SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549


FORM 6-K

Report of Foreign Private Issuer
Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934

For the month of November, 2006


CREDICORP LTD.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Clarendon House
Church Street
Hamilton HM 11 Bermuda
(Address of principal executive office)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F. 

 

Form 20-F

x

 

Form 40-F

o

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the information contained in this Form is also thereby furnishing the information to the Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.  

 

Yes

o

 

No

x

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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CREDICORP Ltd. Reports Third Quarter 2006 Earnings

Lima, Peru, November 16, 2006 - Credicorp (NYSE:BAP) announced today its unaudited results for the third quarter of 2006. These results are reported on a consolidated basis in accordance with IFRS in nominal U.S. Dollars.

HIGHLIGHTS

Credicorp reported 3Q06 net earnings of US$ 51.3 million, a decline of 20.3% QoQ, though still 7.9% higher YoY, following extraordinary provisions required by the SAR incentive compensation program due to the strong appreciation of Credicorp’s stock.

An additional drop in NII at BCP also affected results.  This drop, however was offset by income from provision reversals and unexpectedly higher-than-projected recoveries as a result of the continued improvement in the portfolio quality.

Loan growth at BCP continued its positive trend, reaching 2.4% QoQ, but more importantly, a continuing shift in loan portfolio towards higher yielding retail loans was evident as these grew around 6% QoQ.

Interest income on loans thus grew a healthy 7% QoQ, but was not enough to offset the increased interest expense due to higher deposit rates and the higher interest expense on borrowed funds, resulting in a drop of NII and the resulting Core Earnings.

Fee income also reflects this solid business growth with an increase of 7.3% QoQ and 12.1% YoY.

Therefore, the positive business developments were not enough to offset the increased costs during the quarter and resulted in the deterioration of Credicorp’s performance ratios.

NIM dropped to 4.9% from 5.3% QoQ; the efficiency ratio increased to 43.7% from 41.3% and ROAE fell to 16.3% from 21.7%, both also QoQ. This deterioration however, does not reflect a turn-around in the trend, but rather a short-term effect of necessary adjustments to consolidate future growth and the unexpectedly high SAR related provisions.

BCB, which is consolidated in BCP, continues its consistent growth and reports a contribution 7% higher QoQ and 69% higher on a 9 month comparison.

ASHC remains a stable business and despite the normalization of off-shore banking activity after the political scenario stabilized, reports a contribution improvement of 25% QoQ and 17% YoY on a cumulative basis for the first 9 months of the year.

PPS, which was our major concern, continues its improved performance with a promising future outlook. Management changes, new cost controls and focus on the individual insurance segments resulted in a reported contribution that was 68% higher QoQ and 112% higher on a 9-month cumulative comparison.

Finally, Prima AFP, though still a loss generator, is expected to turn around in 2007 upon the completion of the merger of Prima and Union Vida in December 2006. Prima’s results also include Unión Vida’s results and ongoing merger costs, leading to continued overall losses.





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I. Credicorp Ltd.

Overview

Net income attributable to Credicorp for 3Q06 reached US$ 51.3 million following net income of US$ 64.4 million in 2Q06. Though this result reflects an important drop of 20.3% QoQ, it is still in line with the overall improved performance for the year, showing a 7.9% improved result vis-à-vis 3Q05.

Thus, Credicorp’s core business at BCP demonstrated a strong business performance (growth in loan portfolio and interest and fee income), while reflecting increased interest expenses due to the current competitive market environment as well as the strategy implemented by BCP to increase banking penetration. However, the most significant negative effect upon Credicorp’s bottom line results, was due to the strong appreciation of Credicorp’s stocks, which given the structure of BCP’s senior management’s compensation program (Stock Appreciation Rights – SAR – program) is based on the performance of Credicorp shares, and gave rise to provisions of US$ 16.4 million for 3Q06 (vs. US$ 8.8 million for 2Q06 and US$ 7 million for 1Q06) in this manner lowering BCP’s net income by US$ 7.6 million compared to the previous quarter.

In addition and as indicated above, Credicorp’s NII reflects a drop at BCP which is a result of the increased interest expense. Thus, the improved (7% higher) interest income on loans reported by BCP was not strong enough to offset the increase in interest expense as rates paid on deposits were raised and interest expense on borrowed funds also increased. These developments at BCP led to a drop in net interest income at Credicorp of 7.2% QoQ, down to US$ 120.7 million. Almost completely compensating for this drop in NII, loan provisions at BCP benefited again from improved portfolio quality, which led to provision reversals plus additional, higher-than-expected recoveries during 3Q06.  This resulted in income for the quarter of US$ 9.8 million on Credicorp’s books.

Non financial income, which includes fee income, also reflects improved business performance with a 17.6% QoQ growth.


















Credicorp Ltd.

 

Quarter

 

Change

 


















US$ thousands

 

3Q06

 

2Q06

 

3Q05

 

3Q06/3Q05

 

3Q06/2Q06

 


















Net Interest income

 

 

120,667

 

 

130,010

 

 

113,679

 

 

6.1

%

 

-7.2

%

Total provisions, net of recoveries

 

 

9,795

 

 

(251

)

 

4,886

 

 

100.5

%

 

-3999.7

%

Non financial income

 

 

85,286

 

 

72,513

 

 

72,614

 

 

17.5

%

 

17.6

%

Insurance premiums and claims

 

 

19,383

 

 

18,220

 

 

13,584

 

 

42.7

%

 

6.4

%

Operating expenses

 

 

(149,305

)

 

(130,104

)

 

(128,195

)

 

16.5

%

 

14.8

%

Tranlation results

 

 

832

 

 

3,448

 

 

(5,702

)

 

-114.6

%

 

-75.9

%

Worker’s profit sharing and income taxes

 

 

(31,340

)

 

(25,296

)

 

(20,311

)

 

54.3

%

 

23.9

%

Net income

 

 

55,319

 

 

68,539

 

 

50,556

 

 

9.4

%

 

-19.3

%

Minority Interest

 

 

3,997

 

 

4,105

 

 

2,990

 

 

33.7

%

 

-2.6

%

Net income attributed to Credicorp

 

 

51,321

 

 

64,434

 

 

47,566

 

 

7.9

%

 

-20.4

%

Net income/share (US$)

 

 

0.64

 

 

0.81

 

 

0.60

 

 

7.9

%

 

-20.4

%


















Total loans

 

 

5,592,231

 

 

5,501,004

 

 

4,651,259

 

 

20.2

%

 

1.7

%

Deposits and Obligations

 

 

7,974,586

 

 

7,922,208

 

 

6,725,496

 

 

18.6

%

 

0.7

%

Net Shareholders’ Equity

 

 

1,296,917

 

 

1,215,984

 

 

1,170,508

 

 

10.8

%

 

6.7

%


















Net interest margin

 

 

4.9

%

 

5.3

%

 

5.8

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

Efficiency ratio

 

 

43.7

%

 

41.3

%

 

41.7

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

Return on average shareholders’ equity

 

 

16.3

%

 

21.7

%

 

16.8

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

PDL/Total loans

 

 

1.6

%

 

1.7

%

 

2.5

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coverage ratio of PDLs

 

 

215.7

%

 

214.2

%

 

172.4

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

Employees

 

 

15,707

 

 

12,520

 

 

10,573

 

 

 

 

 

 

 












 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating costs however, mainly reflect the increased provisions for the SAR program at BCP and some increased costs related to the necessary network and personnel expansion to support retail growth. In addition, most operational costs are fixed in Peruvian Soles, which revalued this quarter and resulted in increased costs in US Dollar terms.

