3Q20 Net Income of AR$859.6 million; Comprehensive Net Income of AR$760.7 million
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Grupo Supervielle S.A. (NYSE: SUPV) ; (BYMA: SUPV), (“Supervielle” or the “Company”) a universal financial services group headquartered in Argentina with a nationwide presence, today reported results for the three-month and nine-months periods ended September 30, 2020.
Starting 1Q20, the Company began reporting results applying Hyperinflation Accounting, in accordance with IFRS rule IAS 29 (“IAS 29”) as established by the Central Bank. For ease of comparison, figures for all quarters of 2019 have been restated applying IAS 29 to reflect the accumulated effect of the inflation adjustment for each period through September 30, 2020.
Management Commentary
Commenting on third quarter 2020 results, Patricio Supervielle, Grupo Supervielle's Chairman & CEO, noted: “We delivered double digit ROAE in real-terms and continued to strengthen coverage this quarter while increasing our capital base and maintaining strong liquidity. This was achieved in an environment that continues to be difficult with stay-in-place restrictions to contain the pandemic, a recessionary macro environment and a changing regulatory framework.
Given the current market situation, we are balancing the profitability-risk equation through managing the credit cycle and leveraging our flexibility, which resulted in lower loan and deposit growth.
As we retain a cautious approach to managing credit risk, we continued to revise our expected loss models to adjust to the current economic outlook. Following further in-depth top down analysis of certain industries that we expect could be highly impacted by the pandemic, this quarter we made an additional AR
We are seeing sustained adoption of digitalization across our business in this low touch economy. I would like to highlight that our senior citizen customer base continues to make significant strides in terms of digital adoption resulting in an overall higher number of transactions through digital and automatic channels. SMEs also continued to rapidly embrace the digital adoption since July with e-checks nearly doubling while e-factoring increased by
Amidst this health crisis, we remain focused on executing against our long-term goals of serving the changing needs of our customers while enhancing efficiency. We are evolving our business with continued progress on the implementation of the transformation of our branch network, deploying new branch service models, including advancing the conversion of our senior citizen branches to broaden our service capabilities and boost satisfaction and efficiency. This includes enhancing the user experience by leveraging our innovative biometrics for retirees and stepping up other technologies across branches while establishing a value proposition for SMEs in areas where we see potential to expand the customer base.
With the goal of delivering digital solutions that address personal finance needs while promoting financial education with tools that help in decision-making, earlier this week we launched IUDÚ, our digital banking services platform, which joins the Grupo Supervielle ecosystem to participate in the transformation of the financial services industry. In this first iteration, the IUDÚ App allows customers to obtain personal loans and credit cards. We expect to add retail savings and time deposit accounts in the first half of 2021, followed by a comprehensive suite of digital banking products and services to be added in the near-term.
Looking ahead, following the sharp contraction in GDP expected for the year, Argentine economic activity could see a recovery of around
We remain fully committed to taking the actions required to ensure the long-term sustainability of our business. Through executing against our strategy of transforming Grupo Supervielle and prioritizing our digital transformation to continue evolving our company into a cutting edge, agile and cost-efficient player that meet our customer’s needs, we believe we are on the right path.” concluded Mr. Supervielle.
Third Quarter 2020 Highlights
PROFITABILITY
Attributable Net income of AR
QoQ performance was explained by: (i) higher LLPs as the Company continued to revise its expected loss models and made additional Covid-19 specific anticipatory provisions that resulted in increased coverage, and (ii) a higher impact from inflation adjustment reflecting accelerated inflation in 3Q20 compared to 2Q20. These were partially offset by: (i) a lower income tax charge, (ii) a slightly higher financial income resulting from higher volumes in Central Bank Securities investments, despite the increase in cost of funds, and higher trading gains, and (iii) lower administrative expenses following the Company’s cost control policy.
ROAE of
Profit before income tax of AR
Revenues were up
Net Financial Income of AR
The total NPL ratio was
Loan loss provisions (LLP) totaled AR
Efficiency ratio was
Loans to deposits ratio of
Total Deposits measured in comparable AR$ units at the end of 3Q20 increased
Loans measured in comparable AR$ units at the end of 3Q20 declined
Total Assets were up
Common Equity Tier 1 Ratio as of September 30, 2020, improved to