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Legal Proceedings Report • Mar 27, 2019

Press release

27 March, 2019

Information on ongoing activity at Swedbank HQ

We can confirm that EBM (The Swedish Economic Crime Authority) has initiated an activity at the Swedbank HQ in Sundbyberg.

This has been confirmed by EBM. On their Twitter account, they write that it is connected to the ongoing preliminary investigation connected to the potential unauthorised disclosure of inside information.

At this point of time, no individual or legal entity has been served suspicion of a crime.

As communicated before, we will cooperate with the authorities.

This announcement involves the disclosure of inside information

Swedbank AB (publ) is required to disclose this information pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 on market abuse, the Swedish Securities Markets Act (2007:528), the Swedish Financial Instruments Trading Act (1991:980) and the regulatory framework of Nasdaq Stockholm. This information was sent to be published on 27 March 2019 at 12.10 CET.

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Please send an e-mail to: press@swedbank.com, press phone tel: +46 8 585 938 69.

Swedbank encourage a sound and sustainable financial situation for the many households and businesses. As a leading bank in the home markets of Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, Swedbank offers a wide range of financial services and products. Swedbank has over 7 million retail customers and around 600 000 corporate customers and organisations with 186 branches in Sweden and 125 branches in the Baltic countries. The group is also present in other Nordic countries, the US and China. As of 31 December, 2018 the group had total assets of SEK 2 246 billion. Read more at www.swedbank.com