Birgitte Bonnesen, President and CEO comments:
"Heading into 2016 three of our highest priorities were to improve customer
value, increase efficiency and strengthen employee engagement. In summing up the
past year, I am proud to say that we have made progress in all these areas."
Interim report for the fourth quarter 2016
Fourth quarter 2016 compared with third quarter 2016
· Increased lending volumes supported net interest income
· Net commission income benefited from positive stock market development
· Higher volumes of covered bond repurchases weighed down Treasury's result
· Increased provisions in oil related sectors
· Costs in line with expectations
· Stronger capitalisation
· Proposed dividend per share of SEK 13.20 (10.70)
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This information was sent to be published on 2 February 2017 at 07.00 CET.
Swedbank promotes a sound and sustainable financial situation for the many
people, households and companies. Our vision is to contribute to development
"Beyond Financial Growth". 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
640 000 corporate customers and organisations with 266 branches in Sweden and
143 branches in the Baltic countries. The group is also present in other Nordic
countries, the US and China. As of 30 September 2016 the group had total assets
of SEK 2 394 billion.
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