Attica Bank - Refocus and grow
After a substantial balance sheet clean-up, Attica Bank is now beginning to implement its plan to refocus the business and expand its loan book. The time taken to refine and approve the strategy has deferred a return to profitability. Q2 and Q319 were significantly weaker than expected and we now expect profits only in 2021. The plan is to double the loan book in three years, with more cost cutting, a rebranding and a targeted approach to small business lending and the professional personal market. Through additional securitisations, management is hoping to reduce the legacy NPL book to zero by 2021. Successful delivery would allow ROE to approach 7.4% (5.1–5.7% with rights issue dilution) in 2022 and offer upside to the current 2020e P/BV of 0.22x.Attica Bank SA is a Greece-based banking and financial institution. The Bank offers a range of banking and financial products and services: private and corporate banking services, e-banking, automated teller machine (ATM) services, leasing, factoring, asset management and brokerage services. In the private banking area, it offers savings, privilege current and time accounts, mortgages, insurance products, consumer and housing loans, and a range of credit cards. In the corporate banking area, the Bank offers time and foreign exchange accounts for companies, short- and long-term loans and advances, loans for the acquisition of business premises and letters of guarantee for various purposes. The Bank's other services include capital market and mutual fund services, as well as fixed orders, money transfers, imports and exports, pension payments and safe boxes. It has six subsidiaries and operates a network of 80 branches in Greece.
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