Loan participation notes issued as part of Sberbank's Financial and Logistic Support program
BBB
A3
BBB
A3
RF Eurobonds
BBB
Baa1
BBB
Baa1
On 8 April 2011, Fitch Ratings upgraded Sberbank's individual rating from C/D to C and later, on 25 January 2012, discontinued these ratings for all financial institutions by replacing them with the Sustainability Rating. Sberbank was awarded the Sustainability Rating of bbb. This rating describes the Bank's creditworthiness without external support.
Sberbank also ranked:
ninth among the safest banks in Central and Eastern Europe published by Global Finance. The rating took long-term credit ratings from Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s and Fitch, and total assets of banks into account.
fortieth in the rating of the largest global banks by Tier 1 capital and twenty-third in the rating of most profitable banks of the world by The Banker.
The Bank increased its net interest income by 14.5 % to 575.8 bn. rubles due to a growth in interest income and a reduction in interest expenses.
Interest income7added 5.1 % with a growth in income generated by client loans and reached 837.9 bn. rubles. The structure of interest income generated:
489.0 bn. rubles – interest income generated by loans to legal entities (a 0.7 % growth in the context of a 34.1 % loan growth);
215.5 bn. rubles – interest income generated by loans to retail clients (a 20.9 % growth in the context of a 36.6 % loan growth);
100.4 bn. rubles – interest income generated by investments in securities;
32.9 bn. rubles – income from the sale of insurance products8, income from previous years, fines, penalties9, income generated by depositing funds in banks.
Interest expenses declined by 10.9 %, mainly due to expenses related to funds of retail clients, and amounted to 262.1 bn. rubles, including:
187.5 bn. rubles – interest expenses related to funds from retail clients (a 12.1 % reduction in the total cost of deposits with their total number growing by 17.8 %);
43.1 bn. rubles – interest expenses related to funds from legal entities;
3.2 bn. rubles – interest expenses related to issued debentures.
Net income generated by securities transactions10 fell 55.4% to 7.4 bn. rubles. Largest income was generated by stocks and corporate bonds.
Net income on foreign currency transactions11 increased from 1.6 bn. rubles to 9.0 bn. rubles. The difference in income amounts results, to a large degree, from net income on conversion operations that include the financial result for fixed-term transactions (currency SWAP transactions).12 Currency SWAP transactions were made by the Bank to maintain liquidity in different foreign currencies required to conduct business.
Net fee income rose 12.2 % to 125.6 bn. rubles. Growth was based on fee income generated by transactions with bank cards, acquiring, bank guarantees, salary projects, cash and settlement operations. Fee income related to budget funds, maintenance of accounts and securities transactions fell.
In 2011 the Bank generated income from release of provisions13 in the amount of 11.2 bn. rubles, while in 2010 the Bank's expenses incurred in creating reserves amounted to 86.9 bn. rubles. Dynamics of reserves is based mainly on loan reserves: income from release of provisions in 2011, as part of planned arrangements with troubled assets, amounted to 16.4 bn. rubles as compared to expenses of 80.6 bn. rubles in 2010. The Bank also continued to create reserves for newly issued loans.
Operating costs of the Bank grew 5.9 % to 337.4 bn. rubles. Growth of operating costs was mostly affected by a scheduled growth of the cost of maintaining personnel; administrative and business expenses that accompany development of a business; charges transferred to the Fund of Deposits’ Mandatory Insurance and increased as a result of larger deposits. Growth of operating costs was checked by lower expenses in 2011 related to assignment of own claims.
In 2011 Sberbank produced a financial result that exceeded results of the previous year:
Earnings before tax amounted to 408.9 bn. rubles (in 2010: 242.2 bn. rubles)
Earnings after tax amounted to 310.5 bn. rubles (in 2010: bn. rubles).
Sberbank's performance indicators in 2011 also improved noticeably: