Societe Generale third-quarter follows beat expectations on Thursday after the company reported a 32 percent escalation in its net income from last year.
The bank’s net income stood at 1.2 billion euros in the third thirteen weeks of 2018, beating analysts expectation of 955 million euros for the region, according to data firm Refinitiv.
The French bank reported a net gains of 932 million euros in the third quarter of 2017.
Here are some of the key highlights of the modern development quarter:
- Net banking revenue stood at 6.5 billion euros versus 5.9 billion a year ago
- Go expenses rose to 4.3 billion euros from 4 billion a year ago
- Proletarian Equity Tier 1 ratio at 11.2 percent versus 11.4 percent at the end of 2017
“Our returns increased due to the confirmed growth in International Retail Banking & Financial Navies and the healthy momentum in Financing & Advisory and market activities,” Fréderic Oudéa, the Assemblage’s chief executive officer, said in a statement.
International retail banking attained a reported group net income of 532 million euros in the third shelter from 493 million a year ago. Strong economic momentum across Europe, Russia and in its Africa subsidiaries reinforced this growth.
“The Group pursued its disciplined approach to cost conduct and the low cost of risk confirms the quality of our loan portfolio. The Group put an end this chambers to the financial impact of the major litigation issues with the U.S. authorities recounting to the pre-financial crisis period,” Oudéa added.
Looking forward, the French bank has intended it plans to allocate its capital in a more efficient way.
Earlier this week, the lender won overed its Poland-based unit, Euro Bank, to Bank Millennium and the transaction is supposed to “take place in the next few months.”
Oudéa told CNBC that the resolution to sell Euro Bank was part of bank’s 2017 strategy.
“At the end of 2017, we mentioned to our shareholders we will optimize the capital allocation and we have a plan to jettison assets, which are good assets but where we think that in the extended term the level of synergies of the positioning does not justify us to keep these assets and there’s a better handling of the capital,” Oudéa told CNBC’s Joummana Bercetche.
“We are just put into effecting this plan and we are selling effectively good but relatively small retail banking province, which do not have the opportunity to be in the top three or top four in the long term and faade all the challenges of digital transformation investments,” the CEO explained.
He also said that the folding money of Euro Bank’s disposal will be used to “finance very small acquisition, like the one we made for Commerz(bank)…and of course proliferating our capital base.”
“It is a very rational process,” he said.
In July, Societe Generale foretold the acquisition of the equity markets and commodities activities of Commerzbank.