It has 250,000 private and 40,000 institutional customers with total assets of NOK 48 billion.

It is a founding member of the bank alliance SpareBank 1, with a 19.5% ownership.

The first of the many savings banks that now is part of Sparebanken Nord-Norge was Tromsø Sparebank, founded in 1836.

After that, especially in the mid-19th century many savings banks were established in Northern Norway.

In the 1960s and onwards to the 1980s there was a trend of merging local savings banks to larger unites.