Decisions of Aktia Bank plc's Annual General Meeting 2014

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Decisions of Aktia Bank plc's Annual General Meeting 2014

Helsinki, Finland, 2015-04-13 17:00 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --  

Aktia Bank plc     
Stock Exchange Release
13.4.2015 at 6.00 p.m.


Decisions of Aktia Bank plc's Annual General Meeting 2015

The Annual General Meeting of Aktia Bank plc has today adopted the financial statements of the parent company and the consolidated financial statements and discharged the members of the Board of Supervisors, the members of the Board of Directors, the Managing Director and his deputy from liability.

In accordance with the proposal of the Board of Directors, the Annual General Meeting decided to distribute a dividend of EUR 0.48 per share totalling approx. EUR 32 million for the financial period 1 January - 31 December 2014. The record date for the dividend will be 15 April 2015 and the dividend will be paid out on 22 April 2015.

The Annual General Meeting established the number of members on the Board of Supervisors as twenty-nine.

The members of the Board of Supervisors Harriet Ahlnäs, Johan Aura, Anna Bertills, Henrik Rehnberg and  Sture Söderholm, who were due to step down, were re-elected as members of the Board of Supervisors and Annika Grannas (M.Sc. (Econ)), Yvonne Malin-Hult (M.Sc. (Econ)) and Kim Wikström (D. Sc. (Tech)), Industrial Management), were elected as new members of the Board of Supervisors. All for a term of three years.

As annual remuneration for the members of the Board of Supervisors, EUR 22,600 for the chair, EUR 10,000 for deputy chairs and EUR 4,400 for members were established. EUR 500 was established as remuneration per attended meeting.

The Annual General Meeting established the number of auditors as one and elected KPMG Oy Ab as the company’s auditor.

The Annual General Meeting approved the proposed change of Article 2 in the Articles of Association of Aktia Bank plc regarding the bank’s field of operations, reflecting the fact that the bank ceased to act as central credit institution in spring 2015.

The Annual General Meeting approved the proposals by the Board of Directors concerning the authorisation to issue shares, the authorisation to acquire own shares to be used in the company's share based incentive scheme and/or as remuneration to members of executive bodies in the company as well as the authorisation to divest own shares.

All proposals mentioned above are included in the Summons to the AGM published on the website www.aktia.com under About Aktia > Corporate Governance > Annual General Meeting > Annual General Meeting 2015.


AKTIA BANK PLC

For more information, please contact:
Jussi Laitinen, CEO, tel. +358 10 247 6210
Mia Bengts, Legal Counsel, tel. +358 10 247 6348

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