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Enento Group Oyj AGM Information 2017

Mar 30, 2017

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Decisions taken by Asiakastieto Group Plc's Annual General Meeting and Board of Directors

Decisions taken by Asiakastieto Group Plc's Annual General Meeting and Board of Directors

ASIAKASTIETO GROUP PLC, STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 30 MARCH 2017, 4.15 P.M. EEST

Decisions taken by Asiakastieto Group Plc's Annual General Meeting and Board of
Directors

Asiakastieto Group Plc's Annual General Meeting on 30 March 2017 approved the
Financial Statements and discharged the members of the Board of Directors and
the company's CEO from liability for the financial year 2016. The Meeting
approved the Board of Directors' proposal to pay a dividend of EUR 0,90 per
share. The dividend will be paid to shareholders who are recorded in the
company's shareholder register maintained by Euroclear Finland Ltd. The record
date is 3 April 2017. The dividend will be paid on 10 April 2017.

DECISIONS TAKEN BY ASIAKASTIETO GROUP PLC'S ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Board of Directors and Auditor

In accordance with the proposal of the Shareholders Nomination Board, the Annual
General Meeting resolved that the Board of Directors will consist of five
members.

In accordance with the proposal of the Shareholders Nomination Board Petri
Carpén, Bo Harald, Patrick Lapveteläinen, Carl-Magnus Månsson and Anna-Maria
Ronkainen were re-elected as members of the Board of Directors.

In accordance with the proposal of the Shareholders Nomination Board, the Annual
General Meeting resolved that the Chairman of the Board of Directors be
remunerated EUR 40,000 annually and that the members of the Board of Directors
be remunerated EUR 25,000 annually. No separate remuneration for attendance to
meetings of the Board of Directors will be paid. For attending the Board
Committee meetings, the Chairmen of the Committees will be remunerated EUR 500
per meeting and the Committee members shall be remunerated EUR 400 per meeting.
The members of the Shareholders' Nomination Board will not be remunerated.
Reasonable travel expenses for attending the meetings will be reimbursed to the
members.

PricewaterhouseCoopers Oy, Authorized Public Accountants firm, was re-elected as
the company's auditor. PricewaterhouseCoopers Oy has notified the company that
Authorised Public Accountant Martin Grandell would be the auditor-in-charge. The
remuneration of the auditor will be paid according to the reasonable invoice
approved by the Board of Directors' Audit Committee.

Authorising the Board of Directors to resolve on the issuance of shares

Annual General Meeting authorized the Board of Directors to resolve on one or
more issuances, which contain the right to issue new shares or dispose of the
shares in the possession of the company. The authorisation would consist of up
to 1,000,000 shares in the aggregate. Authorising the Board of Directors to
decide on the repurchase of the company's own shares

The Board of Directors was authorised to decide on a directed issue. The
authorisation is proposed to be used for material arrangements from the
company's point of view, such as financing or implementing business arrangements
or investments or for other such purposes determined by the Board of Directors
in which case a weighty financial reason for issuing shares would exist.

The Board of Directors was authorised to resolve on all other terms and
conditions of the issuance of shares, including the payment period, grounds for
the determination of the subscription price and subscription price or allocation
of shares free of charge or that the subscription price may be paid besides in
cash also by other assets either partially or entirely.

The authorisation is proposed to be effective for 18 months from the close of
the Annual General Meeting. The authorisation will cancel the share issue
authorisation granted to the Board of Directors by the Annual General Meeting on
1 April 2016.

Authorising the Board of Directors to decide on the repurchase of the company's
own shares

Annual General Meeting authorized the Board of Directors to decide on the
repurchase of maximum of 1,000,000 company's own shares, in one or several
instalments.

The shares will be repurchased with the company's unrestricted shareholders'
equity, and the repurchases will reduce funds available for distribution of
profits. The shares can be repurchased for example to develop the company's
capital structure, carry out or finance potential corporate acquisitions or
other business arrangements, to be used as a part of the company's incentive
programme or to be otherwise conveyed further, retained as treasury shares, or
cancelled.

Shares may be repurchased in accordance with the resolution of the Board of
Directors also in a proportion other than in which shares are owned by the
shareholders (directed acquisition), using funds belonging to the company's
unrestricted equity and at the market price of the shares quoted on regulated
market organized by Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd or otherwise established on the market
at the time of the repurchase.

The Board of Directors will decide how shares will be repurchased. Among other
means, derivatives may be used in acquiring the shares. According to the
authorisation, the Board of Directors decides on all other matters related to
the repurchase of the shares. The authorisation is proposed to be effective for
18 months from the close of the Annual General Meeting. The authorisation will
cancel the authorisation to repurchase the company's shares granted to the Board
of Directors by the Annual General Meeting on 1 April 2016.

The minutes of the meeting will be available on Asiakastieto Group's Investors
site at investors.asiakastieto.fi latest on 13 April 2017.

DECISIONS BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

The organizational meeting of the Board of Directors elected among its members
Patrick Lapveteläinen as Chairperson of the Board of Directors and Bo Harald as
Vive-Chairperson of the Board of Directors.

The Board of Directors has in its organization meeting evaluated the
independence of the Directors according to the Finnish Corporate Governance
Code. The Board noted that all members of the Board are independent of the
Company and all except Patrick Lapveteläinen are independent of the significant
shareholders. The Board of Directors noted the Company is in compliance with
recommendation 10 of the CG Code.

Helsinki, 30 March 2017

ASIAKASTIETO GROUP PLC
The Board of Directors

For further information:
Jukka Ruuska, CEO
tel. +358 10 270 7111

Distribution:
Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd
major media
investors.asiakastieto.fi

Asiakastieto Group is one of the leading Finnish providers of business and
consumer information services. The Group's products and services are primarily
used for risk management, finance and administration, decision-making and sales
and marketing purposes. At the end of 2016, the Group had around 19 000 clients,
of which 11 000 were contractual clients. The Group serves several industries,
the largest ones including finance and banking as well as wholesale and retail
sectors and expert service companies. In 2016, the Group's net sales were EUR
49,2 million and it had 170 employees at the end of 2016. Asiakastieto Group is
listed on Nasdaq Helsinki with the ticker ATG1V. More information about
Asiakastieto Group is available at www.asiakastieto.fi.

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