NATIONAL BANK OF GREECE

Update regarding the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of NBG

National Bank ofGreeceannounces that today, 30 October 2012, it held an Extraordinary General Meeting of its Shareholders in theMelasBuilding,Athens. The Meeting was attended by Shareholders representing 19.75%, i.e. less than 1/5, of the paid up share capital.

As a result, the quorum required by the Articles of Association and Codified Law 2190/1920 and Law 3723/2008 to take a decision on any item on the agenda was not forthcoming.

Accordingly, discussion and decision-taking in respect of the items on the agenda will take place at the 1^st Repeat General Meeting, which, as already announced in the Invitation, is scheduled to take place onMonday, 12 November 2012,12 noon at the same venue.

A new invitation to the Repeat General Meeting will not be published, since, pursuant to article 29.4 of Codified Law 2190/1920, as amended by article 7 of Law 3884/2010, in force, the venue and time of the 1^st Repeat General Meeting have already been duly scheduled and published in the initial invitation. The same applies in the event that it is necessary to hold a 2^nd Repeat General Meeting.

Athens, 30 October 2012