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| As we well know, in Vietnam, we are seeing good growth |
| Also, insurance and financial income grew evenly to post higher net income Q-o-Q |
| The Group's cost income ratio in the first half of the year stood at 38.3%, maintaining a stable level despite the upward inflationary pressure and increase in digital and ICT related expenses through a solid trend of operating profit |
| With increased volume in credit card purchases, credit card fee income increased by 26.9% Q-o-Q and brokerage fees also increased by 17.9% Q-o-Q reflecting increased trading volume |
| Also user-friendly UI/UX improvements and a stronger financial product and service portfolio drove the monthly visitors on our finance platform to surpass 20 million |
| On a Y-o-Y basis due to the base effect of the low trading gains due to the sharp rise in interest rates in the previous year and higher securities related income reflecting market rate decrease in the first half of this year, non-interest income improved by 21.5% |
| This was mainly driven by a robust growth of net income, the conversion of CPS to common shares in May, and an appropriate level of RWA growth |
| For securities, despite higher provisioning against CFD receivables, increase in brokerage fees supported by high transaction volume and growth of underwriting and arrangement fees from the IB business led to slightly higher income Q-o-Q |
| SFG is working to leverage digital capabilities to strengthen Shinhan's fundamental financial competitiveness and boost social value in line with the Group's vision, which is we believe finance should be more friendly, more secure, and more creative |
| SFG will make the most effort to strengthen digital capabilities to boost fundamental financial competitiveness and create value for customers to fulfill our social responsibility |
| Consequently, the Group's provisioning rate against total loans and total assets is 0.96% and 0.55% respectively, showing steady upward trend |
| The Group has been leveraging digital technology to strengthen business innovation and has been implementing company-wide process innovation to boost cost efficiency |
| In terms of quality growth, data-based activities to enhance customer engagement generated a DAU of over 5 million on our finance platform, leading to the growth of quality users |
| Congratulations for the good results |
| As of first half of this year, we have been using AICC and RPA to save KRW200 billion in costs, which is a 10% improvement Y-o-Y |
| For capital, despite reduction of securities related income, the effect of real estate provisioning of the previous quarter was removed, leading to higher net income than the previous quarter |
| The Group's platform is pursuing both volume and quality growth, so that more customers can use our digital services more frequently |
| With balanced growth in all sectors covering credit card fees, brokerage fees, and IB commissions, fee income increase by 7.6% Q-o-Q |
| SFG has one of the highest loss absorption capacity in the Korean financial sector |
| And if we do that and if we maintain the corporate loan trends, we'll be able to achieve our annual targets |
| First are the achievements in more friendly, driven by platform innovation |
| We'll be able to record negative -- positive growth |
| So that has helped our NIM |
| The non-finance platform is increasing contact points in the daily lives of customers and recorded a MAU of over 4 million, which is a 59% growth Y-o-Y |
| However, backed by continued demand from large corporations and well-established SMEs, corporate lending grew by 2.8% Y-t-D |
| So if we take a look at our income, so with the interest rate hikes, there has been a hike in interest rates and as a result you might see, I think that the contribution coming from the non-bank subsidiaries is lower, but securities, insurance, also asset management capital, all of such subsidiaries are growing quite steadily |
| The AI detection function that analyzes unusual activities and patterns is being continuously upgraded to provide stronger security for our customer's financial transactions |
| So the growth of the data business, 28% Y-o-Y is particularly notable |
| We think that we will be able to return to that level near the year end |
| For non-bank subsidiaries credit card showed even growth of operating income across credit sales and loans |
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| High interest rates and real estate issues have led to concerns on asset quality |
| Since latter half of last year, high interest rates and a sluggish real estate market led to deterioration of market environment |
| Nonetheless, fee income overall decrease by 8.1% Y-o-Y due to a decline in credit card fees |
| Due to weaker demand following higher interest rates and tighter DSR regulations and the asset securitization on mortgage loans, retail lending decreased by 1.8% Y-t-D |
| So if you look on a tenure basis from maybe a 512 to 522, you can see that OCI has actually been negative for the bank over the past 10 years |
| If you look at the first half asset growth, first of all the market experienced negative growth, our numbers were minus 2.4% |
| In Q2 of 2023, despite an increase in operating income, net income declined due to conservative provisioning, realizing a net income of KRW1.2383 trillion |
| I think the payment and the settlement and the overall landscape in this segment is quite difficult |
| It's very challenging, intense competition |
| So for the overseas commercial real estates, there have been continuous issues raised |
| And so does that mean that credit cost overall for the year can show downward stabilizing trend? And lastly, cancellation, I think the share cancellation is smaller than what we originally expected |
| Recently there has been re rate hikes and also in an economic slowdown |
| In the second half it's going to come down, but maybe I think it will be around 4 bps |
| Given the concerns on real estate financing from both home and abroad, the Group internally conducted a stress test, assuming the level of unsold presale apartments during the 2008 financial crisis, which concluded that additional credit cost of KRW200 billion may be necessary |
| The Bank's interest income increased thanks to margin improvement, but conservative provisioning, higher G&A and base effect from marketable securities profits led to a decline in net income Q-o-Q |
| We are going to carry out proactive monitoring and because of COVID until now, due diligence onsite was quite difficult, but now things have changed |
| However, net income decreased Q-o-Q as gains generated by sale of securities in the previous quarter was removed |
| In the second half household and the corporate loan segment, I think there will be quite intense competition in terms of pricing in the market |
| We did a full scale investigation into the current status and the additional loss that's expected |
| It's not very difficult |
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