Final Results

RNS Number : 2780A
Bank of Georgia Holdings PLC
18 February 2014
 



                                                            

BANK OF GEORGIA

HOLDINGS PLC

PRELIMINARY RESULTS ANNOUNCEMENT

2013

 

 

FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS

This document contains statements that constitute "forward-looking statements", including , but not limited to, statements con-cerning expectations, projections, objectives, targets, goals, strategies, future events, future revenues or performance, capital expenditures, financing needs, plans or intentions relating to acquisitions, competitive strengths and weaknesses, plans or goals relating to financial position and future operations and development.

While these forward-looking statements represent our judgments and future expectations concerning the development of our business, a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors could cause actual developments and results to differ materially from our expectations.

These factors include, but are not limited to, (1) general market, macroeconomic, governmental, legislative and regulatory trends, (2) movements in local and international currency exchange rates; interest rates and securities markets, (3) competitive pressures, (4) technological developments, (5) changes in the financial position or credit worthiness of our customers, obligors and counter-parties and developments in the market in which they operate, (6) management changes and changes to our group structure and (7) other key factors that we have indicated could adversely affect our business and financial performance, which are contained elsewhere in this document and in our past and future filings and reports, including those filed with the respective authorities.

When relying on forward-looking statements, investors should carefully consider the foregoing factors and other uncertainties and events. Accordingly, we are under no obligations (and expressly disclaim and such obligations) to update or alter our forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

 

 

The financial information set out in this preliminary announcement does not constitute the Company's statutory accounts for the years ended 31 December 2013 or 2012. The statutory accounts for the Company for the 12 months to 31 December 2012 have been filed with the Registrar of Companies and those for the 12 months to 31 December 2013 will be filed following the Company's annual general meeting. The auditor's report on the accounts for the 12 months to 31 December 2012 was (i) unqualified, (ii) did not include a reference to any matters to which the auditors drew attention by way of emphasis without qualifying their report; and (iii) did not include a statement under Section 498 (2) or (3) of the Companies Act 2006.

2013 Overview

Bank of Georgia Holdings PLC (LSE: BGEO LN) (the "Bank"), the holding company of JSC Bank of Georgia and its subsidiaries, Georgia's leading bank, announces today the consolidated results for year ended 31 December 2013 (IFRS based, derived from management accounts, with such announcement approved by the board of directors of BGH on 17 February 2014). The Bank reported full-year 2013 profit of GEL 209.3 million (US$120.6 million/GBP 73.2 million), or GEL 5.93 per share (US$3.42 per share/GBP2.07 per share). Unless otherwise mentioned, all comparisons refer to the full year 2012 results.

 

Strong performance continued into Q4 2013 delivering our best ever performance during 2013

 

·  Strong profitability supported by declining funding costs and positive operating leverage maintained

Net Interest Margin (NIM) of 7.8%, compared to 7.9% in 2012

§ Q4 2013 NIM of 7.9% compared to 7.7%  in Q3 2013  and 7.8% in Q4 2012

Revenue increased by GEL 47.2  million, or 9.5% y-o-y, to GEL 545.5 million

§ Q4 2013 revenue increased 12.6% y-o-y to GEL 144.4 million; compared to Q3 2013 revenue increased by 4.4%

Positive operating leverage maintained at 7.5 percentage points in 2013, as operating expenses increased by 2.0% year-on-year to GEL 225.6 million

Cost to Income ratio improved to 41.4% compared to 44.4% in 2012

Profit for the period increased by GEL 29.8 million, or 16.6% y-o-y, to GEL 209.3 million

§ Q4 2013 profit increased by GEL 8.8 million, or 18.7% y-o-y,  to GEL 55.6 million

Earnings per share (basic) increased by 13.6% to a record GEL 5.93, compared to GEL 5.22 in 2012

Return on Average Assets (ROAA) stood at 3.6% in 2013 compared to 3.5% in 2012

§ Q4 2013 ROAA stood at 3.6%, compared to 3.4% in Q4 2012 and 4.0% in Q3 2013

Return on Average Equity (ROAE) stood at 18.6%, compared to 19.1%

§ Q4 2013 ROAE stood at 18.6%, compared to 20.6% in Q3 2013 and 18.2% in Q4 2012

·  Strong balance sheet supported by solid capital position and declining cost of funds

Net loan book increased by 13.9% y-o-y, while client deposits increased by 18.5% y-o-y

Cost of client deposits decreased from 7.3% in 2012 to 5.6% in 2013; Q4 2013 cost of client deposits stood at 4.8% compared to 6.6% in Q4 2012

Q4 2013 loan book grew 7.3% q-o-q and client deposits increased 9.0% q-o-q

Cost of credit risk improved significantly in Q4 2013 to GEL 10.0 million compared to GEL 16.1 million in Q4 2012 and GEL 15.5 million in Q3 2013. Cost of Risk decreased to an annualised 0.9% in Q4 2013 compared to 1.6% in Q3 2013 and 1.8% in Q4 2012

High liquidity maintained with 29.5% of total assets made up of cash and cash equivalents, amounts due from credit institutions, NBG CDs, Georgian government treasury bills and bonds and other high quality liquid assets as of 31 December2013. Liquidity ratio, as per National Bank of Georgia (NBG), stood at 45.7%, compared to 41.1% a year ago, as a result of additional Eurobond issuance in November 2013

As of 31 December 2013, Net Loans to Customer Funds ratio stood at a healthy level of 113.0% compared to 114.8% as of 31 December 2012 and 114.7% as of 30 September 2013. Net Loans to Customer Funds and DFI ratio of 96.2%, compared to 91.9% as of 31 December 2012 and 96.1% as of 30 September 2013.

BIS Tier I capital adequacy ratio stood at 23.0% compared to 21.2% a year ago.

Book value per share increased by 14.9% y-o-y to GEL 34.85 (US$20.07/GBP 12.18)

Balance Sheet leverage remained flat y-o-y at 4.3 times

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

·  Business highlights

o Retail Banking continues to deliver strong franchise growth, supported by the successful roll-out of the Express Banking strategy, adding 985 Express Pay terminals and 435,090 Express cards since the launch of the Express Banking Service. Retail Banking net loan book grew 19.6% and client deposits 33.0% y-o-y.

o Corporate Banking net loan book increased 7.2% y-o-y.  Corporate Banking cost of deposits decreased markedly from 7.2% in 2012 to 4.4% in 2013

o Investment Management's (formerly Asset and Wealth Management) Assets under Management (AUM) increased by 12.3% y-o-y to GEL 679.4 million as of 31 December 2013. Since the launch of the Certificate of Deposit (CD) programme in January 2013, the amount of CDs issued to Investment Management clients reached GEL 195.7 million, as of 31 December 2013

o Aldagi, the Group's Insurance and Healthcare business, reported a record group consolidated annual profit of GEL 25.1 million in 2013, up from GEL 16.4 million in 2012

o Affordable Housing's second housing project is near completion and another two housing projects have commenced in Q4 2013. In 2013, Affordable Housing segment posted a profit of GEL 7.8 million.

 

 

 

 

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER'S STATEMENT

 

 

"I am very pleased to report a record 2013 full year profit of GEL 209.3 million, up 16.6%, supported by record revenue of GEL 545.5 million. Earnings per share, also a record, stood at GEL 5.93 or GBP 2.07, up 13.6% in Lari terms. The return on our shareholders' equity was 18.6%. 2013 results reflect the robust performance of underlying businesses, balance sheet strength, efficiency gains and strong profitability in spite of slow economic growth through most of the year.

Economic growth in Georgia, which has for a number of years been a tailwind for us, was lower than expected and resulted in a slower start to the year. However, we witnessed a significant pick up in business activity after the Presidential elections in October 2013, which saw the candidate of the ruling Georgian Dream Party win a landslide victory. GDP growth was estimated at 1.7% for the first nine months of 2013, but picked up after the elections to reach an annualised 6.9% in the fourth quarter. The IMF forecasts 5% GDP growth in 2014. The state budget was run at a surplus for the first nine months of 2013. In Q4 2013, in order reach the target level of deficit for the year, spending accelerated particularly on infrastructure projects, thus causing a large increase in the supply of Lari. This in turn caused a small correction in GEL/US$ exchange rate. In February 2014 however, Lari reversed some of its losses against the major currencies and started to appreciate. In 2013, the National Bank of Georgia remained a net buyer of US$, purchasing US$335 million during the year.     

In this letter I would like to review 2013 by highlighting certain key performance measures, analysing the drivers of the results and the underlying strategic initiatives that we believe are fundamental to our success. Our medium-term strategy continues to centre around the 3x20 story that aims at achieving a 20% growth rate in our loan book, 20%  Return on Equity and a 20% Tier I Capital Ratio.

Below, I will start with three strategic initiatives launched over the last several years, which are now driving the diversification of our revenue that shapes our performance.

Revenue diversification

Payments Business. We began implementing our Express Banking strategy in 2012 by rolling out small-format, Express branches offering predominantly transactional banking services to clients through ATMs and Express Pay Terminals. The aim was to make banking relationships simple, cheaper and convenient for both our existing customers and for the emerging bankable population. A Self-Service Terminal can be described as a small bank by itself as it allows a wide-array of payment services ranging from current account top-ups and loan repayments to utility bill payments and rail ticket purchases. In 2013, we installed 764 new Express Pay Terminals throughout Tbilisi and with 985 total Express Pay Terminals as of the end of the year; we are now leaders in the payment systems market. We have combined our travel card for the Tbilisi bus and metro (of which we are the sole provider) and our contactless card with a loyalty programme linked to the customer's current account to create an "Express Card" and have issued over 240,000 such cards in 2013. At the end of the year we had more than 430,000 Express Cards outstanding. The effects of the successful execution of our Express Banking strategy are numerous and far reaching and are now expressed in our financial performance that I will be describing below.

Real Estate. Started in 2010 from bad loans, our real estate strategy was to transform those loans into a successful business, and the process has been a textbook case of turning a problem into an opportunity.  Our m2 Real Estate operation had a 40% IRR in 2013 and has become an integral part of the Bank's mortgage strategy, supporting the mortgage loan book development.

Healthcare. During the past few years, with a view to diversifying our revenue streams and growing our non-interest income, we have taken decisive steps to grow and vertically integrate our healthcare and insurance businesses. In 2013, Aldagi, our healthcare and insurance subsidiary contributed 10.9% to your company's revenue and 12.0% to profit. BGH and Aldagi are currently preparing to list Aldagi's healthcare-related business on an international stock exchange.

As a result mainly of these, but also of less visible strategic actions, we delivered another exceptional year in terms of profitability, despite the backdrop of a slower-growth economic environment. At 7.8%, the NIM held up better than we expected, withstanding the downward pressure from excess liquidity throughout the year that was largely a function of the subdued loan demand prevailing for most of the year. We attribute the resilience of our NIM to a number of factors, including our established market leadership that translates into superior distribution capability and pricing power. The most important contributor to our strong NIM in 2013, however, was the markedly reduced cost of funding. In the first half of 2013, we substantially reduced deposit rates, which significantly drove down our overall cost of deposits from 7.3% to 5.6%. It's important to note, however, that these deposit rate cuts have not compromised the inflow of deposits, a true testament to the strength of our franchise and the brand name of your company. The reduction of deposit costs, combined with the superior access to capital markets demonstrated by the issuance of the 2017 Eurobond tap of US$150 million, enabled us to price the oversubscribed placement with a record low level of 6.125%. Last and not least, is the increase in current account balances, made possible by the roll-out of the Express Banking strategy. Compared to last year, retail current account balances grew by GEL 89.6 million. We intend to continue decreasing our cost of funding, one of the main competitive advantages and central to our profitability. Our express banking strategy is expected to further increase our current account balances - the cheapest source of funding. In addition, our superior access to capital markets will enable us to maintain our flexibility in optimising our liability structure.

Cost Control

2013 was the fourth straight year that we have combined business growth with improved efficiency as evidenced by a declining cost to income ratio. This year, our revenue growth of 9.5% compares to 2.0% growth of our operating expenses, certainly a result of the overall vigilance with our costs across the board. More importantly, the improved efficiency is linked to our Express banking strategy. We became a formidable player on the retail market through expansion by means of low-cost Express branches that has paved the way for transactional banking. The existing full-scale branches are now focusing on offering value-added products, while technology-intensive express branches enable us to offer basic banking products and services at minimal costs. In addition, one of the strategic objectives of Express banking, which is to bring the previously un-banked/emerging bankable population to Bank of Georgia, is now bearing its fruits. The tailor-made products and services that became accessible for our new clients at our Express branches is a powerful and low-cost client acquisition method. In 2013, the number of new clients joining the Bank exceeded 190,000, up 18% from last year. Our improved cost efficiency is one the main reasons our banking operation was able to service its substantially increased client base without growing its headcount. On a standalone basis, Bank of Georgia's full time employees decreased by 4.3%.

Going forward, cost discipline will remain a main focus. We are targeting to reduce our cost to income ratio to c.37% in the next three years and we believe the Express banking strategy will be the main contributor to the further improvement. The development of Express Technologies will allow us to scale up the business with minimum operating costs.

Loan book growth and improving asset quality

The strength and the efficiency of this growing franchise is the cornerstone of our solid competitive position, and is also linked to our ability to grow our loan book in the low loan demand cycle in 2013. The largest bank in the country, Bank of Georgia is best positioned to benefit from the de-dollarisation trends that have translated into a pick-up of Lari-denominated credit growth. In addition, our competitive strength on the liability side as evidenced in the ability to reduce funding costs without compromising deposit funding, allowed us to achieve 13.9% loan book growth that cost us 130 bps on the loan yield, which compares to the 170 bps reduction of our cost of deposits. The result was that we didn't compromise our profitability as demonstrated by the continuing strength of our NIM. We are constantly keeping a watchful eye on asset quality ensuring the prudent risk management policies. Strongly supported by our diversified loan book, our NPLs grew by 14.7%, comparing favorably to the loan book growth rate. Our cost of risk for the year stayed on the top of our targeted range at 1.4%, while our Q4 2013 cost of risk of an annualised 0.9% was a noteworthy improvement over the Q3 2013 cost of risk of 1.6%, also attributable to the slowdown of economy in the first half of the year.

Strategic Initiatives going forward

Building upon our 3x20 strategy adopted in 2011, we are set to deliver on our key strategic priorities for the next three years.

We are determined to maintain our market leadership, which gives us economies of scale as well as superior distribution and pricing power. Our market leadership is built on our strong Retail and Corporate Banking businesses, which together are the backbone of the Bank of Georgia franchise. As to Retail Banking, our Express banking is at the heart of our strategy. The success of Express Banking is expected to significantly increase our retail client base. We believe that further development of our Express banking businesses is directly linked to Express technologies, and we intend to continue investing in IT, which we consider to be pivotal for the future in of banking industry.

We plan to build the growth on the back of further diversified revenue sources. Knowledge and understanding of the market, both Georgian and regional, and proven superior access to international capital will be the drivers of our Investment Management business growth. In 2013, we have combined our wealth management, research, advisory, and brokerage businesses under Investment Management. We intend to launch our first Investment Management products this year and plan to continue to build upon them with the aim to create an important fee-generating business. Expansion through payments business in Georgia has already started, and the newest addition is the Express Merchant business, which is an additional revenue source of income from small retailers that are not yet part of the card payment system. We will be focusing on turning payment systems into a significant base for our revenue generation and we are also preparing to leverage our knowledge of IT and payment business by beginning to export IT and payment business in the region.

Looking back, I am proud of how much has been achieved. The entrepreneurial spirit is at heart of Bank of Georgia's culture and is one of our strongest assets. It has resulted in the creation of a very strong franchise that will be very difficult to match and even harder to displace. Such success in turn has created a new important task for us. We now have to manage the size, which in our case means striking the right balance as we seek to maintain our entrepreneurial spirit and we further institutionalise our achievements. In 2014, this will be one of our main tasks. Our first step to this end is the recently launched Bank of Georgia University that will help with the identification and development of talent within the Group. 

2013 was a momentous year in terms of share price performance, which increased 113% since year-end 2012, outpacing most of our peers. In 2013 Bank of Georgia was third largest growth stock in the FTSE 250. Average daily liquidity increased by more than 65% to 200,000 shares in 2013. Our long-term investors, namely East Capital and Firebird significantly reduced their holdings, which led to the widening of our institutional shareholder base, contributing to the improvements in stock liquidity and free float. Our shareholder base in now far more diversified than a year ago: non-emerging market focused institutional shareholders make up circa 36% of our shareholder base compared to just 15% a year ago.

We have committed ourselves to the continuous improvement of our corporate governance practices. To this end, in 2013,the board of directors of BGH resolved to ensure that our non-executive board members would all be fully independent under UK standards. As a result, two non-independent directors, Ian Hague and Hanna Loikannen resigned, as did Allan Hirst, a long-serving Independent Director. I and the board are deeply grateful for the devoted services of all three. They have been replaced with three new Independent non-executive directors Bozidar Djelic, Tamaz Georgadze and Kim Bradley. Please refer to our website to read about the array of experience and skills these three individuals bring to our team.

At the 2014 AGM the Board intends to recommend an annual dividend of GEL 2.0 per share payable in British Sterling at the prevailing rate. This represents an increase of 33.3%, compared to the annual dividend of GEL 1.5 per share last year, a payout ratio of 33.7% and a dividend yield for shareholders of 2.9%, calculated on the basis of the preliminary results and using the 31 December 2013 share price of GBP 23.95," commented Irakli Gilauri, Chief Executive Officer of Bank of Georgia Holdings PLC and JSC Bank of Georgia.

 

FINANCIAL SUMMARY

 

BGH (Consolidated, IFRS-based)



Change



Income Statement Summary

2013

2012

 Y-O-Y









Revenue1

545,454

498,255

9.5%



Operating expenses

(225,565)

(221,152)

2.0%



Operating income before cost of credit risk

319,889

277,103

15.4%



Cost of credit risk2

(61,802)

(44,717)

38.2%



Net operating income

258,087

232,386

11.1%



Net non-operating expenses

(12,831)

(19,634)

-34.6%



Profit

209,343

179,552

16.6%









BGH (Consolidated, IFRS-based)



Change


Change

Income Statement Summary

Q4 2013

Q4 2012

Y-O-Y

Q3 2013

 Q-O-Q







Revenue1

144,441

128,288

12.6%

138,338

4.4%

Operating expenses

(60,998)

(53,966)

13.0%

(54,948)

11.0%

Operating income before cost of credit risk

83,443

74,322

12.3%

83,390

0.1%

Cost of credit risk2

(9,999)

(16,124)

-38.0%

(15,540)

-35.7%

Net operating income

73,444

58,198

26.2%

67,850

8.2%

Net non-operating expenses

(5,960)

(4,189)

42.3%

(1,419)

NMF

Profit

55,644

46,875

18.7%

58,597

-5.0%







BGH (Consolidated, IFRS-based)



Change


Change

Statement of Financial Position Summary

Q4 2013

Q4 2012

Y-O-Y

 Q3 2013

Q-O-Q







Total assets

6,520,969

5,655,595

15.3%

5,954,347

9.5%

Net loans3

3,522,915

3,092,320

13.9%

3,283,508

7.3%

Customer funds4

3,117,732

2,693,025

15.8%

2,862,512

8.9%







GEL/US$ Exchange Rate (period-end)

1.7363

1.6567


1.6644


GEL/GBP Exchange Rate (period-end)

2.8614

2.6653


2.6774


 

 

KEY PERFORMANCE MEASURES









Performance Indicators

2013

2012


ROAE

18.6%

19.1%


Cost to Income Ratio

41.4%

44.4%


Net Interest Margin

7.8%

7.9%


Tier I Capital Adequacy Ratio (BIS)5

23.0%

21.2%


Total Capital Adequacy Ratio (BIS)5

27.1%

26.2%


NBG Tier I Capital Adequacy Ratio6

14.4%

13.8%


NBG Total Capital Adequacy Ratio6

15.4%

16.2%


EPS (GEL)

5.93

5.22


Loan portfolio growth

13.9%

18.2%


Leverage7

4.3

4.3


 

1) Revenue includes net interest income, net fee and commission income, net insurance revenue, net healthcare revenue and other operating non-interest income

2) Cost of credit risk includes impairment charge (reversal of impairment) on: loans to customers, finance lease receivables and other assets and provisions

3) Net loans equal to net loans to customers and net finance lease receivables

4) Customer funds equal amounts due to customers

5) BIS Tier I Capital Adequacy Ratio equals consolidated Tier I Capital as of the period end divided by total consolidated risk weighted assets as of the same date. BIS Total Capital Adequacy Ratio equals total consolidated capital as of the period end divided by total consolidated risk weighted assets. Both ratios are calculated in accordance with the requirements of Basel Accord I

6) NBG Tier I Capital and Total Capital Adequacy Ratios are calculated in accordance with the requirements of the National Bank of Georgia

7) Leverage (times) equals Total Liabilities divided by Total Equity

 

DISCUSSION OF RESULTS

 

This summary compares the financial results for the year ended 31 December 2013 to the comparable period in 2012.

 

Revenue

 



Change

GEL thousands, unless otherwise noted

2013

2012

Y-O-Y





Loans to customers

522,847

509,339

2.7%

Investment securities8

35,371

33,950

4.2%

Amounts due from credit institutions9

8,423

15,813

-46.7%

Finance lease receivables

7,466

8,701

-14.2%

Interest income

574,107

567,803

1.1%

Amounts due to customers

(159,028)

(202,484)

-21.5%

Amounts due to credit institutions, of which:

(100,585)

(79,492)

26.5%

  Eurobonds

(35,424)

(16,010)

121.3%

  Subordinated debt

(22,394)

(21,883)

2.3%

  Loans and deposits from other banks

(42,767)

(41,599)

2.8%

Interest expense

(259,613)

(281,976)

-7.9%

Net interest income before interest rate swaps

314,494

285,827

10.0%

Net loss from interest rate swaps

(398)

(1,710)

-76.7%

Net interest income

314,096

284,117

10.6%

Fee and commission income

115,106

109,278

5.3%

Fee and commission expense

(28,210)

(22,791)

23.8%

Net fee and commission income

86,896

86,487

0.5%

Net insurance premiums earned

129,993

91,176

42.6%

Net insurance claims incurred

(84,660)

(57,038)

48.4%

Net insurance revenue

45,333

34,138

32.8%

Healthcare revenue

60,013

54,376

10.4%

Cost of healthcare services

(37,644)

(31,030)

21.3%

Net healthcare revenue10

22,369

23,346

-4.2%

Net gain from trading and investment securities

3,097

2,308

34.2%

Net gain from revaluation of investment property

9,788

-

-

Net gain from foreign currencies

43,512

46,622

-6.7%

Other operating income

20,363

18,288

11.3%

Other operating non-interest income

76,760

67,218

14.2%

Revenue adjusted for one-off FX gain11

545,454

495,306

10.1%

One-off FX gain

-

2,949

-100.0%

Revenue

545,454

498,255

9.5%

 

8   Primarily consist of Georgian government treasury bills and bonds and National Bank of Georgia's Certificates of Deposits (CDs)

9   Time deposits with credit institutions with less than 90 days maturity are included in cash and cash equivalents

10 For net healthcare revenue disclosures please see Insurance and Healthcare segment discussion

11One-off foreign currency gain by BNB

 

The Bank reported full year 2013 record revenue of GEL 545.5 million, up 9.5% y-o-y, driven by strong net interest income, as well as due to the growth of non-interest income, predominantly a result of solid performance of Aldagi, the Bank's insurance and healthcare business subsidiary. The contribution of insurance and healthcare revenue to total revenue increased from 11.5% in 2012 to 12.4% in 2013, which is in line with the management's strategy to diversify its revenue sources.

 

The 10.6% y-o-y growth of net interest income during the year was a result of a 1.1% increase in interest income and a 7.9% decline in interest expenses for the period. The growth of interest income from loans to customers by 2.7% reflects the healthy growth of the loan book, up 13.9%, and the decrease in loan yield from 17.5% in 2012, to 16.2% in 2013. Interest income growth from loans to customers combined with the increase in interest income from investment securities, more than offset the decline in interest income from amounts due to credit institutions and finance lease receivables.

 

Interest income from investment securities, which includes interest income received from NBG CD-s and Ministry of Finance T-Bond, increased 4.2% y-o-y on the back of a 34.5% increase in the corresponding average balance sheet item. The moderate growth of interest income from investment securities was a result of lower yields on the investment securities in line with the reduction of the NBG refinancing rate from 5.25% as of year-end 2012 to 3.75%. Interest income from credit institutions declined by GEL 7.4 million, or 46.7% mainly as a result of one large high-yielding interbank transaction in 2012.

 

The 7.9% decline in interest expense was primarily attributed to the reduction in cost of funding to 5.9% in 2013 from 7.3% in 2012, in line with the bank's continuous strategy of optimising its funding costs. The main driver of the decline of interest expense, the Bank's cost of deposits (amounts due to customers), was reduced by 170 bps to 5.6% in 2013 compared to the prior year following the reduction of contractual deposit rates on one year US$ deposits by 300 compared to the year-end 2012. Deposit rate cuts notwithstanding, the inflow of deposits continued throughout the year, with average client deposits increasing 7.4% y-o-y, while outstanding balances on client deposits as of 31 December 2013 reached GEL 3,107.2 million, up 18.5% compared to 31 December 2012. (For more detailed discussion on amounts due to customers, please see Balance Sheet section of this Report). As a result, interest expense on amounts due to customers (customer funds) was reduced by 21.5% year-on-year, or by GEL 43.5 million, more than offsetting the 26.5% y-o-y, or a GEL 21.1million increase in interest expense on amounts due to credit institutions. The main contributor to the growth of interest expense on amounts due to credit institutions was the increased interest expense due to a US$150 million tap issue of  US$250 million Eurobonds, placed by the Bank in July 2012 (2017 maturity). The prepayment of a relatively cost subordinated debt in October 2013 further improved the cost of amounts due to credit institutions, which declined from 7.2% in 2012 to 6.6% in 2013.

 

Net Interest Margin




Change

GEL thousands, unless otherwise noted

2013

2012

Y-O-Y





Net interest income

314,096

284,117

10.6%

Net Interest Margin

7.8%

7.9%

-1.3%

Average interest earning assets12

4,037,894

3,614,921

11.7%

Average interest bearing liabilities12

4,382,341

3,904,874

12.2%

Average liquid assets12

1,593,651

1,386,963

14.9%

Excess liquidity NBG13 (excl. additional liquidity requirement for non-resident depositors)

655,392

352,675

85.8%

Additional liquidity requirement for non-resident depositors

(118,285)

-

NMF

Excess liquidity (NBG)13

537,107

352,675

52.3%

Loan yield

16.2%

17.5%


Cost of funding

5.9%

7.3%


 

 

12 Monthly averages are used for calculation of average interest earning assets, average interest bearing liabilities and average liquid assets

13 Excess liquidity is the excess amount of the liquid assets, as defined per NBG, which exceeds the minimal amount of the same liquid assets for the purposes of the minimal 30% liquidity ratio per NBG definitions

 

 

The NIM remained broadly flat in 2013 at 7.8% in 2013 compared to 7.9% in 2012, reflecting the effect of a 140 bps decline in the cost of funding on the back of 130 bps decline in the loan yield during the same period and the 52.3% y-o-y increase in excess liquidity. The increase in average liquid assets and excess liquidity, high levels of which were maintained throughout the year, was predominantly a result of the US$150 Eurobond tap issue in November 2013. The proceeds from the Eurobonds have not yet been deployed into loans, significantly increasing the liquidity pool.

 

NBG's newly introduced transitional additional liquidity requirement relating to non-resident deposits had an additional impact of GEL 118.3 million on liquidity in 2013. NBG introduced an updated liquidity model for a transition period starting 1 July 2013. As the NBG moves towards a new liquidity framework based on Basel III Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) with some modifications taking into account specifics about the Georgian banking system, it has recently introduced an updated liquidity model, applicable during the transition period. Before the full introduction of LCR, the NBG applies an additional liquidity requirement for non-resident deposits that are in excess of 10% of the total deposits of a bank.

 

 

Net fee and commission income




Change

GEL thousands, unless otherwise noted

2013

2012

Y-O-Y





Fee and commission income

115,106

109,278

5.3%

Fee and commission expense

(28,210)

(22,791)

23.8%

Net fee and commission income

86,896

86,487

0.5%

 

Net fee and commission income grew by a modest 0.5% y-o-y to GEL 86.9 million, as 5.3% y-o-y growth of fee and commission income offset a 23.8% increase in the fee and commission expense. The high growth rate of expenses is largely attributed to the exceptionally high client acquisition rate within the Express Banking strategy in 2013, especially through the popularity of its Express Card (a contactless travel card linked to a current account) and its newly introduced Express Merchant service (see Retail Banking section below for more information). Largely due to the success of the Express Banking service, the Bank has attracted more than 190,000 mostly emerging mass market customers and issued more than 240,000 express cards in 2013 leading to an 18.5% increase in client account balances mostly current accounts - the cheapest source of funding for the bank. 

 

Net insurance revenue and net healthcare revenue




Change

GEL thousands, unless otherwise noted

2013

2012

Y-O-Y





Net insurance premiums earned

129,993

91,176

42.6%

Net insurance claims incurred

(84,660)

(57,038)

48.4%

Net insurance revenue

45,333

34,138

32.8%

Healthcare revenue

60,013

54,376

10.4%

Cost of healthcare services, of which:

(37,644)

(31,030)

21.3%

  Salaries and other employee benefits

(19,393)

(21,602)

-10.2%

  Depreciation expenses

(5,160)

-

-

  Other Operating expenses

(13,091)

(9,428)

38.9%

Net healthcare revenue14

22,369

23,346

-4.2%

 

14 For the net healthcare revenue disclosures please see the Insurance and Healthcare segment discussion

 

The Bank's insurance and healthcare business had another successful year in 2013 posting record total revenue of GEL 67.7 million, up 17.8% y-o-y. Net insurance premiums earned increased by 42.6%, with growth coming from all lines of insurance business, particularly health insurance, which saw particularly strong growth as the Group expands into the healthcare business. Net insurance claims incurred also increased 48.4% as a result of the growth of business.

 

Healthcare revenue increased 10.4% to GEL 60.0 million on the back of a 21.3% increase in cost of healthcare services. The higher growth rate of healthcare costs compared to healthcare revenue in 2013 was partially attributed to the lower revenue streams as the roll-out of new hospitals were completed in the middle of the year. In addition, certain accounting reclassifications, resulting in additional depreciation and utility expenses, were included in cost of healthcare services in 2013, which in prior years were included in operating expenses. (Please see more details under Insurance and Healthcare segment discussion). 

