Financial inspections
| Financial inspections | |
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| Supervisory authority | Finansdepartementet | 
| founding | 1991 | 
| Headquarters | Stockholm , Sweden   | 
| Authority management | Erik Thedéen | 
| Servants | 300 | 
| Web presence | www.fi.se | 
The Finansinpktionen (short: FI ) is a Swedish administrative authority and the financial supervisory authority of the Kingdom of Sweden . It is based in the Swedish capital Stockholm .
The FI is subordinate to the Swedish Ministry of Finance (Finansdepartementet) and, like the BaFin in Germany , is responsible for the supervision, monitoring, licensing and regulation of the financial market and its market participants.
The FI monitors:
- 2000 financial companies,
- 900 foreign financial institutions with branches in Sweden and
- 300 listed companies.
