Editing SEB bankas (section)

== History ==

It was registered as a public company in the Enterprise Register of the Republic of [[Lithuania]] on 29 November 1990 as '''''Spaudos bankas''''', which was soon renamed as '''''AB Vilniaus bankas'''''. Vilniaus bankas introduced the first [[Visa Inc.|Visa]] credit card to Lithuania in 1993 and launched the first [[Automated teller machine|ATM machines]] in Lithuania in 1995. Vilniaus bankas signed a strategic cooperation agreement with [[SEB Group]] of Sweden in 1998 and fully rebranded itself after said Swedish parent company in 2008.{{Citation needed|date=February 2023}}

AB SEB bankas 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]].<ref>{{cite web |website=European Central Bank |title=The list of significant supervised entities and the list of less significant institutions |url=https://www.bankingsupervision.europa.eu/ecb/pub/pdf/ssm-listofsupervisedentities1409en.pdf |date=4 September 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |website=European Central Bank |title=List of supervised entities |date=1 January 2023 |url=https://www.bankingsupervision.europa.eu/ecb/pub/pdf/ssm.listofsupervisedentities202302.en.pdf }}</ref>