 

Aldagi's healthcare business comprises 33 hospitals and outpatient clinics in Georgia, representing the largest healthcare provider in the country. Inter-company claims that represent an expense for the insurance business are revenues for the healthcare business, each on a standalone basis. In order to continue reap benefits from the vertically integrated structure of this business, the management aims to increase the concentration of claims expenditure within the Group. In 2013, total inter-segment revenue between the Aldagi's insurance and healthcare businesses amounted to 31.1 million compared to GEL 14.4 in 2012 (please see Insurance and Healthcare segment discussion for more information)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other operating non-interest income




Change

GEL thousands, unless otherwise noted

2013

2012

Y-O-Y





Net gain from trading and investment securities

3,097

2,308

34.2%

Net gain from revaluation of investment property

9,788

-

-

Net gain from foreign currencies

43,512

46,622

-6.7%

Other operating income15

20,363

18,288

11.3%

Other operating non-interest income adjusted for one-off FX gain

76,760

67,218

14.2%

One-off FX gain16

-

2,949

-100.0%

Other operating non-interest income

76,760

70,167

9.4%

 

15 Other operating income includes net revenue from the sale of goods of the Bank's non-banking subsidiaries

16 One-off foreign currency gain by BNB

 

The 14.2% y-o-y increase in other operating non-interest income, adjusted for last year's one off FX gain by BNB, was driven by an increase in the net gain from trading and investment securities, which as of 31 December 2013 mostly consisted of NBG CDs, government treasury bills and bonds. Other operating income also increased by 11.3% y-o-y to GEL 20.4 million, primarily due to an  increase of net revenue from the sale of goods of the Bank's non-banking subsidiaries, real estate company m2 Real Estate and wine making company, Teliani Valley.

 

Net operating income, cost of credit risk, profit for the period

 




Change

GEL thousands, unless otherwise noted

2013

2012

Y-O-Y





Salaries and other employee benefits

(135,065)

(122,556)

10.2%

General and administrative expenses

(60,364)

(67,041)

-10.0%

Depreciation and amortisation expenses

(26,572)

(28,606)

-7.1%

Other operating expenses

(3,564)

(2,949)

20.9%

Operating expenses

(225,565)

(221,152)

2.0%

Operating income before cost of credit risk

319,889

277,103

15.4%

Cost of credit risk

(61,802)

(44,717)

38.2%

Net operating income

258,087

232,386

11.1%

Net non-operating expenses

(12,831)

(19,634)

-34.6%

Profit before income tax expense

245,256

212,752

15.3%

Income tax expense

(35,913)

(33,200)

8.2%

Profit

209,343

179,552

16.6%

 

 

The Bank successfully continued to deliver positive operating leverage as the management remains focused on keeping a tight grip on costs. Operating expenses increased 2.0% to GEL 225.6 million, which significantly lags behind the revenue growth rate of 9.5%. As a result, operating leverage stood at 7.5 percentage points in 2013, marking the fourth consecutive year of positive operating leverage. The growth in operating expenses was primarily fuelled by a 10.2% growth in salaries and other employee benefits to GEL 135.1 million following an increase in headcount by more than 600 employees in 2013 to service the growth of business of the Bank's subsidiaries. Benefiting from the success of the Express Banking strategy that aims to boost transactional banking using IT technologies, JSC Bank of Georgia's headcount declined by 4.3% y-o-y to 3,574 employees as of 31 December 2013. Efficiency gains and various cost containment measures throughout the year, led to the 10.0% decline in general and administrative expenses to GEL 60.4 million in 2013. As a result of the foregoing, the cost to income ratio fell to a record low 41.4% compared to 44.4% in 2012.

 

The Bank's operating income before the cost of credit risk increased by 15.4% to GEL 319.9 million.

 

The cost of credit risk increased to GEL 61.8 million from GEL 44.7 million in 2012, largely reflecting impairment charges related to both the Retail Banking and Corporate Banking loan portfolios, translating into a cost of risk of 1.4% for the year. The cost of risk improved markedly in Q4 2013 (to an annualised 0.9% from 1.8% in Q4 2012 and 1.6% in Q3 2013), as a result of lower impairment charges as well as higher recoveries compared to 2012.

 

The Bank's non-performing loans (NPLs), defined as the principal and interest on overdue loans for more than 90 days and additional potential loss estimated by management, increased by GEL 18.6 million in 2013 and totalled GEL 144.9 million, reflecting a lower level of write-offs during the year. The NPL coverage ratio stood at 83.8% as of 31 December 2013 compared to 87.5% as of 31 December 2012 and 86.2% as of 30 September 2013. The NPL Coverage Ratio (adjusted for the discounted value of collateral) stood at 110.6% as of 31 December 2013, compared to 112.7% a year before and 111.8% as of 30 September 2013. 

 

The Bank's net operating income totalled GEL 258.1 million, up 11.1% year-on-year.  In 2013, the Bank's net non-operating expenses declined to GEL 12.8 million from GEL 19.6 million in 2012, reflecting the absence of tender offer and premium listing fees incurred in 2012.

 

As a result of the foregoing, profit before income tax in 2013 totalled GEL 245.3 million, an increase of GEL 32.5 million, or 15.3% y-o-y. After income tax expense of GEL 35.9 million, the Bank's profit for the period stood at GEL 209.3 million, up 16.6%.

 

 

Balance Sheet highlights

 

The Bank's balance sheet remains well capitalised and highly liquid. Client deposits and amounts due to credit institutions (which includes our Eurobond issuance), were the main source of funding of the 15.3% y-o-y growth of total assets in 2013. Remarkably (especially, as regards to deposits), the increase in liabilities was achieved in an environment of declining funding rates, resulting in a significant reduction of funding costs.

 

Client deposits, which accounted for 58.8% of the Bank's total liabilities, grew by 18.5% y-o-y to their record level of GEL 3,107.2 million at the same time as their cost was reduced by 170 bps to 5.6%. The Bank reduced its contractual interest rates significantly, bringing rates on the one year term US$ denominated deposits from 8% at the beginning of the year down to 5% since June 2013.

 

Our strong focus on liability management throughout the period also enabled us to reduce the cost of amounts due to credit institutions by 60 bps to 6.6% as the Bank repaid some of its more costly subordinated borrowings. The issuance of lower cost Eurobond tap in November 2013 was the main cause of the overall increase in amounts due to credit institutions, which grew by 13.8% to GEL 1,886.1 million.

 

The main driver of the asset growth of the period was a GEL 430.6 million (13.9% y-o-y) loan book growth, as the demand for credit picked up in Q4 2013. Retail banking loan book growth, which was consistent throughout the year, reached GEL 1,612.9 million, up 19.6% y-o-y, while the demand for Corporate credit, which was subdued in the first nine months of the year, picked up in Q4 2013, gaining 8.6% quarter-on-quarter.

 

As of 31 December 2013, the Bank's total assets stood at GEL 6,521.0 million, an increase of 15.3% since 31 December 2012. In addition to the loan book, the growth in total assets reflects growth in in liquid assets, up by GEL 297.4 million following the issuance of the Eurobonds, the proceeds from which have not yet been fully deployed in loans.

 

The Bank's Book Value per share on 31 December 2013 stood at GEL 34.85 (US$20.07/GBP12.18) compared to GEL 30.33/ (US$18.31/GBP11.38) as of 31 December 2012.

 

 

Currency denomination of selected balance sheet items

 


GEL

FC

GEL thousands, unless otherwise noted 

Q4 2013

Q4 2012

Change

Q4 2013

Q4 2012

Change




Y-O-Y



Y-O-Y








Loans to customers and finance lease receivables, net

1,231,207

978,773

25.8%

2,291,708

2,113,547

8.4%

Amounts due to customers, of which:

997,573

822,248

21.3%

2,120,159

1,870,777

13.3%

Client deposits

997,573

821,404

21.4%

2,109,636

1,801,507

17.1%

Promissory notes

-

844

-100.0%

10,523

69,270

-84.8%

 

 

De-dollarisation of both sides of the balance sheet remained one of the top priorities for Bank of Georgia management in 2013. The deposit rate cuts, as well as helping to bring down cost of funds, supported efforts to de-dollarise the Bank's liabilities. The cuts were more pronounced on US$ denominated deposits, leading to a widening differential between GEL and US$ denominated deposits encouraging a growth of GEL savings. Although the 4.6% downward correction of GEL versus US$ in 2013 remained a tailwind for the purposes of de-dollarising liabilities, the differential nevertheless led to a faster growth of GEL denominated client deposits compared to Foreign Currency deposits growth for the period (21.4% vs. 17.1%, respectively).

 

Following targeted measures to de-dollarise the asset side of the balance sheet, Lari denominated loans increased 25.8% compared to an 8.4% increase in foreign currency denomination loans. The Lari denominated growth rate was positively impacted by the Lari lending support programme by the NBG. The programme entails providing financing to Georgian banks for GEL denominated loans linked to the refinancing rate. In 2013, the Bank issued GEL 27.0 million Lari denominated mortgage and SME loans, which contributed strongly to the increase of the share of GEL denominated loans in total loans from 31.7% in 2012 to 34.9% in 2013.

 

 

Liquidity, Funding and Capital Management




Change

GEL thousands, unless otherwise noted 

31 Dec 13

31 Dec 12

Y-O-Y





Amounts due to credit institutions, of which:

1,886,096

1,657,162

13.8%

Eurobonds

728,117

420,849

73.0%

Subordinated debt

168,710

208,244

-19.0%

Other amounts due to credit institutions

989,269

1,028,069

-3.8%

Customer Funds, of which:

3,117,732

2,693,025

15.8%

Client deposits, of which:

3,107,209

2,622,911

18.5%

CDs

221,539

-

-

Promissory notes

10,523

70,114

-85.0%

Net Loans / Customer Funds

113.0%

114.8%


Net Loans / Customer Funds + DFIs

96.2%

91.9%


Liquid assets

1,921,704

1,624,317

18.3%

Liquid assets as percent of total assets

29.5%

28.7%


Liquid assets as percent of total liabilities

36.4%

35.3%


NBG liquidity ratio

45.7%

41.1%


Excess liquidity NBG (excl. additional liquidity requirement for non-resident depositors)

655,392

352,675

85.8%

Additional liquidity requirement for non-resident depositors

(118,285)

-


Excess liquidity (NBG)

537,107

352,675

52.3%

 

 

The Bank's liquidity position remained well-above regulatory requirements. The Bank's liquidity ratio, as per the requirements of the NBG, stood at 45.7% against a required minimum of 30%, while liquid assets, (comprising of cash and cash equivalents, amounts due from credit institutions and investment securities) accounted for 29.5% of total assets and 36.4% of total liabilities. The increase in liquidity was primarily due to the additional Eurobond issuance in November 2013, which significantly contributed to the increased liquidity pool as the proceeds from the Eurobonds have not yet been deployed in loans.

 

Effective 1 July 2013, the NBG introduced a transitional amendment to its existing liquidity ratio, entailing additional liquidity requirements relating to non-resident deposits. As of 31 December 2013, the additional impact on liquidity due to this transitional regulation amounted to GEL 118.3 million.

 

The composition of the Bank's balance sheet reflects its aim to maintain a diversified funding base, while optimising funding costs. Net loans/Customer funds ratio stood at 113.0% as of 31 December 2013, compared to 114.8% a year ago. Net loans/Customer funds + Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) however increased by 4.3 percentage points to 96.2%, as a result of a pick-up in lending and the repayment of selected loans from DFIs following the issuance of Eurobonds in November 2013. Borrowed Funds from DFIs made up 10.3% of total liabilities, down from 14.6% as a result of repayment of subordinated loans.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capital Adequacy, BIS

 




Change

GEL thousands, unless otherwise noted 

31 Dec 13

31 Dec 12

Y-O-Y

Tier I capital

1,170,104

1,006,756

16.2%

Tier II capital

256,224

284,677

-10.0%

Total Capital

1,375,181

1,242,736

10.7%

Risk Weighted Assets

5,080,827

4,749,484

7.0%

Tier I capital adequacy ratio (BIS)

23.0%

21.2%


Total capital adequacy ratio (BIS)

27.1%

26.2%


 

Capital Adequacy, NBG

 




Change

GEL thousands, unless otherwise noted 

31 Dec 13

31 Dec 12

Y-O-Y





Tier I capital

810,545

739,880

9.6%

Tier II capital

313,220

389,685

-19.6%

Total Capital

867,294

866,950

0.0%

Risk Weighted Assets

5,638,556

5,352,187

5.4%

Tier I capital adequacy ratio (NBG)

14.4%

13.8%


Total capital adequacy ratio (NBG)

15.4%

16.2%


 

The Bank ended the year with a particularly strong capital position with a robust Tier I ratio (BIS) of 23.0%. This is a further improvement from the 21.2% Tier I Capital of Bank of Georgia Group in 2012. Risk weighted assets increased by 7.0% to GEL 5,080.8 million, reflecting the increase in interest earning assets during the year, while Tier 1 Capital (BIS) increased by GEL 163.3 million to GEL 1,170.1 million.

 

NBG Total Capital stayed largely flat at GEL 867.3 million as a result of a dividend payment and the early repayment of costly subordinated loans.

 

Approved and published on 28 October 2013 by NBG, a new capital adequacy regulation comes into force in 2014. Pillar 1 requirements become effective 30 June 2014, although reporting under the new regulation is effective 1 January 2014. Pillar 2 (ICAAP) requirements shall become effective 30 September 2014. A transition period is to continue through 1 January 2017, during which the Bank will be required to comply with both, the new, as well as the old, capital regulations of the NBG. The new capital regulation is based on Basel 2/3 requirements, adjusted for NBG's discretionary items. The Bank has been already calculating its capital adequacy under the new regulation during 2013 and is fully ready for the new regulation, which it has already implemented. The Bank sees no particular risks associated with the new regulation and the transition period and it expects its absolute capital requirement to stay materially unchanged or even slightly reduced.

 

 

 

 

RESULTS BY QUARTER

 

Revenue









Change


Change

GEL thousands, unless otherwise noted

Q4 2013

Q4 2012

Y-O-Y

Q3 2013

Q-O-Q






Loans to customers

133,354

134,451

-0.8%

129,445

3.0%

Investment securities

8,148

8,018

1.6%

9,581

-15.0%

Amounts due from credit institutions

1,745

2,141

-18.5%

1,733

0.7%

Finance lease receivables

2,570

2,327

10.4%

1,688

52.3%

Interest income

145,817

146,937

-0.8%

142,447

2.4%

Amounts due to customers

(35,624)

(46,284)

-23.0%

(37,866)

-5.9%

Amounts due to credit institutions

(26,531)

(23,943)

10.8%

(24,429)

8.6%

Eurobonds

(11,020)

(7,880)

39.8%

(8,213)

34.2%

Subordinated debt

(5,456)

(2,206)

147.3%

(5,794)

-5.8%

Loans and deposits from other banks

(10,055)

(13,857)

-27.4%

(10,422)

-3.5%

Interest expense

(62,155)

(70,227)

-11.5%

(62,294)

-0.2%

Net interest income before interest rate swaps

83,662

76,710

9.1%

80,153

4.4%

Net loss from interest rate swaps

(95)

(171)

-44.4%

(118)

-19.5%

Net interest income

83,567

76,539

9.2%

80,035

4.4%

Fee and commission income

31,200

28,028

11.3%

29,008

7.6%

Fee and commission expense

(8,099)

(6,906)

17.3%

(7,489)

8.1%

Net fee and commission income

23,101

21,122

9.4%

21,519

7.4%

Net insurance premiums earned

34,012

32,956

3.2%

31,693

7.3%

Net insurance claims incurred

(23,799)

(20,698)

15.0%

(19,297)

23.3%

Net insurance revenue17

10,213

12,258

-16.7%

12,396

-17.6%

Healthcare revenue

18,268

15,751

16.0%

14,256

28.1%

Cost of healthcare services

(9,915)

(8,626)

14.9%

(9,232)

7.4%

Net healthcare revenue

8,353

7,125

17.2%

5,024

66.3%

Net gain from trading and investment securities

279

73

NMF

228

22.4%

Net gain from revaluation of investment property

2,078

-

-

2,868

-27.5%

Net gain from foreign currencies

9,631

10,878

-11.5%

12,203

-21.1%

Other operating income

7,219

293

NMF

4,065

77.6%

Other operating non-interest income

19,207

11,244

70.8%

19,364

-0.8%

Revenue

144,441

128,288

12.6%

138,338

4.4%

 

17 For the net healthcare revenue disclosures please see the Insurance and Healthcare segment discussion

 

Net interest income in Q4 2013 increased 9.2% y-o-y to GEL 83.6 million. This largely reflects the effects of the declining cost of funding, translating into the reduction of interest expense by 11.5% on a yearly, and 0.2% on a quarterly basis to GEL 62.2 million for the quarter.

