Arne Hyttnes is a Norwegian banker.

He hails from Lesjaskog

Lesjaskog

Lesjaskog village in Lesja municipality in Oppland, Norway lies on lake Lesjaskogsvatnet.Lake Lesjaskogsvatnet has outlets at both ends. A dam that was constructed by the Lesja Iron Works at Lesjaverk village in the 1660s to improve transportation caused the water which normally drained only to the...

, and graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration with the siv.øk.

Siviløkonom

Siviløkonom is an academic degree issued within the field of business administration and economics and a professional title in Norway , obtained after 5 years of studies...

 degree in 1975. He started his career in Arthur Andersen & Co in 1975, and was then hired in Den norske Creditbank

Den norske Creditbank

Den norske Creditbank or DnC is a defunct Norwegian commercial bank created in 1857. In 1990 it merged with Bergen Bank to create Den norske Bank...

 in 1976. He was the bank's regional director in Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

 in the 1980s. The bank was bought by Bergen Bank

Bergen Bank

Bergen Bank was a Norwegian commercial bank in existence between 1975 and 1990. It was created as a merger between Bergens Privatbank and Bergens Kreditbank while the bank Kvam Privatbank was acquired in 1979. In 1988 it bought Nevi. Bergen Bank, which was based in Bergen, Norway, merged with Den...

 which was bought by Den norske Bank

Den norske Bank

Den norske Bank or DnB was a Norwegian bank that existed between 1990 and 2003 when it merged with Gjensidige NOR to form the present DnB NOR...

. In the latter company he became regional director in Innlandet, based in Gjøvik

Gjøvik

is a town and a municipality in Oppland county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Gjøvik.In 1861, the village of Gjøvik in the municipality of Vardal was granted town status and was separated from Vardal to form a separate municipality...

. In 1997 he was hired as the chief executive officer of the Norwegian Industrial and Regional Development Fund. He remained here until 2002, when he was hired as managing director in the Norwegian Savings Banks Association

Norwegian Savings Banks Association

The Norwegian Savings Banks Association is the trade organization for savings banks in Norway.It was founded in 1914 as Centralforeningen for Norges Sparebanker. Director since 2002 is Arne Hyttnes...

. In late 2009 he was selected to double as managing director of the new organization Finance Norway

Finance Norway

Finance Norway is an employers' organisation in Norway.It was established on 1 January 2010 as a cooperation organization between the Norwegian Financial Services Association and the Norwegian Savings Banks Association...

. He is also the manager for the Norwegian Banks' Guarantee Fund

Norwegian Banks' Guarantee Fund

The Norwegian Banks' Guarantee Fund is a Norwegian fund for deposit insurance.It was established on 1 July 2004, because of legislation that passed the Parliament of Norway one week before. It was a merger of the Commercial Banks' Guarantee Fund and the Savings Banks' Guarantee Fund...

.

He still resides in Gjøvik.