Aktia Bank, the former Helsinki Savings Bank, is a mid-sized financial services company in Finland, headquartered in Helsinki. It provides digital services to customers in a number of channels and provides personalised services in its offices in the Metropolitan Region as well as in the Turku, Tampere, Vaasa, Oulu and Kuopio regions, covering banking, life insurance, and asset management.[2] Aktia's shares are listed on NASDAQ Helsinki.
The name Aktia is derived from the Greek word akti, meaning coast. When the name was introduced in 1991, the bank's area of operation was on the southern coast of Finland.[3] Aktia's predecessor entities operated as savings banks for a long time, but at the beginning of the 21st century Aktia withdrew from the Savings Banks group, became a commercial bank, and was listed on the stock exchange in 2009.[4]