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The following list of banks in Latvia is to be understood within the framework of the European single market and European banking union, which means that Latvia's banking system is more open to cross-border banking operations than peers outside of the EU. The list leaves aside the country's National Central Bank within the Eurosystem, the Bank of Latvia.
European banking supervision distinguishes between significant institutions (SIs) and less significant institutions (LSIs), with SI/LSI designations updated regularly by the European Central Bank (ECB). Significant institutions are directly supervised by the ECB using joint supervisory teams that involve the national competent authorities (NCAs) of individual participating countries. Less significant institutions are supervised by the relevant NCA on a day-to-day basis, under the supervisory oversight of the ECB. [1] In Latvia's case, the NCA is the Bank of Latvia. [2]
As of 1 September 2025, the ECB had three Latvian banking groups in its list of significant institutions: [3]
A study published in 2024 assessed that the bank with most aggregate assets in Latvia (as opposed to total consolidated assets) as of end-2023 was Swedbank at €9.3 billion, followed by SEB (€5.6 billion) and Citadele (€4.9 billion). [4] Luminor is also present in Latvia via a branch. No other SIs based in the euro area have subsidiaries in Latvia. [3]
As of 1 September 2025, the ECB's list of supervised institutions included eight Latvian LSIs, three of which were designated by the ECB as "high-impact" on the basis of several criteria including size: [3]
The other five Latvian LSIs were:
Latvia is one of six euro-area countries with credit unions, together with Croatia, Estonia, Ireland, Lithuania, and the Netherlands. Latvian credit unions (Latvian : krājaizdevu sabiedrības) are small cooperative credit institutions outside the scope of the EU Capital Requirements Directives, [5] and thus regulated and supervised under national law. At end-2024, there were 25 such Latvian credit unions with total assets of ca. €30 million (US$31 million). [6] : 4
| English name [7] | Call name | Licence date | Majority Owner | Capital | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akciju sabiedrība "Citadele banka" | Citadele | 30 June 2010 | Ripplewood Advisors LLC |  | citadele.lv |
| Magnetiq Bank | Magnetiq Bank | 5 September 2008 | Signet Bank |  | |
| Akciju sabiedrība "Reģionālā investīciju banka" | RIB | 14 September 2001 | SKY Investment Holding | | ribbank.com |
| Akciju sabiedrība "Rietumu Banka" | Rietumu | 5 September 2008 | Esterkin Family Investments | | rietumu.com |
| BluOr Bank AS | BluOr Bank AS | 12 June 2001 | BBG AS | | |
| AS "Industra Bank" | Industra | 6 May 1994 | J.A. Investment Holding | | industra.finance |
| AS "SEB banka" | SEB | 29 September 1993 | SEB AB |  | seb.lv |
| Baltic International Bank SE | BIB | 3 May 1993 | Belokon family | | bib.eu |
| Luminor Bank AS | Luminor | 2 January 2019 | Luminor Bank |  | luminor.lv |
| Signet Bank AS | Signet Bank | 26 May 1992 | Signet Acquisition III LLC | | signetbank.com |
| "Swedbank" AS | Swedbank | 7 September 1998 | Swedbank AB | | swedbank.lv |
Several former Latvian banks are documented on Wikipedia, including multiple banks established in the early 1990s that failed only shortly afterwards. They are listed below in chronological order of establishment.