KBC Group : Disclosure pursuant to transparency...

Press Release - Outside  trading hours - Regulated information*
10 January 2013

 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 (on 6 December 2012)	% of voting rights (on 6 December 2012)
BlackRock Inc.	Update of participation, leading to  crossing of threshold (> 3%). The calculation base was the total number of KBC-shares before the capital increase announced on 10 December 2012 (total number of KBC-shares was 357 980 313 at that time, instead of the current 416 967 355)	6 December 2012	11 026 587	3.08%

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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