SEB's Annual General Meeting 2017
(Thomson Reuters ONE) -
At the Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (publ)
this Tuesday the Board members Johan H. Andresen, Signhild Arnegård Hansen,
Samir Brikho, Winnie Fok, Tomas Nicolin, Sven Nyman, Jesper Ovesen, Helena
Saxon, Marcus Wallenberg and Sara Öhrvall were re-elected. Johan Torgeby was
elected new member. The AGM re-elected Marcus Wallenberg as Chairman of the
Board.
The AGM approved a dividend of SEK 5.50 per share (5.25) and Thursday 30 March,
2017, as record date for the dividend.
The Director's fee was set at SEK 9, 375, 000 in accordance with the Nomination
Committee's proposal. The fee will be distributed as follows: SEK 2,850,000 to
the Chairman of the Board and SEK 6,525,000 to be distributed among other
Directors elected by the AGM who are not employed by the Bank, with SEK 900,000
each to the Deputy Chairmen and SEK 675,000 each to other Board members.
In addition the fee for the committee work was set in accordance with the
Nomination Committee's proposal: Risk and Capital Committee, SEK 550,000 to the
Chairman and SEK 345,000 to other member, Audit and Compliance Committee, SEK
400,000 to the Chairman and SEK 250,000 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 profit sharing
programme for all employees except the Group Executive Committee, SEB All
Employee Programme 2017, and one long-term equity programme, Share Deferral
Programme 2017, comprising approximately 2000 senior managers and key employees.
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 as well as proposal for decision on
authorization to the Board of Directors to issue convertibles.
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, Sven Nyman and Jesper Ovesen
were appointed Deputy Chairmen of the Board.
Also, in accordance with the decision by the Annual General Meeting to authorize
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 44,400,000
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
2018.
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
+46 8 763 85 77, +46 70 550 3500
viveka.hirdman-ryrberg(at)seb.se
SEB is a leading Nordic financial services group with a strong belief that
entrepreneurial minds and innovative companies are key in creating a better
world. SEB takes a long term perspective and supports its customers in good
times and bad. In Sweden and the Baltic countries, SEB 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. At 31 December 2016, the Group's
total assets amounted to SEK 2,621 billion while its assets under management
totalled SEK 1,781 billion. The Group has around 15,300 employees. Read more
about SEB at www.sebgroup.com
Press release (PDF):
http://hugin.info/1208/R/2091518/790251.pdf
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Source: SEB via GlobeNewswire
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