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Annual General Meeting

The Annual General Meeting will be held in Stockholm at Berwaldhallen on Friday, 26 March 2010.

Notification of attendance

Shareholders who wish to attend the Annual General Meeting must:

• be recorded in the share register maintained by Euroclear Sweden AB (Euroclear) on 20 March 2010. Since the record day is a Saturday, shareholders must ensure that they are recorded in the share register by Friday, 19 March 2010;
• 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 22 March 2010.

Notification may be submitted in writing to Swedbank’s head office, Box 7839, SE-103 98 Stockholm, Sweden, by telephone +46 8 402 90 60, by fax +46 8 20 56 85 labelled “Swedbank’s Annual General Meeting” or online at http://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 than 22 March 2010. 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 maintained by Euroclear. The re-registration process must be completed by the nominee well in advance of the record day. Since the record day is a Saturday, shareholders should advise their nominees well in advance of this date so that re-registration is completed by 19 March 2010.

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 23 February in, among others, the dailies Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet, as well as one other newspaper. As of the same date, the notice will also be available online at http://www.swedbank.se/ir under the heading Årsstämma (Annual General Meeting).

Dividend

The Board of Directors proposes that the AGM resolve that no dividend be paid for preference shares or ordinary shares.