Nordea won best bank in
Denmark, Sweden and Finland. Euromoney's panel of judges has taken into account
volume of business transacted, innovation and leadership, credit ratings,
quality of assets and earnings and efficiency ratios and key performance
indicators.

The achievement is first and foremost due to the Nordea team.
We acknowledge that it is our people that make the difference. We are of course
grateful and proud of this acknowledgement for our efforts to create values for
our customers and shareholders, but we know that have to continuously improve to
succeed in creating great customer experiences, says Christian Clausen, CEO in
Nordea.

We appreciate the acknowledgement to the Nordea team and understand
that only common efforts let us be awarded best regional bank. This award shows
that our ambitious strategy of enlargement has been chosen rightfully and awards
gives us much more enthusiasm to endeavour our goals, says Steen Trondhjem
Nielsen, general Manager of Nordea Bank Lithuania.

As well as the Best bank awards, Nordea was best Best Equities House (Nordea Markets) and best M&A House in Finland (Nordea Securities).