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Announcement

1st Repetitive General Meeting of HELEX 

24 May 2007 ? HELLENIC EXCHANGES S.A. HOLDING, CLEARING, SETTLEMENT AND REGISTRY announces that today, May 24^th 2007, the Repetitive General Meeting of shareholders of the Company was held at the historic trading floor of Athens Exchange. 215 shareholders representing 35,816,768 common registered shares, i.e. 50.97% of the 70,271,463 total common registered shares participated. The General Meeting took the following decisions:

1. On item one, shareholders present and voting, representing 35,815,138 shares out of a total 35,816,768, 100.00%, approved the share capital reduction of the company by the amount of €35,135,731.50, through a reduction in the par value of each share by €0.50 and payment of the respective amount to shareholders.
   Monday July 2^nd is the ex-date for the right to the share capital return in the amount of €0.50 per share. The payment date is Thursday July 12^th 2007.
2. On item two, shareholders present and voting, representing 35,815,138 shares out of a total 35,816,768, 100.00%, approved the modification of Article 5 (re share capital) of the Articles of Association of the Company.
3. On item three, shareholders present and voting, representing 33,071,854 out of a total 35,816,768, 92.34%, approved the distribution of shares to executives of the companies of the Group in the form of a stock option plan.