Business
Diamond Bank Records N71.9bn Consolidated Income
Diamond Bank says it recorded N5.9 billion as profit before tax, while profit after tax stood at N5.2 billion in 2009 financial year. Its consolidated operating income also stood at N71.9 billion representing a growth of 50.6 per cent, an indication of the value driven customer segment services model of the bank.
Emeka Onwuka, Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the bank, who said this last week at the bank’s 18th Annual General Meeting (AGM) held in Lagos, said that despite the shrinking confidence amidst tightening liquidity and other market difficulties, customers showed greater faith and loyalty as deposit base rose by 11.2 per cent to close at N4.669 billion in the year under review.
According to him, the group’s risk asset grew by 16.5 per cent which was largely induced by the conversion of the bank’s foreign currency trade-related guarantees to local currency loans as the counterpart foreign banks could not renew the facilities to their liquidity crunch but total assets experienced a moderate growth to close at N682.1 billion. This represents nine per cent increase when compared to 2007 and 2008 financial year.
He noted that the performances of the bank’s subsidiaries were seriously affected by the economic downturn, result in the subsidiaries were seriously affected by the economic downturn resulting in the subsidiaries altogether recording a loss of N2.44 billion. A review of the performances of the consolidated entities show that three subsidiaries made significant losses before tax. Diamond securities had N2.87 billion, Diamond Mortgages recorded N.39 billion while Diamond capital N.15 billon losses, he added.
He assured that the reason for the cleaning up of the bank’s books of account was to quickly put the immediate and significant negative impact of the economic downturn behind and prepare Diamond Bank Group for future growth and profitability, adding that the bank is conscious of the fact that the challenges ahead are still enormous as industry profitability may continue to be affected by assets deterioration.
His Royal Highness, Nnaemeka Alired, Obi of Onitsha and chairman of the bank also disclosed that despite the growth of the groups, operating income increased by 50.6 per cent to N71.9 billion during the financial year while the profit before tax declined by 63.6 per cent to N5.9 billion.
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