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First Security Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:FSGI) will issue its earnings release for the third quarter of 2009 on Tuesday, October 20, 2009, before the market opens and will also host its third quarter conference call for investors on the same day at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

The webcast can be accessed live via the corporate info/investor relations page on the company’s website, www.FSGBank.com : .

The event will be archived on the First Security website for 30 days.



About First Security Group, Inc.

First Security Group, Inc. is a bank holding company headquartered in Chattanooga, Tennessee with $1.2 billion in assets. Founded in 1999, First Security's community bank subsidiary, FSGBank, N.A. has 39 full-service banking offices along the interstate corridors of

eastern and middle Tennessee and northern Georgia. In Dalton, Georgia, FSGBank operates under the name of Dalton Whitfield Bank; along the Interstate 40 corridor in Tennessee, FSGBank operates under the name of Jackson Bank & Trust. FSGBank provides retail and commercial banking services, trust and investment management, mortgage banking, financial planning, Internet banking ( www.FSGBank.com : ) and equipment leasing through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Kenesaw Leasing and J & S Leasing.



At First Security:William L. (Chip) Lusk, Jr., CFO423-266-2000 clusk@FSGBank.com : mailto:clusk@FSGBank.com orMedia
Contact:Melissa P. Kelly, 931-636-0909 mkelly@FSGBank.com : mailto:mkelly@FSGBank.com