Amãna Bank’s total assets cross Rs. 100 bn with over Rs. 1 bn operating profit

Amãna Bank crossed the LKR 100 billion mark in Total Assets as at YE2020, a milestone bearing evidence to its accelerated growth, which comes in a context where the Bank has completed only 9 years in banking operations.

In the face of the Covid-19 pandemic related challenges, the Bank has showcased strong resilience specially during the first 3 quarters of the year and has bounced back strongly in Q4 with a remarkable 51% growth in pre-tax profit recording LKR 372.1 million in comparison to LKR 246.2 million in Q4 2019. Post-tax profit for the same period stood at LKR 213.3 million. In comparison to Q3 2020, the Bank’s pre-tax and post-tax profits grew significantly by 168% and 167% respectively in Q4 2020. As a result of its resurgent Q4 performance, the Bank, for the 12 months of 2020, reported LKR 761.4 million as profit before tax and LKR 463.7 million as profit after tax. It is noteworthy that the profit after tax of 2020 is higher than the LKR 460.9 million reported in 2019.

Maintaining a healthy financing margin of 3.7%, the Bank’s Net Financing Income grew 9% YoY to close at LKR 3.45 billion, while achieving LKR 1.13 billion during Q4 alone, demonstrating a growth of 53% against Q4 2019. Despite import control having an adverse impact on trade related fee income, the Bank reported a Net Operating Income of LKR 3.72 billion for 2020. Having successfully curtailed operating expenses, as a result of the continued focus on cost containment, the Bank recorded an Operating Profit Before VAT, NBT and DRL of LKR 1.15 billion for 2020. The Bank’s aggregate tax contribution of LKR 691 million accounted for 60% of the Bank’s Operating Profit before all taxes.