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Furthermore, in 3Q06 Credicorp reported about US$ 2.6 million less income compared to 2Q06 in the currency translation line which reflects the currency fluctuation effect on the open currency balance sheet positions.

These developments resulted in moderate deteriorations of ratios for the quarter, with NIM dropping to 4.9% from 5.3% QoQ, the efficiency ratio increasing to 43.7% from 41.3% and ROAE falling back to 16.3% from 21.7%, both also QoQ. This deterioration however, does not signify a trend turn-around but rather a short term effect of necessary adjustments to consolidate future growth., on a 9-month cumulative basis, ROAE for Credicorp reaches 19.25%, very close to our 20% target for the year.

Looking at Credicorp as the sum of the different contributors, aside from BCP, we see a continuing positive trend and the recovery of profitability in the results of Credicorp’s subsidiaries.  It is also clear that the drop in total net earnings attributable to Credicorp is exclusively a result of BCP’s results and thus, it is not a concern in terms of future earnings trends.

In fact, ASHC reports a contribution improvement of 25% QoQ and 17% YoY on a cumulative basis for the first 9 months of the year.

BCB, which is consolidated within BCP, reported a contribution that was 7% higher QoQ and 69% higher comparing the first 9-month periods.

PPS, which was our greatest concern, reported a 68% higher contribution QoQ and 112% higher on a 9-month cumulative comparison, thus maintaining its improved performance with a promising future outlook.  While business has grown, it has not grown enough to recover market share. However, management changes and cost control initiatives have contributed to the recovery of profitability in all insurance business sectors.

Finally, while Prima AFP continues to generate some losses, we expect that it will turn around in 2007 following the completition of the merger of Prima and Union Vida in December 2006. Prima’s results also include Unión Vida’s results and the ongoing merger costs, continuing to lead to overall losses.

The line for Credicorp & Other line, as explained in the past, includes not only the withholding tax on BCP’s dividends paid to Credicorp in 2006, which was already higher in line with increased earnings and dividends, but also due to the provisions for dividends expected in 2007, resulting this year in a double negative effect on Credicorp’s bottom line.



























(US$ Million)

 

3Q06

 

2Q06

 

3Q05

 

3Q06/3Q05

 

3Q06/2Q06

 

9m06

 

9m05

 

9m06/9m05

 



























Banco de Crédito BCP(1)

 

 

50,840

 

 

64,799

 

 

44,146

 

 

15

%

 

-22

%

 

173,256

 

 

130,469

 

 

33

%

BCB

 

 

3,492

 

 

3,261

 

 

2,813

 

 

24

%

 

7

%

 

9,809

 

 

5,814

 

 

69

%

Atlantic

 

 

3,780

 

 

3,014

 

 

3,628

 

 

4

%

 

25

%

 

11,687

 

 

9,995

 

 

17

%

PPS

 

 

4,586

 

 

2,730

 

 

2,400

 

 

91

%

 

68

%

 

10,004

 

 

4,713

 

 

112

%

Grupo Crédito (2)

 

 

(3,846

)

 

(2,785

)

 

(1,726

)

 

123

%

 

38

%

 

(7,110

)

 

(3,106

)

 

129

%

Prima

 

 

(4,934

)

 

(2,243

)

 

(3,488

)

 

41

%

 

120

%

 

(9,844

)

 

(3,936

)

 

150

%

Others

 

 

1,088

 

 

(542

)

 

1,762

 

 

-38

%

 

-301

%

 

2,734

 

 

830

 

 

229

%

Credicorp and Others (3)

 

 

(4,041

)

 

(3,323

)

 

(884

)

 

357

%

 

22

%

 

(20,898

)

 

(4,526

)

 

362

%

Credicorp Ltd.

 

 

(4,185

)

 

(3,376

)

 

(915

)

 

357

%

 

24

%

 

(21,299

)

 

(4,678

)

 

355

%

Otras

 

 

144

 

 

53

 

 

31

 

 

366

%

 

175

%

 

401

 

 

152

 

 

164

%

Net income attributable to Credicorp

 

 

51,319

 

 

64,435

 

 

47,564

 

 

8

%

 

-20

%

 

166,939

 

 

137,545

 

 

21

%





























(1)

Includes Banco de Crédito de Bolivia.

(2)

Includes Grupo Crédito, Servicorp

(3)

9M06 includes -13.0 MM of taxes on BCP’s dividends and -4.2 MM of loss in a FX hedging position over BCP’s dividends. Includes CCREM

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II. Banco de Crédito Consolidated

Net income at BCP for 3Q06 reached US$ 52.8 million, 21.5% lower than the extraordinarily high income reported the 2Q06 of US$ 67.3 million, though still 13.3% higher than the US$ 46.6 net income reported for 3Q05. Consequently, BCP’s ROAE dropped to 24.6% for the 3Q06, from a record high of 33.8% during the previous quarter, but was still better than the 23.1% ROAE from the previous year.


















Banco de Credito and Subsidiaries

 

Quarter

 

Change

 


















US$ 000

 

 

3Q06

 

 

2Q06

 

 

3Q05

 

 

3Q06/3Q05

 

 

3Q06/2Q06

 


















Net Financial income

 

 

107,063

 

 

114,148

 

 

100,541

 

 

6.5

%

 

-6.2

%

Total provisions, net of recoveries

 

 

7,392

 

 

(1,312

)

 

2,976

 

 

148.3

%

 

-663.3

%

Non financial income

 

 

74,176

 

 

70,987

 

 

70,119

 

 

5.8

%

 

4.5

%

Operating expenses

 

 

(112,666

)

 

(99,678

)

 

(99,175

)

 

13.6

%

 

13.0

%

Tranlation results

 

 

705

 

 

2,985

 

 

(5,155

)

 

-113.7

%

 

-76.4

%

Worker’s profit sharing and income taxes

 

 

(23,831

)

 

(19,786

)

 

(22,660

)

 

5.2

%

 

20.4

%

Net income

 

 

52,837

 

 

67,344

 

 

46,646

 

 

13.3

%

 

-21.5

%


















Net income/share (US$)

 

 

0.041

 

 

0.052

 

 

0.036

 

 

13.3

%

 

-21.5

%


















Total loans

 

 

5,514,218

 

 

5,385,246

 

 

4,514,320

 

 

22.1

%

 

2.4

%

Deposits and obligations

 

 

7,455,066

 

 

7,412,227

 

 

6,191,786

 

 

20.4

%

 

0.6

%

Shareholders equity

 

 

890,422

 

 

830,259

 

 

839,573

 

 

6.1

%

 

7.2

%


















Net interest margin

 

 

5.0

%

 

5.3

%

 

5.9

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

Efficiency ratio

 

 

52.0

%

 

48.6

%

 

49.5

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

Return on average equity

 

 

24.6

%

 

33.8

%

 

23.1

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

PDL/Total loans

 

 

1.5

%

 

1.6

%

 

2.5

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coverage ratio of PDLs

 

 

221.6

%

 

219.4

%

 

175.2

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

BIS ratio

 

 

10.4

%

 

10.7

%

 

12.4

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

Branches

 

 

231

 

 

229

 

 

212

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ATMs

 

 

625

 

 

601

 

 

543

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Employees

 

 

10,507

 

 

9,870

 

 

9,176

 

 

 

 

 

 

 












 

 

 

 

 

 

The important drop in net income is however primarily explained by the large provisions generated by the Stock Appreciation Rights (SAR) program which is part of the incentive compensation plan of senior management. Credicorp’s share price appreciated significantly (around 40%) from US$ 29.96 by the end of June 2006 to US$ 41.98 at the end of September. Thus, the provision charged in the 3Q06 was US$ 16.4 million, vs. US$ 8.8 million in the 2Q06 and US$ 7.0 million in 1Q06, thus accounting for US$ 7.6 million of the US$ 14.5 million QoQ drop in absolute terms of BCP’s net income. Another contributor to the overall drop of income was the US$ 2.2 million lower translation income generated this 3Q06 vs.2Q06 given the stability in the currency.

