Forex Bank AB is a
Swedish financial services company. The company was started in 1927 as a currency exchange service for travellers, at the Central Station in
Stockholm. The owner of Gyllenspet's Barber Shop, according to the legend, discovered that most of his customers were tourists in need of currency for their trips. The owner began keeping the major currencies on hand.
The company was subsequently acquired by
Statens Järnvägar (now
SJ AB), the Swedish State Railways, which expanded the operations until it was sold off to one of the managers,
Rolf Friberg, in 1965. The company was the only one apart from the
banks that was licensed to conduct
currency exchange in Sweden.