Banco de Chile Announces Fourth Quarter 2008 Earnings Conference Call.

SANTIAGO, Chile -- Banco de Chile (NYSE:BCH), a full-service financial institution and largest Chilean-Capital bank, will hold its quarterly conference call to discuss fourth quarter results on Friday, January 30, 2009, at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time.

This call is being webcast by Thomson Financial and can be accessed at Banco de Chile's Web site at www.bancochile.com.

The webcast is also being distributed through the Thomson StreetEvents Network. 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 the largest Chilean-capital bank providing, directly and indirectly through its subsidiaries and affiliates, a variety of credit and non-credit products and services to all segments of the Chilean financial market. Its operations are organized in six principal business areas: large corporations; middle market companies; international banking; retail banking; treasury and money market operations, and operations through its subsidiaries. The brands of the Company include Banco de Chile, Banco de A. Edwards | Citi, Banco CrediChile, Banco Atlas and Banchile.