HSBC Bank Malta plc - AGM

The Annual General Meeting of HSBC Bank Malta plc will be held on 23rd March 2005. Shareholders will approve the audited accounts for the year ended 31st December 2004 and declare a gross final dividend of 27c3 per share.

There will be an extraordinary resolution which aims at amending To amend clause 6 of the Company’s Memorandum of Association with effect from 1st April 2005 to read as follows:

(1) The authorised share capital of the Company is forty million Maltese Liri
(Lm40,000,000) divided into three hundred twenty million (320,000,000) ordinary shares of twelve cents five mils (12c 5m) each.

(2) The issued and fully paid-up capital of the Company is nine million, one hundred and twenty thousand Maltese Liri (Lm 9,120,000) divided into seventy two million,
nine hundred sixty thousand (72,960,000) shares of twelve cents five mils (12c 5m) each, which are all listed on the Malta Stock Exchange.