Quarterly Report • May 12, 2015
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FinecoBank S.p.A. Interim Financial Report as at March 31, 2015
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20131 Milan - Piazza Durante, 11
"FinecoBank Banca Fineco S.p.A."
in abbreviated form "FinecoBank S.p.A.", or "Banca Fineco S.p.A." or "Fineco Banca S.p.A." Company controlled by UniCredit S.p.A., Gruppo Bancario UniCredit, Register of Banking Groups no. 2008.1, Member of the National Guarantee Fund and National Interbank Deposit Guarantee Fund, Italian Banking Association Code 03015, Tax Code and Milan Company Register no. 01392970404 – R.E.A. (Economic and Administrative Index) no. 1598155, VAT No. 12962340159
Board of Directors and Board of Statutory Auditors
| Chairman | Enrico Cotta Ramusino |
|---|---|
| Vice Chairman | Francesco Saita |
| Managing Director | |
| and General Manager | Alessandro Foti |
| Directors | Gianluigi Bertolli |
| Girolamo Ielo | |
| Laura Stefania Penna | |
| Mariangela Grosoli | |
Marina Natale
Pietro Angelo Guindani
Board of Statutory Auditors
| Chairman | Gian-Carlo Noris Gaccioli |
|---|---|
| Standing Auditors | Barbara Aloisi |
| Marziano Viozzi | |
| Alternate Auditors | Federica Bonato |
| Marzio Duilio Rubagotti |
Deloitte & Touche S.p.A.
Nominated Official in charge of drawing up Company Accounts
Lorena Pelliciari
Interim Financial Report
This Interim Financial Report as at March 31, 2015 has been prepared in accordance with art. 154-ter, paragraph 2, of Legislative Decree no. 58 of February 24, 1998; it includes:
This Interim Financial Report as at March 31, 2015 has been prepared in accordance with the recognition and measurement criteria set out in the international accounting standards IAS/IFRS issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and approved by the European Commission.
With regard to the classification and valuation of the main items, please refer to Part A.2 of the Notes to the Financial Statements as at December 31, 2014. In this respect ,it should be noted that, there have been no changes in estimate criteria compared to those applied in the preparation of financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2014, but Bank of Italy has revised the criteria to be applied as of January 1, 2015 for classifying impaired financial assets (see 7th update of Circular no. 272 of July 30, 2008 - "Matrix of accounts" issued by the Bank of Italy on January 20, 2015), in order to align them to the new definitions of Non-Performing Exposures and Forbearance introduced by the European Banking Authority in the "Final Draft Implementing Technical Standards on Supervisory reporting on forbearance and non-performing exposures" (EBA/ITS /2013/03/rev1 24/7/2014).The main novelties are the elimination of the "Problem Loan" and "Restructured Loans" categories, and the introduction of the new "Unlikely to pay" category and of the "Forbearance" concept, which cuts through all receivables categories, both performing and impaired.
Consequently, for the purposes of like-for-like comparison, the corresponding figures relating to the previous year have been restated.
It should also be noted that, starting from January 1, 2015 the condensed accounts used in the interim report on operations were modified; specifically, "Adjustments of leasehold improvements" were attributed to the item "Other administrative expenses" (whilst previously they were attributed to the item "Net other expenses/income"), and "Impairment losses on other assets" pertaining to "ex-post" contributions to the Interbank Fund for the Protection of Deposits were attributed to the item "Provision for risks and charges" (previously, they had been attributed to the item "Net adjustments to loans and provisions for guarantees and commitments"). For greater detail, see the "Reconciliation of condensed accounts to mandatory reporting schedule" Annexed to this document.
Finally, please note that European Directive no. 49/2014 relating to the deposit guarantee systems, which is due to be transposed into national law in 2015, introduces significant changes to the previously existing national guarantee funds. As a matter of fact, the new directive – within a framework of substantial legal, organizational and operational continuity – requires the adoption of an "ex ante" contribution mechanism, aimed at establishing a target amount of funds by 2024.The previous guarantee schemes that have operated so far according to an "ex post" system (i.e., involving the payment of contributions to fund individual actions taken in relation to depositors of a bank in difficulty) will therefore be required to adopt an ex-ante funding scheme. These include the National Interbank Deposit Guarantee Fund of which the Bank is a member. In addition, European Directive no. 59/2014 on recovery and resolution of credit institutions, has introduced a requirement for credit institutions to make payments in order to establish the European Single Resolution Fund, with the aim of establishing a target amount of funds by 2024. In the first quarter of 2015 no costs were recorded with respect to the relevant Directives, since they are yet to be transposed into national law.
| Amounts as at | Changes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASSETS | 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 | absolute | % | |
| Cash and cash equivalents | 10 | 5 | 5 | 100.0% | |
| Financial assets held for trading | 5,609 | 3,054 | 2,555 | 83.7% | |
| Loans and receivables with banks | 14,070,077 | 13,892,197 | 177,880 | 1.3% | |
| Loans and receivables with customers | 796,879 | 695,594 | 101,285 | 14.6% | |
| Financial investments flow | 2,264,284 | 1,695,555 | 568,729 | 33.5% | |
| Hedging instruments | 24,508 | 24,274 | 234 | 1.0% | |
| Property, plant and equipment | 11,161 | 10,892 | 269 | 2.5% | |
| Goodwill | 89,602 | 89,602 | - | - | |
| Other intangible assets | 7,989 | 8,142 | (153) | -1.9% | |
| Tax assets | 13,414 | 18,550 | (5,136) | -27.7% | |
| Other assets | 215,368 | 326,756 | (111,388) | -34.1% | |
| Total assets | 17,498,901 | 16,764,621 | 734,280 | 4.4% |
(Amounts in € thousand)
| Amounts as at | Changes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY | 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 | absolute | % |
| Deposits from banks | 1,466,357 | 1,428,568 | 37,789 | 2.6% |
| Deposits from customers | 14,603,456 | 13,914,712 | 688,744 | 4.9% |
| Debt securities in issue | 427,884 | 424,710 | 3,174 | 0.7% |
| Financial liabilities held for trading | 4,557 | 3,135 | 1,422 | 45.4% |
| Hedging instruments | 46,933 | 46,220 | 713 | 1.5% |
| Provisions for risks and charges | 114,680 | 118,031 | (3,351) | -2.8% |
| Tax liabilities | 55,688 | 33,358 | 22,330 | 66.9% |
| Other liabilities | 169,052 | 243,633 | (74,581) | -30.6% |
| Shareholders' Equity | 610,294 | 552,254 | 58,040 | 10.5% |
| - capital and reserves - revaluation reserves (available-for-sale financial assets - |
554,027 | 400,085 | 153,942 | 38.5% |
| actuarial gains (losses) for defined benefits plans) - net profit (loss) |
8,485 47,782 |
2,262 149,907 |
6,223 (102,125) |
275.1% -68.1% |
| Total liabilities and Shareholders' equity | 17,498,901 | 16,764,621 | 734,280 | 4.4% |
| Amounts as at | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASSETS | 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 | 09.30.2014 | 06.30.2014 | 03.31.2014 |
| Cash and cash equivalents | 10 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 7 |
| Financial assets held for trading | 5,609 | 3,054 | 4,708 | 10,407 | 8,405 |
| Loans and receivables with banks | 14,070,077 | 13,892,197 | 13,612,912 | 13,476,117 | 17,084,534 |
| Loans and receivables with customers | 796,879 | 695,594 | 700,208 | 696,142 | 669,141 |
| Financial investments flow | 2,264,284 | 1,695,555 | 1,716,878 | 1,715,320 | 93,934 |
| Hedging instruments | 24,508 | 24,274 | 23,494 | 35,637 | 130,687 |
| Property, plant and equipment | 11,161 | 10,892 | 10,901 | 11,391 | 10,718 |
| Goodwill | 89,602 | 89,602 | 89,602 | 89,602 | 89,602 |
| Other intangible assets | 7,989 | 8,142 | 8,100 | 7,915 | 8,055 |
| Tax assets | 13,414 | 18,550 | 17,164 | 20,072 | 26,992 |
| Other assets | 215,368 | 326,756 | 227,200 | 227,865 | 170,281 |
| Total assets | 17,498,901 | 16,764,621 | 16,411,176 | 16,290,482 | 18,292,356 |
(Amounts in € thousand)
| Amounts as at | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY | 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 | 09.30.2014 | 06.30.2014 | 03.31.2014 |
| Deposits from banks | 1,466,357 | 1,428,568 | 1,282,386 | 1,026,852 | 1,590,439 |
| Deposits from customers | 14,603,456 | 13,914,712 | 13,741,345 | 13,911,224 | 13,473,654 |
| Debt securities in issue | 427,884 | 424,710 | 423,842 | 421,965 | 2,322,527 |
| Financial liabilities held for trading | 4,557 | 3,135 | 4,647 | 4,867 | 7,902 |
| Hedging instruments | 46,933 | 46,220 | 45,195 | 48,960 | 130,411 |
| Provisions for risks and charges | 114,680 | 118,031 | 104,876 | 106,574 | 105,412 |
| Tax liabilities | 55,688 | 33,358 | 47,999 | 30,156 | 17,342 |
| Other liabilities | 169,052 | 243,633 | 246,862 | 268,182 | 188,903 |
| Shareholders' Equity | 610,294 | 552,254 | 514,024 | 471,702 | 455,766 |
| - capital and reserves | 554,027 | 400,085 | 396,179 | 392,928 | 414,934 |
| - revaluation reserves (available-for-sale financial assets - | |||||
| actuarial gains (losses) for defined benefits plans) - net profit (loss) |
8,485 47,782 |
2,262 149,907 |
8,581 109,264 |
4,912 73,862 |
3,906 36,926 |
| Total liabilities and Shareholders' equity | 17,498,901 | 16,764,621 | 16,411,176 | 16,290,482 | 18,292,356 |
| 1Q | Changes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2014 | absolute | % | |
| Net interest | 57,586 | 58,333 | (747) | -1.3% |
| Net fee and commission income | 61,681 | 47,718 | 13,963 | 29.3% |
| Net trading, hedging and fair value income | 17,059 | 7,079 | 9,980 | 141.0% |
| Net other expenses/income | 358 | (41) | 399 | n.c. |
| OPERATING INCOME | 136,684 | 113,089 | 23,595 | 20.9% |
| Payroll costs | (18,385) | (15,770) | (2,615) | 16.6% |
| Other administrative expenses | (60,401) | (52,735) | (7,666) | 14.5% |
| Recovery of expenses | 21,012 | 18,807 | 2,205 | 11.7% |
| Amortisation, depreciation and impairment losses | ||||
| on intangible and tangible assets | (2,027) | (1,905) | (122) | 6.4% |
| Operating costs | (59,801) | (51,603) | (8,198) | 15.9% |
| OPERATING PROFIT (LOSS) | 76,883 | 61,486 | 15,397 | 25.0% |
| Net impairment losses on | ||||
| loans and provisions for guarantees and commitments | (1,583) | (465) | (1,118) | 240.4% |
| NET OPERATING PROFIT (LOSS) | 75,300 | 61,021 | 14,279 | 23.4% |
| Provisions for risks and charges | (3,115) | (3,373) | 258 | -7.6% |
| PROFIT (LOSS) BEFORE TAX | ||||
| FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS | 72,185 | 57,648 | 14,537 | 25.2% |
| Income tax for the period | (24,403) | (20,722) | (3,681) | 17.8% |
| PROFIT (LOSS) AFTER TAX FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS | 47,782 | 36,926 | 10,856 | 29.4% |
| PROFIT (LOSS) FOR THE PERIOD | 47,782 | 36,926 | 10,856 | 29.4% |
| 2015 | 2014 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Q | 4Q | 3Q | 2Q | 1Q | |
| Net interest | 57,586 | 55,875 | 56,432 | 57,607 | 58,333 |
| Net fee and commission income | 61,681 | 52,884 | 45,831 | 49,311 | 47,718 |
| Net trading, hedging and fair value income | 17,059 | 10,331 | 6,522 | 5,810 | 7,079 |
| Net other expenses/income | 358 | (1,289) | (1,302) | 42 | (41) |
| OPERATING INCOME | 136,684 | 117,801 | 107,483 | 112,770 | 113,089 |
| Payroll costs | (18,385) | (19,283) | (18,033) | (16,065) | (15,770) |
| Other administrative expenses | (60,401) | (52,311) | (50,443) | (55,829) | (52,735) |
| Recovery of expenses | 21,012 | 20,420 | 19,208 | 18,735 | 18,807 |
| Amortisation, depreciation and impairment losses | |||||
| on intangible and tangible assets | (2,027) | (2,634) | (2,233) | (2,037) | (1,905) |
| Operating costs | (59,801) | (53,808) | (51,501) | (55,196) | (51,603) |
| OPERATING PROFIT (LOSS) | 76,883 | 63,993 | 55,982 | 57,574 | 61,486 |
| Net impairment losses on | |||||
| loans and provisions for guarantees and commitments | (1,583) | (1,204) | (685) | (826) | (465) |
| NET OPERATING PROFIT (LOSS) | 75,300 | 62,789 | 55,297 | 56,748 | 61,021 |
| Provisions for risks and charges | (3,115) | (2,493) | (677) | 422 | (3,373) |
| Net income from investment | - | - | (4) | - | - |
| PROFIT (LOSS) BEFORE TAX | |||||
| FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS | 72,185 | 60,296 | 54,616 | 57,170 | 57,648 |
| Income tax for the period | (24,403) | (19,653) | (19,214) | (20,234) | (20,722) |
| NET PROFIT (LOSS) AFTER TAX | |||||
| FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS | 47,782 | 40,643 | 35,402 | 36,936 | 36,926 |
| PROFIT (LOSS) FOR THE PERIOD | 47,782 | 40,643 | 35,402 | 36,936 | 36,926 |
(Amounts in € thousand)
| Amounts as at | Changes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 | absolute | % | |
| Loans receivable with ordinary customers (1) | 469,872 | 478,752 | (8,880) | -1.9% |
| Total assets | 17,498,901 | 16,764,621 | 734,280 | 4.4% |
| Customer direct sales (2) | 14,371,268 | 13,753,719 | 617,549 | 4.5% |
| Customer indirect sales (3) | 39,339,376 | 35,587,446 | 3,751,930 | 10.5% |
| Total customer sales (direct and indirect) | 53,710,644 | 49,341,165 | 4,369,479 | 8.9% |
| Shareholders' equity | 610,294 | 552,254 | 58,040 | 10.5% |
(Amounts in € thousand)
(1) Loans receivable with ordinary customers refer solely to loans granted to customers (current account overdrafts, credit cards, personal loans and unsecured loans);
(2) Customer direct sales include overdrawn current accounts, Supersave repos and the Cash Park deposit account;
(3) Customer indirect sales consist of products placed online or through the sales networks of FinecoBank.
