Handelsbanken s annual general meeting

Board
At the annual general meeting on 24 April 2007, the board of
Handelsbanken was re-elected. Mr Lars O Grönstedt was appointed
chairman.

At the subsequent first board meeting Hans Larsson and Anders Nyrén
were appointed as vice chairmen of the board.

The board members are listed below.

Dividend
The annual general meeting adopted the board's proposal for a
dividend of SEK 8 per share. The record day for dividend is Friday,
27 April 2007. The dividend is expected to be distributed by the VPC
on Thursday, 3 May 2007.

Buyback of shares
In accordance with the board's proposal, the annual general meeting
authorised the board to resolve on purchase of the Bank's own class A
and/or B shares during the period until the annual general meeting in
2008 on the following conditions:
*         The purchases shall be made on Stockholmsbörsen, the
  Stockholm stock exchange
*         The Bank may purchase a total of no more than 40 000 000
  class A and/or B shares.
*         The shares must be acquired at the market price applicable
  at the time of purchase.

At the subsequent first board meeting, the board resolved to utilise
its repurchase mandate and assigned to the group chief executive to
effect the repurchases when appropriate, for a maximum amount of SEK
6bn.

Reduction of the share capital through cancellation of repurchased
shares and bonus issue

The annual general meeting resolved in accordance with the board's
proposal to reduce the share capital by 92 260 960 Swedish kronor
through cancellation without repayment of 20 732 800 shares held by
the Bank.

With the consent of the Finansinspektionen, the share capital can be
reduced without the permission of a court of law, if the Bank takes
measures so that the Bank's share capital does not decrease as a
result of the reduction.

The annual general meeting therefore resolved by means of a bonus
issue to increase the Bank's share capital by 94 244 919,30 Swedish
kronor by transferring this amount from its unrestricted share
capital without the issuing of new shares

Nomination committee
The nomination committee shall have five members. Four of the members
(the "Shareholders' Representatives") shall represent the Bank's four
largest shareholders/shareholder groups in terms of votes, according
to shareholder information as at 31 August from the VPC (the Swedish
Central Securities Depository and Clearing Organisation), or which by
some other means prove to be among the largest shareholders (the"Largest Shareholders") on this date; one of these members is to
chair the committee. However, the nomination committee must not
include representatives of companies which are significant
competitors of the Bank in any of its main areas of operations.

The AGM assigns the chairman of the board to contact the Largest
Shareholders, which will each appoint one representative who,
together with the chairman, are to constitute the nomination
committee for the period until a new nomination committee is
appointed by mandate from the next annual general meeting. The
members of the nomination committee for the nomination of board
members for 2008 shall be announced at least six months before the
2008 AGM.

Members of the board 2007
PIRKKO ALITALO, Helsinki
JON FREDRIK BAKSAAS, Sandvika
ULRIKA BOËTHIUS, Stockholm
PÄR BOMAN, Linköping
Tommy Bylund, Ljusdal
GÖRAN ENNERFELT, Upplands Väsby
LARS O GRÖNSTEDT, Stockholm,
SIGRUN HJELMQUIST, Djursholm
HANS LARSSON, Stockholm
FREDRIK LUNDBERG, Djursholm
SVERKER MARTIN-LÖF, Stockholm
ANDERS NYRÉN, Bromma
BENTE RATHE, Trondheim


Minutes
Minutes of the Annual General Meeting will be available at the Bank's
website http://www.handelsbanken.se/ireng within two weeks as of
today.