Press Release

24 March 2026

Swedbank's Annual General Meeting 2026

Swedbank has today on 24 March 2026 held its Annual General Meeting. The Annual General Meeting decided in accordance with the Board of Directors' and the Nomination Committee's proposals.

The Annual General Meeting decided that there shall be eleven board members and to re-elect Göran Bengtsson, Annika Creutzer, Kerstin Hermansson, Helena Liljedahl, Anna Mossberg, Per Olof Nyman, Biljana Pehrsson, Göran Persson, Biörn Riese and Rasmus Roos. Rikard Josefson was elected as new board member. The Annual General Meeting elected Göran Persson as Chair of the Board of Directors. At the statutory Board meeting, Biörn Riese was appointed deputy Chair of the Board of Directors. The Annual General Meeting resolved to discharge from liability the members of the Board of Directors, the deputy members appointed by the employee organisations, and the CEO.

Öhrlings PricewaterhouseCoopers AB was elected as auditor for the period until the end of the 2027 Annual General Meeting. Chief Auditor is Helena Kaiser de Carolis.

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 2025.

The Annual General Meeting decided that a dividend of SEK 29.80 per share, of which SEK 20.45 per share is ordinary dividend and SEK 9.35 per share is special dividend, shall be distributed to the shareholders. The record date for the dividend was set at 26 March 2026.

The Annual General Meeting adopted the following remuneration: 

·    SEK 3,600,000 to the Chair of the Board of Directors

·    SEK 1,200,000 to the deputy Chair of the Board of Directors

·    SEK 860,000 to each of the other Board members

·    SEK 600,000 to the Chair of the Board's Risk and Capital Committee

·    SEK 340,000 to each of the other members of the Board's Risk and Capital Committee

·    SEK 600,000 to the Chair of the Board's Audit Committee 

·    SEK 340,000 to each of the other members of the Board's Audit Committee 

·    SEK 435,000 to the Chair of the Board's Remuneration and Sustainability Committee

·    SEK 255,000 to each of the other members of the Board's Remuneration and Sustainability Committee

·    SEK 515,000 to the Chair of the Board's Governance Committee

·    SEK 310,000 to each of the other members of the Board's Governance Committee

Auditor's fee shall be payable by approved invoice.

Other decisions

In addition, the Annual General Meeting decided the following:

·    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 2026 for the Swedbank Group - consisting of a general 2026 program and an individual 2026 program - as well as a decision regarding the transfer of ordinary shares etc. under the 2026 programs and programs adopted by previous Annual General Meetings.

·    Approval of submitted Remuneration Report.

The proposals can be read in full at www.swedbank.com/AGM, where the minutes with the AGM's decisions will also be published no later than 7 April 2026.

Contact

Maria Caneman, Head Investor Relations

Phone: +46 72 238 32 10

Email: [email protected] 

Hannes Mård, Head of Press

Phone: +46 73 057 41 95

Email: [email protected]