Decisions of Aktia Bank Plc's Annual General Meeting and organising meeting of the Board of Directors
07 April 2022 - 12:45AM
Decisions of Aktia Bank Plc's Annual General Meeting and organising
meeting of the Board of Directors
Aktia Bank PlcStock Exchange Release 6 April 2022 at
5.45 p.m.
Decisions of Aktia Bank Plc's Annual General Meeting
and
organising
meeting of the Board of Directors
The Annual General Meeting of Aktia Bank Plc was held today, 6
April 2022 in Helsinki. In accordance with the temporary
legislation, the Annual General Meeting was held without
possibility to participate the meeting at the meeting venue. The
shareholders and their proxy representatives were able to
participate in the meeting and exercise their shareholder rights
only by voting in advance and by submitting counterproposals and
questions in advance.
The Annual General Meeting supported all the proposals presented
to the meeting and approved the remuneration report. The Annual
General Meeting adopted the financial statements of the parent
company and the consolidated financial statements and discharged
the members of the Board of Directors, the CEO and his deputy from
liability for the accounting period 1 January – 31 December
2021.
Dividend payment
In accordance with the proposal by the Board of Directors, the
Annual General Meeting decided on the payment of a dividend of 0.56
euro per share for the accounting period 1 January – 31 December
2021. Shareholders registered in the register of shareholders of
the company maintained by Euroclear Finland Ltd on the record date
for the dividend payment 8 April 2022 are entitled to the dividend.
The dividend shall be paid out on 19 April 2022.
The Board of Directors
The Annual General Meeting confirmed the number of board members
as eight.
Johan Hammarén, Maria Jerhamre Engström, Harri Lauslahti,
Olli-Petteri Lehtinen, Johannes Schulman, Lasse Svens and Timo
Vättö were re-elected as Board members. Sari Pohjonen was elected
as a new member of the Board of Directors. All board members were
elected for a term of office continuing up until the end of the
next Annual General Meeting.
Remuneration
In accordance with the proposal by the Board of Directors the
Annual General Meeting decided to approve the remuneration report
for the governing bodies of Aktia Bank Plc.
The annual remuneration for the Board members was confirmed as
EUR 64,300 for the chair, EUR 43,000 for the deputy chair and EUR
35,000 for members. Approximately 40% of the annual (gross)
remuneration shall be paid in the form of Aktia shares. In
addition, the Chairman of each Committee will further receive an
annual remuneration of EUR 8,000. The remuneration for attended
meetings was established as EUR 500 per attended meeting.
Compensation for travel and accommodation expenses as well as a
daily allowance will be paid in line with the Finnish Tax
Administration's guidelines and the company's travel policy.
Auditor
The Annual General Meeting determined that the number of
auditors shall be one, and re-elected APA firm KPMG Oy Ab as
auditor with Marcus Tötterman, M.Sc. (Econ.), APA, as
auditor-in-charge, for a term of office continuing up until the end
of the next Annual General Meeting. Remuneration to the auditor
shall be paid against the auditor’s reasonable invoice.
Authorisations of the Board of Directors
The Annual General Meeting adopted the proposal of the Board of
Directors regarding resolution for share issue authorisation for up
to 7,221,000 shares or securities entitling to shares,
authorisation to acquire up to 500,000 company's own shares for use
in the company's share based scheme and/or the remuneration of
members of the company's Board of Directors and authorisation to
divest up to 500,000 company's own shares.
Organising meeting of
the Board of Directors
The Board of Directors, which convened after the General
Meeting, elected Lasse Svens as chair and Timo Vättö as vice
chair.
The Board of Directors has decided on the composition of the
Board's Audit Committee, Risk Committee, as well as the
Remuneration and Corporate Governance Committee.
The Board of Directors elected Olli-Petteri Lehtinen as chair
and Sari Pohjonen and Johannes Schulman as members of the Audit
Committee.
Maria Jerhamre Engström was elected as chair and Harri
Lauslahti, Olli-Petteri Lehtinen and Lasse Svens as members of the
Risk Committee.
Timo Vättö was elected as chair and Johan Hammarén and Lasse
Svens as members of the Remuneration and Corporate Governance
Committee.
Presentations and minutes of the Annual General
Meeting
The presentations by the chair of the Board Lasse Svens and CEO
Mikko Ayub (in Finnish and Swedish) will be available on the
company’s website
https://www.aktia.com/en/investors/corporate-governance/annual-general-meeting
later after the meeting. The minutes of the Annual General Meeting
(in Swedish) will be available on the same website on 20 April 2022
at the latest.
Aktia Bank Plc
Further information:Mikko Ayub, CEO, tel. +358 10 247 5121Ari
Syrjäläinen, General Counsel, tel. +358 50 362 9587
Distribution:Nasdaq Helsinki LtdMass mediawww.aktia.com
Aktia is a Finnish asset manager, bank and life insurer that has
been creating wealth and wellbeing from one generation to the next
for 200 years. We serve our customers in digital channels
everywhere and face-to-face in our offices in the Helsinki, Turku,
Tampere, Vaasa and Oulu regions. Our award-winning asset management
business sells investment funds internationally. We employ
approximately 900 people around Finland. Aktia's assets under
management (AuM) on 31 December 2021 amounted to EUR 15.5 billion,
and the balance sheet total was EUR 11.7 billion. Aktia's shares
are listed on Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd (AKTIA). aktia.com.
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