Announcement by the Handelsbanken Board

Anders Bouvin has informed Handelsbanken’s Board of his wish to retire on 31 August 2019, thereby leaving his position as President and Group Chief Executive of the Bank. The Board has today accepted his resignation.

The process of recruiting a new President and Group Chief Executive for Svenska Handelsbanken AB (publ) will be instigated immediately. 






For further information, please contact:

Pär Boman, Chairman of the Board, + 46 8–22 92 20 
Anders Bouvin, President and Group Chief Executive, +46 8–22 92 20
Elisabet Jamal Bergström, Chief Communications & Sustainability Officer,
+46 8– 701 50 32
Johan Wallqvist, Head of Global Media Relations, +46 8–701 80 47, +46 72–206 34 50

This information is of the type that Handelsbanken is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation, the Swedish Securities Markets Act and the Swedish Financial Instruments Trading Act. The information was submitted for publication through the agency of the contact person set out above, at 17.32 CET on 23 October 2018.
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