Ikano Bank estate in many countries. In 1995, Ingvar Kamprad (the founder of IKEA) started "Ikanobanken", with just one branch office in Älmhult, Sweden. In January 2009, Ikanobanken became Ikano Bank, merging with other entities within the IKANO Group. 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
Ingvar Kamprad received the party's youth newspaper, he must have held "some sort of official position within the organisation." The following day, the BBC reported: "A Swedish expert on far-right extremism, Anna-Lena Lodenius, told Radio Sweden that Mr Kamprad's Nazi involvement could no longer be dismissed as the by-product of an accidental friendship with Per Engdahl. His involvement in another fascist organisation, she said, showed he must have been 'perfectly aware' of what it stood for." The "BBC" report also noted that a spokesman said that Kamprad "had long admitted flirting with fascism, but that now, "there are no Nazi-sympathising thoughts in