 

Q4 2013 revenue reached GEL 144.4 million, up 4.4% q-o-q and 12.6% y-o-y. On a yearly basis, the 0.8% decline of the interest income for the quarter was due to an 18.5% decrease in interest income from amounts due from credit institutions as a result of a high yielding interbank deposit transaction in 2012. Interest income stayed largely flat on a quarterly basis at GEL 133.4 million as a result of a decline in the loan yield, which was down by 150 bps to 15.6% year-on-year and remained largely flat compared to the previous quarter (15.7% in Q3 2013). Compared to the previous quarter in 2013, interest income from loans to customers grew by 3.0% to GEL 133.4 million, supported by a strong growth in average net loans on quarterly basis.

 

The growth in revenue also benefited from a 9.4% y-o-y, and 7.4% q-o-q, growth in net fee and commission income and a modest increase in other operating income, which was primarily attributable to an increase of net revenue from the sale of goods of the Bank's non-banking subsidiaries m2 Real Estate and Teliani Valley.

 

The growth of net interest income was partially offset by decrease in net insurance revenue to GEL 10.2 million for the quarter, down 16.7% y-o-y and down 17.6% q-o-q. Adjusting for a one-off inter-segment elimination correction, which affected Q4 2013 healthcare and insurance numbers, net insurance revenue increased to GEL 11.9 million down 3.1%  y-o-y and 4.2% q-o-the quarter-on-quarter decline was due to the to the seasonality effect specific to the insurance business with Q3 being the most profitable quarter due to low claims. Net healthcare revenue increased 17.2% year-on-year. When adjusted for the inter-segment elimination correction, net healthcare revenue increased 6.2% y-o-y. On a quarterly basis, net healthcare revenue grew by 66.3% and 33.1% on adjusted basis, reflecting the rise in healthcare revenues as a result of the expansion of healthcare operations.

 

Net Interest Margin




Change


Change

GEL thousands, unless otherwise noted

Q4 2013

Q4 2012

Y-O-Y

Q3 2013

Q-O-Q







Net interest income

83,567

76,539

9.2%

80,035

4.4%

Net Interest Margin

7.9%

7.8%

1.3%

7.7%

2.6%

Average interest earning assets18

4,192,519

3,891,637

7.7%

4,115,806

1.9%

Average interest bearing liabilities18

4,620,387

4,264,983

8.3%

4,403,293

4.9%

Average liquid assets18

1,681,582

1,550,860

8.4%

1,555,797

8.1%

Excess liquidity NBG (excl. additional liquidity requirement for non-resident depositors)

655,392

352,675

85.8%

336,961

94.5%

Additional liquidity requirement for non-resident depositors

(118,285)

-

-

(96,629)

22.4%

Excess liquidity19

537,107

352,675

52.3%

240,332

123.5%

Loan yield

15.6%

17.1%


15.7%


Cost of funds

5.3%

6.6%


5.6%


 

18 Monthly averages are used for calculation of average interest earning assets, average interest bearing liabilities and average liquid assets

19 Excess liquidity is the excess amount of the liquid assets, as defined per NBG, which exceeds the minimal amount of the same liquid assets for the purposes of the minimal 30% liquidity ratio per NBG definitions. Excess liquidity for Q3 2013 has been adjusted to the new NBG regulation, which entails additional liquidity requirement pertaining to concentration of non-resident deposits. As a result of the new liquidity requirement, the Bank's excess liquidity decreased compared to liquidity requirement per previous regulation. 

 

The Q4 2013 NIM increased 10 bps y-o-y and 20 bps q-o-q to 7.9% reflecting the healthy growth of net interest income on both a quarterly and annual basis. The significantly reduced cost of funds to 5.3% in Q4 2013 more than offset the downward pressure from declining loan yields. The loan yields declined 150 bps y-o-y to 15.6% in Q4 2013, which compared to a 130 bps decline in the cost of funds during the same period. An increase in average liquid assets, following the Eurobond issuance in November 2013 placed additional downward pressure on the NIM in Q4 2013.

On quarterly basis, the NIM was positively impacted by strong quarterly growth in lending, translating into a 4.4% q-o-q growth of net interest income. The growth in net interest income was also supported by a 30 bps q-o-q decline in the cost of funding, which was partially offset by of a 10 bps decline in the loan yield.

Net operating income, cost of credit risk, profit for the period




Change


Change

GEL thousands, unless otherwise noted

Q4 2013

Q4 2012

Y-O-Y

Q3 2013

Q-O-Q







Salaries and other employee benefits

(35,627)

(32,383)

10.0%

(34,361)

3.7%

General and administrative expenses

(17,142)

(15,278)

12.2%

(13,458)

27.4%

Depreciation and amortization expenses

(6,682)

(7,303)

-8.5%

(6,550)

2.0%

Other operating expenses

(1,547)

998

NMF

(579)

167.2%

Operating expenses

(60,998)

(53,966)

13.0%

(54,948)

11.0%

Operating income before cost of credit risk

83,443

74,322

12.3%

83,390

0.1%

Cost of credit risk

(9,999)

(16,124)

-38.0%

(15,540)

-35.7%

Net operating income

73,444

58,198

26.2%

67,850

8.2%

Net non-operating expenses

(5,960)

(4,189)

42.3%

(1,419)

NMF

Profit before income tax expense

67,484

54,009

24.9%

66,431

1.6%

Income tax expense

(11,840)

(7,134)

66.0%

(7,834)

51.1%

Profit

55,644

46,875

18.7%

58,597

-5.0%

 

 

The increase in operating expenses on both quarterly and yearly basis was attributed to an increase in salaries and other employee benefits, reflecting the headcount increase, predominantly at the Bank's subsidiaries. The increase in general and administrative expenses in Q4 2013, compared to Q3 2013 was due to an increase in expenses associated to marketing costs and corporate hospitality expenses associated with the Christmas period.

 

The cost of credit risk for the quarter decreased 38.0% y-o-y to GEL 10.0 million as a result of a decline in impairments on y-o-y basis, particularly from the Corporate Banking business. The 35.7% q-o-q decline in the cost of credit risk was primarily driven by lower impairments as well as a higher rate of recoveries in Retail Banking in Q4 2013.

 

As a result of the foregoing, in Q4 2013, the Bank's net operating income totalled GEL 73.4 million, up 26.2% y-o-y and up 8.2% q-o-q. The Bank's net non-operating expense stood at GEL 6.0 million, up 42.3% y-o-y, reflecting the prepayment cost of subordinated debt and the impairment of property, plant and equipment. As a result, the Bank posted Q4 2013 profit of GEL 55.6 million, up 18.7% y-o-y and down 5.0% q-o-q.

 

SEGMENT RESULTS

 

 

Strategic Businesses Segment Result Discussion

 

Segment result discussion is presented for the Bank of Georgia's Retail Banking (RB), Corporate Banking (CB) and Investment Management, Insurance and Healthcare (Aldagi), Affordable Housing (m2 RE) in Georgia and BNB in Belarus, excluding inter-company eliminations.

 

Retail Banking (RB)

 




Change

GEL thousands, unless otherwise noted

2013

2012

Y-O-Y





Net interest income

191,851

174,360

10.0%

Net fee and commission income

54,025

53,563

0.9%

Net gain from foreign currencies

16,308

14,985

8.8%

Other operating non-interest income

4,896

3,365

45.5%

Revenue

267,080

246,273

8.4%

Operating expenses

(120,322)

(109,041)

10.3%

Operating income before cost of credit risk

146,758

137,232

6.9%

Cost of credit risk

(29,172)

(12,482)

133.7%

Net non-operating expenses

(2,200)

(6,828)

-67.8%

Profit before income tax expense

115,386

117,922

-2.2%

Income tax expense

(14,468)

(16,392)

-11.7%

Profit

100,918

101,530

-0.6%

Net loans, standalone

1,612,942

1,348,331

19.6%

Client deposits, standalone

1,086,607

816,709

33.0%

 Loan yield

19.8%

21.4%


 Cost of deposits

5.3%

6.1%


 Cost / income ratio

45.1%

44.3%


 

 

Retail Banking provides consumer loans, mortgage loans, overdrafts, credit card facilities and other credit facilities as well as funds transfer and settlement services and handling customer deposits for both individuals and legal entities, encompassing the mass affluent segment, retail mass markets, SME and micro businesses.

 

Retail Banking posted revenue of GEL 267.1 million, up 8.4% year-on-year and profit of GEL 100.9 million, down 0.6% year-on-year, contributing 49.0% and 48.2% of the Group's total revenue and profit, respectively. The growth was primarily driven by a 10.0% growth in net interest income reflecting the combination of 19.6% y-o-y growth in net Retail Banking loans with the 160 bps decline in retail loan yields. Retail Banking cost of deposits declined by 80 bps to 5.3% as a result of a reduction in contractual rates. The Express Banking strategy continued to boost the growth of current account balances, which increased 45.7% y-o-y or by GEL 89.6 million to GEL 285.7 million and the addition of over 190,000 clients during the year.

 

Cost of credit risk increased from GEL 12.5 million in 2012 to GEL 29.2 million in 2013 placing a downward pressure on Retail Banking profit, which amounted to GEL 100.9 million, down by 0.6% y-o-y. However, Retail Banking cost of credit risk showed signs of improvement in Q4 2013, with lower impairments during the quarter.

 

Highlights

 

§ Launched Express Merchant service within its wider franchise of Express Banking service. Express Merchant is aimed at small retailers that do not offer card payments in their stores. Express Merchant service offers these retailers a simple, low cost tablet payment system (tablet POS) as well as a wide range of attractive services tied to this tablet. This service, apart from helping the Bank to expand its footprint on the SME market, helps to further popularise the Express card.   

§ Increased number of Express Pay (self-service) terminals to 985 from 221 as of 31 December 2012. Express Pay terminals are used for bank transactions such as credit card and consumer loan payments, utility bill payments and mobile telephone top-ups.

§ Stepped up the issuance of Express cards, first contactless cards in Georgia, which also serve as a metro and bus transport payment card and offer loyalty programmes to clients.

§ Since the launch on 5 September 2012, 435,090 Express cards have been issued in essence replacing pre-paid metro cards in circulation since July 2009.

§ Issued 534,717 debit cards, including Express cards, in 2013 bringing the total debit cards outstanding to 857,734 up 19.4% y-o-y.

§ Issued 55,766 credit cards of which 47,955 were American Express cards in 2013. The total number of outstanding credit cards amounted to 117,913 (of which 108,608 were American Express Cards).

§ Outstanding number of Retail Banking clients totalled 1,245,048 up 18.1%y-o-y and by 4.6% (54,793clients) q-o-q.

§ Acquired 1,891 new clients in the Solo business line, the Bank's mass affluent sub-brand, in 2013. As of 31 December 2013, the number of Solo clients reached 6,810.

§ Increased the number of corporate clients using the Bank's payroll services from 3,429 as of 31 December 2012 to 3,842 as of 31 December 2013. As of the period end, the number of individual clients serviced through the corporate payroll programmes administered by the Bank amounted to 233,153, compared to 204,629 as of 31 December 2012.

§ Increased Point of Sales (POS) footprint: as of 31 December 2013, 283 desks at 731 contracted merchants, up from 231 desks and 474 merchants as of 31 December 2012. GEL 110.2 million POS loans were issued in 2013, compared to GEL 56.4 million during the same period last year. POS loans outstanding amounted to GEL 62.9 million, up 106.2% over one year period.

§ POS terminals outstanding reached 4,836, up 29.8% y-o-y. The volume of transactions through the Bank's POS terminals grew 27.0% y-o-y to GEL 427.8 million, while the number of POS transactions increased by 2.8 million y-o-y from 4.4 million in 2012 to 7.2 million in 2013.

§ Consumer loan originations of GEL 545.4 million resulted in consumer loans outstanding totalling GEL 418.0 million as of 31 December 2013, up 19.3% y-o-y. 

§ Micro loan originations of GEL 431.4 million resulted in micro loans outstanding totalling GEL 337.3 million as of 31 December 2013, up 30.8% y-o-y.

§ SME loan originations of GEL 213.1 million resulted in SME loans outstanding totalling GEL 159.7 million as of 30 December 2013, up 49.9% y-o-y.

§ Mortgage loans originations of GEL 234.1 million resulted in mortgage loans outstanding of GEL 441.4 million as of 30 December 2013, up 13.6% y-o-y.

§ RB loan yield amounted to 19.1% in Q4 2013 (21.3% in Q4 2012) and RB deposit cost declined to 5.1% in Q4 2013 (5.8% in Q4 2012).

 

 

 

 

 

Corporate Banking (CB)

 

 




Change

GEL thousands, unless otherwise noted

2013

2012

Y-O-Y





Net interest income

103,967

92,276

12.7%

Net fee and commission income

27,318

28,701

-4.8%

Net gain from foreign currencies

24,774

29,819

-16.9%

Other operating non-interest income

6,340

3,996

58.7%

Revenue

162,399

154,792

4.9%

Operating expenses

(44,202)

(51,323)

-13.9%

Operating income before cost of credit risk

118,197

103,469

14.2%

Cost of credit risk

(31,054)

(29,490)

5.3%

Net non-operating expenses

(2,690)

(8,415)

-68.0%

Profit before income tax expense

84,453

65,564

28.8%

Income tax expense

(11,164)

(9,936)

12.4%

Profit

73,289

55,628

31.7%

Net loans, standalone

1,819,171

1,696,325

7.2%

Letters of credit and guarantees, standalone*

499,055

573,396

-13.0%

Client deposits, standalone

1,221,428

1,148,913

6.3%

 Loan yield

12.4%

13.9%


 Cost of deposits

4.4%

7.2%


 Cost / income ratio

27.2%

33.2%


 

*Off-balance sheet items

 

 

The Group's Corporate Banking business in Georgia comprises loans and other credit facilities to the country's large corporate clients as well as other legal entities, excluding SME and micro businesses. The service offerings include fund transfers and settlements services, currency conversion operations, trade finance service, trade finance services and documentary operations as well as handling savings and term deposits for corporate and institutional customers. The Corporate Banking business also includes finance lease facility provided by the Bank's leasing operations (Georgian Leasing Company LLC).

 

Net interest income for the Corporate Banking business increased 12.7%, driven by a 7.2% increase in net loans to GEL 1,819.2 million. Net interest income growth was also supported by a 280 bps year-on-year decrease in the cost of deposits, which significantly outweighed the decrease in loan yield, down by 150 bps year-on-year. Client deposits increased by 6.3% to GEL 1,221.4 million despite the sharp decline in deposit rates. Operating expenses decreased 13.9% as a result of further improvements in operating efficiency translating into an improved Cost to Income Ratio of 27.2% compared to 33.2% a year ago. 

 

The cost of credit risk increased 5.3% to GEL 31.1 million in 2013. As a result of the foregoing, 2013 profit of the Corporate Banking business amounted to GEL 73.3 million up 31.7% y-o-y.

