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Ålandsbanken - Company Announcement

The Bank of Åland’s new operating segments in interim reports


Mariehamn, 2015-07-10 11:00 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 

Bank of Åland Plc
Stock exchange release
July 10, 2015, 12.00

The Bank of Åland's new operating segments in interim reports


Starting with the January-June 2015 Interim Report, which will be published on
July 24, 2015, the Bank of Åland Plc (Ålandsbanken Abp) is changing its
reporting of operating segments. This change is occurring against the backdrop
of changes in the organisation. 

The new segments being reported are:

  -- Private Banking, encompassing Private Banking operations in Åland, on the
     Finnish mainland and in Sweden.
  -- Premium Banking, encompassing operations in all customer segments excluding
     Private Banking in Åland, on the Finnish mainland and in Sweden.
  -- Asset Management, encompassing the Bank of Åland Group's new asset
     management organisation in Finland and Sweden including Ålandsbanken
     Fondbolag Ab. Asset Management is responsible for management and sales
     support of the Bank of Åland's own mutual funds, discretionary asset
     management mandates and advisory asset management mandates. Asset
     Management is a support organisation for Private Banking and Premium
     Banking, which have direct customer responsibility, but Asset Management
     itself has customer responsibility for certain large institutional
     customers, mutual fund platforms and insurance agents.
  -- IT, encompassing the subsidiary Crosskey Banking Solution Ab Ltd including
     S-Crosskey Ab, which develop and offer information technology (IT)
     solutions for banking services, card services, securities-related services
     and digital customer contacts.
  -- Corporate and Other, encompassing all central corporate units in the Group,
     including Treasury and the subsidiary Ab Compass Card Oy Ltd, which
     develops and offers debit and credit card services.

The table below presents figures related to the full year 2014 for the new
segment allocation. This segment reporting reflects the information that the
Group's Executive Team receives. 

Bank of Åland                        Jan 1-Dec 31, 2014            
 Group                                                             
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EUR M          Privat  Premiu         Asset     IT  Corporate and  Elimin  Total
                    e       m    Management                 Other  ations       
               Bankin  Bankin                                                   
                    g       g                                                   
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Net interest     23.5    23.6           0.1   -0.1            1.9     0.3   49.3
 income                                                                         
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Net              23.7    10.2          10.9   -0.1            1.4     0.0   46.2
 commission                                                                     
 income                                                                         
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Net income        0.4     0.7           0.1    0.0            5.7    -0.1    6.8
 from                                                                           
 financial                                                                      
 items                                                                          
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IT income         0.0     0.0           0.0   30.7            0.0   -13.3   17.3
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Other income      0.2     0.1           0.1    0.1            0.5     0.0    1.0
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Total income     47.8    34.7          11.2   30.5            9.5   -13.1  120.6
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Staff costs     -11.0    -7.2          -4.7  -14.0          -15.6     0.0  -52.5
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Other            -6.3    -6.4          -2.3  -10.1          -22.4    12.8  -34.7
 expenses                                                                       
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Depreciation/    -0.2    -0.8           0.0   -3.8           -5.5     2.1   -8.2
 amortisation                                                                   
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Internal        -15.9   -18.5          -1.9    0.0           36.3     0.0    0.0
 allocation                                                                     
 of expenses                                                                    
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Nonrecurring      0.0    -0.5          -0.2    0.0           -0.2    -0.1   -1.0
 items                                                                          
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Total           -33.4   -33.5          -9.1  -27.8           -7.5    14.8  -96.4
 expenses                                                                       
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Profit before    14.5     1.2           2.1    2.7            1.9     1.7   24.2
 impairment                                                                     
 losses                                                                         
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Impairment       -0.4    -1.2           0.0    0.0           -0.3     0.0   -1.8
 losses on                                                                      
 loans and                                                                      
 other                                                                          
 commitments                                                                    
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Net operating    14.1     0.1           2.1    2.7            1.7     1.7   22.4
 profit                                                                         
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Income taxes     -2.9     0.0          -0.4   -0.5           -0.9     0.0   -4.8
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Non-controlli     0.0     0.0          -1.3    0.0           -0.2     0.0   -1.5
ng interests                                                                    
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Profit for       11.2     0.1           0.4    2.2            0.6     1.7   16.1
 the period                                                                     
 attributable                                                                   
 to                                                                             
 shareholders                                                                   
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Business volume, Dec                                                            
 31                                                                             
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Lending to      1,475   1,840             0      0             44     -16  3,343
 the public                                                                     
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Deposits from   1,220   1,081             7      0             89      -6  2,391
 the public                                                                     
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Investment      4,733     738         3,262      0              6  -2,427  6,312
 volume1                                                                        
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Risk exposure     661     603            12     36            243       0  1,554
 amount                                                                         
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Allocated          82      83             1      9             19       0    194
 equity                                                                         
 capital                                                                        
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Financial                                                                       
 ratios etc.                                                                    
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Return on        15.0     0.1                 23.8           15.7            8.7
 equity after                                                                   
 taxes, %                                                                       
 (ROE)                                                                          
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Expense/incom    0.70    0.96          0.81   0.91           0.80           0.80
e ratio                                                                         
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Gross            0.12    1.45                                2.28           0.88
 non-performi                                                                   
ng loans >
 90 days, %                                                                     
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Loan loss        0.03    0.06                                0.52           0.06
 level, %                                                                       
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Lending/depos     121     170                                  49            140
its, %                                                                          
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Average           109     118            20    197            195            639
 full-time                                                                      
 equivalent                                                                     
 positions2                                                                     
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1 Investment volume encompasses actively managed assets (consisting of the      
 Group's own mutual funds, discretionary managed assets and advisory managed    
 assets) plus other securities volume without asset management agreements       
 including intermediated insurance assets.                                      
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2 Number of full-time equivalent positions defined as employment level excluding
 employees on parental and long-term sick leave.                                
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For further information:
Peter Wiklöf, Managing Director and Chief Executive, Bank of Åland Plc, tel
+358 40 512 7505