Spar Nord Bank A/S announced that The Danish Financial Supervisory Authority has approved the merger between Spar Nord Bank A/S and Sparbank A/S. The merger between Spar Nord and Sparbank, adopted at the extraordinary general meetings of the two banks on November 12, 2012 and November 13, 2012, respectively, was approved by the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority. Thus, all conditions for completion of the merger have now been met, and accordingly the merger has been recorded as completed with the Danish Business Authority. Bent Jensen, the CEO of Sparbank, has joined Spar Nord's executive board after completion of the merger.