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With more clients and falling loans Piraeus preserves profit

Autor: Liviu Chiru

24.03.2011, 23:42 10

Piraeus Bank, the domestic subsidiary of a top Greek financialgroup, last year generated 25m-euro gross income, flat from2009.

The Greeks managed to preserve profit by boosting the numberof clients, a strategy it had announced as early as 2009, whileloan portfolio deterioration deepened, with the weight of bad loansclimbing to 10.8% from 5.8% in December 2009. The figures arecalculated in line with IFRS, being consolidated for Piraeus' alldomestic operations.

"During this interval, the bank's number of clients rose by 5%,while deposits advanced by 2% and the loan volume posted a slightdecline amid the gap between loans paid back by clients andreleased ones," stated Cătălin Pârvu, a general executive managerwith Piraeus Bank.

The loan portfolio slid by 6% last year, to 3.2bn euros. Riskcharges climbed to 4.3% in Romania last year, from 3.6% in2009.

The Romanian subsidiary last year generated the highestoperating income among Piraeus' foreign subsidiaries, of 191meuros.

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