōuzhōu. In some Turkic languages the Persian name Frangistan is used casually in referring to much of Europe, besides official names such as Avrupa or Evropa; the prevalent definition of Europe as a geographical term has been in use since the mid-19th century. Europe is taken to be bounded by large bodies of water
Copenhagen Stock Exchange
The Copenhagen Stock Exchange or CSE, since 2014 called Nasdaq Copenhagen, is an international marketplace for Danish securities, including shares, treasury bills and notes, financial futures and options. Nasdaq Copenhagen is one of the Nasdaq Nordic Exchanges. Nasdaq Nordic goes back to the 2003 merger of OM AB and HEX plc to form OMX and is, since February 2008, part of Nasdaq, Inc.. The exchange was converted to a limited company in 1996 with share capital issued in a ratio of 60-20-20 to members, issuers of shares, issuers of bonds. In 1997 the FUTOP Clearing Center A/S, the Danish derivatives market, became a wholly owned subsidiary. FUTOP issues and guarantees futures and options on shares and interest rate products. FUTOP products can be traded electronically. In 1998, the CSE and the Stockholmsbörsen formed the NOREX Alliance, a step toward developing a Nordic securities market. Normal trading sessions are from 09:00am to 05:00pm on all days of the week except Saturdays and holidays declared by the exchange in advance.
The C20 Index, a weighted, market value index comprising 20 Danish blue chips, launched for futures and options trading. The KFX Index comprises growth companies in the medical, telecommunications and information technology sectors on the exchanges KVX Growth Market; the KAX Index is the exchange's all-share index, introduced in 2001 to replace the previous all-share index. It conforms to the Global Industry Classification Standard developed by Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Standard & Poor's. Official site OMX Group
Luminor Bank
Luminor Bank AS is a bank headquartered in Tallinn, with branches in Latvia and Lithuania. It is the third largest bank in the Baltics. Luminor has a deposit market share of 16% and lending market share of 22%. Luminor was founded in August 2017 on the basis of the Baltic operations of Nordea and DNB. Luminor took 350,000 of Nordea former customers; the merger was completed by 1 January 2019. Nordea owned 56.5% and DNB owned 43.5% of Luminor. In September 2018, 60% of Luminor's shares was sold to the Blackstone Group; the transaction was approved by the European Commission in January 2019. After the transaction, Nordea and DNB own of 20% stakes both. Blackstone and Nordea have agreed that Blackstone will purchase Nordea's remaining 20% in luminor. Blackstone is planning to remain the shareholder for four to seven years after which it most will exit by listing Luminor on several stock exchanges. CEO of Lumonor is Erkki Raasuke and chairman of the supervisory board is Nils Melngailis. Kerli Gabrilovica is head of the Latvian branch and Andrius Načajus is head of the Lithuanian branch.
As of 2018, Luminor had 3,000 employees. In February 2019, the bank announced that due to consolidation it will reduce its staff by 130 employees in Estonia, 250 employees in Latvia, 420 employees in Lithuania. Luminor has over €15 billion of assets. Official website
Finance is a field, concerned with the allocation of assets and liabilities over space and time under conditions of risk or uncertainty. Finance can be defined as the art of money management. Participants in the market aim to price assets based on their risk level, fundamental value, their expected rate of return. Finance can be split into three sub-categories: public finance, corporate finance and personal finance. Matters in personal finance revolve around: Protection against unforeseen personal events, as well as events in the wider economies Transference of family wealth across generations Effects of tax policies management of personal finances Effects of credit on individual financial standing Development of a savings plan or financing for large purchases Planning a secure financial future in an environment of economic instability Pursuing a checking and/or a savings account Personal finance may involve paying for education, financing durable goods such as real estate and cars, buying insurance, e.g. health and property insurance and saving for retirement.
Personal finance may involve paying for a loan, or debt obligations. The six key areas of personal financial planning, as suggested by the Financial Planning Standards Board, are: Financial position: is concerned with understanding the personal resources available by examining net worth and household cash flows. Net worth is a person's balance sheet, calculated by adding up all assets under that person's control, minus all liabilities of the household, at one point in time. Household cash flows total up all from the expected sources of income within a year, minus all expected expenses within the same year. From this analysis, the financial planner can determine to what degree and in what time the personal goals can be accomplished. Adequate protection: the analysis of how to protect a household from unforeseen risks; these risks can be divided into the following: liability, death, disability and long term care. Some of these risks may be self-insurable, while most will require the purchase of an insurance contract.
