Eika Gruppen serves as the financial services group in the Eika Alliance and will ensure strong local banks that drives growth and development, for customers and for the local community. This is done among other things, by offering the banks a modern and efficient operation through good and cost-effective product and service deliveries – including banking infrastructure, IT, payment processing, modern digital services and wide range of different product and services that are required and expected form modern and competitive local banks. Eika Boligkreditt was demerged from the Eika Gruppen financial group in 2012 and became directly owned by the local banks.