Supplementary Offering Circular Dated 29 October, 2019

SUPPLEMENTARY OFFERING CIRCULAR DATED 29 OCTOBER, 2019

(Incorporated as a public limited liability banking company in The Kingdom of Sweden)

U.S.$50,000,000,000 Euro Medium Term Note Programme

This Supplementary Offering Circular (the Supplement) to the Offering Circular (the Offering Circular) dated 19th June, 2019, which, together with the Supplementary Offering Circular dated 19th July, 2019 (the First Supplement), comprises a base prospectus and is prepared in connection with the Euro Medium Term Note Programme established by Svenska Handelsbanken AB (publ) (the Issuer). This Supplement constitutes a supplementary prospectus for the purposes of Article 16 of Directive 2003/71/EC (as amended or superseded) (the Prospectus Directive) as implemented in Ireland by the Prospectus (Directive 2003/71/EC) Regulations 2005 and is prepared in order to update the Offering Circular. Terms defined in the Offering Circular have the same meaning when used in this Supplement.

This Supplement is supplemental to, and should be read in conjunction with, the Offering Circular and any other supplements to the Offering Circular issued by the Issuer.

This Supplement has been approved by the Central Bank of Ireland, as competent authority under the Prospectus Directive. The Central Bank of Ireland only approves this Supplement as meeting the requirements imposed under Irish and EU law pursuant to the Prospectus Directive.

The Issuer accepts responsibility for the information contained in this Supplement. To the best of the knowledge of the Issuer (which has taken all reasonable care to ensure that such is the case) the information contained in this Supplement is in accordance with the facts and does not omit anything likely to affect the import of such information.

Purpose of this Supplement

The purpose of this Supplement is (a) to incorporate by reference pages 30-63 (inclusive) and page 74 of a document entitled "Interim Report January – September 2019" (the Issuer's Q3 2019 Interim Report) which contains the unaudited consolidated interim financial information of the Issuer for the nine-month period ended 30th September, 2019 and the Auditor’s review report in relation thereto; (b) to incorporate by reference pages 7 and 42-43 of a document entitled “Fact book Q3 2019 (the Issuer’s Fact book Q3 2019); (c) to update the Offering Circular to describe recent developments in relation to changes in the Issuer’s management and (d) to include a new "Significant/Material Adverse Change" statement.

Issuer's Q3 2019 Interim Report

On 23rd October, 2019 the Issuer published its unaudited interim results as at 30th September, 2019 (in a document entitled "Interim Report January – September 2019"). The Issuer's Q3 2019 Interim Report has been filed with the Central Bank of Ireland and, by virtue of this Supplement, the unaudited consolidated interim financial information of the Issuer (which appear on pages 30-63 (inclusive) of the Issuer's Q3 2019 Interim Report) and the Auditor’s review report in relation thereto (which appears on page 74 of the Issuer’s Q3 2019 Interim Report) are incorporated in, and form part of, the Offering Circular.

The Issuer's Q3 2019 Interim Report is available on the Issuer's website at:

https://vp292.alertir.com/afw/files/press/handelsbanken/201910228486-1.pdf

Fact book Q3 2019

The Issuer’s Fact book Q3 2019 has been filed with the Central Bank of Ireland and, by virtue of this Supplement, pages 7 and 42-43 of the Issuer’s Fact book Q3 2019 are incorporated in, and form part of, the Offering Circular.

The Issuer’s Fact book Q3 2019 is available on the Issuer’s website at: https://vp292.alertir.com/sites/default/files/report/hb_2019_q3_eng_factbook_0.pdf

Any information contained in the Issuer's Q3 2019 Interim Report and the Issuer’s Fact book Q3 2019 which is not expressly incorporated by reference in this Supplement does not form part of this Supplement and is either not relevant to investors or is covered elsewhere in this Supplement or the Offering Circular.

Copies of any or all of the documents which are incorporated by reference in the Offering Circular can be obtained from the registered office of the Issuer in Stockholm.

Recent Developments

The following new section is to be added to the bottom of page 166 of the Offering Circular (following the section titled "Subsidiaries"):

"Recent Developments

Management changes

On 17th July, 2019, Magnus Ericson took up his position as Chief Human Resources, Group HR, at the Issuer. He has been a member of the Group’s Executive Management and has served as Acting Chief Human Resources, Group HR since April 2019.

Jan Larsson has been appointed Chief Communications Officer. He is currently CEO of Yrkesakademin AB. He will assume his new position by March 2020, at the latest. In his new position, Jan Larsson will be a member of the Issuer’s Executive Management.

Martin Noréus has been appointed Chief Compliance Officer. He is currently Deputy Director General of the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority, Finansinspektionen. Martin Noréus will assume his new position by March 2020, at the latest.

Mattias Forsberg has been appointed CIO (IT and Infrastructure). He is currently employed at as CIO at SAS. He will assume his new position by February 2020, at the latest. In his new position, Mattias Forsberg will be a member of the Issuer’s Executive Management."

Significant/Material Adverse Change

The paragraph under the heading "Significant/Material Adverse Change" on page 173 of the Offering Circular shall be deemed deleted and replaced with the following:

"There has been no significant change in the financial or trading position of the Bank or the Group since 30th September, 2019 and there has been no material adverse change in the financial position or prospects of the Bank or the Group since 31st December, 2018."

To the extent that there is any inconsistency between (a) any statement in this Supplement or any statement incorporated by reference into the Offering Circular by this Supplement and (b) any other statement in, or incorporated by reference into, the Offering Circular as supplemented by the First Supplement, the statements in (a) above will prevail.

Save as disclosed in this Supplement and the First Supplement, there has been no other significant new factor, material mistake or inaccuracy relating to information included in the Offering Circular since the publication of the Offering Circular.