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The milestones we've reached

• 2023

  Savings deposit product is launched in Finland, Estonia and Lithuania. Additionally, Bigbank successfully raises additional capital several times through both public (Tier 2) and private (AT1) bond issues.

• 2022

  Moody's assigns Bigbank long-term deposit rating of Baa3. Additionally, Bigbank launches public offering of subordinated bonds in Baltic States, which are oversubscribed by more than two times and become listed on the Nasdaq Baltic Bond List. Bigbank launches its first ever credit card in Estonia.

• 2021

  Bigbank launches housing loan product in Latvia and Lithuania. Additionally services offered to private customers are expanded with car leasing in Lithuania and consumer loans in Bulgaria. In the corporate customer segment, the bank starts providing agricultural and forest land loans in Estonia and Latvia.

• 2020

  Bigbank obtains the permits for establishing and operating a branch in Bulgaria.

  The bank launches digital customer identification and contract signature in Latvia and Lithuania, corporate car and equipment lease in Estonia and Lithuania, savings deposits in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands, digital revolving loans in Sweden, refinancing loans and collateralised car loans in Finland and housing loans in Estonia.

• 2019

  New banking platform Nest is launched in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

• 2018

  New banking platform Nest is launched in Finland and Sweden.

• 2017

  Bigbank celebrates its 25th anniversary by hosting an annual conference for all Bigbankers in Riga.

• 2016

  Bigbank introduces an innovative new product in Estonia - mobile credit card.

• 2015

  Bigbank's international trademark is changed together with launch of new branding from BIGBANK with capital letters to Bigbank with only first capital letter.

• 2012

  BIGBANK opens a branch and starts issuing loans in Sweden. BIGBANK begins offering deposits as a cross-border service in the Netherlands.

• 2011

  BIGBANK opens a branch and starts issuing loans in Spain.

• 2010

  BIGBANK begins offering deposits as a cross-border service in Austria. BIGBANK starts issuing loans in Finland.

• 2009

  The business name is changed to BIGBANK AS. Bigbank begins offering term deposits as a cross-border service in Germany. BIGBANK opens a branch in Finland.

• 2008

  The bank, which had been operating under the name BIG, also starts using the unified international trademark BIGBANK in Estonia and Latvia. In addition to its subsidiary, Bigbank opens a branch in Latvia. BIGBANK begins offering term deposits as a cross-border service in Finland.

• 2007

  BIG opens a Lithuanian branch – the first to operate under the Bigbank trademark. The international rating agency Moody's Investor Service issues BIG with a credit rating for the first time. BIG conducts its first international issue of debt instruments and lists the bonds on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. The balance sheet total and loan portfolio of the bank reach 2.5 billion and 2 billion Estonian kroons respectively by the end of the year. The number of active credit contracts reaches 100,000.

• 2006

  BIG begins offering term deposits on the Estonian market. The balance sheet total of BIG exceeds 1 billion kroons for the first time. By the end of the year the loan portfolio also reaches this mark.

• 2005

  BIG is issued with an activity licence as a credit institution. Since then it has operated in Estonia as a bank. The new business name of the enterprise becomes Balti Investeeringute Grupi Pank AS.

• 2004

  BIG submits an application for an activity licence as a credit institution. BIG lists its bonds on the Tallinn Stock Exchange for the first time.

• 1997

  The enterprise adopts the trademark BIG (an acronym from its business name AS Balti Investeeringute Grupp).

• 1996

  The company founds a subsidiary in Latvia.

• 1993

  The first branch is opened in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.

• 1992

  What is now Bigbank launches operations, opening its first branch in Tartu, Estonia.