Moody’s Investors Service has announced that it withdraws all ratings of Spar Nord Bank A/S (“Spar Nord”). The withdrawal of ratings must be viewed in connection with Spar Nord’s decision in May 2012 to terminate cooperation with Moody’s for business reasons (see Company announcement 17/2012). Up until now, Moody’s has upheld its rating of Spar Nord without Spar Nord’s cooperation, but this has now been terminated. For comments on this Company Announcement, please contact Ole Madsen at (+45) 9634 4010. Sincerely yours, Spar Nord Bank A/S Ole Madsen sans-serif; font-size: Senior Vice sans-serif; font-size: President 10pt"> Telephone: 10pt"> style="font-family: lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, oma@sparnord.dk Verdana, Geneva, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt">