Decision at SEB's Extra Meeting today

Decision at SEB's Extra Meeting today Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken's Extraordinary General Meeting of shareholders today resolved to revise the Articles of Association so that paragraph 12 is deleted. Paragraph 12 contained specific decision rules for changing the bank's registered name. The Special General Meeting decision is confirmation of the decision made at the Annual General Meeting on 5 April. SEB is a European financial group especially for corporations and financially active private individuals. SEB has 630 branch offices in Sweden, Germany and the Baltic States, with 4 million customers in total. Of these, 900,000 are Internet customers. SEB also has operations in the rest of the Nordic countries, Great Britain, Luxembourg and Switzerland. The balance sheet total is SEK 1,123 billion and assets under management amount to SEK 910 billion. The number of employees amount to 21,500. Read more about SEB: www.seb.net For further information, please contact: Gunilla Wikman, Head of Group Communications, telephone +46 70 763 81 25 Lotta Treschow, Head of Investor Relations, telephone +46 8 763 95 59 ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by BIT http://www.bit.se The following files are available for download: http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2001/05/08/20010508BIT01170/bit0002.doc http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2001/05/08/20010508BIT01170/bit0002.pdf