HELLENIC EXCHANGES S.A. HOLDING, CLEARING, SETTLEMENT AND REGISTRY announces that yesterday, November 11^th 2013, the Extraordinary General Meeting of shareholders of the Company was held in the “HERMES” hall at the offices of the Company. Shareholders representing 32,178,685 common registered shares and voting rights, i.e. 49.227% of the 65,368,563 total common registered shares participated.

The General Meeting took the following decision:

• On the 4^th item, shareholders approved the election of a Member of the Board of Directors to replace a Member that resigned.

In particular, shareholders approved the election of the Member of the Board of Directors Mr Fokion Karavias to replace Mr Konstantinos Vousvounis who resigned.

Discussion on the following items was postponed due to a lack of the necessary, by the law and the Articles of Association, quorum:

Item 1:    Approval of the Draft Agreement and the Merger Act of the Company by absorption of the company “ATHENS EXCHANGE S.A.”, by listening to the Merger Balance Sheet (accounting statement), the relevant Reports, certificates and documents; and granting the authority to sign the notary Merger Act and to carry out other acts and transactions. Discharge the members of the Board of Directors, plenipotentiaries, trustees, substitutes of the Company, and the auditors, from any liability for the preparation and implementation of the merger.

Item 2:    Approval of the Draft Agreement and the Spin-off Act of the Central Securities Depository Business and of the Registry and Settlement services, as well as the management of the Dematerialized Securities System which are provided by the Company acting as Central Depository in accordance with the provisions of articles 39ff. of Law 2396/1996, 74 and 83 of Law 3606/2007 and 1-7 of Law 3756/2009, as they apply, and contribution to the company “THESSALONIKI STOCK EXCHANGE CENTRE S.A.”, by listening to the Spin-off Balance Sheet (accounting statement), the relevant Reports, certificates and documents; and granting the authority to sign the notary Spin-off Act and to carry out other acts and transactions. Discharge the members of the Board of Directors, plenipotentiaries, trustees, substitutes of the Company, and the auditors, from any liability for the preparation and implementation of the spin-off.

Item 3:    Modification of article 1 (Corporate & trade name) and article 2 (Purpose) of the Articles of Association of the Company.

In order to discuss and decide the abovementioned items, the General Meeting will convene again in a 1^st Repetitive General Meeting on Friday 22.11.2013 at 18:00, in Athens, at the headquarters of the Company, in accordance with the original Invitation of the BoD of the Company of 10.10.2013.

The detailed results of the voting for each decision will be posted on the Company's website, www.helex.gr, in accordance with article 32 §1 of Codified Law 2190/1920.