Hansapank                     NEWS RELEASE                04/30/2004 12:30



FITCH RATINGS UPGRADES HANSABANK'S RATING



Fitch Ratings (‘Fitch’) has upgraded Hansabank’s long-term rating by

one notch to A.



The short-term and individual ratings of the bank remained at F1 and

B/C, respectively.





Mart Tõevere

Head of Communications and IR

+372 6131 569