Banco de Chile Third Quarter 2004 Earnings Conference Call; Thursday 4, November 2004

Business Wire, Nov 4, 2004

SANTIAGO, Chile -- Banco de Chile (NYSE:BCH - News), a Chilean full-service financial institution, market leader in a wide variety of credit and non-credit products and services across all segments of the Chilean financial market, will hold its quarterly conference call to discuss third quarter 2004 results on Friday, November, 5, 2004, at 11:00 (ET time).

This call is being webcast by CCBN and a live audio webcast of the call together with a slide presentation of the conference will be available in the Banco de Chile's web site at www.bancochile.cl.

The webcast is also being distributed over CCBN's Investor Distribution Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the call through CCBN's individual investor center at www.companyboardroom.com or by visiting any of the investor sites in CCBN's Individual Investor Network. Institutional investors can access the call via CCBN's password-protected event management site, StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com).

ABOUT BANCO DE CHILE

Banco de Chile is a full-service financial institution which provides, directly and indirectly through its subsidiaries and affiliates, a wide variety of credit and non-credit products and services to all segments of the Chilean financial market.

At the closing of the third quarter 2004, Banco de Chile held a market share over total net loans of 17.7%, being thus the largest bank of local capital and the second largest financial institution in an overall basis.

The Bank, showing one of the largest market capitalizations among chilean companies, is listed in the local stock exchanges and in the New York, London and Madrid Stock Exchanges.

We offer international banking services through our branch in New York, our agency in Miami, representative offices in Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo and Mexico City and a worldwide network of approximately 1,000 correspondent banks.

The Bank is headquartered in Santiago de Chile and is locally supervised by the Superintendencia de Bancos e Instituciones Financieras of Chile.