Press Release

15^th Annual General Meeting 

25 May 2016 - HELLENIC EXCHANGES-ATHENS STOCK EXCHANGE S.A. announces that on Wednesday May 25^th 2016, the 15^th Annual General Meeting of shareholders of the Company was held in the "HERMES" hall at the offices of the Company. Shareholders representing 35,790,548 common registered shares and voting rights, i.e. 54.8% of the 65,368,563 total common registered shares participated.

The General Meeting took the following decisions:

·         On the first (1^st) item of the Daily Agenda, shareholders approved the Annual Financial Report for the fourteenth (15^th) fiscal year (1.1.2015 ? 31.12.2015). The Annual Financial Report includes the Annual Financial Statements for the fourteenth (15^th) fiscal year (1.1.2015 ? 31.12.2015) together with the relevant declarations and reports by the Board of Directors and the Auditors, as presented for approval.

·         On the second (2^nd) item of the Daily Agenda, shareholders approved the distribution of profit of the Company for the fifteenth (15^th) fiscal year (1.1.2015 ? 31.12.2015), and the distribution of dividend of €0.10 per share.

The abovementioned dividend amount, according to the relevant law, will be increased by the dividend corresponding to 1.656.513 treasury stock possessed by the company and finally amounts to €0.1026 per share.

Concerning the dividend, the ex-date and beneficiary determination date (based on the record date rule) of May 31^st and June 1^st respectively were approved, and the corresponding amount will be paid to shareholders starting on Monday June 6^th 2016.

The company has published today separate announcement concerning the dividend payment procedure.

·         On the third (3^rd) item of the Daily Agenda, shareholders discharged the Board of Directors and the Auditors from any liability for compensation for the Annual Financial Statements and management of the fifteenth (15^th) fiscal year (1.1.2015 ? 31.12.2015), and approved the management and representation acts of the Board of Directors of the Company.

·         On the fourth (4^th) item of the Daily Agenda, shareholders approved the remuneration of the Members of the Board of Directors in accordance with the proposal that was put forth for approval.

·         On the fifth (5^th) item of the Daily Agenda, shareholders pre-approved the remuneration of the Members of the Board of Directors for the next, sixteenth (16^th), Fiscal Year (from 01.01.2016 to 31.12.2016), in accordance with the proposal that was put forth for approval.

·         On the sixth (6^th) item of the Daily Agenda, shareholders elected the auditing firm proposed as well as the regular and substitute Auditors for the sixteenth (16^th) fiscal year, i.e.:

"Ernst & Young (Greece) Certified Auditors ? Accountants" (Chimarras 8B, Marousi) was elected as the auditing firm. In particular Messrs. Panayotis Papazoglou (SOEL Reg. No 16631) and Dimitrios Konstantinou (SOEL Reg. No 16201) were elected as regular auditors and Mr.  Vasilios Kaminaris (SOEL Reg. No 20411) and Mrs. Sofia Kalomenidou (SOEL Reg. No 13301) as substitutes.

The remuneration of the abovementioned Certified Auditors Accountants for the combined audit of the sixteenth (16^th) fiscal year (1.1.2016 ? 31.12.2016) was set at the amount of €20,000 plus VAT. In order to issue the Annual Tax Certificate, provided that there is an obligation to publish a tax compliance report for fiscal year 2016, the fee of the above auditing firm amounts to €10,000 plus VAT.  If there is no obligation to issue a tax compliance report, the annual fee for the Company will amount to €22,500 plus VAT.

·         On the seventh (7^th) item of the Daily Agenda, shareholders certified the election of Mr. Ioannis Kyriakopoulos as new non-executive member to replace the non-executive member Mrs. Paula Hadjisotiriou who resigned.

·         On the eight (8^th) item of the Daily Agenda, shareholders granted permission to members of the Board of Directors of the Company as well as to executives of the Company, in accordance with article 23 §1 of codified law 2190/1920, to participate in the Boards of Directors or as executives in companies of the Group and associated with it companies, under the meaning of article 42e §5 of codified law 2190/1920.

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

Item 9:        Reduce the share capital by €14,381,083.86 through a reduction in the par value of each share by €0.22 and payment of this amount to shareholders, and amend Article 5 of the Articles of Association of the Company concerning the share capital.

In order to discuss and decide item 9, the General Meeting will convene again in a 1^st Repetitive General Meeting on Thursday 09.06.2016 at 18:00, in Athens, at the headquarters of the Company, in accordance with the original Invitation of the BoD of the Company of 25.04.2016.

The detailed results of the voting will be announced at a later date, and will be published on the Company's website, www.athexgroup.gr, in accordance with article 32 §1 of Codified Law 2190/1920.