Spar Nord Bank

Major Shareholding Notification • Feb 25, 2014

To NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen

25 February 2014 Company Announcement no. 4, 2014

Major shareholder announcement

This is to announce, pursuant to section 29 of the Danish Securities Trading Act, that the Spar Vest Foundation has informed Spar Nord that the foundation has reduced its holding of shares in Spar Nord Bank A/S to 6,330,280 shares, equivalent to 4.94% of the share capital.

Questions relating to this announcement can be directed to Ole Madsen, SVP Corporate Communication, at +45 96 34 40 10.

Kind Regards, Spar Nord Bank A/S

Ole Madsen Senior Vice President

Tel.: +45 96 34 40 10 oma@sparnord.dk

Spar Nord Bank A/S

Direktionen Postboks 162 9100 Aalborg

Reg. nr. 9380 Telefon 96 34 40 00 Telefax 96 34 45 62 Swift spno dk 22

www.sparnord.dk sparnord@sparnord.dk