TSB holds mortgage market share as profit drops

Community trust-owned TSB Bank’s mortgage market share was little changed while net profit fell 6% in the December quarter, reflecting unrealised losses in the fair value of derivatives as a result of Alan Bollard slashing his official cash rate, as well as a slight increase in impairment provisions.

Wednesday, February 25th 2009, 5:00AM

by Jenny Ruth

TSB’s net profit for the three months ended December fell 6% to $9.2 million, including the $2.4 million unrealised losses, from $9.8 million in the same three months a year earlier, bring its nine-month result to $33.6 million, up 7.4%.

Its provisions for impaired loans rose by $110,000 over the quarter, bringing the nine months’ provisions to $1.36 million. The bank had $19.4 million in past due assets at December 31, up from $5.3 million a year earlier while impaired assets rose from nil to $1.9 million.

Its mortgage book grew by $35.9 million to $1.87 billion in the three months. Using Reserve Bank figures as a proxy for the market, its share remained steady at 1.2%.

Past due residential mortgages rose slightly to $4.5 million at December 31 from $4.2 million at September 30. Its loans with loan-to-valuation ratios above 90% rose slightly from $59.5 million at September 30 to $64.1 million at December 31 while those with LVRs between 80% and 90% rose from $119.2 million to $124.2 million.

Loans with LVRs 80% or below rose from $1.65 billion to $1.68 billion.

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