Norion Bank AB publishes the year-end report for the period January-December 2025 and announces its intention to initiate an additional share buyback program of up to approximately SEK 500 million, limited to a maximum of 4.9 million shares, during the first quarter of 2026.
FOURTH QUARTER OF 2025 (COMPARED TO THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 2024)
JANUARY-DECEMBER 2025 (COMPARED TO JANUARY-DECEMBER 2024)
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS DURING THE PERIOD
On 21 November 2025, Norion Bank AB announced a recommended public tender offer to the shareholders of Consensus Asset Management to tender all shares in Consensus to Norion Bank at a price of SEK 22.50 in cash per share. The acceptance period in the offer commenced on 2 January 2026 and runs until and including 13 March 2026. Since the announcement, Norion Bank has acquired shares in Consensus outside the offer and held a total of 373,660 B shares in Consensus, corresponding to 4.9% of the total number of shares, at the end of the quarter 2).
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS AFTER THE PERIOD
The Board of Norion Bank has, after the end of the quarter, decided to propose a reduction of the share capital with redemption of the shares repurchased during 2025. The purpose of the proposal is to reduce the number of shares held in treasury to give the bank greater flexibility in establishing any potential new share buyback programs during 2026. The decision will be adopted at an Extraordinary General Meeting on 13 February 2026.
CONFERENCE CALL
A conference call will be held in Swedish on 5 February 2026 at 09:00 CET, during which CEO Martin Nossman and CFO Peter Olsson will present the report. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session. The webcast is available on this link. For those who wish to participate in the conference call, please register on this link. After registration, you will be provided a phone number and a conference ID to access the conference call.
The presentation material will be available in English and published in connection with the conference call on Norion Bank’s website, where the recorded version of the webcast will be available afterwards.
1) Excess capital calculated relative to the mid-point of the financial target to maintain capital buffers of 200-400bps.
2) As of the date of the publication of the year-end report, the number of acquired shares in Consensus amounted to 630,998 shares, corresponding to 8.3% of the total number of shares in Consensus.