Ikano Bank Ikano Bank Ikano Bank is a consumer finance bank established in 1995 by Ingvar Kamprad (the founder of IKEA). Ikano Bank has its head office in Malmö, with branch offices in Sundbyberg, Älmhult, Asker, Glostrup, Nottingham, and Helsinki. Ikano Bank also conducts business in Germany, Poland, Austria, Finland, and Russia via separate companies. Ikano Bank offers loans, savings accounts and partner business supplying sales finance solutions to large retailers, including IKEA, Volkswagen, Audi, Lindex, Hemtex, Skoda, Shell, and Preem. Ikano Bank is owned by the Kamprad family through IKANO, a group of businesses which also includes insurance, retail, and real
Ingvar Kamprad development, allowing it to lower its prices by an average of 2–3% over the decade to 2010, while continuing its global expansion. Kamprad explains his social philosophy in his "Testament of a Furniture Dealer": "It is not only for cost reasons that we avoid the luxury hotels. We don't need flashy cars, impressive titles, uniforms or other status symbols. We rely on our strength and our will!" Kamprad owned a villa in Switzerland, a large country estate in Sweden and a vineyard in Provence, France. Kamprad drove a Porsche for several years. Kamprad had named his sons as the sole