- Solid H1, with FY17 guidance maintained
FinTech Group (FTG) announced a solid set of H1 results and FY17 guidance was re-affirmed. While EBITDA slipped by 6% to €13.0m, this reflected a €1.8m provision reversal in H116, and hence the underlying growth was 9%. Brokerage customers grew by 11% over H116, and transactions rose by 10%, while three new B2B projects have been delivered that will contribute in H2. Additionally, the collateralised credit book jumped by 42% over the six months to €187m. Consequently, management anticipates a strong H2. Despite being the fastest growing major broking business in Europe, the shares continue to trade at a discount to the sector.Flatex AG, formerly known as Fintech Group AG, is a Germany-based company engaged in the financial technology sector. The Company divides its business into two operational segments: Securities Trading and Financial Services (ST & FS) and Transaction Processing and White-Label Banking Services (TP & WLBS). The ST & FS segment includes online brokerage in the business-to-consumer (B2C) sector in Germany (on trading platforms such as flatex.de, vitrade.de) and Austria (flatex.at). The operations are conducted by the subsidiaries flatex GmbH and ViTrade GmbH. The TP & WLBS segment includes the business-to-business (B2B) activities of subsidiaries XCOM AG and FinTech Group Bank AG that focus on research and development in the area of financial technology and provide back-end execution of securities transactions for the Company's own platforms and for other banks, as well as offer business process outsourcing services.
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