Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Bank Rakyat's Half Year Profit Soars To RM1.06 Billion

Source from (Bernama): http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v6/newsbusiness.php?id=684223

Published: July 31, 2012

KUALA LUMPUR, July 30 (Bernama) -- Bank Rakyat's profit after tax and zakat rose to RM1.06 billion for the first half year financial period ended June 30, 2012, up 7.7 per cent from RM0.98 billion reported in the same period of last year.

"The better performance for the period as a whole was achieved following the strong growth in financing income in line with the high growth in financing balance as well as the strengthening of asset quality," the bank said in a statement here Monday.

Its gross income for the period increased by 15.3 per cent to RM3.09 billion from RM2.68 billion in the previous period, while net income after profit distribution to depositors grew by 10.4 per cent to RM1.73 billion compared to RM1.56 billion previously.

The bank's income from financing increased by 11.6 per cent to RM2.45 billion compared with RM2.19 billion in the previous corresponding period of which, or 91.6 per cent came from consumer banking and RM0.21 billion or 8.4 per cent from commercial banking.

Bank Rakyat also recorded a fee based income of RM44.9 million in the first half year of 2012.

-- BERNAMA

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