DGAP-Adhoc: Exchange Offer by Raiffeisen Bank International AG


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10.10.2012 07:53

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Vienna, 10 October 2012. Raiffeisen Bank International AG (the 'Bank')
invites the holders of the Subordinated Supplementary Capital Fixed to
Floating Rate Callable Notes (pursuant to Section 23, paragraph 7 of the
Austrian Banking Act) due October 2015, ISIN XS0326967832, Series: 74,
Tranche 1, issued by Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich Aktiengesellschaft
on 29 October 2007 in an aggregate principal amount of EUR 600,000,000 (the
'Existing Notes') to offer to exchange such Existing Notes for EUR
denominated Callable Subordinated Fixed Rate Reset Notes due 2023, Series:
18, Tranche 1, ISIN XS0843322750, to be issued pursuant to the EUR
25,000,000,000 Debt Issuance Programme for the issue of Notes of Raiffeisen
Bank International AG (the 'New Notes').

The New Notes will be issued in the denomination of EUR 1,000 and bear
interest at a fixed rate of 5.875 per cent. per annum for the first five
and a half years of their term, and a fixed rate for the remaining five
years of their term thereafter, which will be fixed in April 2018.

The Bank is under no obligation to accept any offers to exchange. 

Subject to the condition that New Notes will only be exchanged and
delivered for a minimum exchange amount of at least EUR 125,000 in
principal amount of Existing Notes per exchange instruction with a separate
exchange instruction completed by or on behalf of each beneficial owner,
the principal amount of New Notes which each noteholder whose Existing
Notes are accepted by the Bank for exchange pursuant to the Exchange Offer
will receive on the settlement date will equal the aggregate principal
amount of such Existing Notes accepted by the Bank for exchange.

The exchange offer begins on 10 October 2012 and will expire at 5.00 p.m.
(CET) on 23 October 2012. The settlement is expected to be on 29 October
2012.



For further information please contact:

Susanne Langer
Head of Group Investor Relations
Raiffeisen Bank International AG
Am Stadtpark 9 
1030 Vienna, Austria
ir@rbinternational.com
phone +43-1-71707-2089
www.rbinternational.com


THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN OR
INTO THE UNITED STATES OR TO ANY U.S. PERSON (AS DEFINED IN REGULATION S OF
THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED) OR ANY PERSON LOCATED
OR RESIDENT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ITS TERRITORIES AND
POSSESSIONS (INCLUDING PUERTO RICO, THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS, GUAM, AMERICAN
SAMOA, WAKE ISLAND AND THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS), ANY STATE OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (THE 'UNITED STATES').
THE EXCHANGE OFFER REFERENCED HEREIN IS NOT BEING MADE, DIRECTLY OR
INDIRECTLY, IN OR INTO THE UNITED STATES, OR BY USE OF THE MAILS, OR BY ANY
MEANS OR INSTRUMENTALITY OF INTERSTATE OR FOREIGN COMMERCE, OR OF ANY
FACILITY OF A NATIONAL SECURITIES EXCHANGE, OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE
INVITATION CANNOT BE ACCEPTED BY ANY SUCH USE, MEANS, INSTRUMENTALITY OR
FACILITY OR FROM WITHIN THE UNITED STATES.


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Language:     English
Company:      Raiffeisen Bank International AG
              Am Stadtpark 9
              A-1030 Vienna
              Austria
Phone:        +43-1-71707-2089
Fax:          +43-1-71707-2138
E-mail:       ir@rbinternational.com
Internet:     www.rbinternational.com
ISIN:         AT0000606306
WKN:          A0D9SU
Listed:       Freiverkehr in Berlin, München, Stuttgart; Open Market in
              Frankfurt; Wien (Amtlicher Handel / Official Market)
 
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