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Fitch Ratings has today affirmed Iceland-based Landsbanki Islands´ (Landsbanki) ratings at Long-term Issuer Default (IDR) ´A´, Short-term IDR ´F1´, Individual ´B/C´, Support ´2´ and Support Rating Floor ´BBB´. The Outlook for the Long-term IDR is Stable.

In their statement, Fitch marks that the ratings reflect Landsbanki´s arch position in its calm market, the growing about-face of its earnings, its advisable accessories policies, adequate capitalisation and apparent advance in its allotment profile. They aswell crop into anniversary its still ample disinterestedness portfolio, and the abeyant animation in its calm bazaar and capital-market-related activities.

Please acquisition absorbed Fitch´s abounding columnist absolution appear today.

For added advice amuse contact:

Landsbanki´s CEOs Sigurjón Th. Árnason, tel. +354 410-4009 / +354 898 0177 and Halldór J. Kristjánsson, tel. +354 410 4015 / +354 820 6399.
Media Relations - Andrew Walton, Financial Dynamics, tel: +44 20 7269 7204 / mob: +44 7711 264 157.

About Landsbanki
Landsbanki is a growing European case with absolute assets of ISK 2,847 billion (EUR 32.4 bn) at 30 September 2007 and a bazaar capitalisation of ISK 403 billion (EUR 4.3 bn) at 22 November 2007. Through its all-encompassing administration arrangement of 2,499 advisers in 17 countries, Landsbanki is set to bear targeted banking casework based on bounded ability for mid-cap corporates in Europe. Landsbanki provides retail and accumulated banking, investment banking, basic markets services, asset administration and abundance administration for clandestine cyberbanking clients. Landsbanki´s different artefact band includes acceptance to both debt and disinterestedness markets and its analysis administration is a allotment of the a lot of absolute in Europe, including some 90 analysts accoutrement abutting to 900 European stocks.

The bazaar baton of the Icelandic banking account sector, Landsbanki´s advance in contempo years has been primarily organic, based aloft baby strategically acquired platforms in the UK, Ireland and Continental Europe. Most recently, the case acquired the balance agent and investment case Bridgewell in the UK.

Headquartered in Reykjavik, Iceland, Landsbanki Islands hf. is traded on the OMX Nordic Exchange Iceland beneath the attribute . Landsbanki is rated by Moody´s (Aa3 / P-1 / C / Stable) and Fitch (A / F1 / B/C / Stable).

Fitch affirms Landsbanki at ´A´ with abiding angle - 22 Nov 2007

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