 

 

 

 

 

Investment Management




Change

GEL thousands, unless otherwise noted

2013

2012

Y-O-Y





Net interest income

8,173

12,644

-35.4%

Net fee and commission income

530

523

1.3%

Net gain from foreign currencies

1,341

682

96.6%

Other operating non-interest income

42

73

-42.5%

Revenue

10,086

13,922

-27.6%

Operating expenses

(6,858)

(4,665)

47.0%

Operating income before cost of credit risk

3,228

9,257

-65.1%

Cost of credit risk

10

727

-98.6%

Net non-operating expenses

(255)

(305)

-16.4%

Profit before income tax expense

2,983

9,679

-69.2%

Income tax expense

(359)

(1,339)

-73.2%

Profit

2,624

8,340

-68.5%

Client deposits, standalone

679,401

605,183

12.3%

Cost of deposits *

7.9%

8.9%

-1.0%

 

*Includes overhead costs of international private banking operations

 

 

The Bank's Investment Management business provides private banking services to resident and non-resident clients by ensuring an individual approach and exclusivity in providing banking services such as holding the clients' savings and term deposits, fund transfers, currency exchange and settlement operations. In addition, Investment Management involves providing services to its clients through a wide range investment opportunities and specifically designed investment products.

 

Investment Management client deposits increased 12.3% y-o-y  to GEL 679.4 million, despite a 100 bps y-o-y decline in the cost of deposits. Net interest income declined 35.4% to GEL 8.2 million predominantly as a result of a change in the internal transfer pricing rates within the segments (from Investment Management to Retail Banking and Corporate Banking). As a result, the profit of the segment declined to GEL 2.6 million in 2013, from GEL 8.3 million in 2012.

 

Highlights

 

§ The Investment Management business served over 1,490 clients from more than 60 countries as of 31 December 2013. Client funds attracted by Investment Management have grown at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 42.9% over the last four year period to GEL 679.4 million as of 31 December 2013.

§ Bank of Georgia Research unit, previously under Corporate Banking, has moved under Investment Management and is aimed at supporting the growth of the Bank's fee generating business.

§ Since its launch in June 2012, Bank of Georgia Research has initiated research coverage of the Georgian Economy, Georgian Agricultural Sector, Georgian Electricity Sector, Georgian Oil and Gas Corporation, Georgian Railway, and issued notes on Georgian State Budget and the Tourism Sector as of the date of this report.

§ In line with the Bank's strategy to expand research platform to cover the neighbouring economies in the region, IM has hired a research economist in Azerbaijan. Macro-economic coverage of Azerbaijan is expected to be initiated in the next few months.

§ Established a Joint Venture with the Georgian Energy Development Fund (the "HPP Joint Venture") to attract financing for the construction of seven hydropower plants with the total capacity of 180MW. The construction is to be financed by funds attracted from investors in international markets following the completion of the feasibility studies of the respective plants.

§ As of 31 December 2013, the amount of CDs issued to Investment Management clients reached GEL 195.7 million.

§ Successfully placed US$ 8 million and EUR 8 million Euroclearable CDs in January 2014.

 

 

 

 

 

Insurance and Healthcare (Aldagi) 

 

 

 


2013

2012

Change, Y-O-Y

GEL thousands, unless otherwise noted

Insurance

Healthcare

Elimination

Total

Insurance

Healthcare

Elimination

Total

Insurance

Healthcare

Total

Gross premiums written

146,595

-

-

146,595

127,922

-

-

127,922

14.6%

-

14.6%

Net interest income (expenses)

2,546

(12,404)

-

(9,858)

1,825

(6,481)

-

(4,656)

39.5%

91.4%

111.7%

Net fee and commission income (expenses)

256

(250)

-

6

(107)

-

-

(107)

NMF

-

NMF

Net insurance revenue, of which:

36,945

-

11,051

47,996

29,661

-

6,422

36,083

24.6%

-

33.0%

  Net insurance premiums earned

133,013

-

(356)

132,657

93,121

-

-

93,121

42.8%

-

42.5%

  Net insurance claims incurred

(96,068)

-

11,407

(84,661)

(63,460)

-

6,422

(57,038)

51.4%

-

48.4%

Net healthcare revenue (loss), of which:

-

33,776

(11,407)

22,369

-

29,768

(6,422)

23,346

-

13.5%

-4.2%

Healthcare revenue

-

90,745

(30,732)

60,013

-

68,597

(14,221)

54,376

-

32.3%

10.4%

Cost of healthcare services

-

(56,969)

19,325

(37,644)

-

(38,829)

7,799

(31,030)

-

46.7%

21.3%

Net gain (loss) from foreign currencies

543

(5,139)

-

(4,596)

238

(1,090)

-

(852)

128.2%

NMF

NMF

Other operating non-interest income

1,021

1,277

(6)

2,292

1,000

257

(209)

1,048

2.1%

NMF

118.7%

Revenue

41,311

17,260

(362)

58,209

32,617

22,454

(209)

54,862

26.7%

-23.1%

6.1%

Operating expenses

(16,795)

(12,434)

362

(28,867)

(17,437)

(17,917)

209

(35,145)

-3.7%

-30.6%

-17.9%

Operating income before cost of credit risk

24,516

4,826

-

29,342

15,180

4,537

-

19,717

61.5%

6.4%

48.8%

Cost of credit risk

(981)

(39)

-

(1,020)

(1,502)

(802)

-

(2,304)

-34.7%

-95.1%

-55.7%

Net non-operating income

-

-

-

-

-

440

-

440

-

-100.0%

-100.0%

Profit before income tax expense

23,535

4,787

-

28,322

13,678

4,175

-

17,853

72.1%

14.7%

58.6%

Income tax expense

(3,760)

(389)

-

(4,149)

(2,068)

(242)

-

(2,310)

81.8%

60.7%

79.6%

Profit

19,775

4,398

-

24,173

11,610

3,933

-

15,543

70.3%

11.8%

55.5%

Cost / income ratio

40.7%

72.0%

-

49.6%

53.5%

79.8%

-

64.1%

-12.8%

-7.8%


Loss ratio

69.9%

-

-

-

64.4%

-

-

-

-

-

-

Combined ratio

86.4%

-

-

-

86.7%

-

-

-

-

-

-

 

 

Aldagi, the Bank's wholly-owned subsidiary, provides life and non-life insurance and healthcare products and services in Georgia. A leader in the Georgian life and non-life insurance markets, with a market share of 29.4% as of 30 September 2013 based on gross insurance premium revenue, Aldagi cross-sells its insurance products with the Bank's Retail Banking, Corporate Banking and Investment Management products. Aldagi's healthcare business consists of My Family Clinic (MFC) and Unimed, Georgia's leading healthcare providers in which Aldagi holds 51% and 100% stakes, respectively. MFC and Unimed operate a chain of healthcare centres in Georgia, in line with the Bank's strategy of vertically integrating its insurance and healthcare businesses.

 

In 2013, insurance and healthcare revenue increased to GEL 58.2 million from GEL 54.9 million in 2012, reflecting the growth of both the insurance and healthcare businesses through organic growth as well as acquisitions. Gross premiums written increased by 14.6% y-o-y to GEL 146.6 million and net insurance revenue increased by 33.0% y-o-y to GEL 48.0 million. The 2013 healthcare operations reflect the roll-out of new clinics in mid-year, with normal start-up costs and initial lower utilisation not being offset by the full year revenue stream. (Please see below the Insurance standalone income statement and Healthcare standalone pro-forma statement for more details). Operating expenses of the insurance and healthcare businesses decreased by 17.9% y-o-y to GEL 28.9 million, reflecting increased cost efficiency. The combined operating leverage for the insurance and healthcare segment amounted to 24.0 percentage points. As a result of the foregoing, total operating income before the cost of credit risk totalled GEL 29.3 million up 48.8% y-o-y.

 

The Insurance and Healthcare segment (Aldagi) posted a profit before income tax expense of GEL 24.2 million compared to GEL 15.5 million in 2012. Aldagi's group consolidated annual profit stood at GEL 25.1 million in 2013.

 

 

 

 

 

Insurance standalone income statement




Change

GEL thousands, unless otherwise noted

2013

2012

Y-O-Y





Gross premiums written

146,595

127,922

14.6%

Net interest income

2,546

1,825

39.5%

Net fee and commission income (expenses)

256

(107)

NMF

Net insurance revenue, of which:

36,945

29,661

24.6%

  Net insurance premiums earned

133,013

93,121

42.8%

  Net insurance claims incurred

(96,068)

(63,460)

51.4%

Net gain from foreign currencies

543

238

128.2%

Other operating non-interest income

1,021

1,000

2.1%

Revenue

41,311

32,617

26.7%

Operating expenses

(16,795)

(17,437)

-3.7%

Operating income before cost of credit risk

24,516

15,180

61.5%

Cost of credit risk

(981)

(1,502)

-34.7%

Profit before Income tax expense

23,535

13,678

72.1%

Income tax expense

(3,760)

(2,068)

81.8%

Profit

19,775

11,610

70.3%

Cost / income ratio

40.7%

53.5%


Loss ratio

69.9%

64.4%


Combined ratio

86.4%

86.7%


 

 

Healthcare pro-forma20standalone income statement

 




Change

GEL thousands, unless otherwise noted

2013

2012

Y-O-Y





Net interest expenses

(12,404)

(6,481)

91.4%

Net fee and commission expenses

(250)

-

-

Net healthcare revenue, of which:

40,565

29,768

36.3%

  Healthcare revenue

90,745

68,597

32.3%

  Cost of healthcare services

(50,180)

(38,829)

29.2%

Net loss from foreign currencies

(4,157)

(1,090)

NMF

Other operating non-interest income

1,277

257

NMF

Revenue

25,031

22,454

11.5%

Operating expenses

(19,223)

(17,917)

7.3%

Operating income before cost of credit risk

5,808

4,537

28.0%

Cost of credit risk

(39)

(802)

-95.1%

Net non-operating income

-

440

-100.0%

Profit before income tax expense

5,769

4,175

38.2%

Income tax expense

(454)

(242)

87.6%

Profit

5,315

3,933

35.1%

 

 

20In 2013, compared to 2012, additional direct operating expenses of the Healthcare business (such as, direct depreciation and other administrative expenses) were netted off against net healthcare revenues through reclassification to cost of healthcare services. No similar reclassifications were applied to 2012. In the pro-forma version of the healthcare income statement, 2013 has been normalised for these additional net-offs, by reversing them and making 2013 more comparable to 2012.

 

 

Highlights

 

§ Aldagi's market share stood at 29.4% as of 30 September 2013 based on gross insurance revenue

§ In January 2014, Aldagi's healthcare subsidiary Unimed acquired a 100% equity interest in the 60 bed, high-end, multi-specialty hospital in Tbilisi. The acquisition is in line with the company's strategy to scale up its healthcare business through targeted acquisitions in the capital city. 

§ As anticipated, the Government has recently announced its intention to abolish the State Insurance Programme (SIP) under the management of insurance companies. The management of SIP will be fully transferred to the state in 2014 to be replaced with the newly introduced Universal Healthcare Coverage, which envisages the provision of direct healthcare coverage to all citizens. As the largest healthcare services provider in the country, Aldagi Healthcare is well positioned well to benefit from increased healthcare spending by the Government over the next few years.

§ Aldagi completed rebranding by changing its name from Aldagi BCI and the colour of its logo from orange to green. The decision to rebrand the company was based on extensive marketing research analysis on brand recognition and awareness of the company. The changes are in line with the Group's intention to establish independent branding for Aldagi, separating it from its parent company.

§ Increased the number of insurance clients to 827,000 as of 31 December 2013 from 773,000 a year ago.

§ Aldagi Healthcare business completed the roll-out of hospital and clinics, predominantly in Western Georgia. As of 31 December 2013, Aldagi operated 27 hospitals and 5 outpatient clinics with a total of 1,329 beds.

 

Affordable Housing

 

 

GEL thousands, unless otherwise noted

2013

2012

Change, Y-O-Y


      m2     

Mortgages  

Total

m2 

Mortgages 

Total

m2

Mortgages

Total

Net interest income (expenses)

1,063

948

2,011

(276)

423

147

NMF

124.1%

NMF

Net fee and commission income (expenses)

(27)

-

(27)

196

-

196

NMF

-

NMF

Net gain (loss) from foreign currencies

123

-

123

(145)

-

(145)

NMF

-

NMF

Other operating non-interest income

10,505

-

10,505

4,378

-

4,378

139.9%

-

139.9%

Revenue

11,664

948

12,612

4,153

423

4,576

180.9%

124.1%

175.6%

Operating expenses

(2,893)

-

(2,893)

(2,381)

-

(2,381)

21.5%

-

21.5%

Operating income before cost of credit risk

8,771

948

9,719

1,772

423

2,195

NMF

124.1%

NMF

Cost of credit risk

(185)

240

55

-

(219)

(219)

-

NMF

NMF

Net non-operating income (expenses)

(823)

(1)

(824)

282

-

282

NMF

-

NMF

Profit before income tax expense

7,763

1,187

8,950

2,054

204

2,258

NMF

NMF

NMF

Income tax expense

(1,142)

-

(1,142)

(307)

-

(307)

NMF

-

NMF

Profit

6,621

1,187

7,808

1,747

204

1,951

NMF

NMF

NMF

 

 

The Affordable Housing business consists of the Bank's wholly-owned subsidiary m2 Real Estate, which holds investment properties repossessed by the Bank from previously defaulted borrowers. With the aim to improve the liquidity of these repossessed real estate assets and stimulate the Bank's mortgage lending business by capitalising on the market opportunity in the affordable housing segment in Georgia, the Bank develops, sells and leases such real estate assets through m2 Real Estate. m2 Real Estate outsources the construction and architecture works and focuses on project management and sales of apartments and mortgages through its well-established branch network and sales force, thus representing a synergistic business for the Bank's mortgage business.

 

Other operating non-interest income reached GEL 10.5 million, as a result of GEL 8.0 million gain from revaluation of investment properties, mostly attributable to revaluation of three properties, two of which m2 started to develop in Q4 2013. The remainder came from the sale of apartments in the pilot project as well as rental revenue. Total revenue as a result totalled GEL 12.6 million, compared to GEL 4.6 million revenue during the same period last year. As a result, net profit for the period totalled GEL 7.8 million compared to a GEL 2.0 million net profit in 2012. 

 

Highlights

§ Construction of a second project of a 522 apartment building with a total buildable area of 63,247 square meters is near completion. As of 31 December 2013, 469 or 90% of apartments had been pre-sold. The total sales from this project amounted to US$40.5 million as of 31 December 2013. The project is expected to be completed in the summer of 2014 with a planned IRR of 35%. Strong sales performance enabled the company to prepay FMO debt facility in full in December 2013.

§ In December 2013, m2 Real Estate launched its third and fourth projects: Kazbegi Avenue (total buildable area of 33,574 square meters) and Nutsubidze Street (total buildable area of 26,014 square meters). M2RE sold 37% of the apartments in the Kazbegi Avenue project and 11% of the units in the Nutsubidze Street project within three weeks. Sales amounted to US$9.2 million and US$2.2 million, respectively.

§ The total sales from the first project amounted to GEL 15.8 million and IRR of 33.6%

§ Number of mortgages sold in both projects totalled 273 amounting to GEL 28.3 million.

 

 

 

 

Non-Core Businesses

 

The Group's non-core businesses accounted for 6.0% of total assets and 7.3% of total revenue in 2013 and predominantly comprised Joint Stock Company Belarusky Narodny Bank (BNB), our Belarus banking operation, and Liberty Consumer, a Georgia focused investment company in which the Bank holds a 68% stake. In order to focus on its strategic businesses, the Bank has announced its intention to exit from its non-core operations. As of 31 December 2013, the Bank still held Teliani Valley, a Georgian wine producer, through Liberty Consumer. The Bank intends to sell this remaining asset in due course.

