Balti Investeeringute Grupi Pank (BIG Bank) opened on Thursday (18 October 2007) a branch at the Mustika Centre in Tallinn - its 20th branch in Estonia.

The Mustika Centre branch offers all of BIG's loan and deposit services. This is BIG's first branch in Mustamäe and the bank's sixth branch in Tallinn and the surrounding area.

In expanding its network of branches, BIG aims to get closer to its clients in order to be able to offer them flexible, fast and convenient financial services. Now BIG has a total of 37 branches in the Baltic States: 20 in Estonia, 13 in Latvia and 4 in Lithuania.

The Balti Investeeringute Grupi Pank AS (BIG) company is one of the largest banks in the Baltic States specialising in loans for private individuals and is the leader in the small loans segment of the Estonian market. BIG has approximately 400 employees. BIG's loan portfolio exceeded 1.6 billion kroons as of the end of the first six months of this year.

BIG's bonds are listed on the Tallinn and Stockholm stock exchanges.

For further information please contact:

Veiko Sepp
Branch Network Manager
Phone: 630 9919
Mobile: 521 4633
veiko.sepp@big.ee