Pohjola Pankki Oyj - Company Announcement

Pohjola Bank plc selects Finland as its Home Member State for the disclosure of periodic information

Pohjola Bank plc
Stock exchange release
16 December 2014


Pohjola Bank plc selects Finland as its Home Member State for the disclosure of
periodic information

Pohjola Bank plc's Board of Directors has chosen on 16 December 2014 Finland as
its Home Member State for the disclosure of periodic information under Chapter
7, Section 3 of the Securities Markets Act (746/2012). Pohjola's corporate-law
registered office is Finland and it issues bonds that are traded on a regulated
market.

Pohjola Bank plc and OP Mortgage Bank, which issues covered bonds, are part of
OP-Pohjola Group and are responsible for OP-Pohjola's funding operations on
money and capital markets.

Pohjola Bank plc A shares were delisted from NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Oy on 30
September 2014. The delisting relates to the public voluntary bid for Pohjola
Bank plc shares completed by OP-Pohjola Group Central Cooperative.


Pohjola Bank plc
Carina Geber-Teir
Chief Communications Officer


For more information, please contact:
OP-Pohjola Communications, media contacts, tel. +358 (0)50 523 9904

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



Pohjola is part of the leading Finnish customer-owned financial services group,
OP-Pohjola. Pohjola provides its customers with banking, non-life insurance and
asset management services. Pohjola is OP-Pohjola's central bank and is, together
with OP Mortgage Bank, responsible for OP-Pohjola's funding operations on money
and capital markets. As laid down in the applicable law, Pohjola, its parent
company OP-Pohjola Group Central Cooperative and the member credit institutions
are ultimately jointly and severally liable for each other's debts and
commitments. The joint liability in OP-Pohjola is prescribed by the Act on the
Amalgamation of Deposit Banks Act. Financial services provider OP-Pohjola is
continuing its revamp also for the part of its brand. The changes under way form
part of the creation of a new financial services group fully owned by its
customers. OP-Pohjola's name is OP as of 1 January 2015. www.pohjola.fi




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