TSB Bank lifts profits, mortgage book little changed in September Qtr

• Tweet

Community trust-owned TSB Bank’s profit jumped 15% in the September quarter while its mortgage book was little changed.

Monday, January 5th 2009, 11:15AM

by Jenny Ruth

The bank’s net profit rose to $12.6 million for the three months ended September from $10.6 million in the same three months a year earlier bringing its profit for the six months to $24.4 million, up 13.5%.

TSB’s mortgage book grew just $11.2 million to $1.83 billion in the three months. Mortgages with loan-to-value ratios (LVRs) above 80% grew to 7% of its total book from 6.5% three months earlier while its past due mortgages nearly doubled to $4.2 million from $2.2 million.

With all the banks’ general disclosure statements (GDSs) for the September quarter now published, an apparent sharp drop in National Australia Bank-owned Bank of New Zealand’s mortgage book artificially boosted the market shares of the other banks.

The GDSs also show a big difference between the total of the banks’ mortgage books, $145.29 billion at September 30, and Reserve Bank figures which put the total lending by registered banks on housing at $153.27 billion at September 30.

BNZ’s apparently shrinking mortgage book reflects it reporting under the new Basel ll rules for the first time and re-classifying some loans under other categories. Its mortgage market share dropped from 17.56% at June 30 under the Basel 1 rules to 16.65% at September 30 under the Basel ll rules.

Reflecting the artificial boost provided by BNZ’s drop, TSB’s market share rose from 1.24% in June to 1.25% in September.

The major mortgage market share winners in the September quarter were the Commonwealth Bank of Australia-owned ASB Bank, at 25.05% from 24.63% at June 30, and the government-owned Kiwibank, at 3.8% from 3.51% at June 30.

Comments from our readers

No comments yet

Add your comment:

Your name:
Your email:	Not displayed to the public
Comment:
Comments to Good Returns go through an approval process. Comments which are defamatory, abusive or in some way deemed inappropriate will not be approved. It is allowable to use some form of non-de-plume for your name, however we recommend real email addresses are used. Comments from free email addresses such as Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc may not be approved.

Anti-spam verification:

Type the text you see in the image into the field below. You are asked to do this in order to verify that this enquiry is not being performed by an automated process.