Nordea Bank Polska was a name of bank, part of Nordea in Poland - the largest Scandinavian financial group.
Nordea Bank Polska was 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.
On November 3, 2011 NBP president Włodzimierz Kiciński announced his resignation. From November 10, 2011 and until the merger with PKO, the position was held by Sławomir Żygowski, earlier VP of Corporate Banking.
Nordea Bank Polska ceased to exist as an independent company in 2014 after a takeover and legal merger with PKO BP.
Since 2010 Nordea is only represented in Poland by Nordea Bank AB SA Branch in Poland; established to serve the Nordic business units in the operations centres located in Lodz and Gdansk and the IT Division located in Gdynia, Gdansk and Warsaw. Nordea employs more than 6,000 employees in Poland but has no banking activities or customers in the Polish market.