Scan Magazine | Feature | Danske Bank
From left to right: Anders Kjaer, Private Client Advisor; Paul Williams, Private Client Advisor; Ian Stockdale, Head of Personal Banking; Julie Smyth, Danske Bank; Mikkel Tvermose Nielsen, Personal Customer Advisor
London Calling: Nordic Banking in the UK From 15 November 2012, all of Danske Bank Group’s banking operations will be known by the Danske Bank brand name. Among those to change its trading name was the UK bank formerly known as Northern Bank, one of Northern Ireland’s leading retail banks, which also has an office in London. Scan Magazine spoke to Ian Stockdale, Head of Personal Banking for Dankse Bank, London, about Danske Bank’s “new standards” and what the London office can offer the Nordic community in the UK.
based Danske Bank Group is well known in the Nordic region, and the Danske Bank brand is equally well trusted and familiar to Nordics. In the Nordic region, Danske Bank Group serves customers through nationwide branch networks in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland.
By Nia Kajastie | Photos: Sanna Halmekoski & Thomas Erskine
As the world has changed, Danske Bank is changing with it, introducing its “new standards” in response to what the bank describes as the “new normal” environment, the current state of affairs that has prevailed after irreversible changes to the world around us. As part of this change, all
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banking operations within Danske Bank Group have taken the name Danske Bank, including Northern Bank, which has been part of the group for seven years. As one of the leading northern European financial service organisations, Denmark-
“Through the rebranding, we will benefit from the strong name that we have, and we will become one international banking group,” explains Ian Stockdale. “The majority of our customers know Danske Bank Group, and while Northern Bank has been our legal trading name, many Londonbased customers have thought of us as