Appointments | Karri Alameri of the Savings Bank Group will become the new CEO of Oma Säästöpankki

Own Säästöpankki announced on Monday that it had appointed an economist Karri Alameren as the company’s CEO. He will start at the beginning of April 2025 at the latest.

Half an hour before Oma Säästöpankki’s announcement, the Säästöpankki group announced that Alamere would resign from her position and move to new positions outside the Säästöpankki group.

“The interim CEO is the CEO’s deputy, director of strategy and development Kai Koskela. The recruitment of a new managing director will be started immediately”, the Savings Bank Group said in the press release.

Karri Alameri handled the duties of the CEO of Säästöpankkiliitto from 2022.

Works as temporary CEO of Oma Säästöpankki Sarianna Liiri. He will continue in his role until the arrival of Alamere.

Own Säästöbank’s long-term CEO Pasi Sydänlammi was allowed to leave the bank in June, when activities contrary to the bank’s rules had been detected in the bank’s lending and risk management.

Chairman of the Board Jaakko Ossa told HS at the end of Maythat credit decisions regarding certain customers in the real estate sector had not been taken to a higher level in accordance with the rules, even though the customers were actually interdependent entities whose credit risk for the bank grew to a large extent.

The credits granted against the instructions totaled around 180 million euros.