Disclosure pursuant to transparency legislation...

Regulated information* - 19 February 2010 (7.00 p.m. CET)


New notification received by KBC Group NV

Pursuant to the transparency legislation in relation to notifications, KBC Group
NV  hereby makes public  that it has  received two shareholding notifications of
the following shareholder:

+-----------------+-----------------+----------------+--------------+----------+
|Notification     |Details          |Notification    |Number of     |      % of|
|received from.   |                 |concerns        |ordinary      |    voting|
|                 |                 |situation on:   |shares        |    rights|
+-----------------+-----------------+----------------+--------------+----------+
|BlackRock Inc.   |In December 2009 |1 December 2009 |12 264 598    |     3.43%|
|                 |the Barclays     |                |              |          |
|                 |Global Investors |                |              |          |
|                 |(BGI) business   |                |              |          |
|                 |was acquired by  |                |              |          |
|                 |BlackRock Inc.   |                |              |          |
|                 |The combined     |                |              |          |
|                 |holdings of      |                |              |          |
|                 |BlackRock Inc and|                |              |          |
|                 |the former BGI   |                |              |          |
|                 |surpass the      |                |              |          |
|                 |reporting        |                |              |          |
|                 |threshold (> 3%).|                |              |          |
+-----------------+-----------------+----------------+--------------+----------+
|BlackRock Inc.   |Update of        |2 February 2010 |10 709 212    |     2.99%|
|                 |shareholding     |                |              |          |
|                 |leading to       |                |              |          |
|                 |downward crossing|                |              |          |
|                 |of threshold (<  |                |              |          |
|                 |3%)              |                |              |          |
+-----------------+-----------------+----------------+--------------+----------+

The  notifications  can  be  found on www.kbc.com/investor relations/Shareholder
structure.



Update  of  data  in  order  to  allow  shareholders  of  KBC Group NV to do the
necessary notifications

The  update  relates  to  the  number  of  ordinary  shares of KBC Group NV (one
ordinary share = one voting right).
As a consequence of a capital increase reserved exclusively for the personnel of
KBC  Group NV and some of its subsidiaries, the number of ordinary shares of KBC
Group                     NV                     increased                    by
165 303 (or 0.046%), to 357 918 125 on 31 December 2009. To date, this number is
still unchanged.

The  most recent information relating to the number of shares of KBC Group NV is
also available on  www.kbc.com.






* This news item contains information that is subject to the transparency
regulations for listed companies.



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    Bericht transparantie - 19 februari 2010 engels: 

http://hugin.info/133947/R/1386466/345164.pdf