Hansapank                     NEWS RELEASE                      01/13/2004



CHANGE IN THE BOARD OF LITHUANIAN HANSABANKAS



Member of the Board and chief accountant of the Group’s Lithuanian

subsidiary Hansabankas, Antanas Poska, has submitted his letter of

resignation. Mr Poska has worked for Hansabankas since 1998.



Chairman of the Board of Hansabank, Indrek Neivelt said that it was

natural that after the resignation of the chairman of the company

there might be some additional reshuffling. "This is part of normal

development of the company, which on the other hand creates new

possibilities for our talented young managers".



The new CEO and chief accountant of Hansabankas will be appointed 

from within the company during January.





Mart Tõevere

Head of Communications and IR

+372 6131 569