Hansapank                     NEWS RELEASE                09/25/2003 11:00



BOARD MEMBER MART TOOMING LEAVES HANSABANK



Mart Tooming, Chairman of the Board of Hansa Capital and Member of the

Board of Hansabank, has presented a letter of resignation to Hansabank

Council.



Mart Tooming, head of the pan-Baltic leasing and factoring company

Hansa Capital since its creation in 1993, will leave the bank

following the adoption of a country-based management structure.



Indrek Neivelt: During his 11 years in Hansabank, Mart Tooming has

built up a very successful leasing company. Hansa Capital has had a

great role in not only the development of Hansabank Group, but the

whole Baltic financial market, where penetration of leasing services

is one of the highest in the world. With the structural changes, I

made him an offer to take up a new position of the Group, which Mart

decided not to accept."



Mart Tooming’s positions in Hansabank Group:

1998-2003 Chairman of the Board of Hansa Capital

1996-1998 Chairman of the Board of Hansa Liising

1993-1996 Managing Director of Hansa Liising





Mart Tõevere

Head of investor relations

+372 6131 569