STERLING BANK LOGO Sterling Bancshares, Inc. is a Houston-based bank holding company that operates 38 community-banking offices in the greater metro areas of Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and South Texas. Sterling also provides mortgage-banking services through its 80 percent-owned subsidiary, Sterling Capital Mortgage Company. Sterling's common stock is traded through the Nasdaq National Market System under the symbol SBIB. (PRNewsFoto)[TC] HOUSTON, TX USA

    HOUSTON, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sterling Bancshares, Inc.
(Nasdaq: SBIB) will make a presentation at the USBancorp Piper Jaffray 15th
Annual Financial Services Conference on Wednesday, October 29, 2003 at
1:15 p.m. Eastern Time.  J. Downey Bridgwater, President and Chief Executive
Officer, and Stephen C. Raffaele, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial
Officer will make Sterling's presentation.
    Interested individuals may listen to a live audio webcast of the
presentation by visiting
http://www.talkpoint.com/viewer/starthere.asp?pres=103682 .  After the
conference, the presentation will be archived for 30 days.  There is no charge
to listen to the webcast.
    Sterling Bancshares, Inc. is a Houston-based bank holding company that
operates 35 bank offices in the greater metro areas of Dallas, Houston, and
San Antonio.  Sterling's common stock is traded through the Nasdaq National
Market System under the symbol SBIB.  For more information on Sterling
Bancshares, please visit the Company's web site at http://www.banksterling.com .

     For more information 713-507-2770
     Graham B. Painter

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