2011 Annual Results/ Coupon payments on supplementary capital instruments

HYPO ALPE-ADRIA-BANK AG, the Austrian subsidiary of Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank International AG, today reports positive results from ordinary business activities (EBT) in 2011 of €10.18m (2010: -108.5m). The 2011 net income was €7.48m.

Consequently, HYPO ALPE-ADRIA BANK AG announces that the conditions have been met for coupon payments on the profit-based supplementary capital instruments AT0000A053D5 and AT0000355300 of HYPO ALPE-ADRIA-BANK AG solely adjusted to the 2011 financial statement of HYPO ALPE-ADRIA-BANK AG.

Furthermore, an additional interest payment will be made for those past business years, the disbursement of which had been illegal so far, irrespective of the pro rata loss-sharing capacity of these instruments as in principle provided for by statute. The payment will be effected at the next due interest payment date.

There exists explicitly no connection with the supplementary capital instruments of the parent company Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank International AG and also not with the current or future ability to render payments on these instruments.
HYPO ALPE-ADRIA-BANK AG will present its 2011 business results in a press conference on Wednesday, 21 March 2012, and subsequently post detailed information about the results on the bank’s website at www.hypo-alpe-adria.at.