Wema Bank has said its unaudited results for half a year ending June 30th, 2023, has shown improved performance including gross earnings of ₦89.09bn, a year-in-year increase of 49% (H1 2022: ₦59.59bn).
The interest income recorded went up 53% year on year, to ₦76.11bn (H1 2022: ₦49.75bn), while non-Interest is up 32% year on year, to ₦12.98bn (H1 2022: ₦9.85bn).
Its profit before tax was ₦12.05bn, a y/y increase of 97% over the ₦6.13bn reported in H1 2022, while profit after tax also increased y/y by 97% to ₦10.48bn (₦5.30bn in H1 2022).
The bank grew its deposit year to date by 19% as of H1 2023 to ₦1,392.85bn from ₦1,165.93bn reported in FY 2022, while loans and advances also grew by 20% to ₦627.01bn in H1 2023 from ₦521.43bn in FY, 2022.
The Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the bank, Moruf Oseni, while reacting to the result, said, “Our H1 2023 results saw significant upsides with profit before and after tax growing strongly by about 97 per cent. The management team at Wema Bank is focused on driving the execution of our current corporate strategy.
“Our embrace of technology is helping us deliver seamless best-in-class services while offering compelling value propositions to customers. Hence, we are seeing record-breaking returns across the board. Finally, we continue to see improvements in our corporate, commercial, and retail businesses as evidenced by our strong loan growth.”
Oseni said with the improved stability in the operating environment, the Bank’s earlier approved rights issuance will be commencing in the third quarter of 2023.
“It has been a good half-year performance for Wema Bank with gross earnings growing by 49 per cent year on year and earnings per share at 163.0 kobo.
“In addition, our cost-to-income ratio at 72.71 per cent has witnessed significant improvement from the previous period. We have also succeeded in making Wema Bank an integral part of the Fintech ecosystem in Nigeria with our ubiquitous Fintech infrastructure support play,” he said.