Determining how much insurance to get, at the most cost effective terms requires knowledge of the market for personal insurance. Business owners, professionals and entertainers require specialized insurance professionals to adequately protect themselves. Since insurance enjoys some tax benefits, utilizing insurance investment products may be a critical piece of the overall investment planning. Tax planning: the income tax is the single largest expense in a household. Managing taxes is not a question of if you will pay taxes, but when and how much. Government gives many incentives in the form of tax deductions and credits, which can be used to reduce the lifetime tax burden. Most modern governments use a progressive tax; as one's income grows, a higher marginal rate of tax must be paid. Understanding how to take advantage of the myriad tax breaks when planning one's personal finances can make a significant impact in which can save you money in the long term. Investment and accumulation goals: planning how to accumulate enough money – for large purchases and life events – is what most people consider to be financial planning.
Major reasons to accumulate assets include purchasing a house or car, starting a business, paying for education expenses, saving for retirement. Achieving these goals requires projecting what they will cost, when you need to withdraw funds that will be necessary to be able to achieve these goals. A major risk to the household in achieving their accumulation goal is the rate of price increases over time, or inflation. Using net present value calculators, the financial planner will suggest a combination of asset earmarking and regular savings to be invested in a variety of investments. In order to overcome the rate of inflation, the investment portfolio has to get a higher rate of return, which will subject the portfolio to a number of risks. Managing these portfolio risks is most accomplished using asset allocation, which seeks to diversify investment risk and opportunity; this asset allocation will prescribe a percentage allocation to be invested in stocks, bonds and alternative investments.
The allocation should take into consideration the personal risk profile of every investor, since risk attitudes vary from person to person. Retirement planning is the process of understanding how much it costs to live at retirement, coming up with a plan to distribute assets to meet any income shortfall. Methods for retirement plans include taking advantage of government allowed structures to manage tax liability including: individual structures, or employer sponsored retirement plans and life insurance products. Estate planning involves planning for the disposition of one's assets after death. There is a tax due to the state or federal government at one's death. Avoiding these taxes means that more of one's assets will be distributed to one's heirs. One can leave one's assets to friends or charitable groups. Corporate finance deals with the sources of funding and the capital structure of corporations, the actions that managers take to increase the value of the firm to the shareholders, the tools and analysis used to allocate financial resources.
Although it is in principle different from managerial finance which studies the financial management of all firms, rather than corporations alone, the main concepts in the study of corporate finance are applicable to the financial problems of all kinds of firms. Corporate f
Helsinki [videos]
Helsinki is the capital and most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of Uusimaa in southern Finland, and has a population of 650,058. The city's urban area …
Clockwise from top: Helsinki Cathedral, view of central Helsinki, Sanoma building and Kiasma, Helsinki city centre at night, beaches at Aurinkolahti, Parliament House and Suomenlinna.
Central Helsinki in 1820 before rebuilding. Illustration by Carl Ludvig Engel.
Finland [videos]
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland is a country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between …
Reconstruction of Stone Age dwelling from Kierikki, Oulu.
Late Iron Age swords found in Finland
Now lying within Helsinki, Suomenlinna is a UNESCO World Heritage Site consisting of an inhabited 18th-century sea fortress built on six islands. It is one of Finland's most popular tourist attractions.
Nordic countries [videos]
The Nordic countries or the Nordics are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic, where they are most commonly known as Norden. The term includes Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, as well as Greenland and the Faroe …
Nordic flags
Nordic prime ministers at the Nordic Council meeting in 2014 in Stockholm
The Öresund Bridge between Malmö in Sweden and Copenhagen in Denmark
Nordic Council in session at the Parliament of Norway in 2007
Finance [videos]
Finance is a field that is concerned with the allocation of assets and liabilities over space and time, often under conditions of risk or uncertainty. Finance can also be defined as the art of money management. Participants in the market aim to price assets based on their risk level …
Jack Welch an American business executive, author, and chemical engineer. He was chairman and CEO of General Electric between 1981 and 2001. During his tenure at GE, the company's value rose 4,000%.
