Balti Investeeringute Grupi Pank (BIG Bank) is raising its interest rates on fixed-term deposits from Thursday, 27 September 2007. The rate will now reach 5.25% per annum.

Interest on deposits with a fixed term of one year at BIG will now be 5.3%, with a fixed term of three years - 5.5%. The term of deposits in BIG ranges from six months to three years. More details about deposits at BIG are available here: www.big.ee/index.php?id=292.

According to Piret Raudsepp, BIG's Financial Manager, the company has set the goal of offering its clients the most profitable deposits in the market.

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 a total of about 400 employees in the three Baltic States. The company'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:

Piret Raudsepp
Financial Manager
Phone: 7350923
E-mail: piret.raudsepp@big.ee