KBC Groupe NV

Director's Dealing • Oct 13, 2023

1) Status of the notification

	Final
Identification number 0403-227-515	Name KBC GROUP

3) Reason for the notification

Acquisition or disposal of voting securities or voting rights	2	+
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4) Notification by

2) Issuer

A parent undertaking or a controlling person

5) Persons subject to the notification requirement

Name	Address (for legal entities)
FMR LLC	The Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, 19801.	+

6) Persons that dispose of voting rights (only to be filled in if art. 7 of the Law applies)

Name	Address (for legal entities)
		+ A

Please continue entering the information in part II concerning the persons referred to in Sections 5 and 6

Part II

7) Date on which the threshold is crossed

8) Threshold that is crossed (in %)

If the holding has fallen below the lowest threshold, you have the option of not entering any numbers in Section 10

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9) Denominator

417,169,414 Please enter the denominator before filling in the data

10) Notified details

A) Voting rights	Previous notification		After the transaction
	# of voting rights	# of voting rights		% of voting rights
Holders of voting rights		Linked to securities	Not linked to the securities	Linked to securities	Not linked to the securities
FMR LLC	0	0		0.00%
Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC	9,083,926	8,849,918		2.12%
FMR Investment Management (UK) Limited	206,885	206,885		0.05%
Fidelity Institutional Asset Management Trust Company	1,023,925	1,054,685		0.25%
FIAM LLC	942,062	917,294		0.22%
Fidelity Management Trust Company	842,168	849,574		0.20%

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	TOTAL	12,419,295	0	2.98%	0.00%
Subtotal	12,643,438	12,419,295		2.98%		S	+
Strategic Advisers LLC	544,472	540,940		0.13%		1	-

Start with "groups" of holders. Add subtotals with S, and then finish with the persons who are "alone". For groups, start with the ultimate controlling natural person or legal entity.

The totals, subtotals and % will be updated once you have clicked on .

B) Equivalent financial instruments	After the transaction
Holders of equivalent financial instruments	Type of financial instrument		Expiration date Exercise period or date	# of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised	% of voting rights	Settlement
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	TOTAL			0	0.00%
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	TOTAL (A & B)				# of voting rights % of voting rights
			CALCULATE	12,419,295	2.98%

11) Full chain of controlled undertakings through which the holding is effectively held, if applicable

12) In case of proxy voting for only one GM

				(DD/MM/YYYY)
Holder	will cease to hold / will hold again	0	voting rights as of

13) Additional information

The holdings attributed to the entities mentioned in heading 10 arise from holdings of various undertakings for collective investment that are managed by FIAM LLC, Fidelity Institutional Asset Management Trust Company, Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC, Fidelity Management Trust Company, FMR Investment Management (UK) Limited and Strategic Advisers LLC each of which are entities that are subsidiaries of and controlled by FMR LLC. The entities mentioned in heading 10 are the discretionary investment managers and exercise the voting rights at their discretion in the absence of specific instructions.

		Done at Dublin, Ireland
	10/10/2023 (DD/MM/YYYY)		On
Signature		Name & capacity Ada Coffey, Assistant Manager, Regulatory Reporting

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