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• Letter from the Chair
• President's statement
• Vision and strategy
• Market analysis
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• Board of Directors' report
• Board of Directors and Group Executive Management
• Corporate governance report
• Annual General Meeting
• Five-year summary
• Three-year summary
• Market shares Sweden
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Annual General Meeting

The Annual General Meeting will be held in Stockholm at the Royal Opera on 24 April 2009.

Notification of attendance

Shareholders who wish to attend the Annual General Meeting must:

• be recorded in the share register maintained by VPC AB
  (the Swedish Central Securities Depository) on 18 April 2009. Since the record day is a Saturday, shareholders must ensure that they are recorded in the share register by Friday, 17
  April 2009;
• notify the company of their intention to participate and the number of persons who will accompany them (max. 2) not later than 3:00 p.m. on 20 April 2009.

Notification may be made in writing to Swedbank’s head office, Box 47022, SE-100 74 Stockholm, Sweden, by telephone
+46 8 775 44 66, by fax +46 8 775 80 08 labeled “Swedbank’s Annual General Meeting” or online at www.swedbank.se/ir under Årsstämma (Annual General Meeting). When notifying the company, please indicate your name, personal/company registration number (for Swedish citizens or companies), address and telephone number. Participation by proxy is permitted, provided the proxy is no more than one year old and is submitted to Swedbank well in advance of the meeting, preferably not later 20 April 2009. If issued by a legal entity, the proxy must be accompanied by a certified registration certificate or other document attesting to the authority of the signatory.

Nominee-registered shares

To be entitled to attend the meeting, shareholders whose shares are nominee-registered must request to have them temporarily re-registered in their own names in the shareholders’ register. The registration process, which normally takes several days, must be completed by 18 April 2009. Since the record day is a Saturday, shareholders should advise their nominees well in advance of this date so that re-registration is complete by 17 April 2009.

Notice and agenda

A list of the matters on the agenda for the Annual General Meeting will be included in the notice of the meeting, which is scheduled to be published on 18 March in, among others, the dailies Dagens Nyheter, Svenska Dagbladet and Dagens Industri. As
of the same date, the notice will also be available online at
http://www.swedbank.com/ir under the heading Årsstämma (Annual General Meeting).

Dividend

The Board of Directors proposes that the AGM approve no dividend for preference shares and ordinary shares (SEK 9.00 per ordinary share).