Q2 2026 Artea bankas AB Earnings Call Transcript
Key Points
- Loan book growth rebounded in Q2 2026, with a 5% quarter-on-quarter increase and 15% year-on-year growth, driven by strong mortgage demand and a diversified portfolio.
- Net fee and commission income grew 10% year-on-year, supported by strong performance in asset management, renovation financing, and capital markets.
- Asset quality remains stable with a low cost of risk at 0.24% for the first half of 2026, and no major deterioration in the loan portfolio.
- The bank completed its share buyback program and expects to resume buybacks in mid-August 2026, demonstrating a commitment to high capital distributions.
- Strategic initiatives, including the successful rebranding to Artea and the core banking system upgrade, are on track and within budget, positioning the bank for future growth.
- Net interest income continues to face pressure from declining interest rates, with net interest margin expected to decline to 2.8-2.9% by year-end 2026.
- Operating expenses increased, primarily due to higher salary costs and one-off investments in rebranding and IT replatforming, though cost-cutting measures are underway.
- The bank faces intensified competition in the corporate lending segment, putting additional pressure on asset yields.
- Deposit growth has slowed, and the loan-to-deposit ratio remains above 100%, prompting a need to focus on growing the deposit portfolio.
- The upcoming pillar 2 pension reform could lead to outflows of up to 20-40% of pension assets, potentially impacting net fee income by up to EUR 2 million in 2026.
Good day everyone, good day investors. Welcome to the webinar of Artea Bank for the first half of the year. So we will present financial information for you about the results of our bank. My name is Vytautas Sinius. I'm CEO of Arthea Bank and with me, Tomas varenbergas, head of investment management division. So we will lead you through the presentation. And yeah, we started with a nicely made video of Arthea brand. So I hope you enjoy that. So this is the first quarter that we are operating under the name of Arthea. And this is an important milestone in the bank's history when we evolved from the historically regional bank to much more covering all the country with all the services as a national bank. So we have a bank for the old Athenia. And I think we are progressing very well with this project, with this transformation to the new name, expressing our historic expertise and. Evolving to be a much more modern bank.
So we made all the necessary work to prepare well and the process moved, I would say, very smoothly. We rebranded all our branches, also our
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