Mr. Duong Cong Minh: ‘LienVietPostBank is the daughter who gave up to get married, Sacombank is the daughter-in-law that just got married, so it’s more precious’

On the morning of April 23, 2021, Saigon Thuong Tin Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Sacombank, HOSE: STB) held its 2021 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders to approve the 2021 business plan and many other important contents.

Accordingly, Sacombank’s shareholder meeting has approved the business plan of 2021 with the pre-tax profit target of 4,000 billion dong, up 20% year-on-year. In addition, total assets are 533,300 billion VND, an increase of 8% compared to 2020; the total mobilized capital reached 485,500 billion VND, an increase of 9% over the previous year. In which, mobilization from residents and economic organizations is expected to reach VND 478,300 billion, an increase of 9%; Total credit balance reached 372,000 billion VND, up 9% compared to 2020. Sacombank said, based on the allowed credit growth of the State Bank and the business situation in 2021, the Board of Directors will adjust appropriate deposit and loan growth target. NPL ratio with Sacombank’s target in control is below 2%. Answering questions from shareholders about business results in the first quarter of 2021, Ms. Nguyen Duc Thach Diem, General Director of Sacombank said that by the end of March 2021, Sacombank’s capital mobilization increased by over 3.5%, lending credit room reached 5.8%, revenue over 1,200 billion services. Bad debt settlement in 4 months is 2,280 billion dong. Profit reached 25% of the plan, equivalent to 1,000 billion VND. Sacombank’s Board of Directors also said that the bank’s profit retained was high at 6,000 billion dong. The Bank plans to use retained earnings to pay stock dividends, to increase charter capital as well as to meet shareholders’ expectations for many years without receiving dividends. Sacombank has submitted to the State Bank for dividends, but since the Bank is in the restructuring process, resources must be concentrated to handle bad debts. Sacombank aims to handle VND 10,000 billion of bad debt. Responding to shareholders about the dividend schedule, Mr. Duong Cong Minh, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sacombank, said that when the restructuring is successful, the Bank’s Board of Directors promises to try to restructure successfully in 5 years, expected to be 2022 or more. to normal status, early 2023 will be able to pay dividends. According to Mr. Minh, the Bank is focusing on handling outstanding bad debts. The bank continues to open a public and transparent auction of Phong Phu industrial park. Over the past time, Phong Phu shareholders have had a lot of controversy to buy and sell lawsuits, so the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City is suspending to resolve it completely, hoping to continue to handle it in 2021. In addition, Sacombank has also sold successful auction of many real estate to recover bad debt. Before the information about whether to merge LienVietPostBank (LPB) into Sacombank (STB) as well as the relationship between these two banks, Mr. Duong Cong Minh said: “LienVietPostBank is a natural child, I let go to get married, Sacombank is my daughter-in-law recently married, so I’m more precious, and my job is to focus on Sacombank “. In addition, the Chairman of Sacombank also informs shareholders about plans to sell capital to foreign investors that can only be resolved when the restructuring is successful. Speaking at the AGM of Sacombank this morning, the representative of the State Bank highly appreciated the handling of the post-merger bad debts of Sacombank. In particular, the role of the head of the Board of Directors is Mr. Duong Cong Minh – Chairman of the Board of Directors and Ms. Nguyen Duc Thach Diem – General Director of Sacombank. However, at the request of SBV leaders, after the epidemic is controlled, Sacombank needs to focus on promoting asset sales to handle bad debts and outstanding assets since the time of Tram Be at Phuong Bank. South after merging with Sacombank. By the end of 2020, Sacombank’s consolidated pre-tax profit reached VND 3,339 billion, an increase of 3.8% compared to 2019 and 30% higher than the plan. Profit after tax reached VND 2,682 billion, up 9.2%. Total provision balance of Sacombank by the end of 2020 is 13,000 billion VND, an increase of 43.3% compared to 2019 (equivalent to the level of provisioning in 2020 is 3,951 billion VND). As of December 31, 2020, total bank assets reached VND 492,637 billion, an increase of 8.6% compared to the end of the previous year. Customer deposits increased by 6.8%, reaching VND 427,972 billion. By the end of 2020, the total NPL of Sacombank increased by 0.8% to 5,780 billion VND. Meanwhile, customer loans balance grew 14.9% y / y to VND 340,268 billion. Thereby dragging the ratio of NPLs to total outstanding loans decreased from 1.94% to 1.7%. Sacombank’s revenue from collecting and handling bad debts in the past year reached more than VND 15,200 billion. In which, 8,200 billion VND was withdrawn from the Sacombank Restructuring Project after merging with Southern Bank. Raising the accumulated recovery from the project implementation to 46,457 billion VND, reaching 52.2% of the overall plan of the Project to 2025, exceeding 4.2% of the progress. Outstanding assets under the Project decreased by 48.2% compared to the end of 2016, accounting for 9.8% of total assets, contributing to increasing the proportion of profitable assets from 67.9% to 85.2%.