Omaisuudenhoitoyhtiö Arsenal
Omaisuudenhoitoyhtiö Arsenal Oy ("Asset Management Corporation Arsenal") is a bad bank-type corporation founded by the Government of Finland for management of assets received as collateral from bad debt. Arsenal was founded after the early 1990s recession in 1993 as a response to the nationalization of failed banks, mainly Säästöpankki and STS Bank. (The contribution of the Säästöpankki group to the total damages to the government was 96%.[1]) The defaulted debts led to a large amount of property being passed to the government as collateral, with concomitant bankruptcy court cases where the state had an interest. In 1994, Arsenal held 4.822 million euros of assets and had 12,684 customers. In 1999, the business managing the real estate collateral was spun off as Kapiteeli Oyj, which was bought by Sponda in 2006. (Sponda was also founded as a result of the same crisis around real estate and stocks from the collapsed SKOP Bank, but since 2012 has had no government ownership.) Most of the remaining collateral was sold between 2000 and 2003. In 2003, Arsenal voluntarily started liquidation proceedings. As of May 2013, Arsenal had 121 debtors and 28 court cases ongoing, and kept four employees.[2] As of October 2017, Arsenal is still in liquidation and pursuing court cases.[3] Attorney Kari Uoti accused Arsenal of deliberately undervaluing its assets, which would allow it to post significant apparent profits.[4]
The colloquial Finnish term for such a bad bank, coined in the early 1990s, is roskapankki "junk bank", so called for holding junk bonds.
References
- ^ "Kari Uotia petettiin. Sitten alkoi lama, eikä pankkikriisille kukaan pystynyt mitään. Poliitikot ja suuret johtajat pelastettiin, kun sopivat uhrit löydettiin. Näin väittää Uoti" [Kari Uot was betrayed. Then the recession started, and nobody could do anything about the banking crisis. Politicians and great leaders were saved when suitable victims were found. This is what Uoti claims] (in Finnish). Archived from the original on 2013-10-13. Retrieved 2013-10-06.
- ^ "Home". arsenal.fi.
- ^ "Roskapankki Arsenalin ympärillä kuohuu: Syytöksiä tietovuodoista ja rahan polttamisesta".
- ^ "Arsenalin epäselvyydet" [Arsenal's ambiguities] (in Finnish). Archived from the original on 2017-11-09.
- v
- t
- e
- A-Kruunu [fi]
- Alko
- Arctia
- Baltic Connector
- Business Finland
- DigiFinland [fi]
- Edita Group [fi]
- Finavia
- Finnhems
- Finnish Climate Fund [fi]
- Finnish Industry Investment [fi]
- Finnish Minerals Group [fi]
- Finnpilot Pilotage [fi]
- Finnvera
- Fintraffic [fi]
- Gasgrid Finland
- Gasum
- Governia [fi]
- Hansel
- HAUS Finnish Institute of Public Management [fi]
- Leijona Catering [fi]
- Mint of Finland
- Motiva
- Omaisuudenhoitoyhtiö Arsenal
- Pohjolan Rautatiet [fi]
- Posti Group
- Solidium
- STUK International [fi]
- Suomen Erillisverkot [fi]
- Suomen Lauttaliikenne [fi]
- Suomen Viljava [fi]
- Tapio [fi]
- Veikkaus
- Vimana [fi]
- VR
- VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
- Boreal Plant Breeding [fi]
- Cinia [fi]
- CSC – IT Center for Science
- Finnair
- Finnfund [fi]
- Fingrid
- Fortum
- Gasonia [fi]
- Kemijoki [fi]
- Neova
- Neste Oil
- Patria
- Terrafame [fi]
- Tietokarhu [fi]
- Yleisradio