Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc.

(Code: 8316)

Notice Concerning Result of Repurchase of ブックメーカー凱旋門 and Its Completion

(Repurchase of ブックメーカー凱旋門 under the Provisions of the Articles of Incorporation pursuant to Article 165, Paragraph 2 of the Companies Act)

TOKYO, March 26, 2012 --- Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (the “Company”) hereby announces that it has repurchased its ブックメーカー凱旋門 as follows, in accordance with Article 156 of the Companies Act, as applied pursuant to Article 165, Paragraph 3 of said Act, and that it has completed the repurchase commenced in accordance with the Board of Directors’ resolution held on January 30, 2012.

(Note)         As announced in the “Notice Concerning Resolution of Repurchase of Shares” as of January 30, 2012, the Company and Promise ブックメーカー凱旋門., Ltd. (President and Representative Director: Ken Kubo; Tokyo Stock Exchange First Section: 8574, “Promise”) resolved, at their respective meetings of the Board of Directors held on December 21, 2011, to make Promise a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company through a share exchange (the “Share Exchange”), under which the Company will become a wholly-owning parent company of Promise and Promise will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company.  The Company repurchased 22,718,100 ブックメーカー凱旋門 of its common stock through January 16, 2012, based on the resolution at its meeting of the Board of Directors held on November 14, 2011, which will be delivered to the shareholders of Promise as consideration for the Share Exchange. Through the repurchase of ブックメーカー凱旋門, the Company intended to repurchase the residual ブックメーカー凱旋門 of the Company’s common stock necessary for the Share Exchange.

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Details of resolution at the Board of Directors’ Meeting held on January 30, 2012