DGAP-News: Increased customer activity boosts DAB Bank's

DGAP-News: DAB bank AG / Key word(s): Half Year Results/Quarter Results Increased customer activity boosts DAB Bank's net commission income in the second quarter 25.07.2013 / 07:30 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Increased customer activity boosts DAB Bank's net commission income in the second quarter Second-quarter profit before taxes comes to EUR4.79 million / Trades executed and customer count on the rise Munich, July 25, 2013. German and Austrian investors traded more securities in the second quarter. DAB Bank's customers were also more active, executing nearly 1.3 million trades in the months from April to June, reflecting an increase of about 30% over the second quarter of last year. The increased trading activity also boosted DAB Bank's net commission income, which rose to EUR21.94 million, reflecting an increase of about EUR4 million over the year-ago figure (Q2 2012: EUR17.76 million). 'We are more than satisfied with our operating performance in the second quarter. Thanks in large part to new initiatives like the 'DAB Best Price,' DAB Bank's trades executed and commission income are on the rise,' said Ernst Huber, Management Board Speaker of DAB Bank. 'We are also pleased with the number of new customers and newly opened bank accounts, not to mention the continuation of very strong net fund inflows.' On the other hand, the quarterly result was particularly burdened by the interest rate environment, which remained very challenging. Thus, net interest income declined from EUR12.49 in Q2 2012 to EUR8.22 million in Q2 2013. Furthermore, the profit from trading and investments, at EUR2.72 million, was significantly less than the outstandingly high figure reported in the second quarter of last year (Q2 2012: EUR3.98 million). In addition, the administrative expenses of EUR27.74 million were slightly higher than the administrative expenses of EUR27.09 million reported in the second quarter of 2012. However, the administrative expenses for the first six months of 2013 were less than the corresponding year-ago figure. Particularly as a result of the lower net interest income, the DAB Bank Group generated a profit before taxes of EUR4.79 million in the second quarter; while this figure was slightly higher than the first-quarter profit before taxes (Q1 2013: EUR4.72 million), it was significantly less than the corresponding figure for the second quarter of last year (Q2 2012: EUR7.49 million). Thus, the profit before taxes for the first half of 2013 came to EUR9.50 million, as compared to EUR16.00 million in the first half of last year. DAB Bank anticipates that the profit before taxes for the full year 2013 will be at least one third less than the 2012 profit before taxes, due in part to the challenging interest rate environment this year, causing a sharp drop in the net interest income, and due in part to the expectation that it will not be possible to match the unusually high profit from trading and investments reported in 2012. The number of customers served by DAB Bank exhibited a very positive development in the second quarter, rising by more than 6,000 from the first quarter to reach 609,003 as of June 30. Even more impressively, the number of bank accounts carried for customers rose by more than 11,500 to 179,280 in the months from April to June of this year. DAB Bank's redesigned checking account, which was repeatedly honored as one of the best banking products in Germany in the last few months, has been very especially popular with the bank's customers. As of June 30, 2013, customer assets held in custody amounted to EUR29.61 billion, reflecting an increase of nearly EUR4 billion over the year-ago figure, thanks in no small part to very strong net fund inflows. DAB bank Group: Key Indicators and Operating Results According to IFRS: <pre> Key indicators H1 2013 H1 2012 Customers No. 609,003 598,278 Securities accounts No. 615,837 617,566 Bank accounts No. 179,280 169,833 Trades executed No. 2,505,973 2,223,051 Trades executed per securities account, No. 8.14 7.18 annualized Customer assets EUR bn 29.61 25.65 thereof in investment funds EUR bn 14.05 12.20 Operating results H1 2013 H1 2012 Financial result* kEUR 21,615 32,675 Net commission income kEUR 42,780 38,836 Administrative expenses kEUR 54,233 55,539 Profit before taxes kEUR 9,501 15,996 Net profit after taxes kEUR 6,483 11,012 Cost-income ratio in % 85.1 77.6 Earnings per share EUR 0.07 0.13 </pre> <pre> Key indicators Q2/2013 Q1/2013 Q2/2012 Customers No. 609,003 602,661 598,278 Securities accounts No. 615,837 615,374 617,566 Bank accounts No. 179,280 167,669 169,833 Trades executed No. 1,294,239 1,211,734 997,622 Customer assets EUR bn 29.61 30.18 25.65 thereof in investment funds EUR bn 14.05 14.33 12.20 Operating results Q2/2013 Q1/2013 Q2/2012 Financial result* kEUR 10,946 10,669 16,469 Net commission income kEUR 21,937 20,843 17,759 Administrative expenses kEUR 27,742 26,491 27,089 Profit before taxes kEUR 4,786 4,715 7,490 Net profit after taxes kEUR 3,240 3,243 5,200 Cost-income ratio in % 85.3 84.9 78.3 Earnings per share EUR 0.03 0.04 0.06 </pre> * Financial result = Net interest income + Trading profit/loss + Profit/loss from investments. 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