Pohjola Pankki Oyj - Changes board/management/auditors

Reima Rytsölä to depart Pohjola

Pohjola Bank plc
Stock Exchange Release
10 October 2013 at 2.00 pm



Reima Rytsölä to depart Pohjola

Reima Rytsölä, Executive Vice President, Banking, Pohjola Bank plc, today
announced that he would resign from Pohjola on 10 April 2014 at the latest and
join another company.



Pohjola Bank plc

Carina Geber-Teir
Chief Communications Officer


FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:
Carina Geber-Teir, Chief Communications Officer, tel. +358 (0)40 5024697



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


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 came to 374 million euros in
2012 and the balance sheet total amounted to 45 billion euros on 31 December
2012. Pohjola is part of OP-Pohjola Group, the leading financial services group
in Finland with over four million customers.

www.pohjola.com


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