By Toby Sterling
AMSTERDAM -ING Groep NV, the most important Dutch financial institution, reported on Friday a worse-than-expected quarterly web revenue of 429 million euros ($452 million), together with a surge in provisions for dangerous loans resulting from its publicity in Russia and Ukraine.
Analysts had forecast first-quarter web revenue at 679 million euros, based on Refinitiv knowledge, whereas ING reported a web revenue of 1.01 billion euros within the year-ago interval.
“Web additions to mortgage loss provisions have been 987 million euros,” the corporate stated. “The geopolitical state of affairs, with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, had a major affect on the danger prices on this quarter, with 834 million euros of danger prices related to our Russia-related publicity.”
In March, ING had disclosed that it had round 700 million euros in loans affected by sanctions on Russian entities and people.
As well as, the corporate had stated it had 5.3 billion euros in loans to Russian debtors, representing about 0.9% of its whole group mortgage ebook.
In an replace on Friday, the corporate stated it had earmarked 2.5 billion euros in capital in all “to cowl for anticipated and surprising losses on our Russia-related publicity.”
“This consists of the aforementioned 0.8 billion euros of mortgage loss provisions and €1.7 billion of (capital put apart) on 13.3 billion euros of whole credit score danger weighted belongings on Russia-related publicity.”
Exterior the Russian affect, the corporate’s outcomes have been lacklustre, with revenue down 2.2% at 4.6 billion euros, principally resulting from much less cash from the European Central Financial institution’s long-term lending programme, the place ING borrows at a detrimental price.
The corporate’s mortgage ebook grew barely, as retail lending grew 5.6 billion euros, principally for mortgages in Germany, Australia and Spain, whereas wholesale lending declined 5.2 billion euros.
Charges and commissions elevated 9.3% to 933 million euros.
Shares closed at 9.14 euros on Thursday, down 25% within the year-to-date.
($1 = 0.9498 euros)
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