Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.

NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION IN OR INTO THE UNITED STATES Sale of Shares in CIMB Group Holdings Berhad Tokyo, September 20, 2017--- The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. (President & CEO: Kanetsugu Mike, "The Bank"), a consolidated subsidiary of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (President & Group CEO: Nobuyuki Hirano, "MUFG") hereby announces that The Bank has sold its shares in CIMB Group Holdings Berhad ("CIMB"), a Malaysia-based universal banking group in ASEAN (the "Sale of Shares") as follows.
  1. Particulars of Sale of Shares

    Number of shares sold

    412,506,345 shares (the "Shares")

    Date of sale

    September 20, 2017

    Number of shares owned

    post sale

    0 share

    Sale price

    Approximately 2,557 million Malaysian Ringgit

    (approximately 68 billion yen)

  2. Reasons for sale

    As one of the individual plans as described in "Initiatives to improve productivity" targeted in "MUFG Re-Imagining Strategy - Building Anew at MUFG" released on May 15, 2017, MUFG is proceeding optimization of capital management in the face of tightened international financial regulations and changes in business environment. In such context, MUFG is conducting a review of existing strategic investments by MUFG group companies from viewpoint of strategy, capital efficiency, and profitability of investment, etc.

    CIMB is a leading universal bank in ASEAN region and we have established a strong relationship for more than forty years since The Sanwa Bank Limited, one of The Bank's predecessors made an investment into one of the predecessor banks of CIMB in 1974.

    Although The Bank has now decided to sell the Shares after deliberate consideration based on changes in business environment surrounding MUFG and The Bank, The Bank is currently collaborating with CIMB in broad-ranging areas and there will be no change in the status of CIMB as one of our alliance partners in ASEAN region.

    The Bank has supported our customers in Malaysia for approximately sixty years from 1957, when we established our first representative office in Kuala Lumpur. The Bank is the most pre-eminent Japanese bank which can deal with Islamic finance transactions and will expand services to our customers as a community-based bank and respond to customer's multiple needs.

  3. Impact on Financial Results

The impact of this sale of shares on financial results of MUFG and The Bank for the year ending March 2018 will be minor.

(Notice)

Please find today's joint press release issued by The Bank and CIMB attached separately.

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This communication does not constitute or form part of any offer or any solicitation of any offer to purchase or subscribe for, any securities nor shall it or any part of it, nor the fact of its distribution form the basis of, or be relied on in connection with, any contract commitment or investment decision. In particular, this communication does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any securities in the United States. The securities mentioned in this communication have not been and will not be registered under

the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act") or the securities laws of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States and may not be offered or sold, directly or indirectly, in the United States except pursuant to registration or an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

This communication contains forward-looking information and statements. Investors and holders of securities are cautioned that forward-looking information and statements are not guarantees of future performances and are subject to various risks and uncertainties, many of which are difficult to predict and generally beyond the control of MUFG and the Bank, that could cause actual results, developments, synergies, savings and benefits to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied or projected by, the forward-looking information and statements.

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. published this content on 20 September 2017 and is solely responsible for the information contained herein.
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