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Profile of registrant

Danske Bank

Identification number in the register: 64866663811-42
Registration date: 01/07/10 14:34:21

The information on this organisation was last modified on 29/06/12 16:22:09
The date of the last annual update was 29/06/12 16:22:09


Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual

Name/company name: Danske Bank
Acronym: DANSKE
Legal status: public limited company
Website address: http://www.danskebank.com/en-uk/Pages/default.aspx

Sections

Section: II - In-house lobbyists and trade/professional associations
and more precisely: Companies & groups

Person with legal responsibility

Surname, Name: Mr  Eivind Kolding
Position: Chief Executive Officer

Permanent person in charge of EU relations

Surname, Name: Mrs  Anne Søgaard Melchiorsen
Position: First Vice President, Head of Corporate Affairs

Contact details:

Contact details of organisation's head office: 2-12 Holmens Kanal 
Copenhagen 1092
DENMARK
Telephone number: (+45) 33 44 00 00
Fax number: (+) 
Other contact information:

Goals / remit

Goals / remit of the organisation: Danske Bank Group is the largest bank in Denmark and a leading player in the northern European financial markets. The Group focuses on retail banking by offering a wide range of financial services including insurance, mortgage finance, asset management, brokerage, real estate and leasing services. The Group has more than 5 million retail customers and a significant share of the corporate and institutional markets.

The Group operates under different names in different countries, but all units work on the same IT and organisational platforms. The Group has retail banking activities in Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and the Baltics. We also have a branch or subsidiary in London, Hamburg, Luxembourg, Warsaw and St. Petersburg.
The Danske Bank Group employs around 21,000 staff.

The vision of the Danske Bank Group is “One platform – exceptional brands”. Our mission is to be “the best local financial partner”. Our common guidelines for working with the vision and mission are:
• Integrity – in business affairs and as a part of society.
• Expertise – through high standards of quality and professionalism.
• Value creation – for shareholders, customers and employees.
• Commitment – to customers’ financial affairs.
• Accessibility – electronic and physical.
The organisation's fields of interests are:
  • national
  • European
  • global

Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register

Number of persons: 0.5
Complementary information:

Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises

No accredited persons

Activities

Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:


Subject matters with direct impact on Danske Bank as a cross-border financial services group, i.e. financial services and internal market issues.

Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;

Fields declared by the organisation:
  • Budget
  • Competition
  • Consumer Affairs
  • Culture
  • Economic and Financial Affairs
  • Education
  • Employment and Social Affairs
  • Enterprise
  • Environment
  • General and Institutional Affairs
  • Home Affairs
  • Internal Market
  • Justice and Fundamental Rights
  • Taxation

Networking

Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.




Danske Bank is a member of a number of industry associations and professional organizations. The most relevant for the purposes of this interest register are:
• Finansrådet (the Danish Bankers’ Assocation), which is a member of the European Banking Federation
• Realkreditforeningen (the Danish Association of Mortgage Banks), which is a member of the European Mortgage Federation
• Forsikring & Pension (the Danish Insurance Association), which is a member of the European insurance and reinsurance federation
• International Institute of Finance
• Association for Financial Markets in Europe
• International Capital Markets Association
• European Venture Capital and Private Equity Association.

Financial data

Financial year: 01/2011 - 12/2011
Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year: 50000  € - 100000  €
Amount and source of funding received from the EU institutions in financial year n-1 of registration
Procurement: 0 €
Grants: 0 €
Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:

The range above was estimated assuming an average of one to two monthly visit to the Brussels-based EU institutions to represent interests directly, one of them by one senior executive and one Public Affairs Manager (travel, accommodation, and proportional salary costs), the other by one Public Affairs Manager only.

Code of conduct

By its registration the organisation has signed the Transparency Register Code of Conduct.