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May 25, 2009 - Over the past 20 years, Lars Friberg has held a number of top positions in Sweden and internationally including among others as Head of Trading & Capital Markets, Foreign Exchange and Emerging Markets Trading at SEB.
- Private Banking is a prioritized area at Swedbank and it´s with great pleasure that we have recruited Lars Friberg. His thorough background and international experience from the banking and financial service sector will be very useful to us as a bank and to our customers, says Kjell Hedman, Head of Swedish Banking, Swedbank.
Lars Friberg will take up his position after the summer.
Further information, please contact:
Kjell Hedman, Head of Swedish Banking, Swedbank, phone: +46 8 585 912 21
Anna Sundblad, Press Manager, Swedbank, phone: +46 70 321 39 95
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.
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