| Data as at | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 | 03.31.2014 | ||
| No. Employees | 1,030 | 1,008 | 967 | |
| No. Human Resources | 1,037 | 1,022 | 976 | |
| No. Financial Advisors | 2,571 | 2,533 | 2,479 | |
| No. Operating financial outlets | 328 | 325 | 315 |
Number of human resources: includes permanent employees, atypical employees, Directors and Group employees seconded to FinecoBank, net of FinecoBank employees seconded to the Group.
Number of operating financial outlets: financial outlets managed by the Bank and financial outlets managed by financial advisors (Fineco Center).
| Data as at | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 | 03.31.2014 | |
| Net interest/Operating income | 42.13% | 50.59% | 51.58% |
| Income from brokerage and other income/Operating income | 57.87% | 49.41% | 48.42% |
| Income from brokerage and other income/Operating costs | 132.27% | 105.09% | 106.11% |
| Cost/income ratio | 43.75% | 47.02% | 45.63% |
| Operating costs/TFA | 0.46% | 0.46% | 0.46% |
| Cost of risk | 62 bp | 71 bp | 46 bp |
| ROE | 43.91% | 36.49% | 36.92% |
| Return on assets | 1.09% | 0.89% | 0.81% |
| EVA | 41,526 | 128,379 | 32,708 |
| RARORAC | 57.16% | 57.77% | 75.14% |
| ROAC | 65.77% | 67.46% | 84.83% |
| Total sales to customers/Average employees | 52,172 | 49,391 | 46,728 |
| Total customer sales /(Employees + Average PFAs) | 14,997 | 14,160 | 13,279 |
(Amounts in € thousand)
Income from brokerage and other income: Net fee and commission income, Net trading, hedging and fair value income and Net other expenses/income.
Operating costs/TFA: ratio of operating costs to Total Financial Assets (direct and indirect sales). The TFA used for the ratio is the average for the period, calculated as the average between the period-end balance and the balance as at the previous December 31. Operating costs as at 31 March 2015 and 31 March 2014 were annualised.
Cost of risk: the ratio of net adjustments to loans and provisions for guarantees and commitments to the average of loan receivables from ordinary Customers. Average ordinary loans to customers were calculated as the average between the period-end balance and the balance as at the previous December 31. Net adjustments to loans and provisions for guarantees and commitments as at 31 March 2015 and 31 March 2014 were annualised. Net adjustments to loans and provisions for guarantees and commitments as at 31 March 2015 are net of adjustments made to exposures to customers who made a loss on leveraged Forex positions due to the extraordinary drop in the value of Euro versus the Swiss Franc recorded on January 15, 2015, equal to €0.8 million.
ROE: the denominator used to calculate the index in question is the average shareholders' equity for the period (excluding dividends expected to be distributed and the revaluation reserves).
Return on assets: ratio of net profit to total assets. The net profit as at 31 March 2015 and 31 March 2014 was annualised.
EVA (Economic Value Added): shows the firm's ability to create value; calculated as the difference between net operating profit and the figurative cost of the allocated capital.
RARORAC (Risk adjusted Return on Risk adjusted Capital): which is the ratio between EVA and Allocated/Absorbed Capital and expresses, in percentage, the capacity to create value for unit of risk taken.
ROAC (Return on Allocated Capital): is the ratio of Net Operating Profit and Allocated Capital. The Allocated Capital is intended as the greater of internally calculated capital based on shared UniCredit Group models (Economic Capital) and regulatory capital.
For the calculation of EVA, RARORAC and ROAC indicators as at 31 March 2015, internal capital is that as at December 31, the latest available provided by the Parent Company.
| Data as at | ||
|---|---|---|
| 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 | |
| Loans receivable with ordinary customers/Total assets | 2.69% | 2.86% |
| Loans and receivables with banks/Total assets | 80.41% | 82.87% |
| Financial assets/Total assets | 12.97% | 10.13% |
| Direct sales/Total liabilities and Shareholders' equity | 82.13% | 82.04% |
| Debt securities in issue/Total liabilities and Shareholders' equity | 2.45% | 2.53% |
| Shareholders' equity (including profit)/Total liabilities and Shareholders' equity | 3.49% | 3.29% |
| Loans and receivables with ordinary customers/Customer direct sales | 3.27% | 3.48% |
| Credit quality | 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 |
| Impaired loans/Loans receivable with ordinary customers | 0.92% | 0.89% |
| Non-performing loans/Loans receivable with ordinary customers | 0.70% | 0.66% |
| Coverage (1) - Non-performing loans | 84.04% | 84.08% |
| Coverage (1) - Doubtful loans | 67.22% | 67.20% |
| Coverage (1) - Past-due impaired loans | 43.21% | 49.14% |
| Coverage (1) - Total impaired loans | 81.03% | 81.07% |
(1) Calculated as the ratio between the amount of impairment losses and gross exposure.
| Data as at | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 | |||
| Total own founds | 355,984 | 353,133 | ||
| Total risk-weighted assets (€ thousand) | 1,836,439 | 1,850,331 | ||
| Ratio - Common Equity Tier 1 Capital | 19.38% | 19.08% | ||
| Ratio - Tier 1 Capital | 19.38% | 19.08% | ||
| Ratio - Total Own Funds | 19.38% | 19.08% |
Own funds and capital ratios were determined applying the current Supervisory Regulations, in line with Basel III standards.
The Fineco share recorded a solid performance in the first quarter of 2015, also underpinned by positive market sentiment in Italy. At the end of 2014 the share price was €4,668, reaching €6,425 at the end of the 2015 quarter, the best result ever recorded in the reference period. Overall, the share price grew by 37.6% since the end of 2014.
The performance is even more impressive if you consider the development of the share price compared to the listing price: since 2 July 2014, the date on which FinecoBank's ordinary shares started to be traded on the Italian Stock Exchange (MTA), the share has experienced a decidedly positive trend, posting a 73.6% price increase.
The outcome of the global offering had set the listing price at €3.7 per share, equivalent to a market capitalization of the bank of €2,243 million. As at March 31, 2015 the bank's market capitalisation amounted to €3,897 million.
| 1Q2015 | Year 2014 | |
|---|---|---|
| Official price of ordinary shares (€) | ||
| - maximum | 6.425 | 4.750 |
| - minimum | 4.438 | 3.808 |
| - average | 5.356 | 4.168 |
| - period-end | 6.425 | 4.668 |
| Number of shares (millions) | ||
| - in circulation at period end | 606.5 | 606.3 |
FinecoBank is the direct, multi-channel bank of the UniCredit Group, with 988,000 customers at the end of March 2015, 31,000 of whom acquired since the beginning of the year, up 5% compared to the same period in the previous year.
Since the beginning of 2015, FinecoBank recorded total net deposits of €1,612 million, up 53% compared to the same period in 2014, of which €1,198 million for deposits under management, up 92% versus the previous year. Total net deposits from the PFA network, too, recorded a 53% increase, and came in at €1,447 million.
Total direct and indirect sales, amounting to €53,711 million at the end of March 2015, increased by 8.9% compared to the end of December 2014.
The first three months of 2015 ended with the best sales ever recorded, a fact that confirms both FinecoBank's ability to grow organically and savers' increasing appetite for the careful and sophisticated management of their savings. This is a trend that FinecoBank is capitalising on, and intends to continue to do so also in future months, particularly by providing the qualified advisory services that families require.
The Bank's offering is split into the following three areas: (i) banking: including current account and deposit services, payment services, and issuing debit, credit and prepaid cards; (ii) brokerage: providing order execution services on behalf of customers, with direct access to major global equity markets and the ability to trade in CFDs (on currencies, indices, shares, bonds and commodities), futures, options, bonds, ETFs and certificates; and (iii) investing: including placement and distribution services of more than 5,000 products, including mutual funds and SICAV sub-funds managed by 65 leading Italian and international investment firms, insurance and pension products, as well as consulting services in the investment field.
On February 9, 2015, the Board of Directors launched the plans approved by the Shareholders' Meeting on June 5, 2014.
In particular:
Total customer sales (direct and indirect) for the first quarter of 2015 continued to grow, reaching €53,711 million as at 31 March 2015, an increase of 8.9% compared to the end of 2014, thanks to net sales of €1,612 million and a positive effect driven by market performance.
Customer indirect sales (Assets under Management-AUMs plus Assets under Custody-AUCs) showed an increase of 10.5%, totalling €39,339 million, a figure that confirms the constant growth trend and the continuous improvement in the quality of inflows. In this respect, the growth in "guided products & services"1 should be pointed out, which continued to increase as a percentage of TFA, rising from 17.3% as at December 31, 2014 to 19.1% as at March 31, 2015. There was also noteworthy growth in Managed Assets, from 36.10% at December 31, 2014 to 39.24% at March 31, 2015.
Direct sales also showed a growth of 4.5%, driven by the increasing number of new customers, thus confirming their appreciation for the quality of the services. Direct sales mainly consist of 'transactional' deposits that support all customers' transactions, confirming the high and increasing degree of customer loyalty, which in turn contributes to improving the quality and stability of direct sales.
1Respectively FinecoBank products and/or services developed by investing in UCITs selected from among those distributed for each asset class taking into account customers' different risk profiles and offered to FinecoBank customers under the guided open architecture model. At the date of this interim report, the guided products category includes the "Core Series" umbrella fund of funds and the "Core Unit" and "Advice Unit" unit-linked policies, while the "Fineco Advice" and "Fineco Stars" advanced advisory service (investment) falls into the guided service category.
