SEB Bankas AB - Notification on material event

Preliminary result of the first quarter of 2012 of AB SEB bankas

Vilnius, Lithuania, 2012-04-24 07:22 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to
preliminary data, unaudited net profit earned over the first quarter of the
year 2012 by AB SEB bankas is LTL 30.7 million (EUR 8.9 million) and by AB SEB
bankas Group is LTL 41.5 million (EUR 12.0 million). The result has been
calculated in accordance with the requirements set by the acts of the Bank of
Lithuania and legal acts of the Republic of Lithuania. Over the first quarter
of the year 2011, unaudited net profit earned by AB SEB bankas totaled LTL 97.6
million (EUR 28.3 million) and by the Bank's Group - LTL 174.1 million (EUR
50.4 million). 

This notification is non-confidential.

Raimondas Kvedaras, President of AB SEB bankas.

24 April 2012, Vilnius


         Arvydas Žilinskas, Head of Media Relations of AB SEB bankas, tel. +370
5 268 1198, is authorized to provide additional information regarding the
material event.