Further appointments in the merger between Meritanordbanken and Unidanmark

Further appointments in the merger between Meritanordbanken and Unidanmark On the 12 of April the MeritaNordbankens offer of share exchange to Unidanmarks shareholders had received 97.1 per cent of acceptances. All other necessary conditions for the share exchange offer has been met. The building of the new organisation continues with new appointments and co- ordination of potentials in the merger between MeritaNordbanken and Unidanmark. In continuation of the announcement of the overall organisation the following persons has been appointed; Asset Management Asset Management offers advisory and management services across all asset classes. The business aims at high-net-worth individuals, corporate clients, pension funds, insurance companies and public institutions. Institutional clients in Sweden and Finland Pontus Bergekrans will be overall responsible for the activities towards existing clients and for the development of relationships with new clients in Sweden and Finland. Under an interimistic period Pontus Bergekrans and Lars Källholm will serve Trevise Investment Management regarding their existing clients. Timo Ronkainen will be responsible for institutional clients in Finland. Timo Ronkainen will also be managing director of Merita Asset Management. Institutional clients in Denmark and Norway Lars Mathiesen will be overall responsible for the activities regarding existing clients and development of new relationships in Denmark and Norway. Tore Borthen in Oslo will be responsible for the local activities and will become managing director of the coming investment management company in Norway. Institutional clients Europe With base in Frankfurt Lars Källholm will be overall responsible for the activities regarding existing and new clients in Europe (excluding the Nordic countries). Institutional clients North America Henrik Bak will have responsibility towards new and existing clients and will also be president of the Groups securities company in New York. Equities Equities will in Stockholm and Helsinki be managed by Inga-Lill Carlberg and in Copenhagen and Bergen by Bo Knudsen. Inga-Lill Carlberg will also be managing director of the Investment Management Company in Stockholm. Fixed income Kim Pilgaard will be overall responsible for the investment management within fixed income. Asset Allocation Pontus Bergekrans will be overall responsible for the allocation activities with Torbjörn Söderberg as deputy head. Corporate and Institutional Banking Corporate and Institutional Banking provides services to Nordic and Baltic corporate and institutional customers. It offers commercial banking products and services, including international cash management, as well as FX, fixed income and derivate sales and trading, research and advisory services, including debt capital markets business. International Products and Production Siv Svensson, Head of International Products and Production International Division The following appointments have been made: Sören Aarup, Deputy Head of International Division Anders Abrahamson, Head of International Credits Hannu Haltttunen, Head of Financial Institutions Juha Vuopio, Head of Financial Control Carl-Johan Bouveng, Head of Information & Planning Max Mogensen, Head of Deputy, Information & Planning Jukka Niemi, General Manager, New York Branch Henrik Björn, General Manager, London Branch Johnny Backman, General Manager, Singapore Branch Finn Junker Mortensen, General Manager, Frankfurt Branch Claes Östberg is the Head of International Division Trade, Export and Structured Finance Pekka Heino, Head of Trade Finance Leif Nielsen, Deputy Head of Trade Finance Jean-Francois Tapprest, Head of Export & Project Finance Lars Munk, Head of Acqusition Finance Lars Warg, Deputy Head of Acqusition Finance Sylve Svensson, Head of Loan Administration Bo Waesterberg, Head of Financial Control Kari Kangas is the Head of Trade, Export and Structured Finance Human Resources Peter Forsblad, Head of Group Human Resources Steen Christensen, Head of Human Resources in Denmark Ari Laakso, Head of Human Resources in Finland, the Baltic States and Poland Sven Karlsson, Head of Excecutive Development on Group Level Further information: Ole Jacobsen, Head of Investment Management in Asset Management, +45 33 33 15 84 Claes Östberg, Head of International Division in Corporate and Institutional Banking, +46 8 614 78 15 Kari Kangas, Head of Trade, Export and Structured Finance in Corporate and Institutional Banking, +46 8 614 95 67 Peter Forsblad, Head of Corporate Human Resources, +46 8 614 79 05 ------------------------------------------------------------ Please visit http://www.bit.se for further information The following files are available for download: http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2000/04/26/20000426BIT01630/bit0001.doc http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2000/04/26/20000426BIT01630/bit0002.pdf