New appointments at Handelsbanken

New appointments at Handelsbanken Pär Boman, Executive Vice President and Head of the Denmark regional bank, has been appointed Head of Handelsbanken Markets from 1 June 2002. He succeeds Göran Björling, Executive Vice President, who will be retiring from the Bank. Anders Bouvin, currently General Manager of the Bank's branch in New York, has been appointed Head of the Denmark regional bank and also Executive Vice President. Anders Bouvin takes up this position on 1 June 2002. For further information, please contact: Lars O Grönstedt, Group Chief Executive, tel: +46 8 - 22 92 20 Lars Lindmark, Head of Corporate Communications, tel: +46 8 - 701 10 36 ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by Waymaker http://www.waymaker.net The following files are available for download: http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2002/02/12/20020212BIT01110/bit0002.doc http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2002/02/12/20020212BIT01110/bit0002.pdf