Nevertheless, there was also a short-term negative effect of our expansion strategy and focus on increasing banking penetration in our market. In fact, interest income on loans continued growing consistently at 7% QoQ and 21% YoY, showing stronger growth in the more profitable retail segment loan portfolio. However, a net drop in net interest income (depressing margins) for the quarter was reported and reflects the increase in interest expense resulting from a strategy to attract deposits, which grew 6% QoQ (in terms of monthly average balances), by raising our deposit rates, especially in Nuevos Soles, as an incentive to de-dollarize our Balance Sheet and attract new customers. Thus, total interest expenses on deposits grew 16% QoQ and 78% YoY. In addition, interest expenses on external borrowings also grew 49% QoQ and 187% YoY, following our strategic decisions to extend the duration of our funding, based on our asset & liability management, which determines liquidity, term and other hedging decisions. 

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Core Revenues

As explained before, despite a healthy growth in interest income following loan growth and a further shift towards more profitable loan portfolios, increased interest expense led to a net drop in net interest income of 6.2% QoQ. Though less significant in absolute terms, an important drop of 12.1% QoQ of gains in FX-transactions resulted from the reduced FX activity given the normalization of the political scenario and the narrowing of the FX-transaction spread. On the other hand, fee income shows healthy growth of 7.3% QoQ. The latter was however not enough to offset the NII drop described above, resulting in a net drop of core revenues of 2.4% QoQ, though still showing a 9.3% growth YoY.  


















Core Revenues

 

Quarter

 

Change

 


















US$ 000

 

 

3Q06

 

 

2Q06

 

 

3Q05

 

 

3Q06/3Q05

 

 

3Q06/2Q06

 


















Net interest and dividend income

 

 

107,063

 

 

114,148

 

 

100,541

 

 

6.5

%

 

-6.2

%

Fee income

 

 

59,441

 

 

55,399

 

 

53,048

 

 

12.1

%

 

7.3

%

Net gain on foreign exchange transactions

 

 

9,674

 

 

11,010

 

 

7,636

 

 

26.7

%

 

-12.1

%


















Core Revenues

 

 

176,177

 

 

180,557

 

 

161,225

 

 

9.3

%

 

-2.4

%


















Partly compensating for the increased interest expenses, loan provisions were only US$ 1.9 million for 3Q06, while recoveries from previously charged-off loans reached US$ 9.3 million, higher than projected. Thus the net effect is a positive net provision line of US$ 7.4 million for 3Q06 vs. US$ -1.3 million of net provisions in 2Q06.    

In fact, economic expansion and growing consumer confidence resulted in further improvement of portfolio quality, leading to lower provisioning requirements and lower past due loans. Thus, past due loans ratio reached only 1.52% at September 2006, down from 1.65% at June 2006 and 2.53% a year ago. The coverage ratio was at 221.62% as of September 2006, up from 219.38% at June 2006 and 175.25% a year ago. In absolute terms, past due loans reached US$ 83.8 million, 5.6% lower than in June 2006 and 26.6% lower than in September 2005.    

Total loan portfolio continued showing a healthy expansion, reaching by September 2006 US$ 5,514 million, which reflects a 2.4% loan growth QoQ and 22.1% YoY. As expected, growth is mainly concentrated in the SME segment (PYMES) with 6.1% QoQ and 31.1% YoY, Personal Banking,  which includes mortgages, credit cards and consumer loans, grew 5.4% QoQ and 21.9% YoY, Corporate Banking grew 2.3% QoQ and 20.4% YoY, and Middle Market reported a drop in the portfolio of 1.6% QoQ though still showing 21.2% growth YoY. 

The main funding source for BCP’s loan growth is its deposit base. This grew 0.6% QoQ and 20.4% YoY when comparing quarterly balance sheet numbers. However, when measuring monthly average balances; growth reaches an important 6.0% QoQ. Mutual funds managed by BCP grew also 9.0% QoQ and 17.3% YoY.

While operating income dropped 2.4% QoQ, operating costs (excluding other expenses) grew 4.5% QoQ. This led to a deterioration of the efficiency ratio to 52% for 3Q06, compared to 48.6% in 2Q06 and 49.5% in 3Q05.

On a cumulative basis, net income for the first 9 months of 2006 reached US$ 180.1 million, 32% higher than the net income of US$ 136.4 million reached in the same period of 2005. On the same cumulative comparison, net interest income is 15.1% higher, provisions are 76% lower, and the efficiency ratio remains below the 50% target for the year at 49.7%. Finally, ROAE for the first 9 months of 2006 reached 28.7%, an improvement compared to 23.8% ROAE for the first 9 months of the previous year. 

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II.1 Interest Earning Assets

A re-allocation of funds from BCRP has occurred during the 3Q06 after a more stable political scenario.


















Interest Earning Assets

 

Quarter

 

Change

 


















US$ 000

 

 

3Q06

 

 

2Q06

 

 

3Q05

 

 

3Q06/3Q05

 

 

3Q06/2Q06

 


















BCRP and Other Banks

 

 

2,008,805

 

 

2,536,908

 

 

1,359,070

 

 

47.8

%

 

-20.8

%

Interbank funds

 

 

206

 

 

1,918

 

 

1,495

 

 

-86.2

%

 

-89.3

%

Trading Securities

 

 

67,817

 

 

41,897

 

 

63,796

 

 

6.3

%

 

61.9

%

Available For Sale Securities

 

 

950,332

 

 

752,476

 

 

1,121,280

 

 

-15.2

%

 

26.3

%

Current Loans

 

 

5,430,468

 

 

5,296,554

 

 

4,400,155

 

 

23.4

%

 

2.5

%


















Total interest earning assets

 

 

8,457,628

 

 

8,629,753

 

 

6,945,797

 

 

21.8

%

 

-2.0

%


















After the political instability generated by the uncertainties of the electoral process during the first half of the year, the political scenario has stabilized through the policies implemented by the central government, generating more confidence in the economy and thus favoring further investments in general. As a result, excess liquidity accumulated by BCP in very liquid / low-return securities (such as deposits at the Central Bank-BCRP), have been reallocated to fund our loan expansion. Thus, deposits at BCRP dropped 21% QoQ and 48% YoY, while investments in securities grew significantly as did current loans. Nevertheless, total interest earning assets dropped 2% QoQ by approximately US$ 172 million in spite of loan and portfolio investment growth. 

