Invitation to a telephone conference at Handelsbanken

Handelsbanken will present its results for January­ - June 2011 in Stockholm on July 20, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. CET at a meeting with the media and analysts.

The report for January - June 2011 will be published at 7:30 a.m. CET on July 20, 2011.

A telephone conference will be held at 11:00 a.m. CET (5:00 a.m. EST), where Ulf Riese, CFO, will present the figures and give his comments. There will also be time for questions from the participants.

UK number: +44 (0)203 043 24 36

Swedish number: +46 (0)8 505 598 53

US number: +1 866 458 40 87

Instructions
1. Dial +xx xxx xx 10 minutes before the conference starts
2. State your name and company
3. Wait until the conference starts

You may listen to the recorded conference call during the following three days, by calling:

Swedish number: +46 (0)8 506 269 49

Replay pass code: 259782#

The report and a slide presentation and also the Fact Book will be available at http://www.handelsbanken.se/ireng

For further information, please contact
Mikael Hallåker, Head of Investor Relations, phone +46 8 701 29 95
Johan Lagerström, Head of Corporate Communications, phone +46 70 265 80 14