“Having a clear view on the risk-return profile of our client relationships and transactions is key – and this understanding is also at the core of our prudent international expansion, which supports our diversification strategy.”

Jens Thiele, Head of Business Unit

Corporates

■ Diversifying corporate strategies by German and International Corporates ■ Focus on lending clients in Northern German region with service & expertise approach ■ Large portion of clients in Germany are family-owned companies with typically long-standing HCOB relationships ■ Diversified international approach with wide range of credit products, countries & sectors ■ Highly skilled, lean and transaction-focused team with broad network to identify and capture market opportunities quickly in International Corporates ■ Active lending partner to enablers of the energy transition, i.e. European companies that produce or operate technical solutions which enable end-users to reduce their carbon footprint

Financials1

in € mn

H1 2023
H1 2022
Total Income
96
46
Risk costs (expected loss)²
-6
-11
OpEx & regulatory costs
-41
-24
Net income after taxes
39
9
NIM in bps
324
303
Risk costs (expected loss - %)³
-0.25
-0.54
CIR in %
39
46
RoE4 in %
13.3
3.6
Gross new business in bn €
0.9
1.0

1) For further details on P&L please refer to the Segment Reporting in the appendix | 2) Expected loss based on PD/LGD approach, for loan loss provisions according to IFRS (P&L, B/S) please refer to the Segment Reporting | 3) Risk Costs (expected loss / b/s) | 4) RoE after taxes based on a 13%-ratio of invested CET1 capital as reported

Rating

distribution in %


H1 2023

YE 2022

Investment Grade

0.7
0.8

6-9

0.4
0.8

10-15

0.2
0.1

Default

0.8
0.3
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