Jakarta(Antara Bali) - PT Bank Central Asia Tbk (BCA) reported Rp12.2 trillion in net profit in the first nine months of this year or an increase  of 17.7 percent from Rp10.4 trillion in the same period last year.

President director of the country's third largest bank in assets Jahja Setiaatmadja attributed the increase to 22.9 percent rise in the bank  operating income  to Rp30.1 trillion on-year.

 He said under the unfavorable condition, the publicly trade BCA continues  to practice prudent risk management  to expand good quality credits   and at the same time encourage transactions through  "electronic delivery channel", which is lower in cost.

Amid the economic slowdown, the bank had succeeded in maintaining  solid financing  with third party fund of Rp432 trillion, which grew 7.9 percent  from a year earlier, he said.

Jahja Setiaatmadja said  BCA portfolio credits  in the third quarter of 2014  rose 10.6 percent to Rp330.7 trillion.

The credit growth was attributable more to business financing credits  that accounted for 85.5 percent of the total growth of the portfolio credits.

Corporate credits made up Rp112.5 trillion of the outstanding credits  by the end of September 2014,  or an increase of 13.7 percent  on year; commercial credits  and small and medium business credits   grew 11.8 percent  to Rp128.5 trillion  and consumer credits increased 5.4 percent to Rp89.7 trillion," Jahja said.

He said that the bank's loan to deposit ratio (LDR) was 75.,9 percent  and  "secondary reserves" totaled Rp74.3 trillion  or 17.2 percent  of the total amount of third party funds  by the end of  September 2014.

The non performing credits was kept at a low level of 0.7 percent . The capital adequacy ratio (CAR) was 17.2 percent by the end of September 2014,  up from  from 15.8 percent a tear earlier --all radiating a  healthy position of the bank capital," he said. (MFD)

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Editor : I Gusti Bagus Widyantara


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