Banco de Chile's First Quarter 2005 Earnings Conference Call

Business Wire, April 29, 2005

SANTIAGO, Chile -- Banco de Chile (NYSE:BCH), 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 first quarter 2005 results on Monday, May, 2, 2005, at 12:00 noon (both New York and Chilean time).

This call is being webcast by Thomson/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 through the Thomson StreetEvents Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the call at www.earnings.com, Thomson's individual investor portal, powered by StreetEvents. Institutional investors can access the call via Thomson StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com), a password-protected event management site.

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 first quarter 2005, 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, a foreign trade office in Hong Kong 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.