Finance Norway is an employers' organisation in Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

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It was established on 1 January 2010 as a cooperation organization between the Norwegian Financial Services Association

Norwegian Financial Services Association

The Norwegian Financial Services Association is an employers' organisation in Norway.It was established in 2000 as a merger between the Norwegian Bankers' Association and the Association of Norwegian Insurance Companies....

  and the Norwegian Savings Banks Association

Norwegian Savings Banks Association

The Norwegian Savings Banks Association is the trade organization for savings banks in Norway.It was founded in 1914 as Centralforeningen for Norges Sparebanker. Director since 2002 is Arne Hyttnes...

 . These organizations still exist, but not their respective "service offices", whose tasks were taken over by Finance Norway.

Arne Hyttnes

Arne Hyttnes

Arne Hyttnes is a Norwegian banker.He hails from Lesjaskog, and graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration with the siv.øk. degree in 1975. He started his career in Arthur Andersen & Co in 1975, and was then hired in Den norske Creditbank in 1976. He was the...

 was hired as managing director, and Rune Bjerke

Rune Bjerke

Rune Bjerke is a Norwegian businessperson and politician for the Labour Party.Rune is son of Juul Bjerke and brother of Siri Bjerke. Bjerke studied economics at the University of Oslo, and has a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University.From 1992 to 1995 he was city...

 became the first chairman. The board currently consists of Rune Bjerke

Rune Bjerke

Rune Bjerke is a Norwegian businessperson and politician for the Labour Party.Rune is son of Juul Bjerke and brother of Siri Bjerke. Bjerke studied economics at the University of Oslo, and has a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University.From 1992 to 1995 he was city...

 (chair), Stein Hannevik

Stein Hannevik

Stein Andreas Hannevik is a Norwegian banker.He was hired as CEO of Sparebanken Pluss in 2000. Before this he was the executive of Bergshav Shipholding. He chairs the boards of the cultural hall Kilden in Kristiansand. In 2009 he became chair of the Norwegian Savings Banks Association...

 (deputy chair), Helge Leiro Baastad

Helge Leiro Baastad

Helge Leiro Baastad is a Norwegian businessperson.He graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration with the siv.øk. degree. He was hired as a director in Gjensidige in 1998; the company became Gjensidige NOR through a merger. He became executive of insurance in the...

, Helge Roar Dalen, Olav Arne Fiskerstrand, Kjerstin Fyllingen, Finn Haugan, Line M. Hestvik, Idar Kreutzer

Idar Kreutzer

Idar Kreutzer is a Norwegian businessperson.He holds a siv.øk. degree from the Norwegian School of Economics. From 1986 to 1987 he was a political secretary for Conservative City Commissioner Michael Tetzschner in Oslo. Kreutzer has been with Storebrand since 1992, was a director from 1995 to 2000...

, Trond F. Mellingsæter, Sverre Thornes

Sverre Thornes

Sverre Thornes is a Norwegian businessperson.He was hired in Kommunal Landspensjonskasse to work with portfolios in 1995, and led the daughter company KLP Kapitalforvaltning from 2001 to 2006. He led the Kommunal Landspensjonskasse life insurance branch until 3 January 2008, when he became CEO of...

, Dag Tjernsmo

Dag Tjernsmo

Dag Tjernsmo is a Norwegian banker.In the Swedish bank conglomerate Handelsbanken he is an executive vice president as well as head of its regional bank in Norway. He has also led the stock fund company Xact Fonder. He is a board member of the Norwegian Financial Services Association and Finance...

 and Gunn Wærsted

Gunn Wærsted

Gunn Wærsted is a Norwegian businessperson, with prominent positions in finance and banking.She was born in Vråliosen as a daughter of power plant manager Atle W. Wærsted and Ester Helgerud . The family moved to Drammen when Wærsted was six years old. She graduated with the siv.øk. degree from the...

. The headquarters are at Solli plass

Solli plass

Solli plass, also called Lapsetorvet, is a square in Oslo, Norway, located southwest of Slottsparken and the Royal Palace.The square is elliptical in shape. In the southwest lies the National Library of Norway. Further east are several commercial buildings, and the headquarters of the Federation of...

, Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

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