FIMBank Plc

Share Issue/Capital Change • May 9, 2014

COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT

The following is a Company Announcement by FIMBank p.l.c. (or the "Company") pursuant to the Malta Financial Services Authority Listing Rules:

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Following the Annual General Meeting held on 8 May 2014 during which it was approved that the Company makes two rights issues over a period of two (2) years to raise in aggregate a minimum of one hundred million United States Dollars (USD100,000,000), FIMBank p.l.c. announces that in the coming weeks, subject to the necessary regulatory approvals, it plans to make a rights issue (the "Rights Issue") to all shareholders of the Company to subscribe to ordinary shares in the Company having a nominal value of USD0.50.

If subscribed to in full, the Rights Issue will raise a total amount of fifty million United States Dollars (USD50,000,000). The numbers of rights to which each shareholder shall be entitled, the price at which such rights may be exercised and the terms and conditions of the Rights Issue will be determined and disclosed at a later stage by means of the publication of a prospectus.

The offer will be made to those shareholders on the Register at the Central Securities Depository of the Malta Stock Exchange as at 21 May 2014 (the "Record Date"). Accordingly, the last day for trading in shares of the Company will be 16 May 2014.

Application to the MFSA (Banking Unit and the Listing Authority) and to the Malta Stock Exchange respectively for the necessary authorisations will be made in the coming days.

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Andrea Batelli Company Secretary

9 May 2014