Swedbank recruits senior restructuring expert to lead the Group's FR&R work

Press Release February 22, 2010

Swedbank recruits senior restructuring expert to lead the Group's FR&R
work

In order to further strengthen Swedbank's Financial Restructuring &
Recovery work, Arne Berggren, with broad Swedish and international
experience of reconstruction of banks and problem loans, has been
recruited. Arne Berggren will be responsible for Swedbank's total
FR&R-work.


Arne Berggren, whose title will be Global Head Financial Restructuring
and Recovery, has extensive experience from restructuring both in Sweden
and globally and has devoted much of his professional career to support
financial institutions and governments in financial crises.

Arne Berggren played a key role in Sweden during the financial crisis in
the 90s, when he was active in the restructuring of Nordbanken, the
founding of Securum, and the government's negotiations with banks in
need of government support. He also has vast international experience,
among others as senior advisor to the IMF and the World Bank, and has in
various capacities been active in more than 15 countries in Latin
America, Eastern Europe and Asia.

"Arne Berggren has a fantastic experience within the area of
reconstruction and will be of great value as we're taking the next step
in our process to create value from our FR&R work. It is hard to imagine
a more suitable person than Arne to lead the Groups FR&R-work and I am
very pleased that he will join our team", says Göran Bronner, Chief Risk
Officer at Swedbank.

"Swedbank is in an exciting change process and I am looking forward to
be part of this journey as one of the FR&R team. It will be a very
exciting challenge to get the opportunity to work long-term with these
questions both inside and outside Sweden for a bank that so many people
have a relationship with," says Arne Berggren.

Arne also has experience of restructuring work outside the banking
world. He was responsible for the IPO of Telia at the Ministry of
Enterprise 1999-2000, and was during the restructuring of Swedish Rail
SJ, CEO of SwedCarrier AB.

Arne has been Ph.D -student in finance and economics at universities in
Genève and New York.

He will be responsible for Swedbank's total FR&R-work on all the Group's
markets, including the Baltic countries, Ukraine, Russia and Sweden. He
will report to Göran Bronner and will take up his position on March 15.


Further information, please contact:
Göran Bronner, Chief Risk Officer, Swedbank, phone: +46 8 585 906 67
Anna Sundblad, Press Manager, Swedbank, phone: +46 70 321 39 95

Swedbank's vision is to be the leading financial institution in the
markets where we are present. Swedbank has 9.5 million retail customers
and 550,000 corporate customers with 381 branches in Sweden, 226
branches in the Baltic countries and another 156 branches in Ukraine.
The group is also present in Copenhagen, Helsinki, Kaliningrad,
Luxembourg, Moscow, New York, Oslo, Shanghai, S:t Petersburg and Tokyo.
As of December 31 2009 the group had total assets of SEK 1,795 billion
and approximately 19,000 employees. For more information about Swedbank,
please visit www.swedbank.com