Significant Event

As a follow up to significant events numbers 178,072 and 180,809, CaixaBank, S.A. ("CaixaBank") hereby informs that the Spanish Securities Market Commission (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores) verified yesterday that all legal requirements have been met for the admission to trading in the Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid and Valencia Stock Exchanges of the 86,944,944 new shares (the "New Shares") issued by CaixaBank to convert all the Subordinated Mandatorily Convertible Bonds Series A/2012, and that the Governing Entities (Sociedades Rectoras) of the Spanish Stock Exchanges also approved their admission to trading.
It is expected that the effective trading of the New Shares in the Automated Quotation System (Sistema de Interconexión Bursátil) or Mercado Continuo will begin today.
CaixaBank further informs that 17,800,000 treasury shares have been transferred for the same purposes and that 14,223.41 euros have been paid as consideration in cash for the fractions resulting from the calculation of the shares corresponding to the holders of the converted bonds.
Barcelona, 10 January 2013

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