James Harris Simons American mathematician, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. He is known as a quantitative investor and in 1982 founded Renaissance Technologies, a private hedge fund based in East Setauket, NY.
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Europe [videos]
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. It comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia. — Since around 1850, Europe is …
Statue representing Europa at Palazzo Ferreria, in Valletta, Malta
Depiction of Europa regina ('Queen Europe') in 1582.
Paleolithic cave paintings from Lascaux in France (c 15,000 BC)
Stonehenge in the United Kingdom (Late Neolithic from 3000–2000 BC).
Denmark [videos]
Denmark, officially the Kingdom of Denmark, is a Nordic country and the southernmost of the Scandinavian nations. Denmark lies southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and is bordered to the south by Germany. The Kingdom of Denmark also comprises two …
The gilded side of the Trundholm sun chariot dating from the Nordic Bronze Age
The Ladby ship, the largest ship burial found in Denmark
Larger of the two Jelling stones, raised by Harald Bluetooth
The Battle of Öland during the Scanian War, between an allied Dano-Norwegian-Dutch fleet and the Swedish navy, 1 June 1676
Norway [videos]
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northwestern Europe whose territory comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula; the …
The Gjermundbu helmet found in Buskerud is the only known reconstructable Viking Age helmet
Bryggen in Bergen, once the center of trade in Norway under the Hanseatic League trade network, now preserved as a World Heritage Site
The 1814 constitutional assembly, painted by Oscar Wergeland.
Harvesting of oats in Jølster, c. 1890
Bank [videos]
A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates credit. Lending activities can be performed either directly or indirectly through capital markets. Due to their importance in the financial stability of a country, banks are highly regulated in most countries. Most …
Among many other things, the Code of Hammurabi from 1754 BC recorded interest-bearing loans.
Sealing of the Bank of England Charter (1694), by Lady Jane Lindsay, 1905.
A 640 BC one-third stater electrum coin from Lydia, where gold and silver coins were used for the first time
Banco de Venezuela in Coro.
Nordea [videos]
Nordea Bank Abp, commonly referred to as Nordea, is a Nordic financial services group operating in northern Europe and based in Helsinki, Finland. The bank is the result of the successive mergers and acquisitions of the Finnish, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish banks of Merita Bank, Unibank …
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Baltic states [videos]
The Baltic states, also known as the Baltic countries, Baltic republics, Baltic nations or simply the Baltics, is a geopolitical term used for grouping the three sovereign states in Northern Europe on the …
The Baltic Way was a mass anti-Soviet demonstration where approx. 25% of the population of the Baltic states participated
St. Olaf's church in Tallinn, Estonia
St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Riga, Latvia
Catholic Church of All Saints, Vilnius, Lithuania
Internet [videos]
The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite to link devices worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local …
Internet users per 100 population members and GDP per capita for selected countries.
The Internet Messenger by Buky Schwartz, located in Holon, Israel
ICANN headquarters in the Playa Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.
This NeXT Computer was used by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN and became the world's first Web server.
Copenhagen [videos]
Copenhagen is the capital and most populous city of Denmark. As of July 2018, the city has a population of 777,218 (616,098 in Copenhagen Municipality, 103,914 in Frederiksberg Municipality, 43,005 in Tårnby Municipality, and 14,201 in Dragør …
From upper left: Christiansborg Palace, Frederik's Church, Tivoli Gardens and Nyhavn
A mansion at Amalienborg in Frederiksstaden (1750), part of the Amalienborg Palace
Gottlieb Bindesbøll's Thorvaldsen Museum (1848)
Danish soldiers return to Copenhagen in 1849, after the First Schleswig War - painting by Otto Bache (1894)
Oslo [videos]
Oslo is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. Founded in the year 1040 as Ánslo, and established as a kaupstad or trading place in 1048 by Harald Hardrada, the city was elevated …
The Royal Palace is the home of the Norwegian royal family
Frogner Park
Office buildings and apartments in Bjørvika, part of the redesign of former dock and industrial land in Oslo known as The Barcode Project.
