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Unicaja Banco S.A.

Investor Presentation Dec 10, 2021

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December 10th 2021

Agenda

2024 Strategic Plan

Key initiatives

Main financial targets

Closing remarks

Unicaja strong foundation

(1) It includes gross lending and on-balance and off-balance customer resources (2) Caja Cantabria, Caja Extremadura, Cajastur and CCM merger in 2010 cost base (€ 799m) vs 2020 Liberbank cost base (€ 376m) and Unicaja banco merger with CEISS initial cost base of € 681m in 2015 vs 1H21 annualized cost base (€ 562m). Branch network reduction during that time horizon (3) Liberbank and Unicaja Banco simple average CET1 increase during 2018- 1H21. Excluding the € 143m restructuring costs booked in 2Q21 by Liberbank

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Strategic Plan 2024 pillars

A larger, efficient, more profitable, sustainable and digital bank with a low risk profile and increasing remuneration to shareholders

1 Accelerate commercial
activity via deeper
specialization

Residential mortgages
as a vector for customer acquisition with an attractive RAROC

Room to increase consumer lending with existing customers

Fee-income engines: mutual funds, insurance
and payments
Capital generation
(1)

Generating more sustainable profitability with higher contribution from retail banking and fee income
€1.5bn
2 Improve efficiency
through operational
excellence

Commitment to the continuous optimization of expenses, levering on factories and automation
to
improve productivity

Redesign of the relationship model with our customers promoting
digital channels and scaling remote
management
2022-2024E
3 Advanced risk
management with a
conservative profile

Plan focuses on low risk portfolios, mortgages and consumer with existing customers

Best-in-class NPA coverage ratio of 67%, will enable the acceleration of disposal and a low cost of risk

Focus on pre-approved models
ROTE
(adj. excess capital) (2)
>8%
2024E
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Digital banking
5
Sustainability

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Macro scenario in Spain

Conservative interest rates environment assumed in the financial targets for the plan

Source: Bank of Spain and internal research. Forward curve as of November 30th (Bloomberg).

Main financial targets

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Agenda

Strategic Plan 2024

Key initiatives

Main financial targets

Closing remarks

Residential mortgages

Key segment where we find long term loyal customer relationship

Attractive profitability and low risk

Expertise &
opportunity

Agile admission process
allows physical and remote sales
workforce to be fully dedicated to commercial tasks

Average time to cash <25 days

Mortgage sector expected to perform well (+6.5% 2021-24)
Multi
channel

Remote channels account for 66% of total 2021 new lending in
the best internal practice

Proven capacity to grow in competitive regions
like Madrid or
Barcelona
Profitability
Attractive
RAROC >20%
(advanced models). All new lending
(2)
on IRB from early 2022

Cross-selling opportunities. Best internal practice is to sell three
additional products
Low risk
profile

62% Loan to value (90%
of stock <80% LtV)

96% first residence

Ambition 2021–24

~6% NII CAGR | (+€65m 24 vs 21)

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Consumer lending

Focus on improving existing customers conversion through more automatized processes for pre-approved loans

Assets under management

Well identified levers to increase profitability and penetration over total customer resources

Volumes
Target
to reach mutual funds weight of 17%,
slightly below current average for the sector
(1)

Internal best practice grew at ~20% annually
over the last 4 years

Ambition to distribute
>75% ESG funds (article
8) by 2024
Mutual
funds mix

Internal best practice avg. fee margin is
~90bps, ~30bps more profitable
than the
other network explained by
the asset mix

Internal best practice has improved
profitability
by ~20bps in two years
Other
AuMs
Current plan is not taking into consideration
additional levers
to improve profitability

Customer
acquisition: Assumptions to mainly
work with existing customer base

Other AuMs: the Plan assumes conservative
assumptions for pension plans and insurance
Ambition 2021–24 ~20% Fees CAGR (+€80m 24 vs 21)

Insurance business

Bolstering a strong commercial systematic to optimize insurance products sale

as restructuring negotiations progress

Ambition 2021–24

~11% Fees CAGR | (+€30m 24 vs 21)

Payments - Issuing

Enhancement of our issuing value proposition to promote usage among our customers

Market share close the existing gap in terms of turnover while growing with the market in number of cards

Advanced risk management (pre approved, limits, etc.) to maximise penetration and usage in our customer base

End-to-end digital experience improving campaigns success rate

Full product mix (including Buy Now Pay Later)