AUC = Assets under custody
AUM = Assets under management
TFA = Total Financial Assets (direct and indirect sales)
The table below shows the figures for the balance of direct sales, assets under management and assets under
of Fineco customers, including both those linked to a financial advisor and online customers.
| Amounts as at | Amounts as at | Changes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03.31.2015 | Comp % | 12.31.2014 | Comp % | absolute | % | |
| Current accounts and demand deposits | 13,194,509 | 24.6% | 12,247,082 | 24.8% | 947,427 | 7.7% |
| Time deposits and reverse repos | 1,176,759 | 2.2% | 1,506,637 | 3.1% | (329,878) | -21.9% |
| DIRECT SALES BALANCE | 14,371,268 | 26.8% | 13,753,719 | 27.9% | 617,549 | 4.5% |
| Segregated accounts | 14,717 | 0.0% | 14,782 | 0.0% | (65) | -0.4% |
| Investment funds and other funds | 23,312,634 | 43.4% | 21,176,945 | 42.9% | 2,135,689 | 10.1% |
| Insurance products | 2,793,352 | 5.2% | 2,444,167 | 5.0% | 349,185 | 14.3% |
| BALANCE ASSETS UNDER | ||||||
| MANAGEMENT | 26,120,703 | 48.6% | 23,635,894 | 47.9% | 2,484,809 | 10.5% |
| Government securities, bonds and stocks BALANCE ASSETS UNDER |
13,218,673 | 24.6% | 11,951,552 | 24.2% | 1,267,121 | 10.6% |
| ADMINISTRATION | 13,218,673 | 24.6% | 11,951,552 | 24.2% | 1,267,121 | 10.6% |
| BALANCE DIRECT AND INDIRECT | ||||||
| SALES | 53,710,644 | 100.0% | 49,341,165 | 100.0% | 4,369,479 | 8.9% |
| of which Guided products & services (Amounts in € thousand) |
10,250,128 | 19.1% | 8,532,245 | 17.3% | 1,717,883 | 20.1% |
The table below shows the figures for the balance of direct sales, assets under management and assets under administration of only the Personal Financial Advisors network.
| Amounts as at | Amounts as at | Changes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03.31.2015 | Comp % | 12.31.2014 | Comp % | absolute | % | |
| Current accounts and demand deposits | 9,349,472 | 20.7% | 8,605,117 | 20.7% | 744,355 | 8.7% |
| Time deposits and reverse repos | 828,147 | 1.8% | 1,064,704 | 2.6% | (236,557) | -22.2% |
| BALANCE DIRECT SALES | 10,177,619 | 22.5% | 9,669,821 | 23.3% | 507,798 | 5.3% |
| Segregated accounts | 14,717 | 0.0% | 14,782 | 0.0% | (65) | -0.4% |
| Investment funds and other funds | 22,833,511 | 50.5% | 20,772,136 | 50.1% | 2,061,375 | 9.9% |
| Insurance products | 2,688,625 | 5.9% | 2,346,758 | 5.7% | 341,867 | 14.6% |
| BALANCE ASSETS UNDER | ||||||
| MANAGEMENT | 25,536,853 | 56.4% | 23,133,676 | 55.8% | 2,403,177 | 10.4% |
| Government securities, bonds and stocks BALANCE ASSETS UNDER |
9,531,367 | 21.1% | 8,669,714 | 20.9% | 861,653 | 9.9% |
| ADMINISTRATION | 9,531,367 | 21.1% | 8,669,714 | 20.9% | 861,653 | 9.9% |
| BALANCE DIRECT AND INDIRECT | ||||||
| SALES | 45,245,839 | 100.0% | 41,473,211 | 100.0% | 3,772,628 | 9.1% |
(Amounts in € thousand)
The table below shows the figures for the balance of net direct sales, assets under management and assets under administration for Q1 2015 and Q1 2014 of Fineco customers, including both those linked to a financial advisor and online-only customers.
| Changes | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Q2015 | Comp % | 1Q2014 | Comp % | absolute | % | ||
| Current accounts and demand deposits | 947,427 | 58.8% | 633,064 | 60.1% | 314,363 | 49.7% | |
| Time deposits and reverse repos | (337,675) | -20.9% | 86,680 | 8.2% | (424,355) | n.c. | |
| DIRECT SALES | 609,752 | 37.8% | 719,744 | 68.4% | (109,992) | -15.3% | |
| Segregated accounts | (353) | 0.0% | (27,143) | -2.6% | 26,790 | -98.7% | |
| Investment funds and other funds | 995,227 | 61.7% | 618,398 | 58.7% | 376,829 | 60.9% | |
| Insurance products | 202,874 | 12.6% | 33,802 | 3.2% | 169,072 | 500.2% | |
| ASSETS UNDER MANAGEMENT | 1,197,748 | 74.3% | 625,057 | 59.4% | 572,691 | 91.6% | |
| Government securities, bonds and stocks | (195,432) | -12.1% | (291,825) | -27.7% | 96,393 | -33.0% | |
| ASSETS UNDER ADMINISTRATION | (195,432) | -12.1% | (291,825) | -27.7% | 96,393 | -33.0% | |
| TOTAL NET SALES - PERSONAL | |||||||
| FINANCIAL ADVISORS NETWORK | 1,612,068 | 100.0% | 1,052,976 | 100.0% | 559,092 | 53.1% | |
The table below shows the figures for the balance of net direct sales, assets under management and assets under administration for Q1 2015 and Q1 2014 for the PFA network.
| Changes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Q2015 | Comp % | 1Q2014 | Comp % | absolute | % | |
| Current accounts and demand deposits | 744,355 | 51.4% | 513,721 | 54.2% | 230,634 | 44.9% |
| Time deposits and reverse repos | (250,433) | -17.3% | 55,390 | 5.8% | (305,823) | n.c. |
| DIRECT SALES | 493,922 | 34.1% | 569,111 | 60.1% | (75,189) | -13.2% |
| Segregated accounts | (353) | 0.0% | (27,143) | -2.9% | 26,790 | -98.7% |
| Investment funds and other funds | 946,567 | 65.4% | 602,743 | 63.6% | 343,824 | 57.0% |
| Insurance products | 203,509 | 14.1% | 43,354 | 4.6% | 160,155 | 369.4% |
| ASSETS UNDER MANAGEMENT | 1,149,723 | 79.5% | 618,954 | 65.3% | 530,769 | 85.8% |
| Government securities, bonds and stocks | (196,680) | -13.6% | (240,823) | -25.4% | 44,143 | -18.3% |
| ASSETS UNDER ADMINISTRATION | (196,680) | -13.6% | (240,823) | -25.4% | 44,143 | -18.3% |
| TOTAL NET SALES - PERSONAL | ||||||
| FINANCIAL ADVISORS NETWORK | 1,446,965 | 100.0% | 947,242 | 100.0% | 499,723 | 52.8% |
(Amounts in € thousand)
The following table shows the number of orders on financial instruments recorded in Q1 2015 compared to the same
period in the previous year.
| 1Q2015 | 1Q2014 | Changes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| absolute | % | |||
| Orders - Equity Italia (including internalized orders) | 2,459,023 | 2,072,967 | 386,056 | 18.6% |
| Orders - Equity USA (including internalized orders) | 318,325 | 354,717 | (36,392) | -10.3% |
| Orders - Equity other markets (including internalized | ||||
| orders) | 127,766 | 121,783 | 5,983 | 4.9% |
| Total equity orders | 2,905,114 | 2,549,467 | 355,647 | 13.9% |
| Orders - Bonds | 205,013 | 199,579 | 5,434 | 2.7% |
| Orders - Derivatives | 869,823 | 760,942 | 108,881 | 14.3% |
| Orders - Forex | 458,298 | 315,246 | 143,052 | 45.4% |
| Orders - CFDs | 351,888 | 278,213 | 73,675 | 26.5% |
| Orders - Funds | 749,916 | 525,153 | 224,763 | 42.8% |
| Orders- Repo | 7,075 | 9,286 | (2,211) | -23.8% |
| TOTAL ORDERS | 5,547,127 | 4,637,886 | 909,241 | 19.6% |
The table shows a general increase in orders executed in Q1 2015 compared to the previous year, except for a decline in USA equity market and Repo orders.
The following table shows the volume of trades carried out as direct counterparty in orders placed by customers, resulting from the internalization of orders received on shares, CFDs and Logos products, recorded in Q1 2015 compared to the same period in 2014.
| 1Q2015 | 1Q2014 | Changes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| absolute | % | |||
| Equity (internationalization) | 17,445,852 | 10,056,085 | 7,389,767 | 73.5% |
| Forex | 35,281,708 | 20,449,024 | 14,832,684 | 72.5% |
| CFD and Logos | 11,790,331 | 3,635,335 | 8,154,996 | 224.3% |
| Total "internalized" volumes | 64,517,891 | 34,140,444 | 30,377,447 | 89.0% |
(Amounts in € thousand)
Profit before tax amounted to €72.2 million, up 25.2% compared to the same period in the previous year.
Income shows an improvement of net fees and commissions, thanks to fees and commissions generated by assets under management and the trading and order collection activity for financial instruments, and by the Net trading, hedging and fair value income due to the greater profit generated by the internalization activity.
Net fees and commissions and Income from trading ,hedges and fair value largely offset the increase in Payroll costs, due an increase in the number of employees, and that of costs resulting from share-based agreements involving own equity instruments, as well as the increase in Other administrative expenses and recovery of expenses, mainly linked to the cost of the new PFA incentive plans and higher PFA expenses as a result of increased hiring that had already started in previous financial years.
During the first quarter of 2015, the "Member Get Member" campaign was extended and the CORE SERIES offer was expanded with two new funds: CORE Global Opportunity and CORE Alternative. CORE Global Opportunity is the bond solution suitable for customers wishing greater diversification, for a dynamic investment that can react flexibly to market changes; CORE Alternative is an investment solution that is uncoupled from market performance, for customers wishing to exploit all return opportunities whilst maintaining careful control over risks.
The commercial activities, products and services released involved all the Bank's departments and units, within their respective areas, and consisted of feasibility studies, subsequent implementation and sale/placement.
| Amounts as at | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASSETS | 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 | absolute | % |
| Cash and cash equivalents | 10 | 5 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Financial assets held for trading | 5,609 | 3,054 | 2,555 | 83.7% |
| Loans and receivables with banks | 14,070,077 | 13,892,197 | 177,880 | 1.3% |
| Loans and receivables with customers | 796,879 | 695,594 | 101,285 | 14.6% |
| Financial investments flow | 2,264,284 | 1,695,555 | 568,729 | 33.5% |
| Hedging instruments | 24,508 | 24,274 | 234 | 1.0% |
| Property, plant and equipment | 11,161 | 10,892 | 269 | 2.5% |
| Goodwill | 89,602 | 89,602 | - | - |
| Other intangible assets | 7,989 | 8,142 | (153) | -1.9% |
| Tax assets | 13,414 | 18,550 | (5,136) | -27.7% |
| Other assets | 215,368 | 326,756 | (111,388) | -34.1% |
| Total assets | 17,498,901 | 16,764,621 | 734,280 | 4.4% |
(Amounts in € thousand)
| Amounts as at | Changes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY | 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 | absolute | % |
| Deposits from banks | 1,466,357 | 1,428,568 | 37,789 | 2.6% |
| Deposits from customers | 14,603,456 | 13,914,712 | 688,744 | 4.9% |
| Debt securities in issue | 427,884 | 424,710 | 3,174 | 0.7% |
| Financial liabilities held for trading | 4,557 | 3,135 | 1,422 | 45.4% |
| Hedging instruments | 46,933 | 46,220 | 713 | 1.5% |
| Provisions for risks and charges | 114,680 | 118,031 | (3,351) | -2.8% |
| Tax liabilities | 55,688 | 33,358 | 22,330 | 66.9% |
| Other liabilities | 169,052 | 243,633 | (74,581) | -30.6% |
| Shareholders' Equity | 610,294 | 552,254 | 58,040 | 10.5% |
| - capital and reserves - revaluation reserves (available-for-sale financial assets - |
554,027 | 400,085 | 153,942 | 38.5% |
| actuarial gains (losses) for defined benefits plans) | 8,485 | 2,262 | 6,223 | 275.1% |
| - net profit (loss) | 47,782 | 149,907 | (102,125) | -68.1% |
| Total liabilities and Shareholders' equity | 17,498,901 | 16,764,621 | 734,280 | 4.4% |
Financial assets held for trading consist of:
CFDs are "Over the counter" derivative contracts that require the payment of a differential generated by the difference between the opening and closing price of the financial instrument. The bank in operational terms covers the imbalance of customer positions, by underwriting futures on the underlyings, or through Forex transactions with institutional counterparties to hedge CFD transactions in open currencies with customers' currency; consequently, the positive valuation booked under "Financial assets held for trading" more or less balanced the negative valuations booked under "Financial liabilities held for trading".
| Amounts as at | Changes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 | absolute | % | |
| Current accounts and demand deposits | 1,497,327 | 1,476,280 | 21,047 | 1.4% |
| Time deposits | 2,725,653 | 2,894,321 | (168,668) | -5.8% |
| Other loans: | ||||
| 1 Reverse repos | 485 | 5,794 | (5,309) | -91.6% |
| 2 Others | 28,708 | 27,472 | 1,236 | 4.5% |
| Debt securities | 9,817,904 | 9,488,330 | 329,574 | 3.5% |
| Total | 14,070,077 | 13,892,197 | 177,880 | 1.3% |
(Amounts in € thousand)
Loans and receivables with banks for current accounts and demand deposits mainly consist of accounts held with UniCredit, with a book value of €1,484.1 million (€1,450.7 million as at December 31, 2014), and to a lesser extent, of current accounts held with other banks not belonging to UniCredit group for transactions in securities.
