Senior Management Changes at Handelsbanken

Regulatory News:

Martin Wasteson has been appointed as new Chief Legal Counsel at Handelsbanken. He will be a member of Handelsbanken’s Senior Management. Martin Wasteson is currently employed as a lawyer at the Bank’s Central Legal Department. He succeeds Ulf Köping-Höggård, who reaches his contractual age of retirement.

Martin Wasteson will take up his new position on 1 March.

For further information, please contact:

Pär Boman, Group Chief Executive, +46 8 22 92 20

Johan Lagerström, Global Head of Corporate Communications, +46 8 701 1395, +46 70 265 8014

Johan Wallqvist, Press Officer, +46 8 701 80 47, +46 72 206 34 50

This information is of the type which Handelsbanken is obliged to make public according to the Swedish Securities Market Act. The information was submitted for publication on 4 February 2015 at 07.05 a.m. CET. For more information about Handelsbanken, see: www.handelsbanken.com (http://www.handelsbanken.se/)

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