As of September 2006, deposits at BCRP and other banks represented 24% of total interest earning assets, decreasing from 29% represented in last June and increasing from 20% represented in September 2005. Likewise, total investments (trading securities and investment available for sale) as of September 2006; make up for 12% of total interest earning assets vs. 9% of last June. Total loans, which make up for 64% of total IEA, are higher compared to 62% of last June.

Loan Portfolio

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Message

Loan growth is more accurately measured by comparing monthly average balances, which reflect growth in the retail segment in line with trends and expectations reaching 5.6% QoQ and 24.6% YoY. The strongest growth is reported in consumer loans at 9.7% QoQ and 27.4% YoY, followed by SME loans at 6.1% QoQ and 31% YoY, and mortgages growing at 3.8% QoQ and 16.6% YoY.

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In 3Q06 the Middle Market segment showed a drop of 1.6% QoQ. This is mainly the result of a decrease in loans for international trade business due to the end of the fishing season. However, on a yearly basis, this segment grew 21.2%, which is about 3 times GDP growth YoY. With respect to Corporate Banking, it continued growing, mainly in medium and long-term financing. Thus, Corporate Banking grew 2.3% QoQ and 20.4% YoY

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Market Share

Loan portfolio evolution per segment and product measured by market share is also consistent with loan growth and expectations. BCP’s market share in Credit Cards increased 60 bps QoQ, reaching 17.3%, while consumer credit and personal loans grew 30 bps, to a market share of 12.4%. Similarly, in mortgage loans (Mi Vivienda and traditional mortgages), BCP reached a 37.4% market share, up 50 bps QoQ, as well as in SME loans (PYMES) where it reached a market share of 17.8%, 40 bps up QoQ.

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This quarter, the de-dollarization of loans denoted some improvement QoQ, with 26% in Nuevos Soles vs. 74% in U.S. Dollars as of September 2006, compared to 24% vs. 76% respectively in June 2006. This way, improved confidence in the local currency, coupled with the increase in more attractive financial products offered in local currency are contributing  to the de-dollarization process of our portfolio and the economy in general.

II.2 Deposits and Mutual Funds

Solid deposit growth continues providing low cost funding to support loan growth.


















Deposits and Obligations

 

Quarter

 

Change

 


















US$(000)

 

 

3Q06

 

 

2Q06

 

 

3Q05

 

 

3Q06/3Q05

 

 

3Q06/2Q06

 


















Non-interest bearing deposits

 

 

1,721,237

 

 

1,777,777

 

 

1,445,784

 

 

19.1

%

 

-3.2

%

Demand deposits

 

 

640,093

 

 

499,889

 

 

566,061

 

 

13.1

%

 

28.0

%

Saving deposits

 

 

1,768,181

 

 

1,726,641

 

 

1,587,334

 

 

11.4

%

 

2.4

%

Time deposits

 

 

2,608,251

 

 

2,664,939

 

 

1,990,998

 

 

31.0

%

 

-2.1

%

Severance indemnity deposits (CTS)

 

 

684,988

 

 

714,963

 

 

578,442

 

 

18.4

%

 

-4.2

%

Interest payable

 

 

32,317

 

 

28,018

 

 

23,168

 

 

39.5

%

 

15.3

%


















Total customer deposits

 

 

7,455,066

 

 

7,412,227

 

 

6,191,786

 

 

20.4

%

 

0.6

%


















Mutual funds in Perú

 

 

1,161,376

 

 

1,065,034

 

 

990,111

 

 

17.3

%

 

9.0

%


















Mutual funds in Bolivia

 

 

54,225

 

 

57,811

 

 

55,681

 

 

-2.6

%

 

-6.2

%


















Total customer funds

 

 

8,670,667

 

 

8,535,072

 

 

7,237,578

 

 

19.8

%

 

1.6

%


















In terms of quarterly balances, deposits growth reached only 0.6% QoQ and 20.4% YoY. However, measuring monthly average balances, deposits growth is 6% QoQ, confirming its role as a solid source of funds for loan expansion. During 3Q06, deposits grew in volume, but its cost also increased as rates rose. Time deposits, savings and CTS deposits all registered increases in rates as a result of competitive pressure to retain clients. Despite these rate increases, BCP continues having the lowest cost of funds in the system.

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Based on these monthly average balances, market share of deposits as of September 2006 was 36.0% vs. 36.3% in June and 34.2% in September 2005. Market share of demand deposits was 39.6% and 41.6%, in local currency and US Dollars respectively. Time deposits market share was 15.2% and 38.0% in Soles and Dollars, and for Savings deposits these reached 31.3% and 42.9%, respectively. In CTS deposits, BCP maintains its leadership with a 55.5% market share.

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Currency composition of BCP’s deposits as of September 2006, reach 28% in local currency and 72% in US Dollars, compared to 27% and 73% respectively as of June 2006.

BCP, through its subsidiary Credifondo, continues being the mutual fund market leader with a 50.6% market share as of September 2006. Mutual funds of BCP continue showing consistent growth, reaching US$ 1,161 million in terms of administered funds, 9% larger than in June 2006 and 17% larger YoY.

II.3 Net Interest Income

Interest expenses increased at a higher rate compared to interest income due to higher deposit interest rates during the last quarter


















Net interest income

 

Quarter

 

Change

 


















US$000

 

 

3Q06

 

 

2Q06

 

 

3Q05

 

 

3Q06/3Q05

 

 

3Q06/2Q06

 


















Interest income

 

 

174,830

 

 

174,360

 

 

139,099

 

 

25.7

%

 

0.3

%

Interest on loans

 

 

137,090

 

 

128,072

 

 

113,494

 

 

20.8

%

 

7.0

%

Interest and dividends on investments

 

 

657

 

 

2,600

 

 

-

 

 

100

%

 

-74.7

%

Interest on deposits with banks

 

 

21,703

 

 

22,686

 

 

7,582

 

 

186.2

%

 

-4.3

%

Interest on trading securities and other

 

 

15,380

 

 

21,002

 

 

18,023

 

 

-14.7

%

 

-26.8

%

Interest expense

 

 

(67,767

)

 

(60,213

)

 

(38,558

)

 

75.8

%

 

12.5

%

Interest on deposits

 

 

(47,509

)

 

(40,988

)

 

(26,755

)

 

77.6

%

 

15.9

%

Interest on borrowed funds

 

 

(12,701

)

 

(8,544

)

 

(4,421

)

 

187.3

%

 

48.7

%

Other interest expense

 

 

(7,557

)

 

(10,681

)

 

(7,382

)

 

2.4

%

 

-29.2

%


















Net interest income

 

 

107,063

 

 

114,148

 

 

100,541

 

 

6.5

%

 

-6.2

%


















Average interest earning assets

 

 

8,543,953

 

 

8,557,659

 

 

6,872,234

 

 

24.3

%

 

-0.2

%


















Net interest margin

 

 

5.01

%

 

5.34

%

 

5.85

%

 

 

 

 

 

 












 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest on loans, the main element of net interest income, reflects healthy growth of 7% QoQ, proportionately higher than the 2.6% total loan growth, reflecting the good loan growth reported in the retail segment which contributes to a continuation of the portfolio shift towards higher yielding loans. Despite this excellent performance, a drop in interest on trading securities (lower yields on indexed CD’s), offsets the achieved growth in interest on loans leaving total interest income fairly flat QoQ.