Time deposits consist of the deposit held with UniCredit for compulsory reserves, with a book value of €140.6 million (€131.9 million as at December 31, 2014), in addition to time deposits held with UniCredit with a book value of €2,585 million (€2,762.4 million as at December 31, 2014), opened to invest the liquidity collected through repos and CashPark transactions with retail customers and through repos with credit institutions, with the same maturities.
In the item Other Loans, the item Other relates to the amount of the initial and variation margins placed with credit institutions from derivative transactions as well as from current receivables associated with the provision of financial services.
The debt securities held in the portfolio and included in the category "Loans and Receivables" mainly consist of debt securities issued by UniCredit for an amount of €9,817.9 million (€9,488.3 million at December 31, 2014).
With reference to the increase of UniCredit shares in the portfolio compared with December 31, 2014, it should be noted that, in the first quarter of 2015, the bank carried out an investment transaction with the structural liquidity available as at end December 2014, for a total amount of approx. €300 million, through the purchase of a UniCredit variable-rate bond.
| Amounts as at | Changes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 | absolute | % | ||
| Current accounts | 154,859 | 130,765 | 24,094 | 18.4% | |
| Reverse repos | 192,493 | 118,014 | 74,479 | 63.1% | |
| Mortgages | 50 | 58 | (8) | -13.8% | |
| Credit cards and personal loans | 313,514 | 346,465 | (32,951) | -9.5% | |
| Other loans | 135,962 | 100,291 | 35,671 | 35.6% | |
| Debt securities | 1 | 1 | - | 0.0% | |
| Total | 796,879 | 695,594 | 101,285 | 14.6% |
(Amounts in € thousand)
Loans and receivables with customers, amounting to €796.9 million, can essentially be broken down as follows:
Reverse repos are represented by "Multiday leverage" transactions, securities lending transactions guaranteed by sums of money readily available to the lender and which are basically the equivalent of repos on securities. Other loans mainly consist of collateral deposits, initial and variation margins with clearing houses for derivative transactions, mostly on behalf of third parties, as well as current receivables associated with the provision of financial services.
| Loans and receivables with customers | Amounts as at Changes |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Management reclassification) | 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 | absolute | % |
| Current accounts | 152,282 | 128,270 | 24,012 | 18.7% |
| Use of credit cards | 201,564 | 243,115 | (41,551) | -17.1% |
| Personal loans | 110,302 | 101,697 | 8,605 | 8.5% |
| Other loans | 1,424 | 1,438 | (14) | -1.0% |
| Performing loans | 465,572 | 474,520 | (8,948) | -1.9% |
| Current accounts | 2,577 | 2,495 | 82 | 3.3% |
| Mortgages | 50 | 58 | (8) | -13.8% |
| Use of credit cards | 103 | 104 | (1) | -1.0% |
| Personal loans | 1,545 | 1,549 | (4) | -0.3% |
| Other loans | 25 | 26 | (1) | -3.8% |
| Impaired loans | 4,300 | 4,232 | 68 | 1.6% |
| Loan receivables with ordinary customers | 469,872 | 478,752 | (8,880) | -1.9% |
| Reverse repos | 192,457 | 117,987 | 74,470 | 63.1% |
| Reverse repos - impaired | 36 | 27 | 9 | 33.3% |
| Collateral deposits, initial and variance margins | 59,218 | 23,122 | 36,096 | 156.1% |
| Current receivables not related | ||||
| with the provision of financial services | 75,295 | 75,705 | (410) | -0.5% |
| Debt securities | 1 | 1 | - | 0.0% |
| Current receivables and other receivables | 327,007 | 216,842 | 110,165 | 50.8% |
| Loans and receivables with customers | 796,879 | 695,594 | 101,285 | 14.6% |
| (Amounts in € thousand) |
The portfolio of loan receivables with ordinary customers mainly consists of receivables for personal loans, current accounts and credit card use; overall, loans to ordinary customers decreased by 1.9%, due to a lesser use of credit cards with full payment of the balance at term, partially offset by the greater use of current account credit lines.
| Category | Gross amount | Impairment provision | Net amount | Coverage ratio | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amounts as at Amounts as at |
Amounts as at | Data as at | ||||||
| 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 | 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 | 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 | 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 | |
| Non-performing loans | 20,507 | 19,845 | (17,234) | (16,686) | 3,273 | 3,159 | 84.04% | 84.08% |
| Doubtful loans | 1,138 | 1,381 | (765) | (928) | 373 | 453 | 67.22% | 67.20% |
| Loans overdue | 1,215 | 1,272 | (525) | (625) | 690 | 647 | 43.21% | 49.14% |
| Total | 22,860 | 22,498 | (18,524) | (18,239) | 4,336 | 4,259 | 81.03% | 81.07% |
(Amounts in € thousand)
The amount of impaired loans net of impairment losses was €4.3 million, €3.2 million of which in non-performing loans, €0.4 million in doubtful loans and €0.7 million in past-due loans. Impaired loans mostly relate to current account overdrafts, credit card use and personal loans.
Impaired customer loans represented 0.92% of loans to ordinary customers, showing an increase over the 0.89% as at December 31, 2014, due to the reduction of receivables from the use of credit cards with full payment of the balance at term.
| Amounts as at | Changes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 | absolute | % | |
| Available-for-sale financial assets | 2,264,284 | 1,695,555 | 568,729 | 33.5% |
| Total | 2,264,284 | 1,695,555 | 568,729 | 33.5% |
(Amounts in € thousand)
Available-for-sale financial assets consist in debt securities issued by governments, in particular Italian government bonds, for a book value of €1,700.5 million (€1,685.1 million as at December 31, 2014), French government bonds, for a book value of €10.4 million (€10.4 million as at December 31, 2014), Spanish Government bonds, for a book value of €553.4 million (purchased in Q1 2015), and equity investments in companies in which the Bank does not exercise control or have a significant influence, for an amount equal to €5,000, including 20 shares in UniCredit Business Integrated Solutions S.c.p.A. for a total of €172.
A portion of debt securities classified in the Available-for-sale financial assets portfolio are entirely used as collateral for bankers' drafts or guarantees with third parties for a book value of €131.3 million.
| Amounts as at | Changes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 | absolute | % | |
| Asset hedging derivatives - positive valuations | 14,730 | 11,554 | 3,176 | 27.5% |
| Liability hedging derivatives - positive valuations | 8,119 | 7,693 | 426 | 5.5% |
| Adjustment to the value of assets under | ||||
| portfolio hedge | 1,659 | 5,027 | (3,368) | -67.0% |
| Total assets | 24,508 | 24,274 | 234 | 1.0% |
| of which: | ||||
| Positive valuations | 23,395 | 19,842 | 3,553 | 17.9% |
| Related accrued assets and liabilities | (546) | (595) | 49 | -8.2% |
| Adjustments to the value of hedged assets | 1,659 | 5,027 | (3,368) | -67.0% |
| Total assets | 24,508 | 24,274 | 234 | 1.0% |
| Asset hedging derivatives - negative valuations | 37,340 | 36,993 | 347 | 0.9% |
| Liability hedging derivatives - negative valuations | - | - | - | - |
| Adjustment to the value of liabilities under | ||||
| portfolio hedge | 9,593 | 9,227 | 366 | 4.0% |
| Total liabilities | 46,933 | 46,220 | 713 | 1.5% |
| of which: | ||||
| Negative valuations | 31,321 | 30,793 | 528 | 1.7% |
| Related accrued assets and liabilities | 6,019 | 6,200 | (181) | -2.9% |
| Adjustments to the value of hedged liabilities | 9,593 | 9,227 | 366 | 4.0% |
| Total liabilities | 46,933 | 46,220 | 713 | 1.5% |
| Summary of hedging derivatives valuations as at March 31,2015 | Assets | Liabilities | Imbalance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valuation of hedging derivatives for assets and liabilities | 23,395 | 31,321 | (7,926) |
| Adjustments to the value of hedged financial assets/liabilities | 1,659 | 9,593 | (7,934) |
| Valuation reserve gross of relevant taxation | - | (15,860) | 15,860 |
| Total | 25,054 | 25,054 | - |
(Amounts in € thousand)
Hedged assets consist of receivables for personal loans due from retail customers, bonds issued by UniCredit belonging to the "Loans and Receivables category" and securities issued by the Italian Central Government and classified as "Available-for-sale financial assets".
Hedged liabilities refer to bonds issued by FinecoBank, entirely subscribed by the Parent Company and recognized as debt securities in issue.
Accruals relating to asset and liability hedging derivatives amount respectively to €-0.5 million and €6 million, and are included in the net interest margin.
Positive and negative valuations of hedging derivatives relate solely to derivative contracts that the Bank has entered into to provide a hedge against interest rate risk inherent in the above-mentioned assets and liabilities, whose income statement effect, net of accrued interest included in the net interest margin, is zero.
As in previous financial years, investments in electronic machines were made to guarantee the ongoing update of the hardware used by all FinecoBank departments, and in particular by the IT department.
Investments in office furniture and fittings and equipment are primarily intended for use in new financial stores.
| Property, plant and equipment |
Balance 01.01.2015 |
Investments as at 03.31.2015 |
Other Changes Sales |
Amortisation, depreciation and impairment as at March 31, 2015 |
Balance 03.31.2015 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Properties | 2,621 | - | - | (28) | 2,593 |
| Electronic machines | 6,136 | 1,045 | - | (619) | 6,562 |
| Furniture and fixtures | 927 | 9 | - | (53) | 883 |
| Plant and machinery | 1,208 | 26 | - | (111) | 1,123 |
| TOTAL | 10,892 | 1,080 | - | (811) | 11,161 |
As at 31 March 2015, there were no impairment indicators for the goodwill recorded in the Financial Statements; for any further information on the impairment test performed on an annual basis, see the Financial Statements as at 31 December 2014.
As at March 31, 2015, the goodwill recorded in the financial statements was made up as follows:
| Amounts as at | ||
|---|---|---|
| 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 | |
| Goodwill relating to Fineco On Line Sim S.p.A. | 16,087 | 16,087 |
| Goodwill relating to the Trading and Banking division of Banca della Rete | 2,034 | 2,034 |
| Goodwill relating to PFA division formerly FinecoGroup S.p.A. | 3,463 | 3,463 |
| Goodwill relating to the PFA division formerly UniCredit Xelion Banca S.p.A. | 68,018 | 68,018 |
| Total | 89,602 | 89,602 |
(Amounts in € thousand)
On April 3, 2001 the merger of Fineco On Line Sim S.p.A., the business division of Fineco Sim S.p.A., into FinecoBank was completed.
This merger was carried out on the basis of a share swap ratio of 3.7 shares of the acquiring company for each share of the acquired company, with a consequent increase in the share capital of FinecoBank. The difference between the increase in capital of the acquiring company and the amount of shareholders' equity of the acquired company gave rise to a share swap loss recorded under goodwill.
The balance, amounting to €16 million, is equal to the balance at January 1, 2004, the date of transition to IAS, plus the unamortized amount of the substitute tax, paid for recognition of the loss for tax purposes.
On September 1, 2003, FinecoBank acquired the "On-line Banking" and "On-line Trading" business divisions of Banca della Rete, as part of the business plan to rationalize the reorganization of Banca della Rete, in accordance with the directives of the then Parent Company Capitalia S.p.A..
The amount of €2 million recorded in the balance sheet is the same as the amount as at January 1, 2004, the date of transition to IAS.
On October 1, 2005, FinecoBank acquired the Personal Financial Advisors business division from FinecoGroup S.p.A., which was created from the progressive merger of three different group networks: FinecoBank S.p.A., former Bipop Carire S.p.A. and Banca Manager S.p.A..
The transaction was carried out for a consideration mutually agreed by the parties and subject to a "fairness opinion', leading to the recognition of €3.5 million of goodwill.
As a result of the merger of UniCredit Xelion Banca S.p.A. into FinecoBank on 7 July 2008, FinecoBank S.p.A. recorded goodwill of €68 million under intangible assets, arising from previous extraordinary transactions carried out by UniCredit Xelion Banca S.p.A., more specifically:
It should be noted that all the goodwill (totalling €90 million) relates to acquisitions of businesses or companies carrying out trading activities or the distribution of financial, banking and insurance products through personal financial advisors.
