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Licensing

Licensing

Information about licensing requirements, applications for licences and authorisations and what is required to maintain a licence.

Banking and finance

If you want to open a bank in Norway you need to apply for a banking licence to operate either as a savings bank or a commercial bank.

  • General requirements
  • Legal requirements
  • Licence to carry on banking in another EEA state
  • The application process
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Nominee registration

Nominee registration means that a legal entity, a nominee, is registered in a register of owners of financial instruments instead of the beneficial owner.

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Auditing

Registered and state authorised auditors must be authorised by The Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway (Finanstilsynet). Requirements to become a registered or state authorised auditor in Norway are set forth in the Act on Auditing and Auditors chapter 3.

  • Approval of auditors who are authorised in another EEA member state
  • Aptitude test
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External accounting

Guidance to applicants for authorisation as an external accountant and external accounting firm.

  • Application for authorisation
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Securities market

Authorisation to market non-EEA and AIFs managed by non-EEA AIFMs in Norway to professional investors and marketing of foreign UCITS in Norway and authorisation to act as nominee.

  • Application forms to be used when applying for an authorisation to market non-EEA AIFs and AIFs managed by non-EEA AIFMs in Norway to professional investors
  • Marketing of foreign UCITS in Norway
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Visitor address:
Revierstredet 3, 0151 Oslo

 

Postal address:
P.O. Box 1187 Sentrum
NO-0107 Oslo
Norway

 

Phone: +47 22 93 98 00 
E-mail: post@finanstilsynet.no

 

Organisation number:
840 747 972