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Regulatory News: Board of Directors Swedbank's (OTC:SWDBF) (STO:SWEDA) (LSE:SWK) Annual General Meeting (AGM) today elected one new member to the Board of Directors. Helle Kruse Nielsen from Denmark is since a few years employed full-time as a board member for Vin & Sprit AB, Oriflame AB and Aker BioMarine ASA, among others. She has previously worked for 15 years for the U.S. company Mars as Head of the European division "Food" and previously as President in its Scandinavian subsidiary. Helle Kruse Nielsen has a Bachelor of Science from the Copenhagen Business School (CBS). Current board members Gail Buyske, Simon Ellis, Ulrika Francke, Berith Hagglund-Marcus, Goran Johnsson, Anders Nyblom were re-elected and Carl Eric Stalberg was elected as Chair. The Board's statutory meeting immediately following the AGM elected Ulrika Francke as Deputy. Dividends The dividend to the shareholders will be SEK 9 per share in accordance with the AGM's resolution. The record day for the dividend is April 30, 2008. The dividend is expected to be paid by VPC (the Swedish Central Securities Depository) on May 6, 2008. Other decisions The AGM also resolved, in accordance with the Board's proposal, to allow the bank, until the next AGM, to acquire at any given time in its securities operations, to facilitate these operations, up to 1 percent of the bank's shares. Moreover, it was resolved to authorize the Board, on one or more occasions until the next AGM, to decide to acquire the bank's own shares, in addition to acquisitions by the securities operations, up to 5 percent of all the shares in the bank. Acquisitions may only be made through purchases on the OMX Nordic Exchange Stockholm and only at a price that, at the time of acquisition, falls within the interval between the highest buying rate and the lowest selling rate. The AGM decided on the guidelines for the Nomination Committee. The bank will announce the names of the members of the committee not later than six months before the next AGM. The AGM also decided on remuneration policy for Swedbank top executives. A transcription and web cast of Carl Eric Stalberg's and Jan Liden's addresses at today's AGM will be available on Swedbank's website: www.swedbank.se/ir Swedbank's vision is to be the leading financial institution in the markets where we are present. Swedbank has 9 million retail customers and 600,000 corporate customers with more than 459 branches in Sweden, 300 branches in the Baltic countries and another 190 branches in Ukraine. The group is also present in Copenhagen, Helsinki, Kaliningrad, Luxembourg, Marbella, Moscow, New York, Oslo, Shanghai, St. Petersburg and Tokyo. As of December 2007 the group had total assets of SEK 1,600 billion and approximately 22,000 employees. For more information about Swedbank, please visit www.swedbank.com. This information was brought to you by Cision http://newsroom.cision.com Regulatory News: Board of Directors Swedbank๏ฟฝs (OTC:SWDBF) (STO:SWEDA) (LSE:SWK) Annual General Meeting (AGM) today elected one new member to the Board of Directors. Helle Kruse Nielsen from Denmark is since a few years employed full-time as a board member for Vin & Sprit AB, Oriflame AB and Aker BioMarine ASA, among others. She has previously worked for 15 years for the U.S. company Mars as Head of the European division ๏ฟฝFood๏ฟฝ and previously as President in its Scandinavian subsidiary. Helle Kruse Nielsen has a Bachelor of Science from the Copenhagen Business School (CBS). Current board members Gail Buyske, Simon Ellis, Ulrika Francke, Berith H๏ฟฝgglund-Marcus, G๏ฟฝran Johnsson, Anders Nyblom were re-elected and Carl Eric St๏ฟฝlberg was elected as Chair. The Board๏ฟฝs statutory meeting immediately following the AGM elected Ulrika Francke as Deputy. Dividends The dividend to the shareholders will be SEK 9 per share in accordance with the AGM๏ฟฝs resolution. The record day for the dividend is April 30, 2008. The dividend is expected to be paid by VPC (the Swedish Central Securities Depository) on May 6, 2008. Other decisions The AGM also resolved, in accordance with the Board๏ฟฝs proposal, to allow the bank, until the next AGM, to acquire at any given time in its securities operations, to facilitate these operations, up to 1 percent of the bank๏ฟฝs shares. Moreover, it was resolved to authorize the Board, on one or more occasions until the next AGM, to decide to acquire the bank๏ฟฝs own shares, in addition to acquisitions by the securities operations, up to 5 percent of all the shares in the bank. Acquisitions may only be made through purchases on the OMX Nordic Exchange Stockholm and only at a price that, at the time of acquisition, falls within the interval between the highest buying rate and the lowest selling rate. The AGM decided on the guidelines for the Nomination Committee. The bank will announce the names of the members of the committee not later than six months before the next AGM. The AGM also decided on remuneration policy for Swedbank top executives. A transcription and web cast of Carl Eric St๏ฟฝlberg๏ฟฝs and Jan Lid๏ฟฝn๏ฟฝs addresses at today๏ฟฝs AGM will be available on Swedbank๏ฟฝs website: www.swedbank.se/ir Swedbank๏ฟฝs vision is to be the leading financial institution in the markets where we are present. Swedbank has 9 million retail customers and 600,000 corporate customers with more than 459 branches in Sweden, 300 branches in the Baltic countries and another 190 branches in Ukraine. The group is also present in Copenhagen, Helsinki, Kaliningrad, Luxembourg, Marbella, Moscow, New York, Oslo, Shanghai, St. Petersburg and Tokyo. As of December 2007 the group had total assets of SEK 1,600 billion and approximately 22,000 employees. For more information about Swedbank, please visit www.swedbank.com. This information was brought to you by Cision http://newsroom.cision.com