These activities have been fully integrated with FinecoBank's ordinary operations, as a result it is no longer possible to isolate the contribution of each company/business division from the Bank's overall income; this means that to establish the reasonableness of the value of goodwill recognized in the financial statements it is necessary to take account of the Bank's comprehensive income. The cash generating unit (CGU) is therefore the Bank as a whole.
In fact, in view of the specific business model adopted by FinecoBank, which envisages a high level of integration between personal financial advisors and the trading and banking platform, the allocation of costs/revenues to the business units is not considered relevant or meaningful; the personal financial advisors network is an integral part of the overall offer, along with banking, brokerage and investing services.
Other intangible assets mainly include purchases and the implementation of information technology procedures with useful lives of several years, required in order to manage the development and ongoing provision by the Bank of new and more versatile high-added-value services for customers, as well as infrastructure and application optimizations, enhancements to architecture for application security, and the developments needed to meet the new regulatory requirements.
| Intangible assets | Balance 01.01.2015 |
Investments as at 03.31.2015 |
Other changes sales |
Amortisation, depreciation and impairment as at March 31, 2015 |
Balance 03.31.2015 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software | 6,969 | 1,063 | - | (1,111) | 6,921 |
| Other intangible assets | 1,173 | - | - | (105) | 1,068 |
| TOTAL | 8,142 | 1,063 | - | (1,216) | 7,989 |
| Amounts as at | Changes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 | absolute | % | |
| Tax assets | ||||
| Current assets | 2,067 | 2,179 | (112) | -5.1% |
| Deferred tax assets | 35,733 | 37,025 | (1,292) | -3.5% |
| Deferred tax assets pursuant to Law 214/2011 | 3,576 | 3,839 | (263) | -6.9% |
| Total before IAS 12 offsetting | 41,376 | 43,043 | (1,667) | -3.9% |
| Offsetting with deferred tax liabilities - IAS 12 | (27,962) | (24,493) | (3,469) | 14.2% |
| Total Tax assets | 13,414 | 18,550 | (5,136) | -27.7% |
| Other assets | ||||
| Items in processing | 14,749 | 9,193 | 5,556 | 60.4% |
| Definitive items not recognised under other items | 39,192 | 53,600 | (14,408) | -26.9% |
| Current receivables not related | ||||
| to the provision of financial services | 5,093 | 4,576 | 517 | 11.3% |
| Tax items other than those included | ||||
| in the item "Tax liabilities" | 121,538 | 235,072 | (113,534) | -48.3% |
| Deferred charges | 26,254 | 15,109 | 11,145 | 73.8% |
| Improvement and incremental expenses incurred on leasehold assets Other items |
8,389 153 |
9,081 125 |
(692) 28 |
-7.6% 22.4% |
| Total other assets | 215,368 | 326,756 | (111,388) | -34.1% |
| (Amounts in € thousand) | ||||
| The decrease in "Tax assets", equal to €5.1 million, was mainly due to: | ||||
| - the reduction of "Deferred Tax Assets" by approx. €1.3 million, resulting mainly from the use of the Provision for |
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| risks and charges; | ||||
| - the entry of "Deferred tax liabilities" amounting to approx. €3.5 million, following the revaluation of bond securities |
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| held in the Bank's portfolio. | ||||
| It is also noted that Deferred tax assets are shown in the Balance Sheet net of the relevant Deferred tax liabilities, | ||||
| where the requirements set out in IAS 12 are met. | ||||
| With respect to "Other assets", a decrease of "Tax items other than those recorded under the Tax Assets item" was | ||||
| recorded as a result of the use of advance tax payed as substitute tax for stamp duty, substitute tax on other income | ||||
| and withholding tax on interest. | ||||
| Deposits from banks | ||||
| Amounts as at | Changes | |||
| 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 | absolute | % | |
| Deposits from central banks | - | - | - | - |
| Deposits from banks | ||||
| Current accounts and demand deposits | 97,764 | 89,607 | 8,157 | 9.1% |
| Loans | ||||
| Repos | 1,367,570 | 1,337,843 | 29,727 | 2.2% |
| Other liabilities | 1,023 | 1,118 | (95) | -8.5% |
| Total | 1,466,357 | 1,428,568 | 37,789 | 2.6% |
| (Amounts in € thousand) | ||||
| The item current accounts and demand deposits mainly consists of reciprocal current accounts and loans with | ||||
| UniCredit group companies, with a book value of €14.2 million (€17.3 million as at December 31, 2014), as well as | ||||
| reciprocal current accounts and loans with banks outside the Group of €6.2 million. The item also includes margin |
| Amounts as at | Changes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 | absolute | % | |
| Deposits from central banks | - | - | - | - |
| Deposits from banks | ||||
| Current accounts and demand deposits | 97,764 | 89,607 | 8,157 | 9.1% |
| Loans | ||||
| Repos | 1,367,570 | 1,337,843 | 29,727 | 2.2% |
| Other liabilities | 1,023 | 1,118 | (95) | -8.5% |
| Total | 1,466,357 | 1,428,568 | 37,789 | 2.6% |
The item current accounts and demand deposits mainly consists of reciprocal current accounts and loans with UniCredit group companies, with a book value of €14.2 million (€17.3 million as at December 31, 2014), as well as variations for trading in repos received by UniCredit, with a book value of €77.4 million (€64.6 million as at 31 December 2014).
Repos included €1,237.6 million in transactions effected with UniCredit (€1,256.6 million as at 31 December 2014) and €39.1 million of transactions effected with UniCredit AG Monaco (€27.1 million as at December 31, 2014).
Deposits from customers, mainly consisting of current accounts, the Cash Park deposit account and Supersave repos, totalled €14,603.5 million, an increase of 4.9% compared to December 31, 2014.
| Amounts as at | Changes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 | absolute | % | |
| Current accounts and demand deposits | 13,194,588 | 12,247,454 | 947,134 | 7.7% |
| Time deposits | 1,028,380 | 1,315,731 | (287,351) | -21.8% |
| Loans | ||||
| Repos | 299,932 | 281,178 | 18,754 | 6.7% |
| Other liabilities | 80,556 | 70,349 | 10,207 | 14.5% |
| Deposits from customers | 14,603,456 | 13,914,712 | 688,744 | 4.9% |
(Amounts in € thousand)
| Amounts as at | Changes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 | absolute | % | ||
| Bonds issued | 427,884 | 424,710 | 3,174 | 0.7% | |
(Amounts in € thousand)
The change in bonds issued is due exclusively to the exchange rate variation for dollar bonds.
Financial liabilities held for trading consist of:
CFDs are "Over the counter" derivative contracts that require the payment of a differential generated by the difference between the opening and closing price of the financial instrument. The bank in operational terms covers the imbalance of customer positions, by underwriting futures on the underlyings, or through Forex transactions with institutional counterparties to hedge CFD transactions in open currencies with customers' currency; consequently, the negative valuations booked under "Financial liabilities held for trading" more or less balanced the positive valuations booked under "Financial assets held for trading".
Provisions for risks and charges include allowances for a total of €114,7 million, for which, given a liability of uncertain amount and expiry, a current obligation was identified as the result of a past event and it was possible to make a reliable estimate of the amount resulting from the fulfilment of said obligation.
The disbursements, with estimated maturity exceeding 18 months, were discounted to present value using a rate equal to the time value of money.
"Staff expenses" include the provisions made for the variable remuneration to be paid to employees in subsequent years, which have an uncertain due date and/or amount.
| Amounts as at | Changes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 | absolute | % |
| 46,655 | 49,650 | (2,995) | -6.0% |
| 35,923 | 36,205 | (282) | -0.8% |
| 10,732 | 13,445 | (2,713) | -20.2% |
| 8,750 | 7,805 | 945 | 12.1% |
| 59,275 | 60,576 | (1,301) | -2.1% |
| 45,067 | 44,114 | 953 | 2.2% |
| 2,279 | 2,269 | 10 | 0.4% |
| 7,299 | 7,298 | 1 | 0.0% |
| 4,630 | 6,895 | (2,265) | -32.8% |
| 114,680 | 118,031 | (3,351) | -2.8% |
| - Provision for contractual payments and payments under non-competition agreements |
(Amounts in € thousand)
| Amounts as at | Changes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 | absolute | % | |
| Tax liabilities | ||||
| Current liabilities | 55,688 | 33,358 | 22,330 | 66.9% |
| Deferred tax liabilities | 27,962 | 24,493 | 3,469 | 14.2% |
| Total before IAS 12 offsetting | 83,650 | 57,851 | 25,799 | 44.6% |
| Offsetting with Prepaid tax assets - IAS 12 | (27,962) | (24,493) | (3,469) | 14.2% |
| Total Tax liabilities | 55,688 | 33,358 | 22,330 | 66.9% |
| Other liabilities | ||||
| Impairment of financial guarantees given | 1,416 | 1,416 | - | 0.0% |
| Items in processing | 49,945 | 42,366 | 7,579 | 17.9% |
| Definitive items not recognised under other items | 25,656 | 33,913 | (8,257) | -24.3% |
| Payables to employees and other personnel | 8,036 | 6,549 | 1,487 | 22.7% |
| Payables to Directors and statutory auditors | 148 | 212 | (64) | -30.2% |
| Current payables not related | ||||
| to the provision of financial services | 24,982 | 25,075 | (93) | -0.4% |
| Tax items other than those included | ||||
| in the item "Tax liabilities" | 37,887 | 107,717 | (69,830) | -64.8% |
| Social security contributions payable | 7,702 | 5,576 | 2,126 | 38.1% |
| Adjustments for illiquid portfolio items | 7,340 | 15,197 | (7,857) | -51.7% |
| Other items | 882 | 786 | 96 | 12.2% |
| Employee severance pay provision | 5,058 | 4,826 | 232 | 4.8% |
| Total Other Liabilities | 169,052 | 243,633 | (74,581) | -30.6% |
The increase in "Tax liabilities", equal to €22.3 million, pertains to "Current liabilities" and is due, respectively, to the increase of €4.5 million of IRAP-related liabilities towards the tax authorities and of €17.8 million of IRES-related liabilities towards the Parent Company as a result of tax consolidation.
It is also noted that Deferred tax liabilities are shown in the Balance Sheet as offsetting Deferred tax assets.
With respect to "Other Liabilities", a €69.8 million decrease was recorded for "Tax items other than those included in the item Tax liabilities", as a result of lower payables to the tax authorities due to the payment, net of tax advances captured in Other Assets, of stamp duty, withholding taxes on interest and substitute tax on other income.
As at March 31, 2015, the Bank's share capital came to €200 million, and was divided into 606,515,733 shares with a par value of €0.33 each. Reserves comprise Issue-premium reserve, amounting to €1.9 million, the legal reserve amounting to €33.1 million, the extraordinary reserve amounting to €142.8 million, the reserve for purchase of treasury shares amounting to €14.9 million and the reserve connected to the Equity Settled plans amounting to €11.2 million.
The Bank does not hold Treasury shares in its portfolio.
Shareholders' Equity as at March 31, 2015 included the profit for 2014, equal to €149.9 million, whose allocation has been resolved upon as follows by the Shareholders' Meeting of 23 April 2015:
| Amounts as at | Changes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Items/amounts | 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 | absolute | % |
| Share capital | 200,150 | 200,070 | 80 | 0.0% |
| Share premium reserve | 1,934 | 1,934 | - | - |
| Reserves | ||||
| - Legal res erve |
33,061 | 33,061 | - | - |
| - E x t raordinary res erve |
142,829 | 142,739 | 90 | 0.1% |
| - Ot her res erves |
26,146 | 22,281 | 3,865 | 17.3% |
| Revaluation reserves | 8,485 | 2,262 | 6,223 | 275.1% |
| Retained Profit (Loss) | 149,907 | - | 149,907 | - |
| Net Profit (Loss) for the year | 47,782 | 149,907 | (102,125) | -68.1% |
| Total | 610,294 | 552,254 | (91,867) | -16.6% |
| Data as at | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 | ||
| Common Equity Tier 1 - CET1 | 355,984 | 353,133 | |
| Tier 1 Equity | 355,984 | 353,133 | |
| Total Own Founds | 355,984 | 353,133 | |
| Total risk-weighted assets | 1,836,439 | 1,850,331 | |
| Ratio - Common Equity Tier 1 Capital | 19.38% | 19.08% | |
| Ratio - Tier 1 Capital | 19.38% | 19.08% | |
| Ratio - Total Own Funds | 19.38% | 19.08% |
(Amounts in € thousand)
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Own funds as at March 31, 2015 amounted to a €356 million.
