Hellenic Bank declares interim dividend

The Board of Directors of Hellenic Bank Public Company Ltd decided to pay an interim dividend of 5 euro cent per share to the shareholders for 2008. The interim dividend will be paid to the shareholders on 20.10.2008.

The cum-dividend date will be 19.9.2008. As a result, the beneficiaries of the interim dividend will be the investors who will hold shares or will proceed with a purchase or off-floor transfer until the end of the CSE session on 19.9.2008. 

The ex-dividend date will be 22.9.2008.

The Board of Directors also decided that the shareholders will have the right to reinvest the net sum of the interim dividend or part of it in Bank's shares. The basis for the reinvestment will be the average price of the share of the Bank, that is, the average closing price of the share in the CSE over the first five business days of its trading from the ex-dividend date (that is from 22.09.2008 to 26.09.2008) minus a discount of 12%.