Aktia Bank Plc is a Finnish asset manager, bank and life insurer with offices in the Helsinki, Turku, Tampere, Vaasa and Oulu regions. Aktia has three business areas: Banking, Asset Management and Life Insurance. Aktia has three reporting business segments: Banking Business, Asset Management and Group Functions. Aktia has about 250,000 private customers and 20,000 corporate and institutional customers. Aktia is owned by Finnish savings bank foundations, institutions and private individuals. The name Aktia is derived from the Greek language word akti, which means coast. Aktia used to serve as the central financial institute for savings and local co-operative banks. Aktia Bank has been designated as a Significant Institution since the entry into force of European Banking Supervision in late 2014, and as a consequence is directly supervised by the European Central Bank. Wikipedia