CorpBanca Correction Notice to First Quarter 2015 Financial Report Press Release Regarding "Write-offs Chile and Colombia"

SANTIAGO, CHILE--(Marketwired - May 27, 2015) - CORPBANCA (NYSE: BCA) (SSE: CORPBANCA) announced a correction to its press release titled "CorpBanca Announces First Quarter 2015 Financial Report," which was published and distributed on Monday, May 25, 2015. We apologize for any inconvenience.

The corrected amounts of the numbers related to the Write-offs of Chile and Colombia in March, 2015 (originally disclosed as 7,140 and 10,288, respectively), are underlined in the table below:

VIII) Quarterly Consolidated Evolution Selected Performance Ratios (unaudited)

About CorpBanca

CORPBANCA (NYSE: BCA) (SSE: CORPBANCA) is Chile's oldest operating private bank founded in 1871. Based in Chile, CorpBanca also participates in Colombia and Panama. It also has a branch in New York and a representative office in Madrid. Its total consolidated assets are US$32.1 billion approximately and the equity totaled US$2.8 billion. Focused on large and medium companies and individuals, CorpBanca offers universal bank products. Its remarkable performance in the past 18 years has allowed consolidating CorpBanca as the fourth largest private bank in Chile. In 2012 CorpBanca started the process of regionalization with the acquisition of two banks in Colombia, becoming the first Chilean bank to have banking subsidiaries abroad.

As of March 31, 2015, according to the Chilean Superintendency of Banks, CorpBanca was the fourth largest private bank in Chile in terms of the overall size of its customer loan portfolio, equivalent to 7.6% market share.

As of February 28, 2015, according to the Colombian Superintendency of Finance, CorpBanca Colombia was the fifth largest banking group in Colombia in terms of total assets and in terms of total loans and also the sixth largest bank in Colombia in terms of total deposits, as reported under local regulatory and accounting principles. At that date, its market share by loans remained stable at 6.4%.

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