Swedbank Markets hires Finnish equity and research team


Press Release November 3, 2009

Swedbank Markets hires Finnish equity and research team

To further strengthen Swedbank's position as a leading Nordic and Baltic
investment bank, Swedbank Markets is establishing a local equity and research
team in Finland, building on a group of senior equity sales persons and
analysts, previously of eQbank/Nordnet. The team is starting its work in the
beginning of 2010.

- Providing a high quality equity and research product in Finland to serve our
Nordic and international clients' primary- and secondary market needs is key to
further strengthening our Nordic equity offering. The team's long-term
experience, ranked research and wide cooperation with Finnish listed companies
will greatly support our efforts,” says Stefan Carlsson, Head of Swedbank
Markets.  

Listed below is the Finnish team:

Katja Keitaanniemi
Tomas Söderholm

Jarkko Soikkeli
Erkki Vesola
Tomi Tiilola
Bengt Dahlström
Jari Honko
Antti Saari
Petri Karhunkoski
Lauri Siponen
Peter Sandlund 
Sami Järvinen
Jarkko Sirenius



Further information, please contact:
Stefan Carlsson, Head of Swedbank Markets, phone: +46 73 800 08 42
Ronny Jacobsson, Head of Equities, Swedbank Markets, phone: +46 70 570 21 95
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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