Swedbank Markets' head ranked top ten in Structured Products

Swedbank Markets' head ranked top ten in Structured Products

Patrik Zedendahl, head of structured products at Swedbank Markets, has been
ranked as one of the ten most influential people in the world in his area by the
leading industry magazine for structured products, Structured Products magazine.
Patrik Zedendahl, who's one of the pioneers in the area, receives the award
based on his dedicated and innovative contribution to the development of trading
with structured products. 
   
- I'm very pleased and proud to have been part of developing a market that has
such great benefit to customers and is so innovative, says Patrik Zedendahl in a
comment from London, where he received the award. 

Swedbank is the Nordic region's largest issuer of structured products and offers
new products to its customers every month. Adding to the bank's already
extensive offerings of advanced products, a new structured product, Cross
Markets Fond, will be launched during the autumn. Swedbank will be first on the
market with this unique product.


Further information, please contact:
Irene George, Head of Marketing & Communication Sweden, Swedbank Markets, phone:
+ 46 70 27 80 476 

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.