Coop Pank’s financial results in April 2023:

Comment by Paavo Truu, Member of the Management Board and CFO of Coop Pank:

"The number of Coop Pank customers continued to grow steadily in April. In the loan portfolio, home loans showed good growth, but in the case of business loans, we see some reduction in loan demand. Coop Pank's loan portfolio remains high-quality.

The interest income earned from the growing Euribor allows us to pay increasingly better deposit rates to local depositors. In April, the volumes of deposits of both private and business customers increased, and thanks to this we managed to reduce the volume of internationally attracted deposits. We see that our competitive term deposit interests and customers' desire to earn the best return for their money, has resulted in a part of our demand deposits being converted to term deposits. At the same time, we continue to pay our private customers a 1% annual return on demand deposits in the Rändrahn settlement package, and from May we also raised the interest on demand deposits to 0.5% for business customers, and we pay it from the first euro of the deposit. It is important to us to work hard for each client, no matter how big or small.

In April, the bank earned net profit of 3.7 million euros, return on equity was 28.1% and the cost-income ratio was 38%.

The general meeting of shareholders held in April confirmed the annual report of the previous year and the payment of dividends of 4.5 cents per share. On May 3, we transferred nearly 4.6 million euros as dividends to the accounts of nearly 36,500 shareholders, of which over 98% went to our own Estonian people and institutions.”

More detailed financial reports of Coop Pank are available at:  https://www.cooppank.ee/en/financial-reports

Coop Pank, based on Estonian capital, is one of the five universal banks operating in Estonia. The number of clients using Coop Pank for their daily banking reached 157,600. Coop Pank aims to put the synergy generated by the interaction of retail business and banking to good use and to bring everyday banking services closer to people’s homes. The strategic shareholder of the bank is the domestic retail chain Coop Eesti, comprising of 320 stores.

Additional information:
Paavo Truu
CFO
Phone: +372 5160 231
E-mail: paavo.truu@cooppank.ee

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