Standard Chartered's 1Q Profit Fell as Impairments Surged
April 29 2020 - 1:32AM
Dow Jones News
By Yifan Wang
Standard Chartered PLC's first-quarter pretax underlying profit
fell despite higher income, as credit impairments rose
significantly due to the rapid spread of the coronavirus
pandemic.
Pretax underlying profit fell 12% to $1.22 billion, the
Asia-focused bank said Wednesday.
The decline was in part due to a sharp increase in credit
impairments, which jumped more than ten times from a year earlier
to $962 million.
Operating income rose 13% to $4.33 billion, primarily driven by
strong performance in the lender's financial markets business.
Net interest income, however, dropped 4.2% to $1.84 billion due
to margin compression. Net interest margin fell 0.14 percentage
point to 1.52%.
Standard Chartered said it expects large-scale benchmark rate
cuts by the U.S. Federal Reserve and other central banks to hurt
its income by a further $600 million in 2020.
The bank had earlier canceled its final dividend for 2019 and
said it would not consider an interim dividend this year in order
to conserve capital during the pandemic.
Standard Chartered also warned that the public health crisis and
resulting economic slowdown could derail its previous target to
achieve at least 10% return on tangible equity by 2021.
Write to Yifan Wang at yifan.wang@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
April 29, 2020 01:17 ET (05:17 GMT)
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