Swedbank and Halebop in collaboration - Sweden's largest mobile bank - now even easier to access

Swedbank and Halebop in collaboration Sweden's largest mobile bank - now even easier to access Thanks to a new joint collaborative effort by Swedbank and Halebop, customers can now conduct bank business by any WAP-phone, regardless of service provider. Halebop is an independent mobile-phone portal that provides services for mobile-phone users. Via the Internet, Swedbank customers can quickly and easily view the current balances of all their accounts, fund holdings and loans. In addition, they can make transfers among their own accounts by means of a mobile-phone. Swedbank's mobile-phone service currently has 5,200 users, which makes Swedbank Sweden's largest WAP bank. "It's important to us that our customers be able to access our bank services without having to be at their computers. In addition, we are able to offer a number of other mobile services through our collaboration with Halebop. These include checking currency-exchange rates, housing-loan- interest rates and the latest financial and stock-exchange news", says Jan Lagewald of Swedbank. With its 830,000 customers, Swedbank is Sweden's leading Internet bank today. Halebop has 350,000 users. "Together, we reach an awfully big group of customers. And they are customers who want a high level of customer-care and easily accessible services. That is why it also feels important to be able to offer banking services - along with our array of other services - directly via the mobile-telephone", says Hans-Anders Karlsson, Marketing Director at Halebop. This collaboration between Swedbank and Halebop will be enlarged, bringing yet more banking services directly to customers' mobile-phones. Additional information: www.foreningssparbanken.se Jan Lagewald, Project Manager, FöreningsSparbanken via Internet Phone: +46 8 5859 2033, jan.lagewald@foreningssparbanken.se www.halebop.com Hans-Anders Karlsson, Marketing Director, Halebop Phone: +46 8 750 561 6606 hans-anders.karlsson@halebop.net Halepob is an independent mobile-phone portal that provides services for mobile-phone users. Actual delivery of such services is by Halebop partners that want to reach mobile-phone users. For users, Halebop strives to be a starting point, a meeting place, for mobile-phone services: the best wireless mobile-phone portal. For partners, Halebop offers the best distribution platform and know-how in mobile-telephone services. Halebop's services work regardless of the mobile-phone service provider, terminal or access technique used. Halepob has its origins in a collaboration of many years' standing between Oracle and Telia. At www.halebop.com, you will find advanced mobile-phone services in a rich assortment of other services that can be used by everyone. ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by BIT http://www.bit.se The following files are available for download: http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2001/01/16/20010116BIT00230/bit0001.doc http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2001/01/16/20010116BIT00230/bit0002.pdf