Furthermore, during the 3Q06 we faced increased interest expense due to the rise in interest rates on deposits following some competitive pressure to retain and attract clients and maintain market share. Average rates on total deposits have been rising in the last months, reaching 2.60% in September 2006 vs. 2.43% in June (up 17bps).

On the other hand, throughout the year BCP has incurred additional debt in order to extend the duration of its funding and to lock in very attractive fixed long term funding, through different internationally-placed transactions. This is nevertheless more expensive funding than BCP’s traditional deposit base, but responds on the other hand to a conservative asset & liability management to cover mismatches in funding.  Furthermore, BCP entered into interest rate SWAP transactions which led to losses in 3Q06 that increased our cost of borrowed funds, after having reported gains in 2Q06.  This explains a QoQ differential in the cost of borrowed funds of around US$ 2 million.  Though interest on borrowed funds grows 48.7% QoQ, altogether interest expense grew 12.5% QoQ and 75.8% YoY. All these developments led to the drop in net interest income of 6.2% QoQ. On a yearly basis, NII is still 6.5% higher.

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As a result of this evolution in interest income and expenses and despite the slight drop in interest earning assets, NIM dropped to 5.01%, from 5.34% in 2Q06 and 5.85% in 3Q05.

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II.4 Provisions for loan losses, net of recoveries

3Q06 shows continued improvement in portfolio quality with past due loans ratio reaching 1.52% and coverage ratio reaching 221.62%.


















Provisión for loan losses

 

Quarter

 

Change

 







US$ 000

 

 

3Q06

 

 

2Q06

 

 

3Q05

 

 

3Q06/3Q05

 

 

3Q06/2Q06

 


















Provisions

 

 

(1,881

)

 

(10,525

)

 

(3,638

)

 

-48.3

%

 

-82.1

%

Loan loss recoveries

 

 

9,273

 

 

9,213

 

 

6,615

 

 

40.2

%

 

0.6

%


















Total provisions, net of recoveries

 

 

7,392

 

 

(1,312

)

 

2,976

 

 

148.3

%

 

-663.3

%


















Total loans

 

 

5,514,218

 

 

5,385,246

 

 

4,514,320

 

 

22.1

%

 

2.4

%


















Reserve for loan losses (RLL)

 

 

185,608

 

 

194,570

 

 

200,068

 

 

-7.2

%

 

-4.6

%


















Bcp’s Charge-Off amount

 

 

11,366

 

 

12,024

 

 

14,666

 

 

-22.5

%

 

-5.5

%


















Past due loans (PDL)

 

 

83,750

 

 

88,692

 

 

114,165

 

 

-26.6

%

 

-5.6

%


















PDL/Total loans

 

 

1.52

%

 

1.65

%

 

2.53

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coverage

 

 

221.62

%

 

219.38

%

 

175.25

%

 

 

 

 

 

 












 

 

 

 

 

 

The more stable political situation following the electoral process together with an increase in consumer confidence, generated a positive impact on provisions, recoveries of written-off loans and loan quality ratios.

The ratio of past due loans continued dropping despite loan growth and the significantly riskier retail and SME business expansion, reaching 1.52% at the end of 3Q06, from 1.65% in 2Q06 and 2.53% in 3Q05. This indicator is a true reflection of the high quality of BCP’s portfolio, as evident also by the 5.6% QoQ drop in absolute terms of past due loans down to US$ 83.8 million in 3Q06.

Reserves for loan losses also increased improving the coverage ratio to 221.6% in 3Q06 vs. 219.38% in 2Q06 and 175.25% in 3Q05.

This portfolio improvement led to lower provisioning requirements. In fact, the improved loan portfolio quality justified some provisioning reversals, leading to total provisions for the quarter of only 1.76% of NII compared to 9.22% in 2Q06 and 3.62% in 3Q05. Total provisions in 3Q06 decreased 82% QoQ, mainly due to a drop in provisions for commercial loans. This is the result of some reversals of provisions, which is a consequence of the improved quality of loan portfolio and a reduction in volume of PDL.  

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Thus, total provisions (new provisions plus provision reversals) during 3Q06 reached only US$ 1.9 million and were 82% lower than in 2Q06. Furthermore, recoveries from previously charged off loans were expected to drop from the high levels of recoveries from previous periods. However, these were still high in 3Q06 at US$ 9.2 million, maintaining a similar level as in 2Q06. Therefore, net provisions for the quarter turned positive, resulting in a US$ 7.4 million income for 3Q06.

II.5 Non financial income

Transactional business shows a steady growth according to BCP’s strategy.


















Non financial income

 

Quarter

 

Change

 


















US$ 000

 

 

3Q06

 

 

2Q06

 

 

3Q05

 

 

3Q06/3Q05

 

 

3Q06/2Q06

 


















Fee income

 

 

59,441

 

 

55,399

 

 

53,048

 

 

12.1

%

 

7.3

%

Net gain on foreign exchange transactions

 

 

9,674

 

 

11,010

 

 

7,636

 

 

26.7

%

 

-12.1

%

Net gain on sales of securities

 

 

3,112

 

 

1,056

 

 

4,796

 

 

-35.1

%

 

194.7

%

Other income

 

 

1,950

 

 

3,522

 

 

4,639

 

 

-58.0

%

 

-44.6

%


















Total non financial income

 

 

74,176

 

 

70,987

 

 

70,119

 

 

5.8

%

 

4.5

%


















Fee Income grew a solid 7.3% QoQ and 12.1% YoY as a result of the increased number of transactions. Monthly average volume growth of transactions of around 20% YoY to 24 million, confirms our strategy of reducing certain transaction fees in order to achieve a volume expansion, thus contributing to increase banking penetration. It is interesting to observe monthly average volume growth of transactions in the different distribution channels. Teller transactions, which make up 33% of total transactions, grew 1% QoQ and 10.1% YoY, whereas transactions through electronic channels (through ViaBCP-Internet-, ATMs, Telephone Banking, Agente Via BCP) which represent 48.1% of total transactions, grew 4.5% QoQ and 28.4% YoY, and other channels such as automatic debits, POS, ATMs of other bank networks and Telecrédito, grew 3% QoQ and 20.3% YoY. This increased number of transactions reflects the fee income growth despite the reduction in transaction fees for some products which were geared to increase banking penetration.

This volume growth was only possible due to an also important expansion in distribution channels.  Emphasis was placed on the expansion of not only traditional channels (16 more branches throughout 2006), as well as new, cost-effective and more accessible channels, such as the innovative “Agente ViaBcp”, which is expected to grow to over 440 agents expanding this way our points of attention by over 30% in one year.

Furthermore, fee income from commercial placements also reflected important growth of 31% due to among others, a better fee structure of BCP’s leasing transactions, becoming more competitive in the market. Fees from Credibolsa, our capital markets agent also benefited from increased capital markets activity growing over 63% QoQ.

