Pre-Annual General Meeting Information • Feb 19, 2025
Pre-Annual General Meeting Information
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Welcome to Swedbank's Annual General Meeting on 26 March 2025
The shareholders of Swedbank AB (publ) are hereby given notice that the Annual
General Meeting will be held at Cirkus (Cirkusscenen), Djurgårdsslätten 43-45,
Stockholm, at 11:00 am (CET) on Wednesday, 26 March 2025.
Shareholders are welcome for registration from 09:30 am (CET). Light
refreshments will be offered before the Annual General Meeting.
The Annual General Meeting will be simultaneously interpreted to English.
Pursuant to § 9 of the Articles of Association, the Board of Directors has
resolved that shareholders may also exercise their voting rights at the Annual
General Meeting by postal voting. Shareholders may thus choose to exercise their
voting rights at the Annual General Meeting by physical participation or by
postal voting. The Annual General Meeting will also be broadcasted online via
Swedbank's website, www.swedbank.com/AGM, but without the opportunity to vote or
ask questions. No registration is required to follow the Annual General Meeting
online.
Right to participate in the Annual General Meeting and registration
Participation by attending the meeting venue
Anyone wishing to participate in the Annual General Meeting by attending the
meeting venue in person or by proxy must:
· be recorded in the share register maintained by Euroclear Sweden AB
("Euroclear") as per 18 March 2025, and
· give notice of their intention to attend the Annual General Meeting in
accordance with the instructions below, no later than 20 March 2025. This means
that registration only by postal voting is not sufficient for those wishing to
attend the meeting venue.
Notification of participation by attending the meeting venue must be made no
later than 20 March 2025 in accordance with the following:
· by post to Swedbank AB, "Annual General Meeting", c/o Euroclear Sweden AB,
Box 191, 101 23 Stockholm, Sweden,
· by phone +46 8 402 90 60, or
· via Euroclear's website https://anmalan.vpc.se/EuroclearProxy.
The notification shall include name or company name, personal identification
number or corporate registration number, address, phone number and, if
applicable, the number of persons attending with you (maximum two persons).
If you are attending by proxy or representative, a power of attorney,
registration certificate or other authorisation documents should be sent to the
bank at the above address well in advance of the Annual General Meeting and
preferably no later than 20 March 2025. Proxy forms are available on the bank's
website at www.swedbank.com/AGM.
Participation through postal voting
Anyone wishing to participate in the Annual General Meeting by postal voting,
personally or by proxy must:
· be recorded in the share register maintained by Euroclear as per 18 March
2025, and
· give notice of participation by casting their postal vote in accordance with
the instructions below, so that the postal vote is received by Swedbank, c/o
Euroclear no later than 20 March 2025.
A special form shall be used for postal voting. The postal voting form is
available on the bank's website www.swedbank.com/AGM and on Euroclear's website
https://anmalan.vpc.se/EuroclearProxy.
A completed and signed postal voting form can be sent by post to Swedbank AB,
"AGM", c/o Euroclear Sweden AB, Box 191, 101 23 Stockholm, Sweden, or by e-mail
to [email protected]. The completed form must be received by
Euroclear no later than 20 March 2025. Shareholders may also, no later than 20
March 2025, cast a postal vote electronically via verification through BankID on
Euroclear's website https://anmalan.vpc.se/EuroclearProxy.
The shareholder may not give instructions other than selecting one of the
options specified in the form. If the shareholder has provided special
instructions or conditions in the form or changed or made amendments to pre
-printed text, the postal vote will be considered invalid. Further instructions
and conditions may be found on the postal voting form and at Euroclear's website
https://anmalan.vpc.se/EuroclearProxy.
If a shareholder casts a postal vote by proxy, a written and dated power of
attorney signed by the shareholder shall be enclosed with the postal voting
form. A proxy form is available on Swedbank's website www.swedbank.com/AGM. If
the shareholder is a legal entity, a registration certificate or other
authorisation document must be enclosed to the form.
Please note that anyone who wishes to attend the meeting venue in person or by
proxy must give notice about this in accordance with the instructions under the
heading "Participation by attending the meeting venue" above. This means that a
notice of participation only by postal voting is not sufficient for those who
wishes to attend the meeting venue.
Nominee-registered shares
Shareholders whose shares are nominee-registered through a bank or other
authorised depositary, e.g., in a custody account, must - in addition to giving
notice of participation or casting a postal vote - request that the shares be re
-registered in their own name so that the shareholder is registered in the share
register maintained by Euroclear as of the record date on 18 March 2025. Such
registration may be temporary (so-called voting rights registration) and is
requested from the nominee in accordance with the nominee's routines and at such
time in advance decided by the nominee. Voting rights registration that the
shareholder has requested at such time that the registration has been completed
by the nominee no later than 20 March 2025 will be accepted in the preparation
of the share register.
Proposed agenda
1. Opening of the General Meeting
2. Election of Chair of the General Meeting
3. Preparation and approval of the voting list
4. Approval of the agenda
5. Election of two persons to verify the minutes
6. Decision whether the General Meeting has been duly convened
7. a) Presentation of the annual report and the consolidated accounts, including
the sustainability report, for the financial year 2024
b) Presentation of the Auditor's report for the bank and the group as well as
the sustainability assurance report on the sustainability report for the
financial year 2024
8. Adoption of the profit and loss account and balance sheet as well as the
consolidated profit and loss account and consolidated balance sheet for the
financial year 2024
9. Decision on the allocation of the bank's profit in accordance with the
adopted balance sheet as well as decision on the record date for dividend
10. Decision whether to discharge the members of the Board of Directors and the
CEO from liability
11. Determination of the number of Board members
12. Determination of the remuneration to the Board members and the Auditor
13. a)-k) Election of Board members
14. Election of the Chair of the Board of Directors
15. Election of Auditor
16. Decision on the Nomination Committee
17. Decision to acquire own shares pursuant to the Securities Market Act
18. Decision on authorisation for the Board of Directors to decide on
acquisitions of own shares in addition to what has been stated in item 17
19. Decision on authorisation for the Board of Directors to decide on the
issuance of convertibles
20. Decision on performance and share based remuneration programs for 2025
a) Decision on a general performance and share based remuneration program for
2025 ("Eken 2025")
b) Decision on deferred variable remuneration in the form of shares under the
individual program 2025 ("IP 2025")
c) Decision on transfer of own shares
21. Presentation of Remuneration Report for approval
22. Proposal from the shareholder Carl Axel Bruno regarding that the bank shall
contribute to improving Finance Sweden's procedures for issuing new BankID
23. Proposal from the shareholder Carl Axel Bruno regarding that the bank shall
contribute to improving the security of BankID usage
24. Closing of the General Meeting
For the full notice and more information, see attachment or visit
www.swedbank.com/AGM.
Contact:
Hannes Mård ([email protected]), Media Relations Manager, tel: +46 73 057
41 95
Magnus Alvesson ([email protected]), Acting Head of Investor
Relations, tel: +46 70 610 33 41
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vision is a financially sound and sustainable society. Swedbank Group is the
leading bank with over 7 million retail customers and 550 000 corporate
customers in our four home markets Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Swedbank Group is also present in other Nordic countries, the U.S. and China.
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