BankFinancial MHC, Inc Announces Results of Stock Offering and Commencement Date for Trading of Shares of its Common Stock BURR RIDGE, Ill., June 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BankFinancial, F.S.B. ("BankFinancial") announced that it expects that shares of common stock of BankFinancial Corporation (NASDAQ:BFIN) (the "Company") will begin trading on Friday, June 24, 2005. The shares have been approved for trading on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol "BFIN." BankFinancial received orders in its subscription offering for shares of common stock of the Company in excess of $425 million. On June 10, 2005, the Company announced that it had received approval from the Office of Thrift Supervision to complete its stock offering at a valuation of $244,662,500, through the sale of 24,466,250 shares of common stock. Beginning at 1:00 PM on Thursday, June 23, 2005, subscribers who wish to know the number of shares they received from the stock offering may contact the Company's Stock Conversion Center at (888) 409-5600. The Stock Conversion Center will be open from 1:00 PM to 8:00 PM (Central Time) on June 23, 2005 and from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM (Central Time) on June 24, 2005 for this purpose. Stock order confirmations and stock certificates are expected to be mailed no later than June 28, 2005. This press release contains certain forward-looking statements about the stock offering, such as the statement regarding the anticipated date the shares of the Company's common stock will begin trading and the anticipated date for mailing order confirmations and stock certificates. Forward-looking statements can be identified by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. They often include words like "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "estimate" and "intend" or future or conditional verbs such as "will," "would," "should," "could" or "may". Certain factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from expected results include changes in general economic conditions, legislative and regulatory changes and changes in the securities markets. DATASOURCE: BankFinancial Corporation CONTACT: Susan Chambers, of BankFinancial Corporation, +1-630-242-7226 Web site: http://www.bankfinancial.com/

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