Disclosure pursuant to transparency legislation...

Regulated information* - 30 June 2011 (After trading hours)

New notifications received by KBC Group NV

Pursuant to the transparency legislation in relation to notifications, KBC Group
NV  hereby makes public that it has  received a shareholding notification of the
following shareholder:

+----------------+------------------+----------------+---------------+---------+
|Notification    |Details           |Notification    |Number of      |     % of|
|received from   |                  |concerns        |ordinary shares|   voting|
|following       |                  |situation on:   |KBC Group held |   rights|
|shareholder.    |                  |                |by the         |         |
|                |                  |                |shareholder    |         |
+----------------+------------------+----------------+---------------+---------+
|BlackRock Inc.  |Update of         |23 June 2011    |10 392 675     |    2,90%|
|                |participation,    |                |               |         |
|                |leading to        |                |               |         |
|                | downward crossing|                |               |         |
|                |of threshold (<   |                |               |         |
|                |3%)               |                |               |         |
+----------------+------------------+----------------+---------------+---------+


The  notifications  can  be  found on www.kbc.com/investor relations/Shareholder
structure.





* This news item contains information that is subject to the transparency
regulations for listed companies.




Bericht transparantie - 30juni2011 engels: 


http://hugin.info/133947/R/1527253/463049.pdf




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