Own funds and Capital ratios were determined applying the current Supervisory Regulations, in line with Basel III standards.
| 1Q | Changes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2014 | absolute | % | |
| Net interest | 57,586 | 58,333 | (747) | -1.3% |
| Net fee and commission income | 61,681 | 47,718 | 13,963 | 29.3% |
| Net trading, hedging and fair value income | 17,059 | 7,079 | 9,980 | 141.0% |
| Net other expenses/income | 358 | (41) | 399 | n.c. |
| OPERATING INCOME | 136,684 | 113,089 | 23,595 | 20.9% |
| Payroll costs | (18,385) | (15,770) | (2,615) | 16.6% |
| Other administrative expenses | (60,401) | (52,735) | (7,666) | 14.5% |
| Recovery of expenses | 21,012 | 18,807 | 2,205 | 11.7% |
| Amortisation, depreciation and impairment losses | ||||
| on intangible and tangible assets | (2,027) | (1,905) | (122) | 6.4% |
| Operating costs | (59,801) | (51,603) | (8,198) | 15.9% |
| OPERATING PROFIT (LOSS) | 76,883 | 61,486 | 15,397 | 25.0% |
| Net impairment losses on | ||||
| loans and provisions for guarantees and commitments | (1,583) | (465) | (1,118) | 240.4% |
| NET OPERATING PROFIT (LOSS) | 75,300 | 61,021 | 14,279 | 23.4% |
| Provisions for risks and charges | (3,115) | (3,373) | 258 | -7.6% |
| PROFIT (LOSS) BEFORE TAX | ||||
| FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS | 72,185 | 57,648 | 14,537 | 25.2% |
| Income tax for the period | (24,403) | (20,722) | (3,681) | 17.8% |
| PROFIT (LOSS) AFTER TAX FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS | 47,782 | 36,926 | 10,856 | 29.4% |
| NET PROFIT (LOSS) FOR THE PERIOD | 47,782 | 36,926 | 10,856 | 29.4% |
The interest for the first quarter of 2015 amounted to €57.6 million, by and large in line with that for the first quarter of 2014, mainly due to the increase of sales volume and the reduction in the cost of sales that offset the fall in market interest rates.
| 1Q | Changes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interest income | 2015 | 2014 | absolute | % |
| Financial Assets held for trading | - | 1 | (1) | -100.0% |
| Available-for-sale financial assets | 4,869 | 426 | 4,443 | 1043.0% |
| Loans and receivables with banks | 49,127 | 67,241 | (18,114) | -26.9% |
| Loans and receivables with customers | 7,395 | 7,031 | 364 | 5.2% |
| Financial instruments at fair value through profit or loss | - | 3 | (3) | -100.0% |
| Hedging derivatives | 1,937 | 138 | 1,799 | 1303.6% |
| Total interest income | 63,328 | 74,840 | (11,512) | -15.4% |
| (Amounts in € thousand) | ||||
| 1Q | Changes | |||
| Interest expense | 2015 | 2014 | absolute | % |
| Deposits from banks | (194) | (1,671) | 1,477 | -88.4% |
| Deposits from customers | (5,548) | (14,836) | 9,288 | -62.6% |
| Total interest expense | (5,742) | (16,507) | 10,765 | -65.2% |
| Net interest | 57,586 | 58,333 | (747) | -1.3% |
(Amounts in € thousand)
The following table provides a breakdown of interest income associated with banks and customers:
| 1Q | Changes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breakdown of interest income | 2015 | 2014 | absolute | % |
| Interest income on loans and receivables with banks | 49,127 | 67,241 | (18,114) | -26.9% |
| - current accounts | 573 | 53,647 | (53,074) | -98.9% |
| - reverse repos | 190 | 158 | 32 | 20.3% |
| - time deposit for compulsory reserves | 17 | 77 | (60) | -77.9% |
| - time deposits | 3,585 | 11,822 | (8,237) | -69.7% |
| - other loans | 10 | 2 | 8 | 400.0% |
| - debt securities | 44,752 | 1,535 | 43,217 | 2815.4% |
| Interest income on loans and receivables with customers | 7,395 | 7,031 | 364 | 5.2% |
| - current accounts | 1,341 | 1,092 | 249 | 22.8% |
| - reverse repos | 2,946 | 2,822 | 124 | 4.4% |
| - credit cards | 903 | 884 | 19 | 2.1% |
| - personal loans | 2,175 | 2,192 | (17) | -0.8% |
| - other loans | 30 | 41 | (11) | -26.8% |
(Amounts in € thousand)
Interest income on loans and receivables with banks amounted to €49.1 million, decreasing by €18.1 million compared to the same period of the previous year. The decrease in current account interest, equal to €53.1 million, and savings accounts, equal to €8.2 million, was mainly due to a fall in volumes and market interest rates; such fall was partly offset by the increase in the interest rate for debt securities, amounting to €43.2 million, as a result of the volume increase due to the investments effected starting from Q2 2014. It should be noted that, starting from April 1, 2014 the liquidity investment policy experienced some changes: specifically, "core" liquidity was invested in UniCredit shares, whilst the portion of liquidity classified as "non core" was invested in liquid assets or assets readily convertible into cash, such as Government Bonds.
Interest income on loans and receivables with customers amounted to €7.4 million, showing an increase of 5.2% thanks to higher interest on "Multiday leverage" securities lending transactions guaranteed by cash and on use of current account credit lines, due to the increase in volumes.
| 1Q | Changes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breakdown of interest expense | 2015 | 2014 | absolute | % |
| Interest expense on deposits from banks | (194) | (1,671) | 1,477 | -88.4% |
| - current accounts | (16) | (30) | 14 | -46.7% |
| - demand deposits | (2) | - | (2) | n.c. |
| - other loans | (5) | (7) | 2 | -28.6% |
| - reverse repos | (171) | (1,634) | 1,463 | -89.5% |
| Interest expense on deposits from customers | (5,548) | (14,836) | 9,288 | -62.6% |
| - current accounts | (892) | (4,014) | 3,122 | -77.8% |
| - demand deposits | (12) | (14) | 2 | -14.3% |
| - time deposits | (4,051) | (9,906) | 5,855 | -59.1% |
| - reverse repos | (593) | (902) | 309 | -34.3% |
The following table provides a breakdown of interest expense related to banks and customers:
(Amounts in € thousand)
Interest expense on deposits from banks amounted to €0.2 million, down by €1.5 million compared to the same period of the previous year, attributable to lower interest accrued on repos due to the reduction in volumes and changes in market rates.
Interest expense on deposits from customers came in at €5.5 million, down €9.3 million over the same period for the previous year as a result of the reduction of the current account interest rate, coupled with the reduction of volumes and the interest rate for "Cash Park" time deposits. The cost of deposits went from 0.46% in Q1 2014 to 0.14% in Q1 2015.
The structure of the investments carried out by the Bank contributed to keep a high flow of interest income resulting from the investment of deposits, even against a backdrop of significant reduction of credit spreads and market interest rates. The average lending rate for the investment of all deposits (both at sight and at term) went from 2.01% in Q1 2014 to 1.56% in Q1 2015.
| 1Q | Changes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2014 | absolute | % | |
| Net interest | 57,586 | 58,333 | (747) | -1.3% |
| Net fee and commission income | 61,681 | 47,718 | 13,963 | 29.3% |
| Net trading, hedging and fair value income | 17,059 | 7,079 | 9,980 | 141.0% |
| Net other expenses/income | 358 | (41) | 399 | n.c. |
| Operating income | 136,684 | 113,089 | 23,595 | 20.9% |
(Amounts in € thousand)
| 1Q | Changes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Management reclassification | 2015 | 2014 | absolute | % |
| Management, brokerage and consulting services: | ||||
| 1. trading and order collection activity for financial instruments | 25,423 | 22,731 | 2,692 | 11.8% |
| 2. currency trading | (61) | (42) | (19) | 45.2% |
| 3. custody and administration of securities | (1,127) | (923) | (204) | 22.1% |
| 4. placement and management of securities, | ||||
| UCIT units and segregated accounts | 37,493 | 28,144 | 9,349 | 33.2% |
| 6. investment advisory services | (206) | 25 | (231) | -924.0% |
| 7. distribution of insurance products | 4,818 | 3,267 | 1,551 | 47.5% |
| 8. distribution of other products | (69) | (65) | (4) | 6.2% |
| Collection and payment services | 2,503 | 2,453 | 50 | 2.0% |
| Holding and management of current accounts/deposit accounts | (1,091) | (1,730) | 639 | -36.9% |
| Other commissions payable to PFAs | (6,567) | (6,520) | (47) | 0.7% |
| Securities lending | (544) | (561) | 17 | -3.0% |
| Other services | 1,109 | 939 | 170 | 18.1% |
| Total | 61,681 | 47,718 | 13,963 | 29.3% |
(Amounts in € thousand)
Net fee and commission income amounted to €61.7 million, increasing by 29.3% compared to the same period of the previous year.
This increase was mainly attributable to the increase in net fee and commission income from trading and asset management, units in investment funds and segregated accounts, thanks to the increase in assets under management, as well as from securities trading and order collection commissions, underpinned by market volatility and Customers' appreciation of Fineco's platform.
Net trading, hedging and fair value income was mainly determined by the profits posted by the activity of internalization of securities and CFD contracts. The increase of €10 million is attributable to higher profits deriving from trading in securities, for €1.3 million, in CFDs, for €4.5 million and exchange differences on assets and liabilities denominated in currency, for €4 million.
The Net other expenses/income shows an increase that is mainly due on higher insurance reimbursements recorded by the Bank over the same period of the previous year.
| 1Q | Changes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breakdown of operating costs | 2015 | 2014 | absolute | % |
| Payroll costs | (18,385) | (15,770) | (2,615) | 16.6% |
| Other administrative expenses | (60,401) | (52,735) | (7,666) | 14.5% |
| Recovery of expenses | 21,012 | 18,807 | 2,205 | 11.7% |
| Amortisation, depreciation and impairment losses | ||||
| on intangible and tangible assets | (2,027) | (1,905) | (122) | 6.4% |
| Total operating costs | (59,801) | (51,603) | (8,198) | 15.9% |
| (Amounts in € thousand) | ||||
| 1Q | Changes | |||
| Payroll costs | 2015 | 2014 | absolute | % |
| 1) Employees | (18,108) | (15,332) | (2,776) | 18.1% |
| - wages and salaries | (11,791) | (10,662) | (1,129) | 10.6% |
| - social security contributions | (3,273) | (2,886) | (387) | 13.4% |
| - severance pay | (249) | (198) | (51) | 25.8% |
| - allocation to employee severance pay provision | (23) | (33) | 10 | -30.3% |
| - payment to supplementary external | ||||
| pension funds: | ||||
| a) defined contribution | (742) | (615) | (127) | 20.7% |
| - costs related to | ||||
| share-based payments | (1,122) | (190) | (932) | 490.5% |
| - other employee benefits | (908) | (748) | (160) | 21.4% |
| 2) Other staff | (37) | (24) | (13) | 54.2% |
| 3) Directors and statutory auditors | (251) | (211) | (40) | 19.0% |
| 4) Early retirement costs | - | - | - | n.c. |
| 5) Recovery of expenses for employees | ||||
| seconded to other companies | 52 | 25 | 27 | 108.0% |
| 6) Recovery of expenses for employees | ||||
| seconded to the Company | (41) | (228) | 187 | -82.0% |
| Total | (18,385) | (15,770) | (2,615) | 16.6% |
(Amounts in € thousand)
Payroll costs in the first quarter of 2015 show an increase of 16.6%, due to an increase in staff numbers, which rose from 976 as at March 31, 2014 to 1,037 as at March 31, 2015, as well as to the increase of costs resulting from sharebased agreements involving own equity instruments due to new incentive plans with execution conditional upon listing.
Note that item "costs related to share-based payments" includes the costs incurred by FinecoBank for share-based payments involving financial instruments issued by FinecoBank and financial instruments issued by UniCredit S.p.A..
