Swedbank appoints Jonas Erikson as Head of Group Treasury

(1888PressRelease) June 26, 2009 - Jonas Erikson currently holds the position as Head of Strategic Analysis and M&A at Swedbank. He joined Swedbank in March 2009. Jonas Erikson has 10 years of experience as a bank analyst, at firms including Swedbank Markets, JP Morgan and Brummer & Partners. He has also been regional manager for JP Morgan´s equity brokerage to Nordic clients.



Jonas Erikson will be a member of the Senior Management team and report to Swedbank´s CFO Erkki Raasuke.



Mikael Edler will from 1 August 2009 and until he takes over responsibility for Region West be part of Swedish Banking where he will run special projects.



For further information:

Thomas Backteman, Head of Group Corporate Affairs, Swedbank,

phone: +46 708 311 166



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 9.4 million retail customers and 600,000 corporate customers with 419 branches in Sweden, 278 branches in the Baltic countries and another 215 branches in Ukraine. The group is also present in Copenhagen, Helsinki, Kaliningrad, Luxembourg, Moscow, New York, Oslo, Shanghai, St. Petersburg and Tokyo.



As of December 2008 the group had total assets of SEK 1,812 billion and approximately 21,000 employees. For more information about Swedbank, please visit www.swedbank.com.

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