Nevi was a Bergen, Norway-based financial company. Owned by Vital, it experienced a rapid growth during the 1980s, before nearly going bankrupt and being taken over by Bergen Bank in 1988. The company experienced a boom starting in 1980, when it had total assets of 1.4 billion Norwegian krone (NOK). By 1982 it had reached NOK 3.5 billion, by 1984 NOK 8.5 billion, and peaked at NOK 15.9 billion in 1986. The company established itself in Denmark in 1982 and bought in 1984. The following year it established the subsidiary Sleipnir UK and bought the British , and bought the Danish stock broker firm After profits from 1980 through 1985, the company started having losses in 1986. In 1987 the company lost large sums in the bankruptcy of , then the company closed its operations in Britain and th