The BoD of Geniki Bank S.A. informs Messrs. shareholders that the subscription of the right's share issue of the company carried out through a pre-emption right in favour of the old shareholders, which was approved by the Ordinary Shareholders' General Meeting of 12/05/2005 and was realised from 30/06/2005 until 01/08/2005 reached 96.92% with the payment of euro 97,008,636, which corresponds to 16.168.106 new common registered shares, while 514.162 shares remained undistributed. Also, according to the BoD decision of 01/08/2005 of the company, the above-mentioned undistributed shares were allocated at the discretion of Societe Generale. Consequently, the final subscription amount of the share capital increase amounts to100% and the total sum of the share capital increase amounts to ?100,093,608.

Thus, according to the above, the share capital of the company will be increased by ?96,256,686.36, with the issue of 16.682.268 new common registered shares, of a par value of ?5.77 each. The new shares that resulted from the above-mentioned increase will be given to the beneficiaries -in dematerialized form- and will be credited to the Investors' and Shareholders Account in the DSS. The date of credit of the new shares to the beneficiaries' accounts and the start date for their trading on the ATHX. will be notified with a new announcement of the company.