Forstædernes Bank A/S
Earnings forecast for the year 2008
Forstædernes Bank A/S / Release of a Adhoc News, transmitted by DGAP - a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The figures below are preliminary and are subject to change until the presentation of the Preliminary Announcement of Financial Statements and the Annual Report on 5 February 2009. The Nykredit Realkredit Group's results for 2008 show continued growth in customer business and low mortgage losses but they were affected by the extraordinary devel-opment in financial markets involving bank collapses, plunging equity prices, massive yield spread widening and the acquisition of Forstædernes Bank. The steady expansion of the Nykredit Realkredit Group's customer-oriented business activities continued in 2008 and went up by 11% to DKK 7.2bn excluding Forstæder-nes Bank, cf below. Notwithstanding the financial crisis and declining property prices, the Group's im-pairment losses on mortgage loans were only DKK 0.2bn (0.02% of lending) and DKK 0.4bn on other lending to non-financial customers, excluding Forstædernes Bank. The extraordinary development in financial markets - not least in Q4/2008 - had a significant effect on the Nykredit Realkredit Group's financial statements as a result of Nykredit's business relationships with financial institutions. The most significant effects, excluding Forstædernes Bank, amount to DKK 1.4bn: Impairment losses of DKK 0.2bn under guarantee obligations in relation to the Private Contingency Association with respect to Roskilde Bank and EBH Bank. Impairment losses on lending to the EBH group of DKK 0.4bn. The loans granted to the EBH group should be seen in the context of extensive business cooperation between Nykredit and the EBH group. Value adjustments relating to own positions in Markets & Asset Management of DKK 0.8bn of which DKK 0.4bn concerned ordinary own positions and DKK 0.4bn relating to Kalvebod issues (subordinate loan capital for Danish banks). In this re-spect, Nykredit has not taken advantage of the new rules of IAS 39 according to which recognition of value adjustments through profit or loss may be omitted. Costs of guarantee commission payable to the Danish government of DKK 0.1bn. News Source: NASDAQ OMX 16.01.2009 Financial News transmitted by DGAP ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Issuer: Forstædernes Bank A/S Denmark Phone: Fax: E-mail: Internet: ISIN: DK0010017011 WKN: End of News DGAP News-Service ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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