It was registered as a public company in the Enterprise Register of the Republic of Lithuania on 29 November 1990 as Spaudos bankas, which was soon renamed as AB Vilniaus bankas. Vilniaus bankas introduced the first Visa credit card to Lithuania in 1993 and launched the first ATM machines in Lithuania in 1995. Vilniaus bankas signed a strategic cooperation agreement with SEB Group of Sweden in 1998 and fully rebranded itself after said Swedish parent company in 2008.[citation needed]
There are AB SEB bankas and other SEB group companies operating in Lithuania, namely:
UAB “SEB investicijų valdymas”
life insurance and pension services company “SEB Life and Pension Baltic SE” Lithuanian branch
SEB Global Services in Vilnius (legal name “Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB” Vilnius branch), which provides business support services (transactions, IT, human resources administration, finance and accounting) to the SEB group — its subsidiary companies and subdivisions in more than twenty countries worldwide.