OMX Baltic stock exchanges welcome Bankas SNORAS AB as a pan-Baltic member


On August 16, 2007, Bankas SNORAS AB has been approved as a member on the Riga
and Tallinn stock exchanges. Being already a member at the Vilnius Stock
Exchange, the bank has become the 22th pan-Baltic member. 

“By operating on the OMX Baltic stock exchanges, we will be able to provide the
customers with more flexible decisions, which will better satisfy their needs,”
noted Vladimir Streckij, director of Bankas SNORAS Financial Brokerage
Department. 

During fifteen years of operations Bankas SNORAS has become one of the largest
banks in Lithuania. The bank manages the most expansive customer service
network in the country, including ten branches, seven branch outlets, 226
savings outlets and 325 ATMs. 

Bankas SNORAS Financial Brokerage Department has been providing financial
broking and share acquisition funding services in Vilnius stock exchange since
1995. The Bank also provides investment services in the Russian Exchange,
Lithuanian and foreign investment funds‘ units. 

Bankas SNORAS manages 76 percent of the controlling holding of shares of the
Latvijas Krājbanka, the oldest and the largest in terms of the customer service
network bank in Latvia.  Bankas SNORAS directly manages five subsidiaries in
Lithuania and indirectly (through Latvijas Krājbanka)  - five subsidiary
companies in Latvia, which provide Lithuanian and Baltic market participants
with real estate management, constructions and renovation, money, leasing and
securities funds management services. 

The Bank has its representative offices in Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia,
Latvia, Ukraine and Belarus. 

Within the first half-year of 2007 Bankas SNORAS group earned LTL 35.2 million
of non-audited net profit, i. e. by 23.4 % more than within the same period in
2006, when the profit of the Bank group amounted to LTL 28.5 million. 

Bankas SNORAS AB will trade on the OMX Baltic stock exchanges under the trading
code SNO. 

The OMX Baltic stock exchanges have 40 members altogether.

For more information, please contact:

Tex Vertmann, Communications Manager 
Tallinn Stock Exchange +372 640 8862

Āris Dreimanis, Head of Corporate Communications 
Riga Stock Exchange +371 7212431

Gintare Blazyte, Communication Manager
Vilnius Stock Exchange +370 5 272 34 58