The Management Board of Bank Millennium S.A. ("Bank") informs that it has received information from Fitch rating agency ("Fitch") that Bank's Support Rating has been downgraded to '4' from '3' and its Support Rating Floor (SRF) was revised to 'NF' (No Floor) and has been withdrawn.

Support ratings incorporate an assessment of a potential supporter's (either a sovereign state's or an institutional owner's) propensity to support a financial institution and its ability to support it.

The reason of above mentioned modifications is change in the source of support to institutional from sovereign and is in conjunction with Fitch's review of sovereign support for banks globally, which Fitch agency announced in March 2014. In line with its expectations announced in March last year and communicated regularly since then, Fitch believes that legislative, regulatory and policy initiatives have substantially reduced the likelihood of sovereign support for US, Swiss and European Union commercial banks.

The Support Rating change has no impact on current main Bank's ratings from Fitch.

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