The faculty of Law, University of Oslo.
Stockholm [videos]
Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous urban area in the Nordic countries; 962,154 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area. The city stretches across …
The Old Town, Skeppsbron, Stockholm City Hall, Hötorget buildings, Ericsson Globe and Stockholm Palace.
Panorama over Stockholm around 1868 as seen from a hot air balloon.
Stockholm in 1917
Stockholm City Centre after the 1960s.
Brazil [videos]
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At 8.5 million square kilometers and with …
Cave painting at Serra da Capivara National Park. This area has the largest concentration of prehistoric sites in the Americas.
Painting showing the arrest of Tiradentes; he was sentenced to death for his involvement in the best known movement for independence in Colonial Brazil. Painting of 1914.
The Acclamation of King João VI of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves in Rio de Janeiro, 6 February 1818
Declaration of the Brazilian independence by Prince Pedro (later Emperor Pedro I) on 7 September 1822.
São Paulo [videos]
São Paulo is a municipality in the Southeast Region of Brazil. The metropolis is an alpha global city and the most populous city in Brazil, the Western Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere, besides being the largest …
Founding of São Paulo, 1913 painting by Antonio Parreiras
Courtyard of the College, Pátio do Colégio, in the Historic Center of São Paulo. At this location, the city was founded in 1554. The current building is a reconstruction made in the late 20th century, based on the Jesuit college and church that were erected at the site in 1653.
The Monument to the Bandeiras commemorates the 17th-century bandeiras
Domingos Jorge Velho, a notable bandeirante.
China [videos]
China, officially the People's Republic of China, is a country in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around 1.404 billion. Covering approximately 9,600,000 square kilometers, it is the third- or fourth-largest country by total area …
China's First Emperor, Qin Shi Huang, is famed for having united the Warring States' walls to form the Great Wall of China. Most of the present structure, however, dates to the Ming dynasty.
A detail from Along the River During the Qingming Festival, a 12th-century painting showing everyday life in the Song dynasty's capital, Bianjing (present-day Kaifeng)
A 19th-century depiction of the Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864)
The Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China to defeat the anti-foreign Boxers and their Qing backers.
Commodity [videos]
In economics, a commodity is an economic good or service that has full or substantial fungibility: that is, the market treats instances of the good as equivalent or nearly so with no regard to who produced them. Most commodities are raw materials, basic resources, agricultural, or mining products …
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Chairman [videos]
The chairman is the highest officer of an organized group such as a board, a committee, or a deliberative assembly. The person holding the office is typically elected or appointed by the members of the group, and the chairman presides over meetings of the assembled group and conducts …
An example of a chairman in action – Sam Ervin (right), chairing the Senate Watergate hearings, 1973
As Chairman, Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson presides over the 2016 annual meeting of the Friends of the Ulriksdal Palace Theater.
Helsinki Stock Exchange [videos]
The Helsinki Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located in Helsinki, Finland. Since 3 September 2003, it has been part of Nasdaq Nordic. After the OMX merger, it was referred to as OMX Helsinki, then after …
Helsinki Stock Exchange record of the first day of trading 7 October 1912. Seen in Rahamuseo (Bank of Finland Museum), 2013.
Helsinki Stock Exchange old electromechanical trader terminal, seen in Rahamuseo (Bank of Finland Museum), 2013.
Currency [videos]
A currency, in the most specific use of the word, refers to money in any form when in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, especially circulating banknotes and coins. A more general definition is that a currency …
Cowry shells being used as money by an Arab trader.
Song dynasty Jiaozi, the world's earliest paper money.
