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• 2007 in brief
• This is Swedbank
• Letter from the Chair
• President's statement
• Vision and strategy
• Market shares Sweden
• Market shares Baltic region
• Five-year summary
• Business areas
• Employees
• Sustainable development
• The share and owners
• Board of Directors' report
• Board of Directors and Group Executive Management
• Corporate governance report
• Distribution of earnings
• Annual General Meeting

• Addresses
• Contacts
• Definitions

Annual General Meeting

The Annual General Meeting will be held in Stockholm at Cirkus, Djurgårdsslätten 43–34, on Friday, 25 April, 2008.

Notification of attendance

Shareholders who wish to attend the Annual General Meeting must:

• be recorded in the share register maintained by VPC AB (the Swedish Central Securities Depository) on April 19, 2008. Since the record day is a Saturday, shareholders must ensure that they are recorded in the share register by Friday, 18 April, 2008;
• notify the company of their intention to participate and the number of persons who will accompany them (max. 2) not later than 3:00 p.m. on 21 April, 2008.

Notification may be made in writing to Swedbank’s head office, Box 47022, SE-100 74 Stockholm, Sweden, by telephone +46 8 775 44 66, by fax +46 8 775 80 08 labeled "Swedbank’s Annual General Meeting" or online at www.swedbank.se/ir under bolagsstämma (Annual General Meeting). When notifying the company, please indicate your name, personal/company registration number (for Swedish citizens or companies), address and telephone number. Participation by proxy is permitted, provided the proxy is no more than one year old and is submitted to Swedbank well in advance of the meeting, preferably not later 21 April, 2008. If issued by a legal entity, the proxy must be accompanied by a certified registration certificate or other document attesting to the authority of the signatory.

Nominee-registered shares

To be entitled to attend the meeting, shareholders whose shares are nominee-registered must request to have them temporarily re-registered in their own names in the shareholders’ register. The registration process, which normally takes several days, must be completed by 19 April, 2008. Since the record day is a Saturday, shareholders should advise their nominees well in advance of this date so that re-registration is complete by 18 April, 2008.

Notice and agenda

A list of the matters on the agenda for the Annual General Meeting will be included in the notice of the meeting, which is scheduled to be published on 20 March in, among others, the dailies Dagens Nyheter, Svenska Dagbladet and Dagens Industri. As of the same date the notice will also be available online at http://www.swedbank.se/ir under the heading Annual General Meeting .

Dividend

The Board of Directors recommends that shareholders receive a dividend of SEK 9.00 per share. The proposed record day for the dividend is 30 April, 2008. The last day for trading in Swedbank’s share including the right to the dividend is 25 April, 2008. If the Annual General Meeting adopts the Board of Directors’ recommendation, the dividend is expected to be paid by VPC on 6 May, 2008.