Other administrative expenses and recovery of expenses came in at €39.4 million, up €5.5 million compared to the same period in the previous year, and include costs of €3 million resulting from PFA incentive plans.
| 1Q | Changes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other administrative expenses sand recovery of expenses | 2015 | 2014 | absolute | % |
| 1) INDIRECT TAXES AND DUTIES | (22,223) | (19,247) | (2,976) | 15.5% |
| 2) MISCELLANEOUS COSTS AND EXPENSES | ||||
| A) Advertising expenses - Marketing and communication | (5,525) | (5,022) | (503) | 10.0% |
| Mass media communications | (4,445) | (4,167) | (278) | 6.7% |
| Marketing and promotions | (1,080) | (854) | (226) | 26.5% |
| Conventions and internal communications | - | (1) | 1 | -100.0% |
| B) Expenses related to credit risk | (317) | (294) | (23) | 7.8% |
| Loan recovery expenses | (200) | (186) | (14) | 7.5% |
| Commercial information and company searches | (117) | (108) | (9) | 8.3% |
| C) Expenses related to personnel | (8,336) | (4,333) | (4,003) | 92.4% |
| Personnel training | (47) | (170) | 123 | -72.4% |
| Car rental and other payroll costs | (10) | (10) | - | 0.0% |
| PFA expenses | (8,134) | (4,014) | (4,120) | 102.6% |
| Travel expenses | (127) | (123) | (4) | 3.3% |
| Premises rentals for personnel | (18) | (16) | (2) | 12.5% |
| D) ICT expenses | (7,418) | (7,411) | (7) | 0.1% |
| Lease of ICT equipment and software | (910) | (1,082) | 172 | -15.9% |
| Software expenses: lease and maintenance | (1,600) | (1,766) | 166 | -9.4% |
| ICT communication systems | (973) | (978) | 5 | -0.5% |
| ICT service: external personnel | (1,711) | (1,691) | (20) | 1.2% |
| Financial information providers | (2,224) | (1,894) | (330) | 17.4% |
| E) Consultancies and professional services | (832) | (1,347) | 515 | -38.2% |
| Consultancy on ordinary activities | (157) | (170) | 13 | -7.6% |
| Consultancy for strategy, business development and | ||||
| organizational optimization | (150) | (116) | (34) | 29.3% |
| Legal expenses | - | (438) | 438 | -100.0% |
| Legal disputes | (525) | (623) | 98 | -15.7% |
| F) Real estate expenses | (5,092) | (5,269) | 177 | -3.4% |
| Real estate service area | (173) | (171) | (2) | 1.2% |
| Repair and maintenance of furniture, machinery, and equipment | (69) | (46) | (23) | 50.0% |
| Maintenance of premises | (277) | (251) | (26) | 10.4% |
| Premises rentals | (3,930) | (4,277) | 347 | -8.1% |
| Cleaning of premises | (135) | (118) | (17) | 14.4% |
| Utilities | (508) | (406) | (102) | 25.1% |
| G) Other functioning costs | (9,860) | (9,039) | (821) | 9.1% |
| Security and surveillance services | (84) | (88) | 4 | -4.5% |
| Postage and transport of documents | (600) | (627) | 27 | -4.3% |
| Administrative and logistical services | (3,916) | (3,625) | (291) | 8.0% |
| Insurance | (911) | (900) | (11) | 1.2% |
| Printing and stationery | (143) | (174) | 31 | -17.8% |
| Association dues and fees | (4,175) | (3,487) | (688) | 19.7% |
| Other administrative expenses | (31) | (138) | 107 | -77.5% |
| Adjustments of leasehold improvements | (798) | (773) | (25) | 3.2% |
| I) Recovery of costs | 21,012 | 18,807 | 2,205 | 11.7% |
| Recovery of ancillary expenses | 88 | 93 | (5) | -5.4% |
| Recovery of taxes | 20,924 | 18,714 | 2,210 | 11.8% |
| Total | (39,389) | (33,928) | (5,461) | 16.1% |
(Amounts in € thousand)
Indirect taxes and duties net of Recovery of taxes increased by €0.8 million, mainly attributable to the amount of "Tobin Tax" paid by the Bank.
Advertising expenses – marketing and communication increased by €0.5 million, due to greater investments in advertising in the period ended March 31, 2015 compared to 2014.
Administrative expenses net of Indirect taxes and duties, Recovery of taxes and Advertising expenses - marketing and communication include the €3 million costs for PFA incentive plans and higher expenses for PFAs of €1 million, as a result of the stepping up of the hiring activity already started in previous financial years. The increased number of advisors also resulted in higher costs for trade association dues and fees of €0.7 million, mainly owing to the increase in charges for the ENASARCO association and the FIRR termination compensation fund.
Impairment losses on intangible assets relate mainly to the amortisation of the costs incurred for computer software with a long-term useful life and did not show any significant change with respect to the previous year.
Impairment losses on tangible assets refer to the depreciation applied to electronic machines, plant and machinery, furniture and fittings and did not show any major changes compared to the previous financial year.
| 1Q | Changes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2014 | absolute | % | |
| Operating profit (loss) | 76,883 | 61,486 | 15,397 | 25.0% |
| Net impairment losses on | ||||
| loans and provisions for guarantees and commitments | (1,583) | (465) | (1,118) | 240.4% |
| Net operating profit (loss) | 75,300 | 61,021 | 14,279 | 23.4% |
| Provisions for risks and charges | (3,115) | (3,373) | 258 | -7.6% |
| Profit (loss) before tax from continuing operations | 72,185 | 57,648 | 14,537 | 25.2% |
(Amounts in € thousand)
The increase of Net impairment losses on loans and provisions for guarantees and commitments in Q1 2015 compared to Q1 2014, equal to €1.1 million, is due by €0.8 to adjustments on exposures to some customers who had opened leveraged positions on the Forex market, incurring in a loss greater than the guaranteed margin as a result of the extraordinary fall of the Euro versus the Swiss Franc recorded on January 15, 2015.
Provisions for risks and charges do not show significant variances compared to the same period in the previous financial year.
Profit (loss) before tax from continuing operations amounted to a profit of €72.2 million, increasing by 25.2% on the first quarter of 2014, due to the positive contribution from Net fee and commission income, owing to the increase in commission income deriving from assets under management and securities trading and order collection activity for financial instruments and Income from trading, hedges and fair value, owing to greater profits earned on the negotiation of securities and CFDs and exchange rate differences on foreign currency assets and liabilities.
Net fees and commissions and Income from trading ,hedges and fair value largely offset the increase in Personnel costs, due an increase in the number of employees, and that of costs resulting from share-based agreements involving own equity instruments, as well as the increase in Other administrative expenses sand recovery of expenses, mainly linked to the cost of the new PFA incentive plans and higher PFA expenses as a result of increased hiring that had already started in previous financial years.
| 1Q | Changes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detail of taxes for the financial year | 2015 | 2014 | absolute | % |
| Charge for current IRES tax | (17,860) | (14,882) | (2,978) | 20.0% |
| Charge for current IRAP tax | (4,481) | (4,185) | (296) | 7.1% |
| Changes in current taxes from previous years | - | (500) | 500 | -100.0% |
| Total current tax | (22,341) | (19,567) | (2,774) | 14.2% |
| Changes in prepaid taxes | (1,617) | (711) | (906) | n.c. |
| Changes in deferred taxes | (334) | (333) | (1) | 0.3% |
| Total deferred taxes | (1,951) | (1,044) | (907) | 86.9% |
| Redemption income depreciation and amortization | (111) | (111) | - | - |
| Income tax for the period | (24,403) | (20,722) | (3,681) | 17.8% |
(Amounts in € thousand)
Current income taxes were calculated according to the legal provisions introduced by Legislative Decree no. 38 of February 28, 2005, issued following the incorporation of IAS/IFRS into Italian legislation and of Decree no. 48 of April 1, 2009, which established provisions for the implementation and coordination of tax requirements for IAS Adopter parties.
Current taxes were determined applying an IRES income tax rate of 27.5% and an IRAP corporate tax rate of 5.57%.
Law no. 2/2009 introduced the option, through the payment of a substitute tax, to recalculate the tax deductible amounts of goodwill. On the instructions of the Parent Company, in 2008 FinecoBank realigned the goodwill recognized following the merger of UniCredit Xelion Sim into UniCredit Xelion Banca S.p.A..
The redeemed goodwill may be amortized off the books for an amount not exceeding one ninth for 2010 and one tenth from 2011 onwards.
In 2008, the tax benefit expected from the future deductibility of off-the-book amortization, corresponding to €4 million, was recognized in the accounts. A tenth of this amount will be recognized through profit or loss for each year of the tax deduction of tax-related amortization of goodwill.
For the three-year period 2013-2015, FinecoBank, in its capacity as consolidated company, is subject to "national tax consolidation", as established by Legislative Decree no. 344 of December 12, 2003, which is carried out by the Parent Company, UniCredit.
The net profit for the period amounted to €47.8 million, an increase of 29.4% over the previous year, thanks to an increase in Net fees and commissions and Income from trading, hedges and fair value, which largely offset the increase of Personnel expenses and Other administrative expenses mainly due to incentive plan-related costs.
In order to always ensure compliance with applicable legal and regulatory provisions about corporate disclosure on transactions with related parties, during the Board of Directors' Meeting of May 15, 2014 and with the prior positive opinion of the Audit and Related Parties Committee and the Board of Statutory Auditors, FinecoBank approved the adoption of procedures aimed at regulating transactions with related parties and associated persons ("Procedures for managing transactions with subjects in conflict of interest").
The aforementioned procedures include the provisions to be complied with when managing:
Given that the Bank belongs to the UniCredit Group, the aforementioned Procedures are also base on the "UniCredit Global Policy for managing transactions with subjects in conflict of interest" and the relevant "Global Operational Instructions" issued by UniCredit S.p.A. to subsidiaries within the framework of its management and co-ordination activity.
Considering the above, during 2015:
In the first quarter of 2015, moreover, no transactions that could significantly affect the Bank's asset situation and results way were initiated.
You are reminded that for the three-year period 2013-2015, FinecoBank opted for the "national tax consolidation" – introduced by Italian Legislative Decree no. 344 of December 12, 2003 – with the Consolidating Company UniCredit. In accordance with the National Tax Consolidation agreement, participation in the consolidation cannot result in tax advantages for the participating Consolidated Company with respect to the situation that would have arisen if the company had not participated. The consolidation results in the following tax advantages: (i) consolidation adjustment relating to deductible interest expense, considering that the amount of interest expense accrued by entities participating in the national consolidation is fully deductible on the basis of the relationship between the total interest expense (intercompany and outside the group) recognised in the financial statements by the individual subsidiary and the overall interest expense recognised in the financial statements by all the subsidiaries pursuant to Article 96.5 bis of the Income Tax Code, (ii) tax credits, and withholdings as advances and detractions, are recognised by the Controlling Company and the Controlled Company as a reduction in the IRES income tax amount due when then the latter has a tax loss, and (iii) any tax losses are paid by the Control Company at the IRES income tax rate applicable for the tax period in which the tax losses are realised.
Lastly, with regard to transactions of significant financial and economic relevance, during 2012, FinecoBank S.p.A. issued 5 bank guarantees in favour of the Italian Revenue Agency upon request by UniCredit, with indefinite duration (specifically of a duration until payment of the underlying sums), for a total amount of €256,065 thousand, plus interest accrued and accruing until request for payment from the Italian Revenue Agency. The bank guarantees were issued to secure the obligations assumed by UniCredit in relation to five VAT refund suspension orders issued by the Italian Revenue Agency and entail the assumption by FinecoBank S.p.A. of an irrevocable payment commitment on demand, within 30 days and without any exceptions. In 2013, following the settlement of an assessment notice issued by the Regional Department of Liguria, for €4,505 thousand, replaced by another assessment notice issued by the same Department up to the amount settled, a guarantee already issued by FinecoBank S.p.A. was replaced, with amounts unchanged; this transaction did not change the commitments undertaken according to the forms, procedures and risks already assessed during 2012, which did not change in 2014.
The Bank is subject to management and coordination of UniCredit S.p.A..
The following table provides a summary of outstanding assets, liabilities, guarantees and commitments as at March 31, 2015 in relation to Group companies.
| Assets | Liabilities | Guarantees and | |
|---|---|---|---|
| commitments | |||
| Transactions with Parent Company UniCredit S.p.A. | 14,055,007 | 1,730,931 | 256,070 |
| Transactions with companies controlled by UniCredit S.p.A. | 43,617 | 67,150 | - |
(Amounts in € thousand)
For the three-year period 2013-2015, FinecoBank, in its capacity as consolidated company, was subject to "national tax consolidation", as established by Legislative Decree no. 344 of 12 December 2003, which was carried out by the Parent Company, UniCredit S.p.A..
No significant events were recorded after period end.
FinecoBank does not hold treasury shares or shares of the Parent Company, even through other companies or third parties.