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Fee Income

 

Quarter

 

Change

 







US$ 000

 

 

3Q06

 

 

2Q06

 

 

3Q05

 

 

3Q06/3Q05

 

 

3Q06/2Q06

 


















Saving Account

 

 

6,910

 

 

6,474

 

 

6,172

 

 

12.0

%

 

6.7

%

Demand Deposits

 

 

7,146

 

 

6,841

 

 

6,683

 

 

6.9

%

 

4.5

%

Credit cards

 

 

6,989

 

 

6,533

 

 

6,391

 

 

9.4

%

 

7.0

%

Fund transfer services

 

 

6,169

 

 

5,986

 

 

5,175

 

 

19.2

%

 

3.1

%

Collection fees

 

 

4,199

 

 

4,113

 

 

3,988

 

 

5.3

%

 

2.1

%

Billings & payments

 

 

5,128

 

 

4,576

 

 

4,265

 

 

20.2

%

 

12.1

%

Contingent and foreign trade

 

 

5,925

 

 

5,483

 

 

4,893

 

 

21.1

%

 

8.1

%

Debit card

 

 

2,686

 

 

2,506

 

 

2,569

 

 

4.6

%

 

7.2

%

Brokerage and fees

 

 

1,645

 

 

1,569

 

 

1,484

 

 

10.8

%

 

4.8

%

Commercial loans

 

 

2,580

 

 

1,968

 

 

1,971

 

 

30.9

%

 

31.1

%

Insurance

 

 

1,370

 

 

1,424

 

 

1,342

 

 

2.1

%

 

-3.8

%

Distribution channels and Others

 

 

3,033

 

 

2,841

 

 

3,504

 

 

-13.4

%

 

6.8

%

Personal loans, Mortgages and SME loans

 

 

1,710

 

 

1,795

 

 

1,704

 

 

0.4

%

 

-4.7

%

Credibolsa

 

 

1,463

 

 

897

 

 

619

 

 

136.3

%

 

63.1

%

Credifondo

 

 

2,489

 

 

2,393

 

 

2,289

 

 

8.7

%

 

4.0

%

Total fee income

 

 

59,441

 

 

55,398

 

 

53,048

 

 

12.1

%

 

7.3

%


















On the other hand, net gains on FX transactions dropped 12.1% QoQ. This was the result of tighter FX margins that were geared to attract customers from street transactions, and also the reduction in FX activity following a normalization of markets after the political uncertainties of the first half of the year.

Net gains on sale of securities reached a US$ 2.1 million profit contribution, in line with the recovery of the Lima Stock Exchange, which grew by 30.5% QoQ.

The 44.6% QoQ drop in other non-financial income is explained by a difference in income since the previous quarter included a reimbursement from the Peruvian IRS (SUNAT) related to taxes from the year 2001. This line is certainly less predictable.

II.6 Operating Expenses and Efficiency

The efficiency ratio has deteriorated to 52.03% during the 3Q06 due to an increase in operating expenses.


















Operating expenses

 

Quarter

 

Change

 







US$ 000

 

 

3Q06

 

 

2Q06

 

 

3Q05

 

 

3Q06/3Q05

 

 

3Q06/2Q06

 


















Salaries and employees benefits

 

 

46,370

 

 

44,284

 

 

37,907

 

 

22.3

%

 

4.7

%

Administrative, general and tax expenses

 

 

36,756

 

 

34,575

 

 

33,073

 

 

11.1

%

 

6.3

%

Depreciation and amortizacion

 

 

8,533

 

 

8,877

 

 

8,778

 

 

-2.8

%

 

-3.9

%

Other expenses

 

 

21,007

 

 

11,942

 

 

19,418

 

 

8.2

%

 

75.9

%


















Total operating expenses

 

 

112,666

 

 

99,678

 

 

99,175

 

 

13.6

%

 

13.0

%


















Efficiency Ratio

 

 

52.03

%

 

48.59

%

 

49.47

%

 

 

 

 

 

 












 

 

 

 

 

 

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Though cost controls have been very effective in the previous periods, the excellent performance of Credicorp’s stock and its very strong appreciation led to a significant increase of provisions required by the Stock Appreciation Rights Program which is part of senior management’s compensation plan. Thus, Other Expenses grew 75.9% QoQ and 8.2% YoY, this being the main reason behind the 13.0% increase of total operating expenses. The increase in salaries and employees benefits responds to some real increase, fueled by the expansion in the retail business. Besides the real increases, there is also a currency translation effect, since most operating costs are fixed in Nuevos Soles and given its appreciation, resulted in a higher U.S. Dollar amount.

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3Q06

 

 

2Q06

 

 

Change

 












Other Provisions *

 

 

-2,117

 

 

-1,871

 

 

13.1

%

Provision for Stock Appreciation Rights

 

 

-16,392

 

 

-8,807

 

 

86.1

%

Other

 

 

-2,498

 

 

-1,263

 

 

97.7

%












TOTAL

 

 

-21,007

 

 

-11,942

 

 

75.9

%














*

Includes provisions for account receivables, realized assets, assets seized, contingencies and country risk.

It should be mentioned however, that we have entered a hedging program to avoid future income volatility generated by these provisions. However, the strong appreciation of Credicorp’s stock occurred during a short time span, when the hedge was being implemented and thus we were only able to partially benefit from it. It is therefore noteworthy, that the hedge has avoided an additional US$ 5.1 million in provisions that would have been otherwise necessary. The full hedge should be in place by the end of the year.

While operating income dropped 2.4% QoQ, operating costs grew 13% QoQ. This led to a deterioration of the efficiency ratio to 52% for 3Q06, compared to 48.6% in 2Q06 and 49.5% in 3Q05.

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II.7 Shareholders’ Equity and Regulatory Capital


















Shareholders’ equity

 

Quarter

 

Change

 







US$ 000

 

 

3Q06

 

 

2Q06

 

 

3Q05

 

 

3Q06/3Q05

 

 

3Q06/2Q06

 


















Capital stock

 

 

364,706

 

 

364,706

 

 

364,706

 

 

0.0

%

 

0.0

%

Reserves

 

 

242,889

 

 

242,889

 

 

210,928

 

 

15.2

%

 

0.0

%

Unrealized Gains and Losses

 

 

46,428

 

 

39,102

 

 

47,149

 

 

-1.5

%

 

18.7

%

Retained Earnings

 

 

56,337

 

 

56,337

 

 

80,427

 

 

-30.0

%

 

0.0

%

Net income for the year

 

 

180,062

 

 

127,225

 

 

136,363

 

 

32.0

%

 

41.5

%


















Total shareholders’ equity

 

 

890,422

 

 

830,259

 

 

839,573

 

 

6.1

%

 

7.2

%


















Return on average equity (ROAE)

 

 

24.57

%

 

33.77

%

 

23.08

%

 

 

 

 

 

 












 

 

 

 

 

 

BCP’s shareholders’ equity reached US$890 million as of September 2006. Due to this increase in shareholders’ equity and the decrease in this quarter’s net income, ROAE was 24.57%, compared to 33.77% in 2Q06 and 23.08% in 3Q05. Despite that, ROAE for the first nine months of 2006 was 28.56% higher than the 23.75% for the same period of 2005.

The ratio of regulatory capital to risk weighted assets for BCP unconsolidated as of September 30, 2006 reached 10.44% with a Tier I ratio of 12.5%. Risk weighted assets include US$ 326 million of market risk, which require US$29.6 million of regulatory capital. Regulatory capital includes a reduced US$ 23.4 million subordinated debt.  During the last months of the year, the capital adequacy ratio of BCP has grown due to higher growth of direct and contingent loans, exceeding the internal limit of 10.5%. For this reason, BCP decided to issue in October 2006, subordinated bonds of about US$ 120 million in the international capital markets.