 

 

BNB




Change

GEL thousands, unless otherwise noted

2013

2012

Y-O-Y





Net interest income

18,565

12,074

53.8%

Net fee and commission income

6,350

3,809

66.7%

Net gain from foreign currencies

5,875

5,306

10.7%

Other operating non-interest income

56

68

-17.6%

Revenue

30,846

21,257

45.1%

Operating expenses

(15,384)

(10,327)

49.0%

Operating income before cost of credit risk

15,462

10,930

41.5%

Cost of credit risk

(563)

(1,306)

-56.9%

Net non-operating expenses

(399)

(443)

-9.9%

Profit before income tax expense

14,500

9,181

57.9%

Income tax expense

(3,514)

(2,367)

48.5%

Profit

10,986

6,814

61.2%

Cost / income ratio

49.9%

48.6%


 

 

 

Through BNB, the Bank provides retail and corporate banking services in Belarus. BNB reported strong net interest income and net fee and commission income, up 53.8% y-o-y and 66.7% y-o-y, respectively. As a result, revenue adjusted for last year's one-off foreign currency gain increased by 68.5% y-o-y to GEL 30.8 million. BNB's net loan book increased 69.8% to GEL 199.3 million compared to the year-end 2012, while client deposits increased 48.6% y-o-y to GEL 156.3 million. Cost of credit risk turned positive in Q4 2013 at GEL 809 thousand as a result of a reversal in impairment for one corporate client.  A property valuation reversal in Q4 2013 resulted in net operating income of GEL 687 thousand compared to a loss of GEL 139 thousand in Q4 2012. As of 31 December 2013, BNB's total assets stood at GEL 326.5 million, net loan book at GEL 199.3 million, client deposits at GEL 156.3 million and equity at GEL 58.8 million, representing 5.0%, 5.7%, 5.0% and 4.7% of the Bank's total assets, loan book, client deposits and equity, respectively.

    

    

Highlights

§ 18,600 debit cards outstanding in 2013 compared to 20,600 in 2012

§ Stepped up issuance of loans in 2013 to US$119.3 million, up 31% y-o-y

§ As of 31 December 2013, BNB had 10 branches and 17 ATMs

 



CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

 

CONSOLIDATED INCOME STATEMENT

 




Change

GEL thousands, unless otherwise noted

2013

2012

Y-O-Y





Loans to customers

522,847

509,339

2.7%

Investment securities

35,371

33,950

4.2%

Amounts due from credit institutions

8,423

15,813

-46.7%

Finance lease receivables

7,466

8,701

-14.2%

Interest income

574,107

567,803

1.1%

Amounts due to customers

(159,028)

(202,484)

-21.5%

Amounts due to credit institutions, of which:

(100,585)

(79,492)

26.5%

  Eurobonds

(35,424)

(16,010)

121.3%

  Subordinated debt

(22,394)

(21,883)

2.3%

  Loans and deposits from other banks

(42,767)

(41,599)

2.8%

Interest expense

(259,613)

(281,976)

-7.9%

Net interest income before interest rate swaps

314,494

285,827

10.0%

Net loss from interest rate swaps

(398)

(1,710)

-76.7%

Net interest income

314,096

284,117

10.6%

Fee and commission income

115,106

109,278

5.3%

Fee and commission expense

(28,210)

(22,791)

23.8%

Net fee and commission income

86,896

86,487

0.5%

Net insurance premiums earned

129,993

91,176

42.6%

Net insurance claims incurred

(84,660)

(57,038)

48.4%

Net insurance revenue

45,333

34,138

32.8%

Healthcare revenue

60,013

54,376

10.4%

Cost of healthcare services

(37,644)

(31,030)

21.3%

Net healthcare revenue

22,369

23,346

-4.2%

Net gain from trading and investment securities

3,097

2,308

34.2%

Net gain from revaluation of investment property

9,788

-

-

Net gain from foreign currencies

43,512

49,571

-12.2%

Other operating income

20,363

18,288

11.3%

Other operating non-interest income

76,760

70,167

9.4%

Revenue

545,454

498,255

9.5%

Salaries and other employee benefits

(135,065)

(122,556)

10.2%

General and administrative expenses

(60,364)

(67,041)

-10.0%

Depreciation and amortisation expenses

(26,572)

(28,606)

-7.1%

Other operating expenses

(3,564)

(2,949)

20.9%

Operating expenses

(225,565)

(221,152)

2.0%

Operating income before cost of credit risk

319,889

277,103

15.4%

Cost of credit risk

(61,802)

(44,717)

38.2%

Net operating income

258,087

232,386

11.1%

Net non-operating expenses

(12,831)

(19,634)

-34.6%

Profit before Income tax expense

245,256

212,752

15.3%

Income tax expense

(35,913)

(33,200)

8.2%

Profit

209,343

179,552

16.6%

Attributable to:




- shareholders of the Group

201,490

174,437

15.5%

- non-controlling interests

7,853

5,115

53.5%





Earnings per share (basic)

5.93

5.22

13.6%

Earnings per share (diluted)

5.93

5.17

14.7%

 

 

CONSOLIDATED INCOME STATEMENT

 




Change


Change

GEL thousands, unless otherwise noted

Q4 2013

Q4 2012

Y-O-Y

Q3 2013

Q-O-Q







Loans to customers

133,354

134,451

-0.8%

129,445

3.0%

Investment securities

8,148

8,018

1.6%

9,581

-15.0%

Amounts due from credit institutions

1,745

2,141

-18.5%

1,733

0.7%

Finance lease receivables

2,570

2,327

10.4%

1,688

52.3%

Interest income

145,817

146,937

-0.8%

142,447

2.4%

Amounts due to customers

(35,624)

(46,284)

-23.0%

(37,866)

-5.9%

Amounts due to credit institutions, of which:

(26,531)

(23,943)

10.8%

(24,429)

8.6%

  Eurobonds

(11,020)

(7,880)

39.8%

(8,213)

34.2%

  Subordinated debt

(5,456)

(2,206)

147.3%

(5,794)

-5.8%

  Loans and deposits from other banks

(10,055)

(13,857)

-27.4%

(10,422)

-3.5%

Interest expense

(62,155)

(70,227)

-11.5%

(62,294)

-0.2%

Net interest income before interest rate swaps

83,662

76,710

9.1%

80,153

4.4%

Net loss from interest rate swaps

(95)

(171)

-44.4%

(118)

-19.5%

Net interest income

83,567

76,539

9.2%

80,035

4.4%

Fee and commission income

31,200

28,028

11.3%

29,008

7.6%

Fee and commission expense

(8,099)

(6,906)

17.3%

(7,489)

8.1%

Net fee and commission income

23,101

21,122

9.4%

21,519

7.4%

Net insurance premiums earned

34,012

32,956

3.2%

31,693

7.3%

Net insurance claims incurred

(23,799)

(20,698)

15.0%

(19,297)

23.3%

Net insurance revenue

10,213

12,258

-16.7%

12,396

-17.6%

Healthcare revenue

18,268

15,751

16.0%

14,256

28.1%

Cost of healthcare services

(9,915)

(8,626)

14.9%

(9,232)

7.4%

Net healthcare revenue

8,353

7,125

17.2%

5,024

66.3%

Net gain from trading and investment securities

279

73

NMF

228

22.4%

Net gain from revaluation of investment property

2,078

-

-

2,868

-27.5%

Net gain from foreign currencies, of which:

9,631

10,878

-11.5%

12,203

-21.1%

Other operating income

7,219

293

NMF

4,065

77.6%

Other operating non-interest income

19,207

11,244

70.8%

19,364

-0.8%

Revenue

144,441

128,288

12.6%

138,338

4.4%

Salaries and other employee benefits

(35,627)

(32,383)

10.0%

(34,361)

3.7%

General and administrative expenses

(17,142)

(15,278)

12.2%

(13,458)

27.4%

Depreciation and amortisation expenses

(6,682)

(7,303)

-8.5%

(6,550)

2.0%

Other operating expenses

(1,547)

998

NMF

(579)

167.2%

Operating expenses

(60,998)

(53,966)

13.0%

(54,948)

11.0%

Operating income before cost of credit risk

83,443

74,322

12.3%

83,390

0.1%

Cost of credit risk

(9,999)

(16,124)

-38.0%

(15,540)

-35.7%

Net operating income

73,444

58,198

26.2%

67,850

8.2%

Net non-operating expenses

(5,960)

(4,189)

42.3%

(1,419)

NMF

Profit before Income tax expense

67,484

54,009

24.9%

66,431

1.6%

Income tax expense

(11,840)

(7,134)

66.0%

(7,834)

51.1%

Profit

55,644

46,875

18.7%

58,597

-5.0%

Attributable to:






- shareholders of the Group

53,645

45,228

18.6%

56,110

-4.4%

- non-controlling interests

1,999

1,647

21.4%

2,487

-19.6%







Earnings per share (basic)

1.58

1.33

18.8%

1.65

-4.2%

Earnings per share (diluted)

1.58

1.33

18.8%

1.65

-4.2%

 

 

 

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET

 

 




Change


Change

  GEL thousands, unless otherwise noted

Dec-13

Dec-12

Y-O-Y

Sep-13

Q-O-Q







Cash and cash equivalents

1,053,671

762,827

38.1%

687,396

53.3%

Amounts due from credit institutions

347,261

396,559

-12.4%

324,825

6.9%

Investment securities

519,623

463,960

12.0%

567,598

-8.5%

Loans to customers and finance lease receivables

3,522,915

3,092,320

13.9%

3,283,508

7.3%

Investments in associates

-

2,441

-100.0%

-

-

Investment property

157,707

160,353

-1.7%

163,092

-3.3%

Property and equipment

470,669

430,877

9.2%

455,089

3.4%

Goodwill

48,720

45,657

6.7%

45,657

6.7%

Intangible assets

26,434

23,078

14.5%

24,540

7.7%

Income tax assets

19,096

15,296

24.8%

26,542

-28.1%

Prepayments

25,534

41,147

-37.9%

27,986

-8.8%

Other assets

329,339

221,080

49.0%

348,114

-5.4%

Total assets

6,520,969

5,655,595

15.3%

5,954,347

9.5%







Amounts due to customers, of which:

3,117,732

2,693,025

15.8%

2,862,512

8.9%

  Client deposits

3,107,209

2,622,911

18.5%

2,850,000

9.0%

  Promissory notes

10,523

70,114

-85.0%

12,512

-15.9%

Amounts due to credit institutions

1,886,096

1,657,162

13.8%

1,636,263

15.3%

Income tax liabilities

69,028

60,002

15.0%

69,355

-0.5%

Provisions

481

683

-29.6%

407

18.2%

Other liabilities

206,578

185,211

11.5%

214,874

-3.9%

Total liabilities

5,279,915

4,596,083

14.9%

4,783,411

10.4%







Share capital

1,028

957

7.4%

961

7.0%

Additional paid-in capital

23,843

14,767

61.5%

24,496

-2.7%

Treasury shares

(56)

(69)

-18.8%

(53)

5.7%

Other reserves

(16,399)

14,097

NMF

10,177

NMF

Retained earnings

1,174,124

981,322

19.6%

1,078,645

8.9%

Non-controlling interests

58,514

48,438

20.8%

56,710

3.2%

Total equity

1,241,054

1,059,512

17.1%

1,170,936

6.0%

Total liabilities and equity

6,520,969

5,655,595

15.3%

5,954,347

9.5%







Book value per share

34.85

30.33

14.9%

32.83

6.2%

 

 

 

 

 

CONSOLIDATED INCOME STATEMENT

 



USD




GBP



2013

2012

Change


2013

2012

Change

Thousands, unless otherwise noted



Y-O-Y




Y-O-Y









Loans to customers

301,127

307,442

-2.1%


182,724

191,100

-4.4%

Investment securities

20,371

20,493

-0.6%


12,361

12,738

-3.0%

Amounts due from credit institutions

4,851

9,545

-49.2%


2,944

5,933

-50.4%

Finance lease receivables

4,301

5,251

-18.1%


2,609

3,264

-20.1%

Interest income

330,650

342,731

-3.5%


200,638

213,035

-5.8%

Amounts due to customers

(91,590)

(122,221)

-25.1%


(55,577)

(75,970)

-26.8%

Amounts due to credit institutions, of which:

(57,931)

(47,982)

20.7%


(35,152)

(29,825)

17.9%

  Eurobonds

(20,402)

(9,664)

111.1%


(12,380)

(6,007)

106.1%

  Subordinated debt

(12,898)

(13,209)

-2.4%


(7,826)

(8,210)

-4.7%

  Loans and deposits from other banks

(24,631)

(25,109)

-1.9%


(14,946)

(15,608)

-4.2%

Interest expense

(149,521)

(170,203)

-12.2%


(90,729)

(105,795)

-14.2%

Net interest income before interest rate swaps

181,129

172,528

5.0%


109,909

107,240

2.5%

Net loss from interest rate swaps

(229)

(1,032)

-77.8%


(139)

(641)

-78.3%

Net interest income

180,900

171,496

5.5%


109,770

106,599

3.0%

Fee and commission income

66,294

65,961

0.5%


40,227

41,000

-1.9%

Fee and commission expense

(16,247)

(13,757)

18.1%


(9,859)

(8,551)

15.3%

Net fee and commission income

50,047

52,204

-4.1%


30,368

32,449

-6.4%

Net insurance premiums earned

74,868

55,035

36.0%


45,430

34,209

32.8%

Net insurance claims incurred

(48,759)

(34,429)

41.6%


(29,587)

(21,401)

38.3%

Net insurance revenue

26,109

20,606

26.7%


15,843

12,808

23.7%

Healthcare revenue

34,564

32,822

5.3%


20,973

20,401

2.8%

Cost of healthcare services

(21,681)

(18,730)

15.8%


(13,155)

(11,642)

13.0%

Net healthcare revenue

12,883

14,092

-8.6%


7,818

8,759

-10.7%

Net gain from trading and investment securities

1,784

1,393

28.1%


1,082

866

24.9%

Net gain from revaluation of investment property

5,637

-

-


3,421

-

-

Net gain from foreign currencies

25,060

29,922

-16.2%


15,207

18,599

-18.2%

Other operating income

11,727

11,038

6.2%


7,116

6,861

3.7%

Other operating non-interest income

44,208

42,353

4.4%


26,826

26,326

1.9%

Revenue

314,147

300,751

4.5%


190,625

186,941

2.0%

Salaries and other employee benefits

(77,789)

(73,976)

5.2%


(47,202)

(45,982)

2.7%

General and administrative expenses

(34,766)

(40,467)

-14.1%


(21,096)

(25,153)

-16.1%

Depreciation and amortisation expenses

(15,304)

(17,267)

-11.4%


(9,286)

(10,733)

-13.5%

Other operating expenses

(2,052)

(1,779)

15.3%


(1,246)

(1,106)

12.7%

Operating expenses

(129,911)

(133,489)

-2.7%


(78,830)

(82,974)

-5.0%

Operating income before cost of credit risk

184,236

167,262

10.1%


111,795

103,967

7.5%

Cost of credit risk

(35,594)

(26,992)

31.9%


(21,599)

(16,778)

28.7%

Net operating income

148,642

140,270

6.0%


90,196

87,189

3.4%

Net non-operating expenses

(7,390)

(11,851)

-37.6%


(4,484)

(7,366)

-39.1%

Profit before income tax expense

141,252

128,419

10.0%


85,712

79,823

7.4%

Income tax expense

(20,684)

(20,040)

3.2%


(12,551)

(12,456)

0.8%

Profit

120,568

108,379

11.2%


73,161

67,367

8.6%

Attributable to:








- shareholders of the Group

116,045

105,292

10.2%


70,417

65,448

7.6%

- non-controlling interests

4,523

3,087

46.5%


2,744

1,919

43.0%









Earnings per share (basic)

3.42

3.15

8.6%


2.07

1.96

5.6%

Earnings per share (diluted)

3.42

3.12

9.6%


2.07

1.94

6.7%

 

 

 

 

         

 

