Handelsbanken

About Handelsbanken

Handelsbanken is a Swedish bank specialising in providing highly personalised and competitive banking services to both corporates and individuals, with over 830 branches in 25 countries, including a branch in Lincoln. 

Handelsbanken was founded in 1871, and has become one of the world's strongest banks. Here at Handelsbanken, we have a different perspective from most other banks. As a high quality relationship bank, we are driven only by what our customers want and because we are not target driven we take a long term view. Also unlike most banks, our operations are not driven by a centralised head office structure. As a result, we are able to make most decisions locally. We offer local relationship banking with products and services tailored to the needs of our personal and business banking customers.

At Handelsbanken Lincoln, we are very keen to be seen as a valuable member of the local business community.  Because of our long-standing philosophy that customers’ needs are best dealt with by local people, we pride ourselves on being able to deal with local professional firms, be they solicitors, accountants, financial advisors or property firms.

We firmly believe that there is significant professional expertise here in Lincoln and we undertake to retain as many instructions locally as we possibly can. We do not claim to be a mass-market bank but we do seek to be able to provide our customers with genuinely bespoke financial structures. This will often involve the participation in negotiations of a customer’s advisors and we are similarly keen to promote this involvement to ensure that facilities provided meet with all the needs of the particular situation.

Our primary focus is always the customer and not annual sales targets and because of this you can always be sure that advice given is solely for the benefit of the customer. At Handelsbanken, we will never try to sell you something you don’t want or need.

Finally, we are also delighted to be able to offer our services directly to a growing number of partners, managers and staff of local professional firms – please don't hesitate to contact any of our Account Managers if you have anything you would like to discuss with us.