SEB's Annual General Meeting 2015
(Thomson Reuters ONE) -
At the Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (publ)
this Wednesday the Board members Johan H. Andresen, Signhild Arnegård Hansen,
Samir Brikho, Annika Falkengren, Winnie Fok, Urban Jansson, Birgitta Kantola,
Tomas Nicolin, Sven Nyman, Jesper Ovesen and Marcus Wallenberg were re-elected.
The AGM re-elected Marcus Wallenberg as Chairman of the Board.
The AGM approved a dividend of SEK 4.75 per share (4.00) and Friday 27 March,
2015, as record date for the dividend.
The Director's fee was set at SEK 11,990,000 in accordance with the Nomination
Committee's proposal. The fee will be distributed as follows: SEK 2,750,000 to
the Chairman of the Board and SEK 6,200,000 to be distributed among other
Directors elected by the AGM who are not employed by the Bank, with SEK 825,000
each to the Deputy Chairmen and SEK 650,000 each to other Board members, and a
total fee of SEK 3,040,000 for committee work.
The committee work fee is split accordingly: Risk and Capital Committee, SEK
510,000 to the Chairman and SEK 325,000 to other member, Audit and Compliance
Committee, SEK 387,500 to the Chairman and SEK 195,000 to other member and
Remuneration and Human Resources Committee, SEK 387,500 to the Chairman and SEK
195,000 to other member.
The AGM approved the Board of Director's proposal concerning guidelines for
salary and other remuneration to the Group Executive Committee. The guidelines
comply with the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority regulations as well as
the Swedish Corporate Governance Code and are in line with international
regulations.
The AGM approved the Board of Director's proposal concerning one long-term
equity programme, Share Deferral Programme 2015 and one profit sharing
programme, SEB All Employee Programme 2015 .
The AGM approved the Board of Director's proposal concerning the acquisition and
sale of the Bank's own shares, for the securities business, for long-term equity
programmes and for capital purposes.
The AGM approved the Nomination Committee's proposal to re-elect
PricewaterhouseCoopers AB as auditor. Main responsible within PwC will be
authorised public accountant Peter Nyllinge.
The decisions can be read in full at www.sebgroup.com.
At the statutory Board meeting following the AGM, Urban Jansson and Jesper
Ovesen were appointed Deputy Chairmen of the Board.
Also, in accordance with the decision by the Annual General Meeting to authorise
the Board to decide on the acquisition and sale of own shares for SEB's long-
term equity-based programmes, the Board decided that a maximum of 40,500,000
shares of Class A may be acquired and sold. The transactions may take place at
one or several occasions during the period until the Annual General Meeting in
2016.
The acquisitions are intended to enable the Bank to transfer the acquired shares
to participants in outstanding long-term equity-based programmes. When one or
more participants in the programmes call for exercise the Bank will within the
context of the Board's decision acquire shares to the extent necessary and
immediately transfer them to the participant or participants.
The repurchases shall exclusively take place on Nasdaq Stockholm at a price
within the price interval at any time recorded and the transactions will be
reported via Nasdaq Stockholm in accordance with prevailing rules. Furthermore,
SEB's web site www.sebgroup.com/ir will be updated continuously.
For further information, please contact
Viveka Hirdman-Ryrberg, Head of Corporate
Communications,
tel: +46 8 763 85 77, +46 70 550 3500
viveka.hirdman-ryrberg(at)seb.se
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SEB is a leading Nordic financial services group. As a relationship bank, SEB in
Sweden and the Baltic countries offers financial advice and a wide range of
financial services. In Denmark, Finland, Norway and Germany the bank's
operations have a strong focus on corporate and investment banking based on a
full-service offering to corporate and institutional clients. The international
nature of SEB's business is reflected in its presence in some 20 countries
worldwide. On December 31, 2014, the Group's total assets amounted to SEK 2,641
billion while its assets under management totalled SEK 1,708 billion. The Group
has about 16,000 employees. Read more about SEB at www.sebgroup.com
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