AS Hansapank – A Prospective Warsaw Stock Exchange Member

On 9 August 2007, the Estonian bank AS Hansapank, with its seat in Tallin submitted an application for admission to operation on the WSE as an Exchange Member.

AS Hansapank was founded in 1991 and is quoted on the Tallin stock exchange. The bank is part of the Swedish Swedbank Group and is among the largest financial institutions in the Baltic States. Swedbank Group operates on a great number of markets, from Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to Russia, Denmark, Finland, China, Norway Japan, Luxemburg, Spain and the USA. AS Hansapank offers an exhaustive selection of services, from retail and corporate banking to insurance, leasing and investment products. AS Hansapank also operates as a broker, both in its own account and in customers’.

For more information about the bank, please visit www.hansa.ee

Currently, the WSE has 16 Remote Members from: Hungary, the Czech Republic, Austria, the UK, France, Germany, Sweden, and Estonia (AS Suprema Securities).

Foreign membership gives foreign brokers direct access to the WSE system without necessary physical presence in Poland and without the use of local intermediaries.