 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 were was a trend of merging local savings banks to larger unites.Tromsø Sparebank merged with nine other banks in Troms and Finnmark to form a large Tromsø Sparebank in the period 1963-1984 while another savings bank, Sparebanken Nord, arose consisting of a merger between ten other banks in the same counties.