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The two banking subsidiaries will remain separate legal entities<br />
for the time being, and operate side by side. With the<br />
acquisition of Nova banjalucka banka we have reinforced our<br />
market position as number 4 and increased our overall market<br />
share to about 11%.<br />
Business structure and development<br />
Retail customers<br />
The realignment of the branch network started in the previous<br />
year to create a service-oriented sales organisation was successfully<br />
com<strong>pl</strong>eted in 2005. This is reflected in key figures:<br />
lending volume rose by more than 55 %, credit card business<br />
grew by over 40 %. Housing loans for young cou<strong>pl</strong>es, mortgage<br />
loans and car loans have been added to our product<br />
range. The account packages tailored to meet specific customer<br />
needs were a great success: 13,000 account packages<br />
were sold within nine months.<br />
Marketing activities supported all our sales initiatives, including<br />
a special offering in the winter sales season which focused<br />
on “instant loans”, account packages and short-term deposits<br />
on favourable terms and conditions.<br />
In 2005 we concluded an agency agreement with MoneyGram<br />
International, a provider of international money transfer services,<br />
to widen the range of services for our customers.<br />
We are strengthening our sales network by entering into partnerships<br />
with micro credit organisations, a relatively new, fastgrowing<br />
and highly promising sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina.<br />
Corporate customers<br />
We have a strong market position among state-owned companies<br />
and government agencies. Based on these business<br />
relationships, we aim to pursue further growth in the private<br />
sector of the economy. As a first step we im<strong>pl</strong>emented a comprehensive<br />
service approach supporting the Bosnian business<br />
sector by financing ambitious domestic projects.<br />
The volume of loans outstanding more than doubled in 2005.<br />
Financing transactions for large national and international<br />
companies with a strong market presence accounted for a significant<br />
portion of total volume. For exam<strong>pl</strong>e, we signed a<br />
loan agreement with a local pharmaceutical company for BAM<br />
6.5 m (about € 3.3 m) and a financing arrangement with<br />
OMV, the Austrian oil company, for € 14.4 m.<br />
We also prepared the ground for the first real estate transaction<br />
and the introduction of new services. Forfaiting is a new<br />
product in the trade finance sector which has met with a very<br />
favourable market response.<br />
90 CEE Network of Bank Austria Creditanstalt in 2005<br />
Outlook<br />
The further expansion of HVB Central Profit Banka and the<br />
transformation/reorganisation of the newly acquired Nova<br />
banjalucka banka will be our top priorities in 2006. We also<br />
want to achieve further growth on our own, winning new customers<br />
by offering innovative products and attractive terms. At<br />
the end of 2005 we started to create a quality management<br />
system which will be im<strong>pl</strong>emented in 2006.<br />
Serbia and Montenegro*) –<br />
HVB Bank Serbia and Montenegro<br />
€ m 2005 2004<br />
Total assets 529 202<br />
Net income before taxes 5.6 4.9<br />
ROE before taxes 13.4 % 23.4 %<br />
Cost/income ratio 66 % 57 %<br />
Em<strong>pl</strong>oyees (full-time equiv.) 527 155<br />
Offices 42 7<br />
*) HVB Bank Serbia and Montenegro and Eksimbanka consolidated as<br />
from 1 October 2005<br />
Economic policy measures limited<br />
GDP growth to just over 5 % in 2005<br />
but failed to stop the upward trend in<br />
inflation in Serbia. The inflation rate<br />
rose to 17 % at the end of the year as<br />
the dinar depreciated against the euro<br />
by an average of 15 %. By supporting<br />
exports, the currency’s depreciation<br />
helped to bring the current<br />
account deficit to below 10 % of<br />
Beograd<br />
GDP. Credit demand again<br />
boomed in 2005, with loans to private<br />
households increasing at a significantly<br />
higher rate than business loans. Deposits from private individuals<br />
rose more strongly than in the previous year; most of this<br />
growth related to foreign currency deposits.<br />
The Serbian banking subsidiaries, merged at the beginning of<br />
October 2005, generated a net income before taxes of CSD<br />
466 m for the full year 2005. As the year<br />
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progressed, net interest income showed<br />
steady growth, based on a credit portfolio which tri<strong>pl</strong>ed as<br />
against the previous year. General administrative expenses<br />
reflected integration costs and a one-off expense for rebranding.