CONSOLIDATED INCOME STATEMENT

 




USD






GBP






Change


Change




Change


Change

Thousands, unless otherwise noted

Q4 2013

Q4 2012

Y-O-Y

Q3 2013

Q-O-Q


Q4 2013

Q4 2012

Y-O-Y

Q3 2013

Q-O-Q

























Loans to customers

76,804

81,156

-5.4%

77,773

-1.2%


46,604

50,445

-7.6%

48,347

-3.6%

Investment securities

4,693

4,840

-3.0%

5,756

-18.5%


2,848

3,008

-5.3%

3,578

-20.4%

Amounts due from credit institutions

1,005

1,292

-22.2%

1,041

-3.5%


610

803

-24.0%

647

-5.7%

Finance lease receivables

1,479

1,405

5.3%

1,015

45.7%


898

874

2.7%

631

42.3%

Interest income

83,981

88,693

-5.3%

85,585

-1.9%


50,960

55,130

-7.6%

53,203

-4.2%

Amounts due to customers

(20,517)

(27,937)

-26.6%

(22,751)

-9.8%


(12,450)

(17,365)

-28.3%

(14,143)

-12.0%

Amounts due to credit institutions, of which:

(15,280)

(14,452)

5.7%

(14,677)

4.1%


(9,272)

(8,983)

3.2%

(9,124)

1.6%

  Eurobonds

(6,347)

(4,756)

33.5%

(4,935)

28.6%


(3,851)

(2,957)

30.2%

(3,068)

25.5%

  Subordinated debt

(3,142)

(1,332)

135.9%

(3,481)

-9.7%


(1,907)

(828)

130.3%

(2,164)

-11.9%

  Loans and deposits from other banks

(5,791)

(8,364)

-30.8%

(6,261)

-7.5%


(3,514)

(5,198)

-32.4%

(3,892)

-9.7%

Interest expense

(35,797)

(42,390)

-15.6%

(37,427)

-4.4%


(21,722)

(26,349)

-17.6%

(23,267)

-6.6%

Net interest income before interest rate swaps

48,184

46,303

4.1%

48,157

0.1%


29,238

28,781

1.6%

29,937

-2.3%

Net loss from interest rate swaps

(55)

(103)

-46.6%

(71)

-22.5%


(33)

(64)

-48.4%

(44)

-25.0%

Net interest income

48,129

46,200

4.2%

48,086

0.1%


29,205

28,717

1.7%

29,893

-2.3%

Fee and commission income

17,969

16,918

6.2%

17,429

3.1%


10,904

10,516

3.7%

10,834

0.6%

Fee and commission expense

(4,664)

(4,169)

11.9%

(4,500)

3.6%


(2,831)

(2,591)

9.3%

(2,797)

1.2%

Net fee and commission income

13,305

12,749

4.4%

12,929

2.9%


8,073

7,925

1.9%

8,037

0.4%

Net insurance premiums earned

19,589

19,893

-1.5%

19,042

2.9%


11,886

12,365

-3.9%

11,837

0.4%

Net insurance claims incurred

(13,707)

(12,494)

9.7%

(11,594)

18.2%


(8,317)

(7,766)

7.1%

(7,207)

15.4%

Net insurance revenue

5,882

7,399

-20.5%

7,448

-21.0%


3,569

4,599

-22.4%

4,630

-22.9%

Healthcare revenue

10,521

9,507

10.7%

8,565

22.8%


6,384

5,910

8.0%

5,325

19.9%

Cost of healthcare services

(5,710)

(5,206)

9.7%

(5,546)

3.0%


(3,465)

(3,237)

7.0%

(3,449)

0.5%

Net healthcare revenue

4,811

4,301

11.9%

3,019

59.4%


2,919

2,673

9.2%

1,876

55.6%

Net gain from trading and investment securities

161

44

NMF

137

17.5%


98

27

NMF

85

15.3%

Net gain from revaluation of investment property

1,197

-

-

1,723

-30.5%


726

-

-

1,071

-32.2%

Net gain from foreign currencies,

5,547

6,566

-15.5%

7,332

-24.3%


3,366

4,081

-17.5%

4,558

-26.2%

Other operating income

4,157

177

NMF

2,442

70.2%


2,523

111

NMF

1,519

66.1%

Other operating non-interest income

11,062

6,787

63.0%

11,634

-4.9%


6,713

4,219

59.1%

7,233

-7.2%

Revenue

83,189

77,436

7.4%

83,116

0.1%


50,479

48,133

4.9%

51,669

-2.3%

Salaries and other employee benefits

(20,519)

(19,547)

5.0%

(20,645)

-0.6%


(12,451)

(12,150)

2.5%

(12,834)

-3.0%

General and administrative expenses

(9,873)

(9,222)

7.1%

(8,086)

22.1%


(5,991)

(5,732)

4.5%

(5,027)

19.2%

Depreciation and amortisation expenses

(3,848)

(4,408)

-12.7%

(3,935)

-2.2%


(2,335)

(2,740)

-14.8%

(2,446)

-4.5%

Other operating expenses

(891)

602

NMF

(348)

156.0%


(540)

374

NMF

(216)

150.0%

Operating expenses

(35,131)

(32,575)

7.8%

(33,014)

6.4%


(21,317)

(20,248)

5.3%

(20,523)

3.9%

Operating income before cost of credit risk

48,058

44,861

7.1%

50,102

-4.1%


29,162

27,885

4.6%

31,146

-6.4%

Cost of credit risk

(5,759)

(9,732)

-40.8%

(9,337)

-38.3%


(3,495)

(6,050)

-42.2%

(5,804)

-39.8%

Net operating income

42,299

35,129

20.4%

40,765

3.8%


25,667

21,835

17.5%

25,342

1.3%

Net non-operating expenses

(3,432)

(2,529)

35.7%

(852)

NMF


(2,083)

(1,571)

32.6%

(530)

NMF

Profit before Income tax expense

38,867

32,600

19.2%

39,913

-2.6%


23,584

20,264

16.4%

24,812

-4.9%

Income tax expense

(6,820)

(4,306)

58.4%

(4,707)

44.9%


(4,138)

(2,677)

54.6%

(2,926)

41.4%

Profit

32,047

28,294

13.3%

35,206

-9.0%


19,446

17,587

10.6%

21,886

-11.1%

Attributable to:












- shareholders of the Group

30,896

27,300

13.2%

33,712

-8.4%


18,747

16,969

10.5%

20,957

-10.5%

- non-controlling interests

1,151

994

15.8%

1,494

-23.0%


699

618

13.1%

929

-24.8%













Earnings per share (basic)

0.91

0.80

13.8%

0.99

-8.1%


0.55

0.50

10.0%

0.62

-11.3%

Earnings per share (diluted)

0.91

0.80

13.8%

0.99

-8.1%


0.55

0.50

10.0%

0.62

-11.3%

                                                                                                                            

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET

 

 

 




USD






GBP






Change


Change




Change


Change

  Thousands, unless otherwise noted

Dec-13

Dec-12

Y-O-Y

Sep-13

Q-O-Q


Dec-13

Dec-12

Y-O-Y

Sep-13

Q-O-Q

























Cash and cash equivalents

606,848

460,450

31.8%

412,999

46.9%


368,236

286,207

28.7%

256,740

43.4%

Amounts due from credit institutions

200,001

239,367

-16.4%

195,160

2.5%


121,361

148,786

-18.4%

121,321

0.0%

Investment securities

299,270

280,051

6.9%

341,023

-12.2%


181,597

174,074

4.3%

211,996

-14.3%

Loans to customers and finance lease receivables

2,028,978

1,866,554

8.7%

1,972,788

2.8%


1,231,186

1,160,215

6.1%

1,226,379

0.4%

Investments in associates

-

1,473

-100.0%

-

-


-

916

-100.0%

-

-

Investment property

90,829

96,791

-6.2%

97,988

-7.3%


55,115

60,163

-8.4%

60,914

-9.5%

Property and equipment

271,076

260,081

4.2%

273,425

-0.9%


164,489

161,662

1.7%

169,974

-3.2%

Goodwill

28,060

27,559

1.8%

27,432

2.3%


17,027

17,130

-0.6%

17,053

-0.2%

Intangible assets

15,224

13,930

9.3%

14,744

3.3%


9,238

8,659

6.7%

9,166

0.8%

Income tax assets

10,998

9,233

19.1%

15,947

-31.0%


6,674

5,739

16.3%

9,913

-32.7%

Prepayments

14,706

24,837

-40.8%

16,814

-12.5%


8,924

15,438

-42.2%

10,453

-14.6%

Other assets

189,680

133,445

42.1%

209,154

-9.3%


115,097

82,947

38.8%

130,020

-11.5%

Total assets

3,755,670

3,413,771

10.0%

3,577,474

5.0%


2,278,944

2,121,936

7.4%

2,223,929

2.5%













Amounts due to customers, of which:

1,795,619

1,625,535

10.5%

1,719,846

4.4%


1,089,583

1,010,402

7.8%

1,069,139

1.9%

  Client deposits

1,789,558

1,583,214

13.0%

1,712,329

4.5%


1,085,905

984,096

10.3%

1,064,466

2.0%

  Promissory notes

6,061

42,321

-85.7%

7,517

-19.4%


3,678

26,306

-86.0%

4,673

-21.3%

Amounts due to credit institutions

1,086,273

1,000,279

8.6%

983,095

10.5%


659,151

621,754

6.0%

611,139

7.9%

Income tax liabilities

39,756

36,218

9.8%

41,670

-4.6%


24,124

22,512

7.2%

25,904

-6.9%

Provisions

277

412

-32.8%

245

13.1%


168

256

-34.4%

152

10.5%

Other liabilities

118,975

111,796

6.4%

129,099

-7.8%


72,195

69,491

3.9%

80,254

-10.0%

Total liabilities

3,040,900

2,774,240

9.6%

2,873,955

5.8%


1,845,221

1,724,415

7.0%

1,786,588

3.3%













Share capital

592

578

2.4%

577

2.6%


359

359

0.0%

359

0.0%

Additional paid-in capital

13,732

8,914

54.0%

14,718

-6.7%


8,333

5,540

50.4%

9,149

-8.9%

Treasury shares

(32)

(42)

-23.8%

(32)

0.0%


(20)

(26)

-23.1%

(20)

0.0%

Other reserves

(9,445)

8,509

NMF

6,115

NMF


(5,731)

5,290

NMF

3,802

NMF

Retained earnings

676,222

592,335

14.2%

648,068

4.3%


410,332

368,184

11.4%

402,870

1.9%

Non-controlling interests

33,701

29,237

15.3%

34,073

-1.1%


20,450

18,174

12.5%

21,181

-3.5%

Total equity

714,770

639,531

11.8%

703,519

1.6%


433,723

397,521

9.1%

437,341

-0.8%

Total liabilities and equity

3,755,670

3,413,771

10.0%

3,577,474

5.0%


2,278,944

2,121,936

7.4%

2,223,929

2.5%













Book value per share

20.07

18.31

9.6%

19.72

1.8%


12.18

11.38

7.0%

12.26

-0.7%

 

 

  

 

 

 

ALDAGI

Consolidated Income Statement

 

 




Change

GEL thousands, unless otherwise noted

2013

2012

Y-O-Y





Loans to customers

891

551

61.7%

Amounts due from credit institutions

1,600

1,862

-14.1%

Interest income

2,491

2,413

3.2%

Amounts due to credit institutions

(12,349)

(7,367)

67.6%

Interest expense

(12,349)

(7,367)

67.6%

Net interest income

(9,858)

(4,954)

99.0%

Fee and commission income

321

280

14.6%

Fee and commission expense

(315)

(387)

-18.6%

Net fee and commission income (expense)

6

(107)

NMF

Net insurance premiums earned

132,656

93,092

42.5%

Net insurance claims incurred

(84,660)

(57,038)

48.4%

Net insurance revenue

47,996

36,054

33.1%

Healthcare revenue

60,013

54,376

10.4%

Cost of healthcare services

(37,644)

(31,030)

21.3%

Net healthcare revenue

22,369

23,346

-4.2%

Net gain from revaluation of investment property

189

-

-

Net loss from foreign currencies

(3,614)

(853)

NMF

Other operating income

2,102

2,477

-15.1%

Other operating non-interest (expense) income

(1,323)

1,624

NMF

Revenue

59,190

55,963

5.8%

Salaries and other employee benefits

(18,177)

(18,054)

0.7%

General and administrative expenses

(8,225)

(12,595)

-34.7%

Depreciation and amortisation expenses

(1,265)

(4,142)

-69.5%

Other operating expenses

(1,199)

(354)

NMF

Operating expenses

(28,866)

(35,145)

-17.9%

Operating income before cost of credit risk

30,324

20,818

45.7%

Cost of credit risk

(1,020)

(2,304)

-55.7%

Net operating income

29,304

18,514

58.3%

Net non-operating gains

-

440

-100.0%

Profit before income tax expense

29,304

18,954

54.6%

Income tax expense

(4,213)

(2,525)

66.9%

Profit

25,091

16,429

52.7%

Attributable to:




- shareholders of the Group

21,138

13,241

59.6%

- non-controlling interests

3,953

3,188

24.0%

 

 

 

  

 

ALDAGI

Consolidated Balance Sheet

 




Change

  GEL thousands, unless otherwise noted

31Dec13

31Dec12

Y-O-Y





Cash and cash equivalents

9,049

11,694

-22.6%

Amounts due from credit institutions

13,206

27,875

-52.6%

Investment securities

-

694

-100.0%

Loans to customers and finance lease receivables

8,046

7,946

1.3%

Investment property

1,139

-

-

Property and equipment

180,499

149,684

20.6%

Goodwill

19,976

16,913

18.1%

Intangible assets

1,706

866

97.0%

Income tax assets

2,900

804

NMF

Prepayments

2,549

15,649

-83.7%

Other assets

105,786

91,963

15.0%

Total assets

344,856

324,088

6.4%





Amounts due to credit institutions

110,830

104,969

5.6%

Income tax liabilities

4,955

3,175

56.1%

Other liabilities

110,844

125,758

-11.9%

Total liabilities

226,629

233,902

-3.1%





Share capital

15,286

15,286

0.0%

Additional paid-in capital

35,021

35,021

0.0%

Other reserves

560

459

22.0%

Retained earnings

42,966

21,829

96.8%

Non-controlling interests

24,394

17,591

38.7%

Total equity

118,227

90,186

31.1%

Total liabilities and equity

344,856

324,088

6.4%









  

 

RATIOS

KEY RATIOS

2013

2012

Profitability



ROAA1

3.6%

3.5%

ROAE2

18.6%

19.1%

Net Interest Margin3

7.8%

7.9%

Loan Yield4

16.2%

17.5%

Cost of Funds5

5.9%

7.3%

Cost of Client Deposits,

5.6%

7.3%

Cost of Amounts Due to Credit Institutions,

6.6%

7.2%

Operating Leverage, Y-O-Y6

7.5%

9.6%

Efficiency



Cost / Income7

41.4%

44.4%

Liquidity



NBG Liquidity Ratio8

45.7%

41.1%

Liquid Assets To Total Liabilities9

36.4%

35.3%

Net Loans To Customer Funds

113.0%

114.8%

Net Loans To Customer Funds + DFIs

96.2%

91.9%

Leverage (Times)10

4.3

4.3

Asset Quality:



NPLs (in GEL)

144,917

126,337

NPLs To Gross Loans To Clients

4.0%

3.9%

NPL Coverage Ratio11

83.8%

87.5%

NPL Coverage Ratio, Adjusted for discounted value of collateral12

110.6%

112.7%

Cost of Risk, 13

1.4%

1.3%

Capital Adequacy:



