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Top Up 20th Floor Ceremony of New Building of ACLEDA Bank Plc. Headquarters

August 8, 2014

Phnom Penh, August 8, 2014, ACLEDA Bank Plc., the bank you can trust, the bank for the people, and the Cambodia's leading commercial bank, has announced today it celebrates a Top Up 20th Floor Ceremony of New Building of ACLEDA Bank Plc. Headquarters located at #61, Preah Monivong Bolevard., Sangkat Srah Chork, Khan Daun Penh, Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia.

The main purposes of celebrating the ceremony are:

1. To celebrate the milestone achievement of quality architectural building completed as plan.
2. In accordance to Khmer Ancient Tradition, we are getting together to pray for great safety avoidance of all typical natural disaster.

The New Land Mark Building spacious 43,000 sqm constructing on the land area of 5,178 sqm has been designed by internationally and reputable companies renowned Aedas, the Architect Consultant. iLi Consulting Engineers Mekong Ltd. is the Civil & Structure Consultant. Optima Consultant Ltd. is MEP Consultant. And BK Asia Pacific is the Quantity Surveying Consultant. This new land mark building has been constructing by HYUNDAI ENGINEERING CORPORATION, which is one of the professional and reputable construction companies in South Korea as well as in the world, with successful record in Cambodia.

On December 17, 2012, it celebrated the ground breaking ceremony of the new building which will be the modern high-rise 20 floor land mark building with 4 basements and one additional floor on existing building. It is constructed with international standard, providing a large, healthy and comfortable working space which can accommodate over two thousand staff, 703 vehicles, and canteen for staff. It's constructed with special attention on security, energy conservation, fire protection, centralized network monitoring and communication, and IT support system. It is projected to expense roughly USD 73.6 million.

Over the past seven years, the existing 6-story headquarters building office spacing 6,083 sqm has been accommodated 500 headquarters staff, and with the parking lots for 168 vehicles. By the end of July 2014, the total staff reached 11,529 (male: 6,932 and female: 4,597) of which 1,430 of them are headquarters staff, and this number estimated to increase to 1,774 for the next five years. By investing in the constructing of this new land mark building with special attention on security, convenience and comfort, ACLEDA Bank Plc. would even affirm with high commitment and great effort to best serve its smart substantial customers in all segments of community, it continues to confirm the sustainable mutual growth with its smart customers which inspire the optimum level of public trust and confidence guiding by its long term strategies.

The New Land Mark Building structure has recently been completed the 20th floor on July 13, 2014 and its whole structures will be finished in March 2015, and the fit-out works estimated to be completed in August 2015, and the staff work station will move into this new land mark Building by September 2015.

From its establishing date till 2014, and the following years, the development of ACLEDA Bank is done continuously and sustainably, from small offices, branches network, to its headquarters building to keep pace with the progressive changes of the nature of the business, and the progressive financial products and services, and to accommodate the updating electronic bank infrastructure network, and its electronic banking financial products and services to best serve its growing substantial customers. Those electronic bank infrastructure and financial services/products include: ACLEDA Unity through Mobile Phones System, Cash Withdrawal via ACLEDA ATM, Cash Deposit via ACLEDA Bank's Cash Deposit Machine and ACLEDA POS is an electronic machine for doing transaction by ACLEDA Card and other bank's VISA Card to pay for goods or services safely and conveniently. Meanwhile, ACLEDA Bank Plc. has also served a new service which is the world class means of financial service, ACLEDA Internet Bank service, which is most convenient and reliable for self-service, highly secured. The costumers can do financial transactions from anywhere and at any time — 24 hours a day, 7 days a week without coming to the branches or offices.

ACLEDA Bank Plc. has sustainably providing financial products and services for more 22 years for all segment of the community – both private and public sectors through 252 branches throughout Cambodia, and via electronic infrastructure network globally; and it has four subsidiaries: ACLEDA Securities Plc., ACLEDA Training Center, ACLEDA Bank Lao Ltd. (41 branches and offices in Laos) and ACLEDA MFI Myanmar Co., Ltd. (6 branches and offices in Myanmar) with the bank's assets of USD 2.76 billion by the end of July 2014. And strategically, ACLEDA Bank Plc. is in the partnership with Japanese Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), and British Life Assurance Company, Prudential (Cambodia) Life Assurance Plc. and others. It has 484 correspondent banks with their branches around the globe.

For further information, please contact:

Dr. SO Phonnary
Executive Vice President & Group Chief Operations Officer
E-mail: phonnary@acledabank.com.kh

Mr. PROM Visoth
Executive Vice President & Group Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary
E-mail: visoth@acledabank.com.kh