HSBC Bank Malta plc - Board Meeting

HSBC Bank Malta plc today announced that its Board of Directors of is scheduled to meet on Thursday 16 February 2006 to:

(i) consider and approve the Group’s and the Bank’s Final Audited Accounts for the financial year ended 31 December 2005;

(ii) consider declaration of a final dividend to be recommended to the Bank’s Annual General Meeting.

Further to last week’s advert in the media, those shareholders who appear on the Bank’s share register as at close of trading on Tuesday 21 February will be entitled to the final dividend.