Handelsbanken continues to grow in the UK

Handelsbanken continues to grow in the UK, branch by branch.
To support the branches in Yorkshire and the north-east of the UK, another
regional bank is being established, with its head office in Leeds.
Each branch in Handelsbanken’s home markets is linked to a regional bank. The
regional bank has the joint administrative resources, regional expertise and
specialists to support the branch’s business.

A fifth regional bank is now being formed in the UK. It is expected to be fully
operational from 1 January 2015.

The head of the new regional bank will be Simon Lodge, who is currently Head of
Regional Bank Southern Great Britain (see a separate press release).

For further information, please contact:

Anders Bouvin, Head of Handelsbanken UK, tel: +44 20 757 880 33
Simon Alderson, Corporate Communications Handelsbanken UK, +44 20 757 882 83
Pär Boman, Group Chief Executive Handelsbanken, +46 8 229220
Johan Lagerström, Global Head of Communications Handelsbanken, +46 8 701 1395,
+46 70 265 8014

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 17 July 2014 at 06.35 a.m. CET.

For more information about Handelsbanken, see:
www.handelsbanken.com (http://www.handelsbanken.se/)