Disclosure pursuant to transparency legislation...

Regulated information* - 9 December 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 received from following shareholder.	Details	Notification concerns situation on:	Number of ordinary shares KBC Group held by the shareholder	% of voting rights
BlackRock Inc.	Update of participation, leading to downward crossing of threshold (< 3%)	2 December 2011	10 518 102	2.94%

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.

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