On 23 April 2018, ABLV Bank, carried out payment of coupon to the holders of subordinated bonds of issue series ABLV SUB USD 231023 (ISIN: LV0000801223).

On 23 April, 2018, an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting took place, at which sworn attorney Eva Berlaus was elected as the fourth liquidator of the bank.

On Tuesday, 17 April, ABLV’s attorneys from WilmerHale law firm’s U.S. office submitted a letter to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury providing a response to the Notice FinCEN released on 13 February 2018. The letter is published on website www.regulations.gov. In the letter, the attorneys refer to more than 50 documents, which are provided in the attachment to this letter.

We hereby inform that due to the Latvian public holidays, ABLV Bank, AS and ABLV Capital Markets, IBAS will not operate on Friday, 30 March 2018, and Monday, 2 April 2018.

The Luxembourg Commercial Court (Tribunal de Commerce de Luxembourg) has decided today to refuse the request to place ABLV Bank Luxembourg, S.A. in liquidation.

The bank hereby informs that the decision of the Financial and Capital Market Commission (FCMC) of 18 February 2018 about imposing payment restrictions, and the decision of 23 February 2018 about occurrence of unavailability of deposits with ABLV Bank, AS, and the decision of the extraordinary meeting of shareholders of 26 February 2018 about voluntary liquidation of the bank do not impede clients’ rights as borrowers to carry out payments from other credit institutions to ABLV Bank, AS for covering obligations.

Taking into consideration the restrictions imposed on ABLV Bank, AS, the sale and purchase of investment certificates of the funds managed by ABLV Asset Management, IPAS are currently suspended.

On Monday, 5 March, ABLV Bank submitted a draft voluntary liquidation plan application to the Financial and Capital Market Commission. The aim of the liquidation measures is to satisfy all claims of clients and creditors in full.

This is to inform that the procedure for disbursement of guaranteed compensations to the eligible clients of ABLV Bank (hereinafter – the Bank) in accordance with the Deposit Guarantee Law has been determined. Given that the funds are unavailable to the clients of the Bank already since 19 February 2018, it was decided to commence disbursement of compensations sooner than the law provides – starting from 3 March 2018, it will be done by Citadele banka, AS.

Second pillar pension manager ABLV Asset Management, IPAS signed an agreement with ABLV Bank, AS about termination of the contract on custody services, and concluded a contract with Citadele banka, which will become the new custodian bank for the ABLV Active Investment Plan. In a few days, an appropriate order about transfer of all assets of the plan, including funds, to Citadele banka will be issued.