Ambition 2021–24(3)

~8% Fees CAGR | (+€20m 24 vs 21)

(1) Bank of Spain, (2) Cards data is as of Sep21 and turnover is 9M21 annualized ,(3) It does not include Revenues through NII, included in consumer loans

Agenda

Strategic Plan

Key initiatives

Main financial targets

Closing remarks

Loan book and customer resources

Allocating excess liquidity to growing loan book, mainly mortgages, and mutual funds

Loan book

Billion Euros Sep-21 2024E
Retail lending 34 41
Residential mortgage 31 39
Consumer loans 2 3
Public sector 6 6
Business lending 13 15
Other 1 1
Total lending 54 64

Customer resources

Billion Euros Sep-21 2024E
Customer funds on balance-sheet 72 75
Retail 53 59
Corporates 11 10
Public sector 8 6
Customer funds off balance-sheet 21 28
Mutual Funds 12 18
Pension Plans 4 4
Savings insurance 5 4
Other 1 1
Total Customer funds 93 103
Sep-21 2024E
Loan to deposit (%) 75% 85%

Net Interest Income

Conservative interest rate scenario assumptions with an increasing retail contribution that offsets lower wholesale income

Net interest income (€m)

Tailwinds

A. Households lending volumes. Repricing of the back book to current low Euribor is over

B. Charging custodian fees(1) to corporates and public sector. As of September 21 there are €2.9bn at 20bp

E. High coupon wholesale funding maturities more than offset €2.3bn of MREL issuances

Headwinds

  • D. Assuming TLTRO program is not renewed (€10.5bn @ 1.0% in 2021)
  • C. Lower contribution from the ALCO portfolio

Higher quality and more sustainable NII (2)

Fee income

To increase by ~8% CAGR 2021-2024E led by cross selling, customer acquisition and off balance sheet growth

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Total expenses

Total gross savings of €210m after reaching an agreement with the trade unions

Banking margin evolution

By 2024 banking margin supported by retail banking business, higher fees and lower operating expenses

Cost of risk and other provisions

To go back to pre-pandemic levels by 2023 supported by current coverage levels and lending mix in the coming years

Other provisions

  • Other provisions include conservative assumptions on litigation risk, mainly mortgage floors and mortgages expenses claims
  • The legal provisions included in the plan would not leave any open risk at the end of the projection period

2022-24E Avg. Other Provisions

~15-20m/quarter

downward trend during the Plan

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Asset quality targets

Ambition to keep reducing non-performing assets at increased speed

Conservative risk management

  • 1 Early recognition
    • ~40% of the NPLs are subjective

2 Conservative loan book

~70% of loan book is residential mortgages and public sector

Loan growth in the plan comes from residential mortgages and preapproved consumer loans

3 Best in class coverage levels to remain strong

67% NPA coverage ratio (Sep. 21)

9% Stage 2 loans coverage ratio (Sep. 21), ~2X sector average(1)

Capital

CET1 fully-loaded evolution 2021-24E (bps)

Tailwinds:

  • Lower RWAs from IRB migration (not included)
  • Accumulated net profit
  • Lower impact from thresholds. Combined and individual thresholds' deductions reduce as CET1 increase
  • Recovery of DTAs:
    • Net profit generation allows to absorb DTAs
    • DTAs temporary differences which arise from restructuring costs gradually fade away as former employees receive the compensation and adjustments materialize

Headwinds:

  • RWAs. Loan growth from low capital consumption portfolios, mainly mortgages
  • Dividends and AT1 coupons

Neutral:

  • Regulation
  • TRIM

Excess capital and remuneration

CET 1 FL target 12.5% >14% CET 1 FL Ratio 2024E CET 1 FL 2024 excess (1) > €600m Dividend payout 50% Excess capital will be allocated to further improve profitability and additional shareholder remuneration Maximize total shareholder return Total Capital 2024E Capital position well above requirements >17% MDA distance 2024E > 500pb ~ 1.5bn (2) Capital generation ~6% TBV/sh. + dividends (3) 2021-24 CAGR Capital management Main capital metrics

MREL and issuance plan

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SP 5NC4

€ 600m at 1.0%

Ambition for next senior issuance to be ESG

AT1 PNC5.5

€ 500m at 4.875%

ROTE ambition

Improved profitability supported by fee income, lower operating expenses and normalization of cost of risk

