Kaupþing banki - Notification of issuer holdings


Name	Kaupþing banki
Date of transaction	22.3.2007
Buy or Sell	Sale
Type of instrument	Equities
Number of shares	1.624.000
Price	303
Primary insider's holdings after the transaction	14.923.295
Date of settlement	

Reason for transaction
The shares were sold to Hreidar Mar Sigurdsson, CEO and Sigurdur Einarsson, Executive Chairman in connection with their exercising of stock option agreements, cf. the Bank´s announcement dated 22 March 2007.  A total of  10,427,223 shares, are held in the Bank´s books as a hedge against forward contracts with clients.