BIS Tier I Capital Adequacy Ratio, Consolidated14

23.0%

21.2%

BIS Total Capital Adequacy Ratio, Consolidated15

27.1%

26.2%

NBG Tier I Capital Adequacy Ratio16

14.4%

13.8%

NBG Total Capital Adequacy Ratio17

15.4%

16.2%

Per Share Values:



Basic EPS (GEL)18

5.93

5.22

Diluted EPS (GEL)

5.93

5.17

Book Value Per Share (GEL)19

34.85

30.33

Ordinary Shares Outstanding - Weighted Average, Basic20

33,983,014

33,405,181

Ordinary Shares Outstanding - Weighted Average, Diluted21

33,983,014

33,931,562

Ordinary Shares Outstanding - Period End, Basic

33,936,007

33,332,636

Treasury Shares Outstanding - Period End

(1,973,376)

(2,576,747)

Selected Operating Data:



Full Time Employees, Group, Of Which:

11,711

11,095

 - Full Time Employees, BOG Stand-Alone

3,574

3,734

 - Full Time Employees, Aldagi BCI Insurance

579

515

 - Full Time Employees, Aldagi BCI Healthcare

6,316

5,749

 - Full Time Employees, BNB

392

323

 - Full Time Employees, Other

850

774

Total Assets Per FTE, BOG Stand-Alone (in GEL thousands)

1,825

1,515

Number Of Active Branches, Of Which:

202

194

 - Flagship Branches

34

34

 - Standard Branches

100

97

 - Express Branches (including Metro)

68

63

Number Of ATMs

496

478

Number Of Cards Outstanding, Of Which:

975,647

825,500

 - Debit cards

857,734

718,239

 - Credit cards

117,913

107,261

Number Of POS Terminals

4,836

3,725

 

 

 

 

OTHER RATIOS




2013

2012

Profitability Ratios:



ROE

17.0%

17.3%

Interest Income / Average Int. Earning Assets, 22

14.2%

15.7%

Net F&C Inc. To Av. Int. Earn. Ass.,

1.9%

2.1%

Net Fee And Commission Income To Revenue

15.9%

17.4%

Operating Leverage, Y-O-Y

7.5%

9.6%

Revenue to Total Assets

8.4%

8.8%

Recurring Earning Power 23

5.5%

5.5%

Profit To Revenue

38.4%

36.0%

Efficiency Ratios:



Operating Cost to Av. Total Assets24

3.9%

4.4%

Cost to Average Total Assets

4.1%

4.8%

Personnel Cost to Revenue

24.8%

24.6%

Personnel Cost to Operating Cost

59.9%

55.4%

Personnel Cost to Average Total Assets,

2.3%

2.4%

Liquidity Ratios:



Liquid Assets To Total Assets

29.5%

28.7%

Net Loans to Total Assets

54.0%

54.7%

Average Net Loans to Average Total Assets

54.6%

56.1%

Interest Earning Assets to Total Assets

77.5%

77.9%

Average Interest Earning Assets/Average Total Assets

77.6%

79.3%

Net Loans to Client Deposits

113.4%

117.9%

Average Net Loans to Av. Client Deposits

111.2%

107.9%

Net Loans to Total Deposits

98.1%

101.2%

Net Loans to (Total Deposits + Equity)

72.9%

75.2%

Net Loans to Total Liabilities

66.7%

67.3%

Total Deposits to Total Liabilities

68.0%

66.5%

Client Deposits to Total Deposits

86.5%

85.9%

Client Deposits to Total Liabilities

58.8%

57.1%

Total Deposits to Total Assets

55.1%

54.0%

Client Deposits to Total Assets

47.6%

46.4%

Client Deposits to Total Equity (Times)

2.5

2.5

Total Equity to Net Loans

35.2%

34.3%

Asset Quality:



Reserve For Loan Losses to Gross Loans to Clients25

3.3%

3.5%

% of Loans to Clients collateralized

87.4%

87.1%

Equity to Average Net Loans to Clients

39.4%

37.2%

Aldagi Ratios:



ROAA,

7.4%

6.2%

ROAE,

25.6%

25.4%

Loss Ratio

69.9%

64.4%

Combined Ratio

86.4%

86.7%

 

 

  

 

 

KEY RATIOS

Q4 2013

Q4 2012

Q3 2013





Profitability




ROAA, Annualised1

3.6%

3.4%

4.0%

ROAE, Annualised2

18.6%

18.2%

20.6%

Net Interest Margin, Annualised3

7.9%

7.8%

7.7%

Loan Yield, Annualised4

15.6%

17.1%

15.7%

Cost of Funds, Annualised5

5.3%

6.6%

5.6%

Cost of Client Deposits, annualised

4.8%

6.6%

5.2%

Cost of Amounts Due to Credit Institutions, annualised

6.3%

6.3%

6.4%

Operating Leverage, Y-O-Y6

-0.4%

10.9%

11.1%

Efficiency




Cost / Income7

42.2%

42.1%

39.7%

Liquidity




NBG Liquidity Ratio8

45.7%

41.1%

37.5%

Liquid Assets To Total Liabilities9

36.4%

35.3%

33.1%

Net Loans To Customer Funds

113.0%

114.8%

114.7%

Net Loans To Customer Funds + DFIs10

96.2%

91.9%

96.1%

Leverage (Times) 11

4.3

4.3

4.1

Asset Quality:




NPLs (in GEL)

144,917

126,337

143,663

NPLs To Gross Loans To Clients

4.0%

3.9%

4.2%

NPL Coverage Ratio12

83.8%

87.5%

86.2%

NPL Coverage Ratio, Adjusted for discounted value of collateral13

110.6%

112.7%

111.8%

Cost of Risk, Annualised14

0.9%

1.8%

1.6%

Capital Adequacy:




BIS Tier I Capital Adequacy Ratio, Consolidated15

23.0%

21.2%

23.7%

BIS Total Capital Adequacy Ratio, Consolidated16

27.1%

26.2%

28.6%

NBG Tier I Capital Adequacy Ratio17

14.4%

13.8%

15.4%

NBG Total Capital Adequacy Ratio18

15.4%

16.2%

16.6%

Per Share Values:




Basic EPS (GEL)19

1.33

1.65

Diluted EPS (GEL)

1.58

1.33

1.65

Book Value Per Share (GEL)20

34.85

30.33

32.83

Ordinary Shares Outstanding - Weighted Average, Basic21

33,940,021

33,940,021

33,936,007

Ordinary Shares Outstanding - Weighted Average, Diluted22

33,940,021

33,940,021

33,936,007

Ordinary Shares Outstanding - Period End, Basic23

33,936,007

33,332,636

33,936,007

Treasury Shares Outstanding - Period End24

(1,973,376)

(2,576,747)

(1,973,376)

Selected Operating Data:




Full Time Employees, Group, Of Which:

11,711

11,095

11,571

 - Full Time Employees, BOG Stand-Alone

3,574

3,734

3,662

 - Full Time Employees, Aldagi BCI Insurance

579

515

598

 - Full Time Employees, Aldagi BCI Healthcare

6,316

5,749

6,105

 - Full Time Employees, BNB

392

323

388

 - Full Time Employees, Other

850

774

818

Total Assets Per FTE, BOG Stand-Alone (in GEL thousands)

1,825

1,515

1,626

Number Of Active Branches, Of Which:

202

194

199

 - Flagship Branches

34

34

34

 - Standard Branches

100

97

100

 - Express Branches (including Metro)

68

63

65

Number Of ATMs

496

478

486

Number Of Cards Outstanding, Of Which:

975,647

825,500

926,646

 - Debit cards

857,734

718,239

809,843

 - Credit cards

117,913

107,261

116,803

Number Of POS Terminals

4,836

3,725

4,541

 

 

OTHER RATIOS

Q4 2013

Q4 2012

Q3 2013





Profitability Ratios:




ROE, annualised,

18.0%

17.8%

20.0%

Interest Income / Average Int. Earning Assets, Annualised25

13.8%

15.0%

13.7%

Net F&C Inc. To Av. Int. Earn. Ass., annualized

1.9%

1.9%

1.9%

Net Fee And Commission Income To Revenue

16.0%

16.5%

15.6%

Operating Leverage, Q-O-Q

-6.6%

5.1%

0.4%

Revenue to Total Assets, annualised

8.8%

9.0%

9.2%

Recurring Earning Power, Annualised26

5.4%

5.3%

5.7%

Profit To Revenue

38.5%

36.5%

42.4%

Efficiency Ratios:




Operating Cost to Av. Total Ass., Annualised

4.0%

3.9%

3.8%

Cost to Average Total Assets, annualised

4.4%

4.2%

3.9%

Personnel Cost to Revenue

24.7%

25.2%

24.8%

Personnel Cost to Operating Cost

58.4%

60.0%

62.5%

Personnel Cost to Average Total Assets, annualised

2.3%

2.3%

2.4%

Liquidity Ratios:




Liquid Assets To Total Assets

29.5%

28.7%

26.6%

Net Loans to Total Assets

54.0%

54.7%

55.1%

Average Net Loans to Average Total Assets

54.7%

55.3%

55.0%

Interest Earning Assets to Total Assets

77.5%

77.9%

77.3%

Average Interest Earning Assets/Average Total Assets

77.4%

77.7%

77.4%

Net Loans to Client Deposits

113.4%

117.9%

115.2%

Average Net Loans to Av. Client Deposits

113.9%

116.0%

111.5%

Net Loans to Total Deposits

98.1%

101.2%

97.0%

Net Loans to (Total Deposits + Equity)

72.9%

75.2%

72.1%

Net Loans to Total Liabilities

66.7%

67.3%

68.6%

Total Deposits to Total Liabilities

68.0%

66.5%

70.8%

Client Deposits to Total Deposits

86.5%

85.9%

84.2%

Client Deposits to Total Liabilities

58.8%

57.1%

59.6%

Total Deposits to Total Assets

55.1%

54.0%

56.9%

Client Deposits to Total Assets

47.6%

46.4%

47.9%

Client Deposits to Total Equity (Times)

2.5

2.5

2.4

Total Equity to Net Loans

35.2%

34.3%

35.7%

Asset Quality:




Reserve For Loan Losses to Gross Loans to Clients27

3.3%

3.5%

3.6%

% of Loans to Clients collateralized

87.4%

87.1%

85.4%

Equity to Average Net Loans to Clients

37.1%

34.5%

36.7%

Aldagi Ratios:




ROAA, Annualised

7.6%

7.6%

8.2%

ROAE, Annualised

26.4%

32.4%

27.1%

Loss Ratio28

73.4%

64.6%

66.0%

Combined Ratio29

89.7%

79.6%

83.4%

 

 

  

 

NOTES TO KEY RATIOS

 

1 Return On Average Total Assets (ROAA) equals Profit for the period divided by monthly Average Total Assets for the same period;

2 Return On Average Total Equity (ROAE) equals Profit for the period attributable to shareholders of the Bank divided by monthly Average Equity attributable to shareholders of the Bank for the same period;

3 Net Interest Margin equals Net Interest Income of the period (adjusted for the gains or losses from revaluation of interest rate swaps) divided by monthly Average Interest Earning Assets Excluding Cash for the same period; Interest Earning Assets Excluding Cash include: Amounts Due From Credit Institutions, Debt Investment and Trading Securities and Net Loans To Customers And Net Finance Lease Receivables;

4 Loan Yield equals Interest Income From Loans To Customers And Finance Lease Receivables divided by monthly Average Gross Loans To Customers And Finance Lease Receivables;

5 Cost Of Funds equals Interest Expense of the period (adjusted for the gains or losses from revaluation of interest rate swaps) divided by monthly Average Interest Bearing Liabilities; Interest Bearing Liabilities Include: Amounts Due To Credit Institutions and Amounts Due To Customers;

6 Operating Leverage equals percentage change in Revenue less percentage change in Operating expenses;

7 Cost / Income Ratio equals Operating expenses divided by Revenue;

8 Average liquid assets during the month (as defined by NBG) divided by selected average liabilities and selected average off-balance sheet commitments (both as defined by NBG);

9 Liquid Assets include: Cash And Cash Equivalents, Amounts Due From Credit Institutions, Investment Securities and Trading Securities;

10 Net loans divided by Customer Funds and Amounts Owned to Developmental Financial Institutions

11Leverage (Times) equals Total Liabilities divided by Total Equity;

12 NPL Coverage Ratio equals Allowance For Impairment Of Loans And Finance Lease Receivables divided by NPLs;

13 Cost Of Risk equals Impairment Charge for Loans To Customers And Finance Lease Receivables for the period divided by monthly average Gross Loans To Customers And Finance Lease Receivables over the same period;

14 NPL Coverage Ratio equals Allowance For Impairment Of Loans And Finance Lease Receivables divided by NPLs (Discounted value of collateral is added back to allowance for impairment);

15 BIS Tier I Capital Adequacy Ratio equals Tier I Capital divided by Risk Weighted Assets, both calculated in accordance with the requirements of Basel Accord I;

16 BIS Total Capital Adequacy Ratio equals Total Capital divided by Risk Weighted Assets, both calculated in accordance with the requirements of Basel Accord I;

17 NBG Tier I Capital Adequacy Ratio equals Tier I Capital divided by Risk Weighted Assets, both calculated in accordance with the requirements the National Bank of Georgia;

18 NBG Total Capital Adequacy Ratio equals Total Capital divided by Risk Weighted Assets, both calculated in accordance with the requirements of the National Bank of Georgia;

19 Basic EPS equals Profit for the period attributable to shareholders of the Bank divided by the weighted average number of outstanding ordinary shares, net of treasury shares over the same period;

20 Book Value per share equals Total Equity attributable to shareholders of the Bank divided by Net Ordinary Shares Outstanding at period end; Net Ordinary Shares Outstanding equals total number of Ordinary Shares Outstanding at period end less number of Treasury Shares at period end;

21 Weighted average number of ordinary shares equal average of monthly outstanding number of shares less monthly outstanding number of treasury shares;

22 Weighted average number of diluted ordinary shares equals weighted average number of ordinary shares plus weighted average number of dilutive shares during the same period;

23 Number of outstanding ordinary shares at period end;

24 Number of outstanding ordinary shares at period end less number of treasury shares;

25 Average Interest Earning Assets are calculated on a monthly basis; Interest Earning Assets Excluding Cash include: Amounts Due From Credit Institutions, Debt Investment and Trading Securities and Net Loans To Customers And Net Finance Lease Receivables;

26 Recurring Earning Power equals Operating Income Before Cost of Credit Risk for the period divided by monthly average Total Assets of the same period;

27 Reserve For Loan Losses To Gross Loans equals Allowance For Impairment Of Loans To Customers And Finance Lease Receivables divided by Gross Loans And Finance Lease Receivables;

28 Loss ratio is defined as net insurance claims incurred divided by net insurance premiums earned;

29 Combined ratio is sum of net insurance claims incurred and operating expenses divided by net insurance premiums earned.

 

 

 

 

 

SHAREHOLDER INFORMATION

BANK OF GEORGIA HOLDINGS PLC

 

Registered Address

84 Brook Street

London W1K 5EH

United Kingdom

www.bogh.co.uk

Registered under number 7811410 in England and Wales

Incorporation date: 14 October 2011

 

Stock Listing

London Stock Exchange plc's Main Market for

listed securities

Ticker: "BGEO.LN"

 

Contact Information

Bank of Georgia Holdings Plc Investor Relations

Telephone: +44 (0) 20 3178 4052

E:mail: ir@bog.ge

www.bogh.co.uk

 

Auditors

Ernst & Young LLP

1 More London Place

London SE1 2AF

United Kingdom

 

Registrar

Computershare Investor Services PLC

The Pavilions

Bridgewater Road

Bristol BS13 8AE

United Kingdom

 

Share price information

BGH shareholders can access both the latest and historical prices via our website, www.bogh.co.uk

 

 

 

 

 


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