Working in the bank - from the local to the international level

On June 1, 1965, I was almost 17 years old and started working at Skånska bank (Scanian bank) in Kivik. It was a regional bank that was bought up by Handelsbanken in 1989/90. As customers, we had private individuals and small to medium-sized companies.

At that time, all customers had to come into the bank office and for us employees, it was almost only manual work. Cheques were only available for…