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Announcement under Chapter 9, Section 10 of the Securities Markets Act: OP-Pohjola Group Central Cooperative's shareholding in Pohjola Bank plc

Pohjola Bank plc
Stock exchange release
6 March 2014, 4:30 pm

Announcement under Chapter 9, Section 10 of the Securities Markets Act: OP-
Pohjola Group Central Cooperative's shareholding in Pohjola Bank plc

On 6 March 2014, Pohjola Bank plc received an announcement of disclosure of
shareholdings under Chapter 9, Section 5 of the Securities Markets Act from OP-
Pohjola Group Central Cooperative that the shareholding of OP-Pohjola Group
Central Cooperative exceeds 2/3 of the total votes conferred by Pohjola Bank plc
shares. OP-Pohjola Group Central Cooperative alone holds 47.22% of Pohjola Bank
plc's shares and 66.72% of the votes. Together with controlled corporations'
holdings, OP-Pohjola Group Central Cooperative holds 47.28% of Pohjola Bank plc
shares and 66.75% of the votes.

The acceptances by those who have issued their acceptance of the bid by 5 March
2014 would increase the total shareholding of OP-Pohjola Group Central
Cooperative in Pohjola Bank plc to 75.00% of all Pohjola Bank plc shares and the
votes conferred by the shares to 86.35% of all the votes, if the bid were
completed.

Offeror's existing shares and votes:
Number of shares: 150,876,239.
Proportion of all shares: 47.22%.
Number of votes: 393,440,763.
Proportion of votes: 66.72%.

Offeror's and its controlled corporations' shares and votes:
Number of shares: 151,067,551.
Proportion of all shares: 47.28%.
Number of votes: 393,632,075.
Proportion of votes: 66.75%.

The number of Pohjola Bank plc's registered shares totals 319,551,415 which
represent a total of 589,717,611 votes.


Pohjola Bank plc
Carina Geber-Teir
Chief Communications Officer

DISTRIBUTION
NASDAQ OMX Helsinki
London Stock Exchange
Major media
pohjola.com, op.fi

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:
Vesa Aho, CFO, tel. +358 (0)10 252 2336
Niina Pullinen, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations, tel. 010 252 4494


Pohjola is a Finnish financial services group which provides its customers with
banking, non-life insurance and asset management services. Our mission is to
promote the sustainable prosperity, security and wellbeing of our customers.
Profitable growth and an increase in company value form our key objectives.
Pohjola Group serves corporate customers in Finland and abroad by providing an
extensive range of financial, investment, cash-management and non-life insurance
services. We offer non-life insurance and private banking services to private
customers. Pohjola Series A shares have been listed on the Large Cap List of the
NASDAQ OMX Helsinki since 1989. The number of shareholders totals around
32,000. Pohjola's consolidated earnings before tax amounted to 473 million euros
in 2013 and the balance sheet total amounted to 44 billion euros on 31 December
2013. Pohjola is part of OP-Pohjola Group, the leading financial services group
in Finland with 4.3 million customers.

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