Hansapank                     FINANCIAL RESULTS                 08/19/2004



HANSABANK INTERIM REPORT, Q2 2004



Hansabank Group's Q2 2004 interim report is available on the bank's

Internet home page:

<a href='http://www.hansagroup.com/reports/ka04_2/eng/index.html' target='_blank'>http://www.hansagroup.com/reports/ka04_2/eng/index.html</a>





Mart Tõevere

Head of Communications and IR

+372 6131 569