Bank of Åland Plc: Notice to convene the Annual General Meeting
Bank of Åland PlcNotice to convene general meetingMarch 7, 16.15
p.m.
Notice to convene the Annual General
Meeting
Notice is hereby given to the shareholders of the Bank of Åland
Plc (Ålandsbanken Abp) of the Annual General Meeting (AGM) to be
held at 1.00 p.m. Finnish time on Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at the
Alandica Kultur & Kongress auditorium, Strandgatan 33,
Mariehamn, Åland, Finland.
The reception of persons who have registered to participate in
the Meeting and the distribution of voting tickets will commence at
12.00 noon on the above date.
A. Matters on the agenda of the Annual General
Meeting
1. Opening of the Meeting
2. Calling the Meeting to order
3. Election of persons to check the minutes and to
supervise the counting of votes
4. Verification of the legality of the
Meeting
5. Verification of attendance at the Meeting and
adoption of the voting list
6. Presentation of the financial statements, the Report
of the Directors and the Auditors’ Report for 2021
Managing Director’s review.
7. Adoption of the financial statements
8. Decision on allocation of the profit shown in the
balance sheet and dividend distribution
The Board of Directors proposes that a dividend of EUR 1.55 per
share plus an extra dividend of EUR 0.45 per share shall be paid
for the accounting period January 1 – December 31, 2021, that the
record date for dividend payment shall be Friday, April 1, 2022 and
that the payment date shall be Friday, April 8, 2022.
9. Decision on granting discharge from liability to the
members of the Board of Directors and the Managing Director for the
financial year January 1 – December 31, 2021
10. Presentation and adoption of the compensation
report
11. Decision on the number of members on the Board of
Directors
It is proposed that the number of Board members shall be set at
seven.
12. Decision on fees for the members of the
Board
The Board of Directors proposes an unchanged annual fee for its
Chairman (EUR 35,000), the Deputy Chairman (EUR 30,000) and each
other Board member (EUR 28,000). The Board also proposes an
unchanged fee per meeting attended for the Chairman (EUR 1,000) and
for each other Board member (EUR 750).
It shall be noted that the fee per meeting for Board members’
attendance at meetings of the committees appointed by the Board is
EUR 750 per Board member and EUR 1,000 for the committee
Chairman.
13. Election of Board members
The Board proposes the re-election of Board members Åsa Ceder,
Anders Å Karlsson, Nils Lampi, Christoffer Taxell, Ulrika Valassi
and Anders Wiklöf for a term of office that will run until the end
of the next AGM. All the persons proposed have agreed to being
elected.
In addition, the Board proposes the election of Mirel
Leino-Haltia for a term of office that will run until the end of
the next AGM. Leino-Haltia has agreed to being elected.
14. Decision on the auditors’ fees
The Board of Directors proposes that the auditors’ fees be paid
as invoiced.
15. Decision on the number of auditors
The Board of Directors proposes that the number of auditors
shall be unchanged, that is, three auditors and one deputy
auditor.
16. Election of auditors
The Board of Directors proposes the re-election of Fredrik
Westerholm, Authorised Public Accountant (KHT), and Henry Maarala,
Authorised Public Accountant (KHT), as auditors for a term of
office that shall run until the end of the next AGM. The Board
proposes the election of Sandra Eriksson, Authorised Public
Accountant (KHT), as a new auditor for a term of office that shall
run until the end of the next AGM.
The Board further proposes the re-election of KPMG Oy Ab as
deputy auditor for a term of office that shall run until the end of
the next AGM.
17. Authorisation for the Board to make decisions on
acquisitions of the Company’s own shares
The Board of Directors proposes that the AGM authorise the Board
to approve, acquisitions of the Bank of Åland’s Series B shares at
one or several occasions as follows:
The number of Series B shares that may be acquired on the basis
of this authorisation may total no more than 1,500,000, which is
equivalent to about 10 per cent of all shares in the Company and
about 17 per cent of all Series B shares in the Company. The
Company’s own shares may be acquired on the basis of this
authorisation, other than in relation to shareholders’ holdings
(targeted acquisition) in case there are compelling reasons.
The shares may only be acquired using the Company’s unrestricted
equity capital. The highest share price may not exceed the highest
price paid in public trading on Nasdaq Helsinki Oy on the day of
the acquisition, and the lowest share price may not be less than a
price that is 10 per cent lower than the lowest price paid for the
Company’s shares in public trading on the Nasdaq Helsinki Oy. The
shares may be acquired in one or more rounds.
