This article is about a commercial bank. For the Danish central bank, see Danmarks Nationalbank.
Danske Bank A/S
Headquarters in Kongens Nytorv, Copenhagen
Company type
Public Aktieselskab
Traded as
Nasdaq Copenhagen: DANSKE
ISIN
DK0010274414
Industry
Financial services
Founded
5 October 1871; 152 years ago (1871-10-05)
Headquarters
Copenhagen, Denmark
Key people
Martin Blessing (chair)
Carsten Egeriis (CEO)
Products
Banking, insurance, investment management
Revenue
52.45 kr. billion (2023)[1]
Net income
21.26 kr. billion (2023)[1]
Total assets
3,771 kr. billion (2023)[1]
Total equity
175.7 kr. billion (2023)[1]
Owner
Møller family (21%)[1]
Number of employees
20,021 (FTE, 2023)[1]
Website
danskebank.com
Danske Bank A/S (pronounced[ˈtænˀskəˈpɑŋˀk], lit.'Danish Bank') is a Danish multinational banking and financial services corporation. Headquartered in Copenhagen, it is the largest bank in Denmark and a major retail bank in the northern European region with over 5 million retail customers.[2] Danske Bank was number 454 on the Fortune Global 500 list for 2011.[3] The largest shareholder with 21% of the share capital is A.P. Moller Holding,[4] the investment holding company of the Maersk family.[5]
It was founded 5 October 1871 as Den Danske Landmandsbank, Hypothek- og Vexelbank i Kjøbenhavn ("The Danish Farmers' Bank, Mortgage and Exchange Bank of Copenhagen"), and was commonly known as Landmandsbanken ("the Farmers' Bank"). In 1976, the bank changed name to Den Danske Bank ("The Danish Bank"), and the current name was adopted in 2000.
^ abcdef"Annual Report 2023 Danske Bank Group" (PDF). Danske Bank. 2 February 2024. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
^"Facts and figures". Danske Bank. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
^"Fortune Global 500 (Denmark)". Fortune. 2011. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
^"Danske Bank A/S (Danske)". MarketScreener. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
^Teis Jensen, Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen (6 November 2018). "Maersk family ousts Danske Bank Chairman after scandal". Reuters. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
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Global Information
52.45 kr. billion (2023)[1]
3,771 kr. billion (2023)[1]