Bps

Agenda

Strategic Plan

Key initiatives

Main financial targets

Closing remarks

Focus shifts to sustainable profit, commercial activity and capital return

Financial targets include conservative assumptions in different segments that leave potential upside and room to manoeuver

(1) Excluding trading income (2) Excess capital over the 12.5% CET1 target (deducting AT1 coupons) ROTE without adjusted excess capital >7.5% (3) It includes shareholder remuneration and CET1-FL increase during 2022-24 (4) Shareholder remuneration assumes a payout of 50% fully in cash

Levers not included in the financial targets

Financial targets include conservative assumptions in different segments that leave potential upside and room to maneuver

1 Interest rate environment & TLTRO 2 Regulatory expenses

No rate increase assumed

50bps parallel increase of the interest rates curve means 10% additional net interest income(1) in the second year

No TLTRO extension assumed which implies lower ~€100m of NII 2024 vs 2021

3 Insurance restructuring 4 New business / clients

No upside included

No upside included in 2022-24 ambition from the restructuring of the life insurance business

No growth in life insurance JVs equity accounted income

Single resolution fund

Single resolution fund contribution is expected to drop very materially after 2023 with an impact of ~€31m per year We keep including that cost in our Plan

No upside included

No upside included from business segments with a very low current contribution (FX, Comex, brokerage, BNPL…)

Strategic Plan 2024 implementation and execution

Calendar and work plan 2022 - 2024

0
2
3Q21
Q
4
4Q21 1Q22 2Q2022-2024

Legal integration
(regulatory merger
approval and
closing)

End of legal
negotiation
process with
unions

Strategic Plan 2024
approval

Launch of Strategic
Plan 2024 (execution)
Quick-wins: short-term
initiatives (during 2022) to
improve revenues, reduce
costs or develop
capabilities
Strategic projects:
transformational or cross
area projects with longer
duration

IT migration (2Q22)

Strategic Plan 2024 monitoring on a
regular basis:

Strategic Plan led by the Steering Committee
and supervised by the Board of Directors

All initiatives sponsored by members of the
Steering Committee

Annex

1 - Accelerate commercial activity through deeper specialization

New organizational structure to support commercial dynamics with focus on customers and profitability

2 - Improve efficiency through operational excellence

Levering cost savings initiatives, shared technology and investments to offload operations and increase value added service employees

Main focus

Redesign of processes with a customer-centric vision to reduce timing and expenses

Organisational model

Streamline back office processes frees up employees time to focus on sales and value added services

Automation & digitalisation

Offload administrative and operational workload from network and central services

Advanced use of data

Wider use of machine learning to improve efficiency and conversion rates

3 - Advanced risk management with a conservative profile

Developing agile processes and advance data analytic tools while maintaining a conservative approach

Streamline credit management

• Enhancement of risk management tools (models, decision engine, monitoring framework) to improve speed and reliability

Scale current digital and remote capacity

• To support remote management capabilities seeking increased time to cash and improved debt recovery

Evolution and optimization of pre approved models

• Target to update and optimize existing pre-approved models for individuals and develop new models for strategic segments

Maintaining a low risk profile

• Lending growth for strategic plan comes from residential mortgages and pre-approved consumer lending

4 - Digital banking

Levering on existing capacity and selective investments to provide a comprehensive digital offering

Main digital targets

5 - Sustainability in the centre of our business

Clear environmental and social vocation in the development of our activity since our inception

Main achievements

  • New ESG business unit
  • Members of UN Global compact and PRB Collective Commitment to Climate Action
  • Contribution of ~500 homes to the Social Housing Fund
  • Meeting corporate governance standards (1)

ESG product offering

  • Green Mortgage (EPC Label A Incentive)
  • Agro ECO Sustainable credit line
  • Self-consumption renewal energy personal loans
  • Green ECO Motor Loan & Mobility master plan
  • Sustainable investment & pension funds
  • Electric cars insurance

Commitments

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  • Renewed product and services offering, with a focus on financial transparency
  • Commitment to reducing Entity's carbon footprint
  • Sustainability-conscious culture and climate risk awareness, identification and management
  • Engagement in CSR and Financial Education

Ambition 2024 >75% ESG funds (article 8)

Ambition for next senior issuance to be ESG

Important legal information

This presentation (the Presentation) has been prepared by Unicaja Banco, S.A. (the Company or Unicaja Banco) for informational use only.

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