Swedbank turns off the lights for the environment

Press Release March 23th, 2009

Swedbank turns off the lights for the environment

On March 28th 2009, at 8.30 pm, millions of people globally will participate in
the in the manifestation “Earth Hour”. Across the world people will unite over
one simple action - turning off the lights for one hour. Swedbank will partake
and urges all its customers, employees and partners to do the same. 



Swedbank and its subsidiaries will take a stand by turning of the light as much
as possible at the headquarters in Kiev, Stockholm, Riga, Vilnius and Tallinn. 
To achieve an even greater impact Swedbank invites its approximately 9.9 million
customers and 21 000 employees to turn of the light.

Earth Hour is a global manifestation combating climate change that in a short
period of time has grown to a world wide activity. More than 80 countries and
1700 cities have so far signed up to Earth Hour include Sydney, Beijing, London,
Los Angeles, Cape Town, Moscow, Copenhagen, Gothenburg and Malmö.

The aim is to draw attention and create engagement around climate change and to
send a powerful signal to policy makers to negotiate a strong climate agreement
in Copenhagen in December 2009 during the Swedish EU presidency. Implementer to
Earth Hour is WWF, which Swedbank since many years cooperates with.


For further information, please contact:
Jenny Johansson, Head of Environmental Affairs, phone: +46 8 5859 3751 
Antonia Gibson, Group CSR Communication, phone: +46 8 5859 2771
Anna Sundblad, Press Manager, Swedbank, phone: +46 70 321 39 95



Swedbank's vision is to be the leading financial institution in the markets
where we are present. Swedbank has 9.4 million retail customers and 600,000
corporate customers with 419 branches in Sweden, 278 branches in the Baltic
countries and another 215 branches in Ukraine. The group is also present in
Copenhagen, Helsinki, Kaliningrad, Luxembourg, Moscow, New York, Oslo, Shanghai,
St. Petersburg and Tokyo. As of December 2008 the group had total assets of SEK
1,812 billion and approximately 21,000 employees. For more information about
Swedbank, please visit www.swedbank.com.