Nordea is a financial services group operating in Northern Europe, based in Stockholm. It is the result of the successive mergers and acquisitions of the Swedish, Finnish, Danish and Norwegian banks of Nordbanken, Merita Pankki, Unibank and Kreditkassen that took place between 1997 and 2000.
Nordea currently serves more than 9 million personal and 600,000 corporate customers. The group also operates an internet bank, which is the world leader of internet banking in terms of customers, with more than 2.6 million.
See also: List of Swedish companies, List of Finnish companies, List of Danish companies, List of Norwegian companies
