Tallinn is the capital and most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of about 454,000 and administratively lies in the Harju maakond (county). Tallinn is the main financial, industrial, and cultural centre of Estonia. It is located 187 km (116 mi) northwest of the country's second largest city, Tartu, however only 80 km (50 mi) south of Helsinki, Finland, also 320 km (200 mi) west of Saint Petersburg, Russia, 300 km (190 mi) north of Riga, Latvia, and 380 km (240 mi) east of Stockholm, Sweden. From the 13th century until the first half of the 20th century, Tallinn was known in most of the world by variants of its other historical name Reval.
SEB Pank is an Estonian bank, owned by the Swedish bank SEB. SEB is the second largest bank in Estonia and is a member of the international SEB Group. Until 11 April 2005 the name of the bank was Eesti Ühispank, which was originally founded in 1992 from a merger of 10 smaller banks. On 7 March 2008, the bank changed its name to SEB Pank.
The Nasdaq Tallinn AS, formerly known as the Tallinn Stock Exchange, is a stock exchange operating in Tallinn, Estonia. Nasdaq Tallinn is the only regulated secondary securities market in Estonia. The major stock market index is Nasdaq Tallinn, formerly known as TALSE.
The Bank of Estonia is the central bank of Estonia, established in 1919 with operations suspended between 1940 and 1990. It has been a member of the Eurosystem organisation of euro area central banks, since Estonia adopted the euro on 1 January 2011. The Bank of Estonia also belongs to the European System of Central Banks. From 1992 to 2010, the Bank of Estonia was responsible for the national currency, the Estonian kroon.
Rein Otsason was an Estonian banker.
The Estonian Declaration of Independence, also known as the Manifesto to the Peoples of Estonia, is the founding act which established the independent democratic Republic of Estonia on 24 February 1918. Since then the 24 February has been celebrated as the Estonian Independence Day, the national day of Estonia.
The 1 kroon is the smallest valued banknote of the Estonian kroon, the former currency of Estonia. Kristjan Raud (1865–1943), an Estonian painter, teacher, and cultural historian, is featured with a portrait on the obverse. A view of Toompea Castle in Tallinn appears on the reverse.
The following is an alphabetical list of articles related to the Republic of Estonia.
Maakri is a subdistrict in the district of Kesklinn (Midtown), Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It has a population of 1,099. In the last decade Maakri has developed into the main business centre of Tallinn. Many high-rise buildings have been built into the area during this period.
Ninase is a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County in western Estonia.
LHV Pank is an Estonian banking and financial services company headquartered in Tallinn. It is a subsidiary of AS LHV Group, a public company listed on the Nasdaq Tallinn Stock Exchange. The bank's clients include private individuals, small and medium-sized companies and institutional investors. LHV Pank is the third largest bank in Estonia. LHV has branch offices in Tallinn, Tartu and Pärnu. LHV Pank employs over 800 people. More than 350 000 clients use the bank's services. LHV Pank is one of the largest brokers on NASDAQ OMX Baltic stock exchanges and the largest broker for Baltic retail investors in international markets.
Evelin Võigemast is an Estonian stage, film television and voice actress and singer.
Kalju Orro is an Estonian stage, film and television actor, acting instructor, lecturer, theatre producer, and pedagogue.
Inga Salurand is an Estonian stage, film, and television actress whose career began in the mid-2000s.
Coop Pank is an Estonian bank, headquartered in Tallinn. The bank operates only in Estonia. The official name of the bank is Coop Pank AS. Coop Pank offers deposits, business and personal loans, leasing, bank cards, settlement services, card payment acceptance, factoring, private banking and insurance services. Bank has internet bank and mobile bank. The Bank has joined with the flash payment system R1 that is developed in Estonia by Eesti Pank, which gives customers the opportunity to make flash payments.
Bigbank is an Estonian bank which headquarters are located in Tallinn, Estonia. The bank is focusing on loans. The bank operates in Baltic States, Bulgaria, Finland and Sweden and to some extent in Germany, Austria and Netherlands.
Madis Müller is an Estonian banker. Since 2019, he is the chairman of the Bank of Estonia.
Banking in Estonia covers banking in Estonia. Banking started with the establishment of the central bank, the Bank of Estonia in 1919. It lost control during the Soviet period when banking was controlled from Moscow by Soviet powers. It was reestablished in 1990. As of 2022 it consists of the central bank and a number of commercial banks providing banking and financial services. Many of the commercial banks operating in Estonia are foreign banks primely from Scandinavia.
