Logotype

January - June 2012

Earnings

The most relevant aspects of earnings in this area in the first half of 2012 are summarized below:

  • Cumulative net interest income was a negative €185m, compared with a negative €281m in the first six months of 2011. This improvement is mainly due to the positive management of structural interest-rate risk in an environment of falling interest rates that benefited this management.
  • Favorable performance of NTI, basically as a result of the capital gains recorded on the repurchase of securitization bonds. As a result, NTI increased 26.3% year-on-year to €287m.
  • Receipt of the Telefónica dividend in the second quarter.
  • Operating expenses continue to reflect the Group’s investment effort in staff training, technology, brand and infrastructure. They amounted to a cumulative €518m to June, 10.7% up on the figure 12 months earlier.
  • Provisions booked for further clean-up of real estate and foreclosed assets continue to grow.
  • As a result, net attributable profit was a negative €658m, compared with a negative €579m in the first half of 2011.

Tables

Income statementBalance sheet
Download
Listen