First Repetitive Ordinary General Shareholders' Meeting- 23 May 2006

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Athens, May 23rd 2006

ANNOUNCEMENT

FIRST REPETITIVE ORDINARY GENERAL SHAREHOLDERS? MEETING

Hellenic Exchanges S.A. Holding announces that today, May 23rd 2006 the first Repetitive General Meeting of shareholders took place at the historic trading floor of Athens Exchange. At the General Meeting 161 shareholders representing 37,481,966 common registered shares, i.e. 53.37% of the total 70,230,463 common registered shares participated. The General Meeting took the following decisions:

1.      On item one, shareholders present and voting in their entirety (37,481,966 shares), 100%, approved the reduction in share capital of the Company by ?87,788,078.75, with a reduction in the par value of each share by ?1.25, and payment of the corresponding amount to Shareholders, an amount which includes the remaining, on 31.12.2005, uninvested capital from the share capital increase of the Company in 2000.

2.      On item two, shareholders present and voting in their entirety (37,481,966 shares), 100%, approved the modification of article 5 of the Company?s Articles of Association (re: share capital).

June 30th 2006 has been set as the ex date for the right to the share capital return in the amount of ?1.25 per share, and July 10th 2006 as the payment date.