Investor Relations
Notice to the market - Capital Research and Management Company
(“CRMC”) sold shares
NOTICE TO THE MARKET
Curitiba, April 16, 2013 ­ Paraná Banco (BM&FBOVESPA: PRBC4/ ADR Level I: PRBAY), private multiple bank specializing in payroll­deduction loans, loans to the
middle market segment, surety bonds and reinsurance, announces that on this date it received the following notice from Capital Research and Management
Company ("CRMC"):
“In compliance with the provisions of section 12, paragraph 4 of CVM Instruction No. 358/02, Capital Research and Management Company (“CRMC”), a company
organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, wishes to inform the market in general, the investment funds, managed portfolios, and
non­resident investors legally represented by CRMC that by means of transactions undertaken on the São Paulo Stock, Commodities and Futures Exchange –
BM&FBovespa S.A. it has reduced the interest it manages in preferred shares issued by PARANÁ BANCO S.A.(“Company”), and now holds one million, five hundred
and twenty five thousand, four hundred and eighty (1,525,480) preferred shares, equivalent to 4.99% of the total shares of this type issued by the Company. No
other company pertaining to the CRMC economic group holds equity interests in the Company.This is a minority investment which does not change the composition
of the control or administrative structure of the Company. Currently, CRMC has no designs on any quantity of the company’s shares. Neither CRMC nor any
related party holds, directly or indirectly, debentures convertible to shares, or any covenant or agreement regulating the exercise of voting rights or the purchase
and sale of securities issued by the Company, to which CRMC or any related party is party.”