OREANDA-NEWS. December 27, 2012. Pursuant to the transparency legislation in relation to notifications, KBC Group NV hereby makes public that it has received shareholding notifications of the following shareholders:

Notification received from following shareholders...

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Notification concerns situation on:

Number of % of ordinary voting shares rights KBC Group held by the shareholders

CERA CVBA and

KBC ANCORA Comm. VA (combined)

Increase in number of shares held (by CERA1; no change for KBC Ancora2), in combination with increase in total number of KBC shares (following recent capital increase).

As a result, the number of voting securities held by CERA CVBA and KBC ANCORA Comm. VA combined in KBC Group NV falls below the 30% notification threshold.

In addition, the number of voting securities that KBC ANCORA Comm. VA alone holds in KBC Group NV falls below the notification threshold of 20%.

13 December 2012

111 443 546 26,74%

number of shares at notification date: 29 227 166 (7,01%)

number of shares at notification date: 82 216 380 (19,72%)