Press Release
26 March 2024
Swedbank's Annual General Meeting
2024
At
today's Annual General Meeting in Swedbank, the meeting decided in
accordance with the Board of Directors' and the Nomination
Committee's proposals.
The Annual General Meeting decided
that there shall be ten board members and to re-elect Göran Bengtsson, Annika Creutzer, Hans Eckerström,
Kerstin Hermansson, Helena Liljedahl, Anna Mossberg, Per Olof
Nyman, Biljana Pehrsson, Göran Persson and
Biörn Riese. The Annual General Meeting
elected Göran Persson as Chair of the Board of Directors.
PricewaterhouseCoopers AB was elected as auditor
for the period until the end of the 2025 Annual General Meeting.
Chief Auditor is Anneli Granqvist. At the statutory Board
meeting, Biörn Riese was appointed deputy Chair of the Board of
Directors.
Fees
The Annual General Meeting adopted
the following fees:
·
Chair of the Board of Directors SEK
3,250,000,
·
Deputy Chair of the Board of Directors SEK
1,090,000,
·
Other Board members SEK 750,000,
·
Chair of the Board's Risk and Capital Committee
SEK 530,000,
·
Other members of the Board's Risk and Capital
Committee SEK 305,000,
·
Chair of the Board's Audit Committee SEK
510,000,
·
Other members of the Board's Audit Committee
SEK 310,000,
·
Chair of the Board's Remuneration and
Sustainability Committee SEK 400,000,
·
Other members of the Board's Remuneration and Sustainability Committee
SEK 235,000,
·
Chair of the Board´s Governance Committee
SEK 485,000,
and
·
Other members of the Board's Governance Committee
SEK 295,000.
Auditor's fee shall be payable by
approved account.
Profit and loss account and balance sheet and decision on
dividend
The Annual General Meeting decided
to adopt the profit and loss account and balance sheet of the bank
and the consolidated profit and loss account and consolidated
balance sheet for the financial year 2023.
The Annual General Meeting decided
that an ordinary dividend of SEK 15.15 per share shall be
distributed to the shareholders. The record date for the dividend
was set at 28 March 2024.
Other decisions
In addition, the Annual General
Meeting decided the following:
·
The members of the Board of Directors, the deputy
directors and the CEO were granted discharge of
liabilities.
·
Decision on Principles on how the Nomination
Committee shall be appointed and Instruction for the Nomination
Committee's work.
·
Decision to acquire own
shares in accordance with the Securities Market Act.
·
Decision regarding authorisation for the Board of
Directors to decide on the acquisition of own shares in addition to
acquisition in accordance with the Securities Market
Act.
·
Decision on authorisation for the Board of
Directors to decide on the issuance of convertibles.
·
Approval of performance and share-based
remuneration programs for 2024 for the Swedbank Group - partly a
general 2024 program and partly an individual 2024 program
- as well as a decision
regarding the transfer of ordinary shares etc. under the 2024
programs and programs adopted by previous Annual General
Meetings.
·
Decision to amend the Articles of
Association.
·
Approval of submitted Remuneration
Report.
The Annual General Meeting decided
to reject matters submitted by
shareholders.
For
further information please contact:
Mattias af Geijerstam, Head of Group
Corporate Communication, +46 73 398 05 02
Annie Ho, Head
of Investor Relations, tel: +46 70 343 78 15