The Norwegian Financial Services Association is an employers' organisation in Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

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It was established in 2000 as a merger between the Norwegian Bankers' Association

Norwegian Bankers' Association

The Norwegian Bankers' Association was an employers' organisation in Norway, organized under the national Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise....

 and the Association of Norwegian Insurance Companies

Association of Norwegian Insurance Companies

The Association of Norwegian Insurance Companies was an employers' organisation in Norway.It was established in 1937, but in 2000 it was merged with the Norwegian Bankers' Association to form the Norwegian Financial Services Association....

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In 2010 it founded the cooperation organization Finance Norway

Finance Norway

Finance Norway is an employers' organisation in Norway.It was established on 1 January 2010 as a cooperation organization between the Norwegian Financial Services Association and the Norwegian Savings Banks Association...

 together with the Norwegian Savings Banks Association

Norwegian Savings Banks Association

The Norwegian Savings Banks Association is the trade organization for savings banks in Norway.It was founded in 1914 as Centralforeningen for Norges Sparebanker. Director since 2002 is Arne Hyttnes...

. Both organizations still exist, but not their respective "service offices", whose tasks were taken over by Finance Norway. The headquarters are in Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

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The board currently consists of Rune Bjerke

Rune Bjerke

Rune Bjerke is a Norwegian businessperson and politician for the Labour Party.Rune is son of Juul Bjerke and brother of Siri Bjerke. Bjerke studied economics at the University of Oslo, and has a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University.From 1992 to 1995 he was city...

 (leader), Helge Leiro Baastad

Helge Leiro Baastad

Helge Leiro Baastad is a Norwegian businessperson.He graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration with the siv.øk. degree. He was hired as a director in Gjensidige in 1998; the company became Gjensidige NOR through a merger. He became executive of insurance in the...

 (deputy chair), Kirsten Idebøen, Idar Kreutzer

Idar Kreutzer

Idar Kreutzer is a Norwegian businessperson.He holds a siv.øk. degree from the Norwegian School of Economics. From 1986 to 1987 he was a political secretary for Conservative City Commissioner Michael Tetzschner in Oslo. Kreutzer has been with Storebrand since 1992, was a director from 1995 to 2000...

, Kjerstin Fyllingen, Line M. Hestvik, Stein Ole Larsen

Stein Ole Larsen

Stein Ole Larsen is a Norwegian businessperson and banker. Since 2007 he has been Chief Executive Officer of Terra-Gruppen.Larsen has previously been CEO of Odal Sparebank, Eidsberg Sparebank and Bank2...

, Sverre Thornes

Sverre Thornes

Sverre Thornes is a Norwegian businessperson.He was hired in Kommunal Landspensjonskasse to work with portfolios in 1995, and led the daughter company KLP Kapitalforvaltning from 2001 to 2006. He led the Kommunal Landspensjonskasse life insurance branch until 3 January 2008, when he became CEO of...

, Gunn Wærsted

Gunn Wærsted

Gunn Wærsted is a Norwegian businessperson, with prominent positions in finance and banking.She was born in Vråliosen as a daughter of power plant manager Atle W. Wærsted and Ester Helgerud . The family moved to Drammen when Wærsted was six years old. She graduated with the siv.øk. degree from the...

, Dag Tjernsmo

Dag Tjernsmo

Dag Tjernsmo is a Norwegian banker.In the Swedish bank conglomerate Handelsbanken he is an executive vice president as well as head of its regional bank in Norway. He has also led the stock fund company Xact Fonder. He is a board member of the Norwegian Financial Services Association and Finance...

 and Trond F. Mellingsæter.