Nordea's General Meeting 2025

Nordea Bank Abp’s (“Nordea” or the “Company”) AGM will be held on Thursday 20 March 2025 at 14.00 EET at Finlandia Hall, Mannerheimintie 13 e, 00100 Helsinki.

The reception of persons who have registered for the meeting will commence at 12.30 EET. Coffee will be served before the meeting.

You can find materials for the meeting such as the notice to the meeting and the decision proposals below on this website. Meeting materials will not be printed separately for distribution at the AGM for environmental reasons, among other. You may bring your own physical copies or obtain the materials in electronic form on this website. 

We encourage shareholders who wish to attend the AGM at the venue to arrive with public transport, or alternatively make use of the advance voting and webcast. Kindly take into account that there is no reserved parking space available at the AGM venue or its vicinity and that any parking fees will not be covered by Nordea. 

The AGM will be conducted mainly in Swedish, and partly in Finnish and English. Simultaneous interpretation will be available into Swedish, Finnish and English. 

Shareholders, their assistants, and proxy representatives must be able to prove their identity and/or right of representation at request at the meeting venue.

Shareholders can vote in advance on items 7 to 24 on the agenda of the AGM included in the notice to the meeting. You may also register to attend the meeting when voting in advance. 

Advance voting commences on 3 March 2025 and ends on 12 March 2025 at 23.59 EET. Further instructions for advance voting including the voting forms will be available on this website on 3 March 2025 at the latest.

Each shareholder who is registered in the shareholders’ register of the Company held by Euroclear Finland Oy, in the shareholders’ register held by Euroclear Sweden AB, or in the shareholders’ register held by VP Securities A/S on 10 March 2025 in accordance with the relevant instructions below can vote in advance.

A shareholder who has voted in advance may request information under the Finnish Companies Act, request a vote at the AGM, or vote on a possible counterproposal, if they are present or represented at the AGM at the meeting venue. 

Each shareholder who is registered on 10 March 2025 in the shareholders’ register of Nordea held by Euroclear Finland Oy, has the right to participate in the AGM. A shareholder whose shares are registered on the shareholder’s personal Finnish book-entry account is registered in the shareholders’ register of Nordea. 

A shareholder who is registered in Nordea’s shareholders’ register and who wishes to participate in the AGM must notify Nordea in advance.

How to register for the AGM

The registration begins on 3 March 2025 and ends on 12 March 2025 at 23.59 EET. Further instructions for registering to the AGM and, e.g., for using proxy representatives, will be available on this website on 3 March 2025 at the latest. 

Shareholders must be registered in the shareholders’ register held by Euroclear Sweden AB or VP Securities A/S on 10 March 2025 to be entitled to participate in the AGM. Such shareholders are re-registered by Nordea in the shareholders’ register held by Euroclear Finland Oy provided that the shareholder has notified Nordea thereof in advance.

How to register for the AGM

The registration commences on 3 March 2025 and ends on 12 March 2025 at 23.59 EET. Further instructions for registering to the AGM and, e.g., re-registrations, will be available on this website on 3 March 2025 at the latest. 

Webcast

The meeting can be followed online via an open live webcast. 

In addition to the open live webcast, Nordea shareholders can interact with the management in the management Q&A session through additional virtual features such as presenting questions orally and participating in polls. This requires that the shareholder has signed-up for the webcast in advance and uses separately provided individual log-in details to log on to the webcast platform for following the meeting. 

Links for registering for the webcasts and further instructions will be available on this website on 3 March 2025 at the latest.

Please note that following the meeting via the webcast or presenting questions via the webcast do not constitute official participation in the AGM nor do they enable the exercise of shareholder rights at the Annual General Meeting within the meaning of the Finnish Companies Act. Shareholders following the meeting via webcast can exercise their voting rights by voting on the matters on the agenda in advance.

Submitting questions

It is possible to submit questions to the Q&A session with senior management before and during the webcast until the end of the Q&A session. You can submit questions already when registering for the webcast.

Before the meeting, questions can be submitted by email to agm [at] nordea.com or by regular mail to Nordea AGM / Group Legal SATA V5A, Satamaradankatu 5, FI-00020 Nordea, Finland. The Company will strive to answer all questions received before the AGM. 

Shareholders who have logged in to the webcast with separately provided individual log-in details may present questions also orally and participate in any polls during the management Q&A session. The Company will strive to answer as many questions as feasible received through the webcast during the Q&A session. The log-in details will be sent before the meeting by e-mail or SMS to such shareholders that have signed up for the webcast in advance. 

The instructions for signing up and logging-in to the webcast, including information on technical requirements, will be available on this website on 3 March 2025. The webcast functionalities to the shareholders will be provided through Inderes Oyj’s Videosync-platform. Using the platform does not require any paid software or downloads from the shareholders.

Questions submitted before the meeting or through the webcast do not constitute questions referred to in Chapter 5, Section 25 of the Finnish Companies Act. 

A holder of nominee registered shares has the right to participate in the AGM by virtue of the shares based on which they on the record date of the AGM on 10 March 2025 would be entitled to be registered in the shareholders’ register of the Company held by Euroclear Finland Oy. The right to participate in the AGM requires, in addition, that the shareholder on the basis of such shares has been registered in the temporary shareholders’ register held by Euroclear Finland Oy by 10.00 EET on 17 March 2025 at the latest. In terms of nominee registered shares, this constitutes due registration for the AGM. 

A holder of nominee registered shares is advised to request without delay the relevant instructions regarding the registration in the temporary shareholders’ register of the Company, the issuing of proxy documents and registration for the AGM from their custodian bank. The account management organisation of the custodian bank shall register a holder of nominee registered shares who wants to participate in the AGM in the temporary shareholders’ register of the Company and vote in advance on behalf of the nominee registered shareholder by 10.00 EET on 17 March 2025 at the latest.

For the avoidance of doubt, instructions for shareholders whose shares are held in trust in Sweden or Denmark are set out in the notice to the AGM and above under heading “Shareholders registered in Sweden or Denmark”.

** Provided the decision on dividend payment is made on 20 March 2025