What is "handelsbanken"

Svenska Handelsbanken AB is a Swedish bank providing universal banking services including traditional corporate transactions, investment banking and trading as well as consumer banking including life insurance. Handelsbanken is one of the major banks in Sweden with over 460 branches.

Since the mid 1990s Handelsbanken has been expanding its universal banking operations into the other Nordic countries, and also in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. The largest of these is in Britain where, as of April 2016, it has 207 branches.