The Mayor of Oslo praised the bank for moving to Bjørvika's Barcode, a move which made the development of the MVRDV designed port redevelopment a great success. Paul Lødøen, CEO of OSU the developing corporation responsible for 350.000m2 of port refurbishment, praised the collaboration with MVRDV as excellent "On time, well coordinated and very much focused on solving difficult issues!"

After a music performance by Heartfelt in the Bankboksen, a hip leisure area, the guests walked the route along the 2500 workers of the bank who are already in place and turned the building into a bustling centre of energy, constantly energised by fruit and coffee.

During the opening the bank continued business as usual, especially impressive was the trading floor with hundreds of screens monitoring the world markets.