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The following items were con­sid­ered and approved at Sydbank’s Annual General Meeting on 20 March 2025:

  • The directors’ report, the annual report for 2024 and the rec­om­men­da­tion for the al­lo­ca­tion of profit. Sydbank will dis­trib­ute as dividend DKK 26.88 per share and donate DKK 18 million to the spon­sor­ship fund Sydbank Fonden.
  • Re­mu­ner­a­tion Report 2024.
  • Election of 6 members and re-election of 14 members to the Share­hold­ers’ Committee, which now counts 65 members
  • Ap­point­ment of PwC Stat­sautoris­eret Re­vi­sion­spart­nersel­skab as auditor for financial reporting and for sus­tain­abil­i­ty reporting assurance en­gage­ments.
  • Board fees for 2025.
  • Re­mu­ner­a­tion policy.
  • Capital reduction of DKK 33,839,600 by can­celling 3,383,960 shares of DKK 10 each and resulting amendment to Article 2(1) of the Articles of As­so­ci­a­tion.
  • Insertion of a new item 5 in Article 8(2) of the Articles of As­so­ci­a­tion: “Approval of the re­mu­ner­a­tion of the Board of Directors for the current financial year.”
  • Deletion of the latter part of Article 14(3) of the Articles of As­so­ci­a­tion: “and de­ter­mines their re­mu­ner­a­tion”.
  • Renewal of the au­tho­ri­sa­tion to the Board of Directors to acquire own shares at a total value of up to 10% of the Bank’s share capital.

The proposal submitted by share­hold­er Steffen Rojahn was not adopted.

At the Share­hold­ers’ Committee meeting which took place after the Bank’s AGM, Lars Mikkel­gaard-Jensen and Henrik Hoffmann resigned from the Board of Directors.

The other board members elected by the Share­hold­ers’ Committee were re-elected and 2 new members were elected:

  • Aksel Bjørn Møller, CIO, 62. Aksel has a Master of Science in In­dus­tri­al En­gi­neer­ing and Man­age­ment from DTU, the Technical Uni­ver­si­ty of Denmark. Aksel is CIO at Danish life insurance company In­dus­triens Pen­sions­for­sikring and has more than 25 years’ ex­pe­ri­ence from the IT industry.
  • Brian Øster­gaard Roed, Chief Credit Risk Officer, 48. Brian has a Master of Science in Applied Economics and Finance from Copen­hagen Business School. Brian is Chief Credit Risk Officer at the Export and In­vest­ment Fund of Denmark (EIFO).

Con­se­quent­ly the Board of Directors consists of the following 8 members elected by the Share­hold­ers’ Committee: Ellen Trane Nørby, Søren Holm, Gitte Poulsen, Janne Moltke-Leth, Jon Ste­fans­son, Susanne Schou, Brian Øster­gaard Roed and Aksel Bjørn Møller as well as the following 4 members elected by the employees: Jarl Oxlund, Jørn Krogh Sørensen, Carsten Andersen and Pia Wrang.

The Board of Directors elected Ellen Trane Nørby as its chairman and Søren Holm as its vice-chairman.