The Bank’s own shares may be acquired in order to be used as
part of the Company’s incentive system or be annulled.
The Board shall decide on all other conditions for the
acquisition of the Bank’s own shares. This authorisation will be in
force until the end of the next AGM, but no longer than until
September 30, 2022.
18. Closing of the Meeting
B. General Meeting documents
The above-mentioned proposals by the Board of Directors, this
notice convening the Annual General Meeting (AGM) and other
documents that shall be available as provided by the Finnish
Companies Act are found on the website of the Bank of Åland Plc,
www.alandsbanken.fi in Swedish.
The Board’s proposal and the accounting documents are also
available at the Company’s head office and at the AGM. Copies of
these documents and of this notice convening the AGM will be sent
to shareholders upon request. The minutes of the Meeting will be
available for viewing on the Company’s website no later than April
8, 2022 in Swedish.
C. Instruction for participants in the Annual General
Meeting
1. Right to participate and registration
Shareholders who were listed on March 18, 2022 (the record date
for the AGM) in the Company’s shareholder register, which is
maintained by Euroclear Finland Ab, are entitled to participate in
the Meeting. A shareholder whose shares are registered in his or
her Finnish personal book-entry securities account is listed in the
Company’s shareholder register.
Shareholders wishing to participate in the AGM must register no
later than 12 noon on Friday, March 25, 2022.
They may register for the AGM:
a) via the internet at the address
www.alandsbanken.fi/bolagsstamma;
b) by telephone at +358 18 29 011;
c) by letter addressed to Bank of Åland Plc, PB 3, AX-22101
Mariehamn, Åland, Finland.
When registering, please state the shareholder’s name, personal
identity code or business ID number and the name of any assistant
or authorised representative and the representative’s personal
identity code.
These personal data will be used only for purposes attributable
to the AGM and for processing of registrations related to this.
If needed, the shareholder and his/her authorised representative
must be able to prove their identity and/or authorisation at the
Meeting venue.
2. Authorised representatives and powers of
attorney
Shareholders may participate in the AGM and exercise their
rights at the Meeting through authorised representatives. A
shareholder’s authorised representative must show a dated power of
attorney or otherwise prove in a reliable manner that he or she is
authorised to represent the shareholder.
If a shareholder is represented at the Meeting by more than one
authorised representatives, who represent a shareholder with shares
in different book-entry securities accounts, at the time of
registration the shareholder must state on the basis of which
shares each authorised representative is representing the
shareholder.
Any original powers of attorney should be sent to the Bank of
Åland Plc, PB 3, AX-22101 Mariehamn, Åland, Finland and be in the
possession of the Company before the expiration of the registration
period. Please label the envelope “Annual General Meeting” or
“AGM”. Alternatively, a copy of the power of attorney may be sent
by e-mail to bolagsstamma@alandsbanken.fi, in which case the
original power of attorney shall be shown at the AGM.
3. Holders of nominee-registered shares
A holder of nominee-registered shares is entitled to participate
in the AGM on the basis of the shares he or she would be entitled
to list on March 18, 2022 in the Shareholder Register maintained by
Euroclear Finland Ab. Participation also requires that on the basis
of these shares, no later than 10.00 a.m. on March 25, 2022 the
shareholder has been listed in the temporary shareholder register
maintained by Euroclear Finland Ab. In the case of
nominee-registered shares, this shall be counted as registration
for the AGM.
Registration shall be carried out by the asset manager’s account
administrator no later than the above-mentioned date. A holder of
nominee-registered shares is urged to request instructions well in
advance from his or her asset manager regarding entry into the
temporary shareholder register, issuance of powers of attorney and
registration for the AGM.
4. Other instructions and information
Shareholders who attend the Meeting are entitled to ask
questions concerning matters being dealt with at the Meeting,
pursuant to Chapter 5, Section 25 of the Finnish Companies Act.
On the date of this Notice convening the Annual General Meeting,
the number of shares in the Bank of Åland Plc totals 6,476,138
Series A shares, which represent 129,522,760 votes and 9,126,165
Series B shares, which represent 9,126,165 votes, or 15,602,303
shares and 138,648,925 votes in all. Each Series A share has 20
votes at the Meeting and each Series B share has one vote, but
subject to the limitation on voting rights stipulated in the
Articles of Association, Section 7.
Mariehamn, March 7, 2022
Board of Directors
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