Fidobank (formerly ''SEB Bank'') was a bank in Ukraine that until 2012 belonged to the Swedish

SEB Group Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (; lit. "Scandinavian Private Bank"), abbreviated SEB, is a Swedish bank headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. In Sweden and the Baltic countries, SEB has a full financial service offering. In Denmark, Finland, Nor ...

. It was registered at the

National Bank of Ukraine The National Bank of Ukraine ( ; NBU []) is the central bank of Ukraine. Created in 1991 from the Ukrainian operations of the Soviet Gosbank, the NBU employs over 12,000 people, making it one of the largest employers in the financial sector in ...

on October 2, 1991, under the name ''AGIO Bank'' (). It used to be known as ''Ukrpostachbank'' (

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkrSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the Republics of the Soviet Union, constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991. ...

). This bank was acquired by

SEB Vilniaus bankas AB SEB Bankas is a commercial bank in Lithuania. It is the Lithuanian subsidiary of one of the largest Swedish banks, the SEB Group. History It was registered as a public company in the Enterprise Register of the Republic of Lithuania on 2 ...

in January 2005 and later renamed ''SEB Bank''. In late 2007 SEB acquired ''Factorial Bank'' () with offices in

Kharkiv Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine.

and the

East Ukraine Eastern Ukraine or East Ukraine (; ) is primarily the territory of Ukraine east of the Dnipro (or Dnieper) river, particularly Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts (provinces). Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts are often also regarded as " ...

. Factorial bank was incorporated as a department of ''SEB Bank'' during 2008–2009. Today the

owns only a life insurance company in

Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...

. In 2012 SEB Group sold its banking business in Ukraine to a Cyprus offshore company "Ignace Marketing Limited" (20%) and a consulting company "Finance Analit Service" (80%) (belongs to "Ignace Marketing Limited" through "Deviza"). Ignace Marketing Limited through a number of other offshore companies belong to Oleksandr Adarich. In 2015, Fidobank acquired MoneXy, the first Ukrainian electronic payment system, founded by Pavlo Tanasyuk and Yuriy Chaika in 2009. Fidobank also acquired Erste Bank Ukraine AT (formerly Bank Prestige) from the Austria based

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. Bank Prestige was founded by former owner of Bank Aval after the sale of last to the Raiffeisen International.

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SEB Bank's official homepage
{{Authority control Defunct banks of Ukraine Banks established in 1991 1991 establishments in Ukraine Banks disestablished in 2016 2016 disestablishments in Ukraine

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