Slovenian Weekly Regional Overview 14.1.2019 - 18.1.2019
Bank of Slovenia - Developments in the banking sector:
Year-on-year growth in the balance sheet total slowed to 1.9% in November 2018 with total assets reaching EUR 38.5bn. Loans to the non-banking sector grew by 6.1% YoY. Growth in deposits by the non-banking sector stood at 5% in November, and is continuing to outpace growth in the balance sheet total. The NPE ratio declined to 4.2% in November, equivalent to NPEs of EUR 1.8 billion, while the NPL ratio declined to 6.0%.
The banks generated a pre-tax profit of EUR 502 million over the first eleven months of last year. There were several factors in the increase in profit: positive year-on-year growth in net interest income, a solid increase in non-interest income, unchanged operating costs, and the ongoing net release of impairments and provisions.
Krka and Triglav: New Market Maker on LJSE
Krka and Triglav signed the agreement with company InterCapital which will provide market making services on Ljubljana Stock Exchange. Market making will initiated on 1st February 2019 with minimal quote size of 200 lots of KRKG and 400 lots of ZVTG.
Krka is a public generic pharmaceutical company based in Slovenia. Co. is engaged in the development, production, sale and marketing of human health products (prescription and selfmedication pharmaceuticals and cosmetics), animal health products and health resort and tourist services. Co. focuses on a range of generic prescription pharmaceuticals, which are marketed under Co.'s own brands. Co. offers customers in over 70 countries a broad range of prescription pharmaceuticals, self-medication products and animal health and cosmetic products. Co.'s activities are supplemented by health resort and tourist services of Terme Krka.
Zavarovalnica Triglav DD. Zavarovalnica Triglav dd is Slovenian-based company principally engaged in the insurance and financial services. Zavarovalnica Triglav dd is the controlling company of the Triglav Group which offers insurance, asset management and banking services. Zavarovalnica Triglav dd, Zdrastvena zavarovalnica dd and Pozavarovalnica Triglav Re dd provide wealth, life, voluntary additional pension and health insurances. The insurance sector of the Company also operates in the Czech Republic, Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Macedonia. Through Triglav DZU ddo, Triglav Nalozbe financna druzba dd and Triglav nepremicnine dd the Company provides investment fund management, real estate and banking services. As of June 22, 2012, the Company acquired a 100% stake in Investicijsko podjetje, Trgovanje z lastnimi nepremicninami doo from Sava dd.
ALTA Invest, investicijske storitve, d.d., (ALTA Invest, investment services, Inc.) is a part of ALTA Group, the biggest financial non-banking group in Slovenia. ALTA Invest has around 28% market share on the domestic Ljubljana Stock Exchange and has more than EUR 95m of assets under management.
Our trading advantage is our execution of large trading blocks with low impact on the market. We offer trading on several platforms on numerous markets, with a wide variety of financial instruments. Our advantage is also a research department, which is both sell side and buy side and has the far most extensive and regular coverage of domestic companies. We cover 9 companies on Ljubljana Stock Exchange, which is around 90% of Mcap on LJSE – and here we are practically the only local broker providing this kind of extensive and regular coverage for Slovenian companies.
A part of ALTA Group are ALTA Skladi, a mutual fund asset management company with roughly EUR 260m of asset under management. ALTA Group is also extensively involved in corporate finance projects and raised considerable assets (fixed income and equity) in the last two years for several companies.
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