FinecoBank intends to pursue a strategy aimed at consolidating and further strengthening its competitive positioning on the Italian market of integrated banking, brokerage and investing services, by expanding its PFA network, widening - through innovation - its product and service offering and enhancing advisory activity, in order to meet the increasingly sophisticated needs of a wider customer base. All these activities will be supported by advertising investments aimed at consolidating customers' perception of the fundamental characteristics of FinecoBank's proposal: simplicity, transparency and innovation.
The above steps reflect a strategy that combines the main trends characterizing the competitive environment in which we operate: the growing demand for financial advisory services and the increasing digitization of society – structural trends that favour the growth of the Fineco's business.
The Board of Directors
Milan, May 11, 2015
FinecoBank S.p.A. FinecoBank S.p.A. Managing Director and General Manager Chairman Alessandro Foti Enrico Cotta Ramusino
| Amounts as at | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ASSET ITEMS | 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 | |
| 10. | Cash and cash equivalents | 9,689 | 5,166 |
| 20. | Financial Assets held for trading | 5,609,424 | 3,053,707 |
| 40. | Available-for-sale financial assets | 2,264,284,046 | 1,695,554,562 |
| 60. | Loans and receivables with banks | 14,070,076,815 | 13,892,196,843 |
| 70. | Loans and receivables with customers | 796,878,893 | 695,594,232 |
| 80. | Hedging derivatives | 22,848,912 | 19,246,853 |
| 90. | Adjustments to the value of | ||
| hedged financial assets (+/-) | 1,658,915 | 5,026,907 | |
| 110. | Property, plant and equipment | 11,161,161 | 10,892,420 |
| 120. | Intangible assets | 97,591,357 | 97,743,596 |
| of which | |||
| - goodwill |
89,601,768 | 89,601,768 | |
| 130. | Tax assets | 13,413,848 | 18,550,495 |
| a) current | 2,067,143 | 2,178,546 | |
| b) deferred | 11,346,705 | 16,371,949 | |
| Pursuant to Law 214/2011 | 3,575,620 | 3,838,902 | |
| 150. | Other assets | 215,368,393 | 326,756,231 |
| Total assets | 17,498,901,453 | 16,764,621,012 |
| Amounts as at | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY ITEMS | 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 | ||
| 10. | Deposits from banks | 1,466,356,524 | 1,428,568,269 | |
| 20. | Deposits from customers | 14,603,456,089 | 13,914,711,969 | |
| 30. | Debt securities in issue | 427,883,632 | 424,709,661 | |
| 40. | Financial liabilities held for trading | 4,557,258 | 3,134,683 | |
| 60. | Hedging derivatives | 37,340,084 | 36,992,811 | |
| 70. | Adjustments to the value of | |||
| hedged financial liabilities (+/-) | 9,592,500 | 9,227,504 | ||
| 80. | Tax liabilities | 55,687,686 | 33,358,091 | |
| a) current | 55,687,686 | 33,358,091 | ||
| 100. | Other liabilities | 163,995,510 | 238,807,723 | |
| 110. | Provision for employee severance pay | 5,058,109 | 4,825,798 | |
| 120. | Provisions for risks and charges: | 114,679,695 | 118,030,959 | |
| b) other provisions | 114,679,695 | 118,030,959 | ||
| 130. | Revaluation reserves | 8,484,950 | 2,261,820 | |
| 160. | Reserves | 351,943,440 | 198,080,512 | |
| 170. | Share premium reserve | 1,934,113 | 1,934,113 | |
| 180. | Share capital | 200,150,192 | 200,070,431 | |
| 200. | Net Profit (Loss) for the year | 47,781,671 | 149,906,668 | |
| Total liabilities and Shareholders' equity | 17,498,901,453 | 16,764,621,012 |
| 1Q | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| INCOME STATEMENT | 2015 | 2014 | ||
| 10. | Interest income and similar revenues | 63,328,366 | 74,840,186 | |
| 20. | Interest expenses and similar charges | (5,741,877) | (16,507,402) | |
| 30. | Net interest income | 57,586,489 | 58,332,784 | |
| 40. | Fee and commission revenues | 123,037,532 | 98,375,182 | |
| 50. | Fee and commission expense | (61,356,946) | (50,656,960) | |
| 60. | Net fee and commission income | 61,680,586 | 47,718,222 | |
| 70. | Dividend income and similar revenue | 4 | 81 | |
| 80. | Gains (losses) on financial assets and liabilities held for trading | 17,059,033 | 7,067,318 | |
| 90. | Fair value adjustments in hedge accounting | - | - | |
| 100. | Gains (losses) on disposal or repurchase of | - | 9,668 | |
| a) loans and receivables | - | 9,668 | ||
| 110. | Gains (losses) on financial assets and liabilities designated | |||
| at fair value through profit or loss | - | 11,424 | ||
| 120. | Operating income | 136,326,112 | 113,139,497 | |
| 130. | Impairment losses/writebacks on: | (1,582,707) | (464,638) | |
| a) loans and receivables | (1,582,707) | (464,638) | ||
| 140. | Net profit from financial activities | 134,743,405 | 112,674,859 | |
| 150. | Administrative expenses | (77,986,972) | (67,732,312) | |
| a) payroll costs | (18,384,724) | (15,769,952) | ||
| b) other administrative expenses | (59,602,248) | (51,962,360) | ||
| 160. | Net provisions for risks and charges | (3,115,388) | (3,373,066) | |
| 170. | Impairment/write-backs on property, plant and equipment | (810,877) | (749,047) | |
| 180. | Impairment/write-backs on intangible assets | (1,216,124) | (1,155,768) | |
| 190. | Other net operating income | 20,570,443 | 17,983,070 | |
| 200. | Operating costs | (62,558,918) | (55,027,123) | |
| 240. | Gains (losses) on disposal of investments | - | 30 | |
| 250. | Total profit (loss) before tax from continuing operations | 72,184,487 | 57,647,766 | |
| 260. | Tax expense (income) related to profit or loss from continuing operations | (24,402,816) | (20,722,108) | |
| 270. | Total profit (loss) after tax from continuing operations | 47,781,671 | 36,925,658 | |
| 290. | Net Profit (Loss) for the period | 47,781,671 | 36,925,658 |
| Amounts as at | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ASSETS | 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 | |
| Cash and cash equivalents = item 10 | 10 | 5 | |
| Financial assets held for trading = item 20 | 5,609 | 3,054 | |
| Payables to banks = item 60 | 14,070,077 | 13,892,197 | |
| Loans and receivables with customers = item 70 | 796,879 | 695,594 | |
| Financial investments flow | 2,264,284 | 1,695,555 | |
| 40. Available-for-sale financial assets | 2,264,284 | 1,695,555 | |
| Hedging instruments | 24,508 | 24,274 | |
| 80. Hedging derivatives | 22,849 | 19,247 | |
| 90. Changes in fair value of portfolio hedged financial assets | 1,659 | 5,027 | |
| Property, plant and equipment = item 110 | 11,161 | 10,892 | |
| Goodwill = item 120. Intangible assets of which: goodwill | 89,602 | 89,602 | |
| Other intangible assets = item 120 net of goodwill | 7,989 | 8,142 | |
| Tax assets = item 130 | 13,414 | 18,550 | |
| Other assets = item 150 | 215,368 | 326,756 | |
| Total assets | 17,498,901 | 16,764,621 | |
| (Amounts in € thousand) | |||
| Amounts as at | |||
| LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY | 03.31.2015 | 12.31.2014 | |
| Deposits from banks = item 10 | 1,466,357 | 1,428,568 | |
| Deposits from customers | 14,603,456 | 13,914,712 |
| Total liabilities and Shareholders' equity | 17,498,901 | 16,764,621 |
|---|---|---|
| - net profit = item 200 | 47,782 | 149,907 |
| for defined benefit plans | (3,067) | (3,067) |
| 130. Revaluation reserves for actuarial net gains (losses) | ||
| 130. Revaluation reserves of which: Available-for-sale financial assets | 11,552 | 5,329 |
| - revaluation reserves | 8,485 | 2,262 |
| 180. Share capital | 200,150 | 200,070 |
| 170. Share premium reserve | 1,934 | 1,934 |
| 160. Reserves | 351,943 | 198,081 |
| - capital and reserves | 554,027 | 400,085 |
| Shareholders' Equity | 610,294 | 552,254 |
| 110. Provision for employee severance pay | 5,058 | 4,826 |
| 100. Other liabilities | 163,994 | 238,807 |
| Other liabilities | 169,052 | 243,633 |
| Tax liabilities = item 80 | 55,688 | 33,358 |
| Provisions for risks and charges = item 120 | 114,680 | 118,031 |
| 70. Changes in fair value of portfolio hedged financial liabilities | 9,593 | 9,227 |
| 60. Hedging derivatives | 37,340 | 36,993 |
| Hedging instruments | 46,933 | 46,220 |
| Financial liabilities held for trading = item 40 | 4,557 | 3,135 |
| 30. Debt securities in issue | 427,884 | 424,710 |
| Debt securities in issue | 427,884 | 424,710 |
| 20. Deposits from customers | 14,603,456 | 13,914,712 |
| 1Q | ||
|---|---|---|
| INCOME STATEMENT | 2015 | 2014 |
| Net interest | 57,586 | 58,333 |
| 30. Net interest income | 57,586 | 58,333 |
| Net fee and commission income = item 60 60. Net fee and commission income |
61,681 61,681 |
47,718 47,718 |
| Net trading, hedging and fair value income 80. Gains (losses) on financial assets and liabilities held for trading 90. Fair value adjustments in hedge accounting 110. Gains (losses) on financial assets and liabilities designated at fair value through profit and loss |
17,059 17,059 - - |
7,079 7,067 - 12 |
| Net other expenses/income 190. Other net operating income les s : other operating inc ome - of whic h: rec overy of expens es less: adjustments of leasehold improvements 100. Gains (losses) on disposal or repurchase of: a) loans and receivables |
358 20,571 (21,012) 799 - |
(41) 17,984 (18,807) 773 9 |
| OPERATING INCOME | 136,684 | 113,089 |
| Payroll costs 150. Administrative expenses - a) payroll costs |
(18,385) (18,385) |
(15,770) (15,770) |
| Other administrative expenses 150. Administrative expenses- b) other administrative expenses + adjustments of leasehold improvements |
(60,401) (59,602) (799) |
(52,735) (51,962) (773) |
| Recovery of expenses 190. Other operating expenses/income - of which:recovery of expenses |
21,012 21,012 |
18,807 18,807 |
| Amortization, depreciation and impairment losses on intangible and tangible assets 170. Impairment/write-backs on property, plant and equipment 180. Impairment/write-backs on intangible assets |
(2,027) (811) (1,216) |
(1,905) (749) (1,156) |
| Operating costs | (59,801) | (51,603) |
| OPERATING PROFIT (LOSS) | 76,883 | 61,486 |
| Net impairment losses on loans and provisions for guaranteed and commitments + Gains (losses) on disposal or repurchase of: a) impaired loans (from item 100 a)) 130. Impairment losses/writebacks on:a) loans and receivables 130. Impairment losses/writebacks on:d) other financial assets less: net value adjustments for the impairment of other financial assets - contribution to the Interbank Fund for the Protection of Deposits |
(1,583) - (1,583) - - |
(465) - (465) - - |
| NET OPERATING PROFIT (LOSS) | 75,300 | 61,021 |
| Provisions for risks and charges 160. Net provisions for risks and charges + net value adjustments for the impairment of other financial assets - contribution to the Interbank Fund for the Protection of Deposits |
(3,115) (3,115) - |
(3,373) (3,373) - |
| Net income from investment 240. Gains (losses) on disposal of investments |
- - |
- - |
| PROFIT (LOSS) BEFORE TAX FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS |
72,185 | 57,648 |
| Income tax for the period 260. Tax expense (income) related to profit or loss from continuing operations |
(24,403) (24,403) |
(20,722) (20,722) |
| PROFIT (LOSS) AFTER TAX FROM CONTINUING OPERATIONS |
47,782 | 36,926 |
| PROFIT (LOSS) FOR THE PERIOD | 47,782 | 36,926 |
The undersigned Lorena Pelliciari, as Nominated Official in charge of drawing up Company Accounts of FinecoBank S.p.A.,
in compliance with the provisions of the second paragraph of Article 154-bis of the "Consolidated Finance Act", that the accounting information contained in this Interim Financial Report as at March 31, 2015 corresponds to results in the Company's accounts, books and records.
Milan, May 11, 2015
The Nominated Official in charge of drawing up Company Accounts Lorena Pelliciari
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