Senior management changes at Handelsbanken

Rolf Marquardt has been appointed Acting CFO at Handelsbanken. He has been a member of the Bank’s Senior Management since 2015. Rolf Marquardt currently works as Chief Compliance Officer at Handelsbanken.

He succeeds Ulf Riese who will take up a position as Senior Advisor reporting directly to the Group Chief Executive. Ulf Riese will thus leave the Bank’s Senior Management.

Pål Bergström has been appointed Acting Chief Compliance Officer at Handelsbanken and will thus be a member of the Bank´s Senior Management. Pål Bergström currently works as Acting Head of Handelsbanken Markets & Asset Management.

They will take up their new positions on 9 September.

For further information, please contact:

Anders Bouvin, Group Chief Executive, + 46 8 – 22 92 20
Johan Lagerström, Global Head of Corporate Communications
 + 46 8 – 701 13 95, + 46 70 – 265 80 14
Michael Hallåker, Head of Investor Relations + 46 8 – 701 29 95,
+ 46 70 – 266 29 95

This information is of the type that Handelsbanken is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation and the Swedish Securities Markets Act. The information was submitted for publication through the agency of the contact person set out above, on 9 September 2016 at 08.00 a.m. CET. For more information about Handelsbanken, see: www.handelsbanken.com