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Nevertheless, the BIS ratio at BCP is still above the minimum requirements by Basel I and Peruvian authority regulations (10.4%). Local regulations establish a minimum of 9.1% capital, while Basel I suggests a minimum of 8%.


















Regulatory Capital and Capital Adequacy Ratios

 

Quarter

 

Change

 







US$ 000

 

 

3Q06

 

 

2Q06

 

 

3Q05

 

 

3Q06/3Q05

 

 

3Q06/2Q06

 


















Capital Stock, net

 

 

395,977

 

 

394,762

 

 

384,727

 

 

2.9

%

 

0.3

%

Legal and Other capital reserves

 

 

280,941

 

 

280,079

 

 

240,874

 

 

16.6

%

 

0.3

%

Generic Contingency loss reserves

 

 

52,786

 

 

39,073

 

 

41,398

 

 

27.5

%

 

35.1

%

Subordinated Debt

 

 

23,389

 

 

25,882

 

 

41,073

 

 

-43.1

%

 

-9.6

%


















Total

 

 

753,093

 

 

739,795

 

 

708,072

 

 

6.4

%

 

1.8

%


















Less: Investment in multilateral organization and banks

 

 

(144,816

)

 

(139,069

)

 

(150,652

)

 

-3.9

%

 

4.1

%


















Total regulatory capital

 

 

608,277

 

 

600,726

 

 

557,420

 

 

9.1

%

 

1.3

%


















Risk-weighted assets

 

 

5,501,521

 

 

5,263,409

 

 

4,290,591

 

 

28.2

%

 

4.5

%


















Market Risk

 

 

29,643

 

 

33,002

 

 

17,617

 

 

68.3

%

 

-10.2

%


















Capital Ratios:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 












 

 

 

 

 

 

Regulatory capital as a percentage of risk-weighted assets

 

 

10.44

%

 

10.68

%

 

12.43

%

 

 

 

 

 

 












 

 

 

 

 

 

Ratio of risk-weighted assets to regularoy capital

 

 

9.58

 

 

9.37

 

 

8.04

 

 

 

 

 

 

 












 

 

 

 

 

 

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Awards

Banco de Crédito del Perú

At the annual Banks of the Year awards organized by Latin Finance Magazine, BCP was named Best Bank in Peru - Banco del Año - Perú 2006, recognizing the bank’s excellence and leadership among the highest ranking financial institutions of the region.

In addition, on October 13, 2006, the rating agency FITCH Ratings assigned an Investment Grade - BBB- rating to Banco de Crédito del Perú (“BCP”) as long-term issuer of debt in U.S. dollars and Soles (Long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings – IDRs). This rating placed BCP’s foreign currency issues one notch above the Peruvian government’s Global Bond rating of BB+ assigned by FITCH Ratings. Under the methodology used by FITCH Ratings, the highest possible rating that can be obtained by a local private corporation in Peru is BBB-; being Banco de Crédito del Perú the first Peruvian company to obtain such rating, which is another step towards obtaining an Investment Grade Rating for the country.

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III. Banco de Crédito de Bolivia

III.1 Bolivian Financial System

Bank deposits slightly increased QoQ, reaching US$ 3,008 million as of September 2006, from US$ 2,840 million as of June 2006, an increase of 6.0% vis-á-vis the US$2,839 million as of September 2005. The system’s total loans reached US$ 2,728 million, 2.9% more than the US$ 2,650 million achieved in June 2006. It is also noteworthy that the quality of loan portfolio improved with past due loan ratios decreasing QoQ from10.5% to 10.1%. The coverage of past due loans with provisions was 83.8%, greater that the 83.0% level reached in the previous quarter.

III.2 Net Income

Net income of BCB reached US$ 3.5 million, 6.1% higher than the net income of US$ 3.3 million registered in 2Q06, and similar to the US$ 3.5 million in 3Q05. This way, BCB continues with the upward trend experienced during the last year, showing an ROE as of September 2006 of 21.0%, significantly higher than the 10.9% ROE of the system, and with a past due loan ratio of 4.3%, a much better level than the 10.1% of the system. Altogether, BCB shows a consistent and solid recovery, with profitability and loan quality ratios superior to those of the Bolivian banking system.

III.3 Assets and Liabilities

Total loans as of June 2006 were US$ 379.8 million, reflecting a 5.4% QoQ growth. This is the result of a well diversified loan growth in the different business segments.

As mentioned above, BCB’s loan portfolio quality is superior to the system. Past due loans over total loans reached 4.3% as of September 2006. This represents a further improvement from 4.9% past due ratio for 2Q06, and an even more significant progress compared to the 10.1% of the system.

On the other hand, BCB’s total deposits also increased 9.0% QoQ and 21.2% YoY, mainly due to a new savings campaign, since June 2006, with a very appealing interest rate (4.8%), which led to a migration of clients from mutual funds (Credifondo) to BCB’s savings accounts.

The following chart presents figures and indicators of BCB:


















Banco de Crédito de Bolivia

 

Quarter

 

Change

 







US$ million

 

 

3Q06

 

 

2Q06

 

 

3Q05

 

 

3Q06/3Q05

 

 

3Q06/2Q06

 


















Total Loans

 

 

379.8

 

 

360.3

 

 

334.5

 

 

13.5

%

 

5.4

%

Past due loans

 

 

16.4

 

 

17.7

 

 

23.1

 

 

-29.0

%

 

-7.3

%

Loan loss reserves

 

 

-24.6

 

 

-25

 

 

-26.9

 

 

-8.6

%

 

-1.6

%

Total Assets

 

 

576.8

 

 

531.9

 

 

505.9

 

 

14.0

%

 

8.4

%

Deposits

 

 

451.3

 

 

414

 

 

372.5

 

 

21.2

%

 

9.0

%

Shareholders net equity

 

 

66.3

 

 

62.8

 

 

61.9

 

 

7.1

%

 

5.6

%


















Net income

 

 

3.5

 

 

3.3

 

 

3.5

 

 

0.0

%

 

6.1

%


















PDL/Total loans

 

 

4.3

%

 

4.9

%

 

6.9

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coverage ratio of PDLs

 

 

149.9

%

 

141.4

%

 

116.4

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROAE

 

 

21.0

%

 

20.7

%

 

14.2

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

Branches

 

 

54

 

 

51

 

 

48

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ATMs

 

 

138

 

 

134

 

 

121

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Employees

 

 

1084

 

 

1062

 

 

901

 

 

 

 

 

 

 












 

 

 

 

 

 

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IV. Atlantic Security Holding Corporation

Net income for Atlantic Security Holding Corporation (ASHC) of US$ 3.8 million for 3Q06 reflected growth of 4.2% YoY and 25.4% QoQ.

Core revenues however, fell 17.1% QoQ as a result of lower yields in asset composition, but remained still 1.3% higher YoY.  Margins tightened and asset growth slowed with respect to the first half of 2006.  Additionally, reduced fees and commissions’ income and negative net foreign exchange transactions placed a further drag on 3Q06 core revenues.  Despite this drop in core revenues, stable operating expenses, provision reversals, net gains from sale of securities and other income contributed to reverse the effect and resulted in the reported increase in net income for the quarter.


















