Aktia Bank is a Finnish asset manager, bank and life insurer. Aktia provides digital services to customers in a number of channels and provides personalised services in its offices in the Metropolitan Region as well as in the Turku, Tampere, Vaasa, Oulu and Kuopio regions. Headquarters are located in Helsinki, Finland. Aktia's shares are listed on NASDAQ Helsinki. The name Aktia is derived from the Greek word akti, meaning coast. When the name was introduced in 1991, the bank's area of operation was on the southern coast of Finland. Aktia and its predecessors operated as savings banks for a long time, but at the beginning of the 21st century Aktia withdrew from the Savings Banks group, became a commercial bank and was listed on the stock exchange in 2009. Wikipedia