Excluding the impact of Visa shares sale, ING Romania net profit rose 14% to RON177 million in January-June.
In the first half of the year, ING Bank attracted 71,000 new active clients.
Revenues rose 39% to RON675 million. Excluding the impact of Visa shares sale, total revenues rose 13% to RON552 million.
Operating costs rose 13% to RON311 million, due to higher costs with employees, regulation costs and investments in technology and marketing.
Non-performing loan ratio fell from 5.5% to 3.9% in the first six months.
In January-June 2016, lending increased 29% on the year, to RON16.29 billion, while the bank’s market share rose to 7.1%.