There’s one more bridge to cross

A piece of Hans Dalborg’s Nordic jigsaw is missing: the Norwegian one. His bid for Norway’s Christiania Bank is taking time to process. But MeritaNordbanken, the region’s biggest bank, is on a roll. It already has 9 million customers and 1.5 million of them are online. No wonder the big banks down south are eyeing his operation greedily.

Author: Christina White “There is a new bridge between Denmark and Sweden. The homogeneity is increasing,” says Hans Dalborg, CEO of MeritaNordbanken. “That doesn’t mean that we are the same – we are different.” The Øresund Bridge, spanning the 16 kilometre strait, opened on July 1. That is one symbol of a growing pan-Nordic identity. MeritaNordbanken, the largest bank in the region, and still expanding aggressively, is another.

But there are persistent cultural differences, starting with language.

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