S-Bank
Finnish cooperative retail banking organization
S-Bank Plc (Finnish: S-Pankki Oyj, Swedish: S-Banken Abp) is a Finnish retail bank and wealth manager. It is owned by SOK Corporation and the regional co-operatives in the S-Group (Finnish: S-ryhmä), a Finnish retailing cooperative organisation.
S-Bank is the first so-called "supermarket bank" in Finland with 776 employees (2022).
At the end of 2022, the bank had around 3.2 million customers.
S-Bank has been designated as a Significant Institution since the entry into force of European Banking Supervision in late 2014, and as a consequence is directly supervised by the European Central Bank.
Pekka Ylihurula was CEO from 2006 to 2022. In April 2023, Riikka Laine‑Tolonen became CEO.
History
A change to the Cooperatives Act in 2003 forced the S-Group to seek a replacement for its century-old savings fund operations. The new law prevented continuation in the previous form and set a maximum deposit limit of 3,000 euros for customer accounts. The S-Group considered both shutting down the savings funds and starting cooperation with a bank. Establishing its own bank emerged as the best option, as it enabled the continued offering of similar financial services and would support the S-Group’s other operations going forward.
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