Luminor Bank [videos]
Luminor Bank AS is a bank headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, with branches in Latvia and Lithuania. It is the third largest bank in the Baltics. Luminor has a deposit market share of 16% and lending market share of 22%.Luminor was founded in August 2017 on the basis of the Baltic operations of …
Headquarters of Luminor in Tallinn, Estonia
Ticker symbol [videos]
A ticker symbol or stock symbol is an abbreviation used to uniquely identify publicly traded shares of a particular stock on a particular stock market. A stock symbol may consist of letters, numbers or a combination of both. "Ticker symbol" refers to the symbols that were printed on the ticker tape …
Stock telegraph ticker machine by Thomas Edison
Björn Wahlroos [videos]
Björn Arne Christer Wahlroos is the Chairman of the Board in Sampo Group, Nordea and UPM-Kymmene. Wahlroos's nickname "Nalle", which means "teddy bear" in Finnish and Swedish, derives from his first name Björn, which means "bear" in Swedish. — His father Bror …
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Casper von Koskull [videos]
Casper von Koskull is a Finnish banker, the president and CEO of Nordea Bank Abp, the Nordic financial services group operating in Northern Europe, since 1 November 2015, when he succeeded Christian Clausen. — Von Koskull has a master's degree in Economics and an MBA from Aalto …
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Chief executive officer [videos]
The chief executive officer, or just chief executive, is the most senior corporate, executive, or administrative officer in charge of managing an organization – especially an independent legal entity such as a company or nonprofit institution. CEOs lead a range of organizations …
A group of Fortune 500 CEOs in 2015.
Retail banking [videos]
Retail banking, also known as consumer banking, is the provision of services by a bank to the general public, rather than to companies, corporations or other banks, which are often described as wholesale banking. Banking services which are regarded as retail include provision of savings and …
A retail bank in Leeds, United Kingdom.
Copenhagen Stock Exchange [videos]
The Copenhagen Stock Exchange or CSE, since 2014 officially called Nasdaq Copenhagen, is an international marketplace for Danish securities, including shares, bonds, treasury bills and notes, and financial futures and options.Nasdaq Copenhagen is one of the Nasdaq …
This building, Børsen, housed the Copenhagen Stock Exchange until 1974
Stockholm Stock Exchange [videos]
The Stockholm Stock Exchange, operating under the name Nasdaq Stockholm, is a stock exchange located in Frihamnen, Stockholm, Sweden. Founded in 1863, it has become the primary securities exchange of the Nordic countries. More than 300 companies have been listed for …
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Fennoman movement [videos]
The Fennomans, members of the most important political movement in the 19th-century Grand Duchy of Finland, built on the work of the fennophile interests of the 18th and early-19th centuries. — History — After the Crimean War, Fennomans founded the Finnish Party and intensified the …
A set of graves in Tampere, showing the original surname "Kyander" as well as the fennicized "Kiianmies".
Corporate finance [videos]
Corporate finance is an area of finance that deals with sources of funding, the capital structure of corporations, the actions that managers take to increase the value of the firm to the shareholders, and the tools and analysis used to allocate financial resources. The primary goal of corporate …
Replica of an East Indiaman of the Dutch East India Company/United East Indies Company. The Dutch East India Company (also known by the abbreviation "VOC" in Dutch) was the first publicly listed company ever to pay regular dividends. The VOC was also the first recorded joint-stock company to get a fixed capital stock.
Milan [videos]
Milan is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city in Italy after Rome, with the city proper having a population of 1,372,810 while its metropolitan area has a population of 3,244,365. Its …
Ruins of the Emperor's palace in Mediolanum.
Roman ruins in Milan: the Columns of San Lorenzo
The Basilica di Sant'Ambrogio, it is not only a monument of the early Christian and medieval epoch, but also the second church for the importance of the city of Milan.
The biscione eating a child on the Visconti coat of arms.
Metropolitan Museum of Art [videos]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the United States. With 7.3 million visitors to its three locations in 2016, it was the fourth most visited art museum in the world, and the fifth most visited museum of any kind. Its permanent …
Entrance facade
Elevation by Simon Fieldhouse
Benin ivory mask, Iyoba, 16th-century Nigeria
Battle of Poitiers [videos]
The Battle of Poitiers was a major English victory in the Edwardian phase of the Hundred Years' War. It was fought on 19 September 1356 in Nouaillé, near the city of Poitiers in Aquitaine, western France. Edward, the Black Prince, led an army of English, Welsh, Breton and Gascon troops, many of …
The Battle of Poitiers (1356) Eugène Delacroix
Battle of Poitiers (miniature of Froissart)
Jean II, the Good, being captured.