Swedbank Mortgage is a fully owned subsidiary of Swedbank AB responsible for all of Swedbank’s mortgage lending in Sweden. The distribution of the products of the mortgage company is conducted through the branch networks of Swedbank AB and the Savings Banks. The mortgage company is operationally fully integrated with Swedbank AB, through an agreement among other things that gives the mortgage company access to the liquidity it needs to fulfill its payments obligations and regulatory liquidity requirements.

In 2009 Swedbank AB issued a guarantee to maintain Moody's rating of the mortgage company, in accordance with the methodology then used by Moody’s. For some time Moody’s has been making a different assessment, which, given the close integration of the two companies, means the guarantee is superfluous to the rating. Therefore, in the future, like other market participants, the debt instruments issued by Swedbank Mortgage, will not be guaranteed by the parent company. This will affect neither the rating of the mortgage company nor its debt instruments. Future increases (tap issues) on currently outstanding debt instruments under the SEK unlimited domestic mortgage bond programme will continue to be guaranteed (see attachment 1, pdf).

A full description of the guarantee is available on www.swedbank.se/mortgage.

For more information, contact:
Gregori Karamouzis, Head of Investor Relations, Swedbank, +46 72 740 63 38