OP Financial Group and Pohjola publishes their Report by the Executive Board/Report by the Board of Directors and Financial Statements for 2014

Pohjola Bank plc
OP Cooperative
Stock exchange release
26 February 2015

OP Financial Group and Pohjola publishes their Report by the Executive Board/Report by the Board of Directors and Financial Statements for 2014

OP Financial Group has published its electronic Annual Report for 2014, i.e. the Report by the Executive Board and the Financial Statements available at http://op-year2014.fi/en. The Corporate Governance Statement 2014 of both OP Financial Group and Pohjola are also available on the website.

OP Financial Group's Report by the Executive Board, Pohjola's Report by the Board of Directors, Financial Statements and Corporate Governance Statement are available  in PDF format and at op.fi> Media> Material Services, and at pohjola.com > Media > Releases.

Pohjola Bank plc
OP Cooperative
Carina Geber-Teir
Executive Vice President, Corporate Communications

DISTRIBUTION
NASDAQ OMX Helsinki
LSE London Stock Exchange
SIX Swiss Exchange
Major media
op.fi, pohjola.com

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT
Carina Geber-Teir, Executive Vice President, Corporate Communications, tel. [phone]

Pohjola is part of Finland's leading customer-owned financial services group OP Financial Group. Pohjola provides its customers with banking, non-life insurance and asset management services. Pohjola acts as OP 's central bank and is responsible, together with OP Mortgage Bank, for OP's funding in the money and capital markets. As laid down in the applicable law, Pohjola, its parent company OP Cooperative and other OP Financial Group member credit institutions are ultimately jointly and severally liable for each other's debts and commitments. Joint and several liability within OP Financial Group is based on the Laki talletuspankkien yhteenliittymästä Act (Act on the amalgamation of deposit banks).
www.pohjola.fi

OP's mission is to promote the sustainable prosperity, security and wellbeing of its customer-owners, customers and operating regions. Its objective is to offer the best and most versatile package of loyal customer benefits on the market. OP Financial Group consists of about 180 member cooperative banks, its central cooperative OP Cooperative, and the latter's subsidiaries and affiliates. www.op.fi

OP Corporate Governance Statement 2014
Pohjola Bank plc Corporate Governance Statement 2014
Pohjola Report by the Board of Directors and Financial Statement
OP Report by the Executive Board and Financial Statement

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