NCB post increased Q2 profit

NCB HQNational Commercial Bank is reporting net profit for the three months ended March 2015 of $3.27 billion versus $3.05 billion in the 2014 period.
Changes in the manner the tax of the groups assets are now being treated with all amounts due being booked as expenses up front has distorted the results in the early months of the fiscal year which are front loaded with these cost. Normalising the expenses would result, according to NCB in net profit for the three months ended March 2015 of $3.34 billion, 20 percent or $563 million over normalised net profit for the December 2014 quarter of $2,778 million, and 12 percent or $349 million over the previously reported net profit for the three months ended March 2014 of $2.99 billion. For the six months to March the banking group reported profit of $5.4 billion or $2.19 per shares compared with $5.55 billion in 2014. The up-fronting of the asset tax, resulted in the lower 2015 profit compared to 2014. NCB should go on to earn around $7 billion in the second half of the year or around $5 per share for the full year.
For the six months to March 2015, operating income increased by 14 percent, or $2.9 billion, compared with the six months ended March 2014, mainly as a result of gain on foreign currency and investment activities, up by $1.5 billion. This was due to higher levels of foreign exchange income and gains from the sale of debt securities compared to the prior year, NCB said.
Also contributing to the increased profit is net fee and commission income, increasing by $652 million or 16 percent, mainly due to Payment Services fees related to card usage and transaction volumes, credit related fees from the growth in loans and greater corporate finance and unit trust fees booked in the current period, the banking group stated in its release to the Stock Exchange. Net interest income, increasing by 4 percent, or $542 million, primarily due to growth in the net loan portfolio.
Loans and advances, totalled $157.9 billion (net of provision for credit losses) at March 2015, grew by 5 percent, or $7.4 billion, compared to the loan portfolio as at March 2014.
NCB declared an interim dividend of 45 cents per ordinary stock unit which is payable on May 21 for stockholders on record as at May 8, 2015.

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