In October 1820, the Gothenburg Savings Bank, opened. Six months later, 16 June 1821, it was followed by a savings bank in Stockholm. The country was soon filled with savings banks. They allowed regular people deposit and withdraw any amount, earn interest and take out loans. Common place today, revolutionary then. And how the savings banks since then developed mirrors the development of the general banking system and of Sweden as a nation.
All this is covered in a new film series of six short episodes, which we at the Centre for Business History have produced with the Economy Museum. The film series was released today 16 June on the Economy Museum's YouTube channel, on what would have been the 200th anniversary of the founding of Stockholm Savings Bank.
Project team
- Story, script and narrator: Anders Sjöman, Centre for Business History
Film team:
- Photography, editing and production: Joakim Zetterström
- B-photo and production support: Karl Berg och Pierre Toftgård
Music from Epidemic Sound.
The film series was supported financially by Swedbank, main sponsor of the Economy Museum.