ASHC

 

Quarter

 

Change %

 







(US$ Million)

 

3Q06

 

2Q06

 

3Q05

 

3Q06 / 3Q05

 

3Q06 / 2Q06

 













Net interest income

 

 

3.1

 

 

3.3

 

 

3.0

 

 

2.1

 

 

-6.8

 

Dividend income

 

 

0.1

 

 

0.2

 

 

0.1

 

 

137.8

 

 

-47.1

 

Fees and commissions from services

 

 

1.3

 

 

1.7

 

 

1.2

 

 

13.7

 

 

-22.9

 

Net gains on foreign exchange transactions

 

 

-0.2

 

 

0.0

 

 

0.1

 

 

-429.9

 

 

-1,113.3

 

Core Revenues

 

 

4.3

 

 

5.2

 

 

4.3

 

 

1.3

 

 

-17.1

 


















Total provisions, net of recoveries

 

 

0.4

 

 

-0.2

 

 

-0.2

 

 

300.0

 

 

363.2

 

Net gains from sale of securities

 

 

0.4

 

 

-0.2

 

 

1.4

 

 

-67.2

 

 

383.3

 

Other income

 

 

0.6

 

 

0.0

 

 

0.2

 

 

277.4

 

 

25,282.8

 

Operating expenses

 

 

-2.0

 

 

-1.9

 

 

-2.0

 

 

-2.5

 

 

-5.9

 


















Net income

 

 

3.8

 

 

3.0

 

 

3.6

 

 

4.2

 

 

25.4

 


















Net income/share

 

 

0.1

 

 

0.1

 

 

0.1

 

 

4.2

 

 

25.4

 


















Total loans

 

 

132.7

 

 

118.6

 

 

130.6

 

 

1.6

 

 

11.9

 

Total investments available for sale

 

 

691.4

 

 

634.4

 

 

556.9

 

 

24.1

 

 

9.0

 

Total asset

 

 

1,367.8

 

 

1,337.6

 

 

1,003.4

 

 

36.3

 

 

2.3

 

Total deposits

 

 

1,164.1

 

 

1,143.1

 

 

821.3

 

 

41.7

 

 

1.8

 

Shareholder’s equity

 

 

171.4

 

 

162.7

 

 

161.8

 

 

6.0

 

 

5.4

 


















Net interest margin

 

 

1.02

%

 

1.15

%

 

1.53

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

Efficiency ratio

 

 

37.5

%

 

37.7

%

 

34.1

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

Return on average equity

 

 

9.1

%

 

7.4

%

 

9.1

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

PDL / Total loans

 

 

0.00

 

 

0.00

 

 

0.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 












 

 

 

 

 

 

Cover ratio

 

 

1.9

%

 

3.0

%

 

2.2

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

BIS ratio

 

 

16.94

%

 

17.05

 

 

16.88

%

 

 

 

 

 

 












 

 

 

 

 

 

Although net interest income rose 2.1% YoY, on a QoQ comparison net interest income fell by 6.8%.  As previously mentioned, asset growth has slowed, posting 2.3% QoQ and 36.3% YoY. This reduced growth is best explained by the political uncertainty related to the Peruvian electoral process during the first semester of 2006, which largely dissipated during this quarter.

As far as asset composition is concerned, the trend toward lower yielding – less risky assets has continued through 3Q06.  The yield curve, on the other hand, has remained steady for the most part of the quarter, although it has shifted from flat to slightly negative, further tightening margins. This was evidenced by the drop in net interest margin from 1.15% in 2Q06 to 1.02% in 3Q06.  Once rates begin to ease and the yield curve once again turns positive, ASHC should generate higher margins. 

Fees and commissions grew 13.7% YoY, but fell 22.9% QoQ.  The reduction is best explained mostly by lower commission fees vis-a-vis the 2Q06 during which extraordinary growth in the asset management business leading to higher fee income for that quarter. Therefore, the fees and commission income posted for 3Q06 is in-line with expected values.

Net income received increased US$ 400,000 due to net gains from the sale of securities.  Provision reversals, reflecting improvements in the quality of investments, contributed an additional US$ 400,000.  Other income of US$ 600,000 refers to the reversal of provisions from previous accounting periods.  Finally, operating expenses remained stable, reflected by an unchanged efficiency rating.

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Interest Earning Assets

Interest earning assets reached US$ 1.2 million, as shown in the table below.  Although growth is evident, the variation of 41.3% YoY vs. 2.3% QoQ illustrates that the rate of growth is now lower than that recorded during the first half of 2006.  The rebalancing of the investment portfolio towards less risky and more liquid securities is clearly demonstrated by the graphs below.


















INTEREST EARNING ASSETS*

 

Quarter

 

Change

 







(US$ Million)

 

3Q06

 

2Q06

 

3Q05

 

3Q06/3Q05

 

3Q06/2Q06

 













Due from banks

 

 

463

 

 

506

 

 

239

 

 

93.5

%

 

-8.5

%

Loans

 

 

133

 

 

119

 

 

131

 

 

1.6

%

 

11.9

%

Investments

 

 

631

 

 

575

 

 

498

 

 

26.6

%

 

9.8

%


















Total interest-earning assets

 

 

1,226

 

 

1,199

 

 

868

 

 

41.3

%

 

2.3

%




















(*)

Excludes investments in equities and mutual funds.


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Asset Management Business

Third party managed funds include customer deposits, mutual funds and securities custody. These funds grew 9.9% QoQ and 46.1% YoY, reaching US$ 2.5 billion in 3Q06. Some migration from time deposits to mutual and investment funds is expected, but both continue to grow independently.  Time deposits currently grow at a slower rate than mutual and investment funds (deposits 1.8% QoQ and mutual and investment funds 18.0%).

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V. Prima AFP

Pension Fund Market

In 3Q06, growth from affiliated pensioners was slightly lower (+2.2% reaching 3.78 million affiliates) due to a higher migration rate, which continued increasing to approximately 60,000 per month.  The solid return on administered funds once again generated strong growth in the total administered funds (+12.9%) reaching US$ 12.9 billion.  Competition within the system continued to increase, affecting the operating expenses of the business, as well as the number of sales people which grew to 5,443.

There was a recovery in operating income to US$ 5.0 million during the quarter, mainly due to double collections in August.  As a result of high returns on investments, as well as the good returns of the system’s legal reserves, the system’s net profit reached US$ 13.4 million for 3Q06.

Private Pension Fund System:  Main Indicators

 

 
















 

 

3Q06

 

2Q06

 

1Q06

 

2005

 

2004

 













Affiliates mm

 

 

3.831

 

 

3.775

 

 

3.693

 

 

3.637

 

 

3.397

 

% Change

 

 

1.50

%

 

2.2

%

 

1.6

%

 

7.1

%

 

6.4

%

Contributors mm (1)

 

 

n.d.

 

 

1.387

 

 

1.377

 

 

1.367

 

 

1.304

 

% Change

 

 

n.d.

 

 

0.80

%

 

0.7

%

 

4.9

%

 

4.7

%

Contributor-to-Affiliate ratio (2)

 

 

n.d.

 

 

37

%

 

37

%

 

39

%

 

40

%


















Sales force

 

 

5,443

 

 

4,798

 

 

4,355

 

 

3,989

 

 

1,115

 

Assets under management (US$ mm)

 

 

12,855

 

 

11,385

 

 

10,290

 

 

9,494

 

 

7,894

 

% Change (3)

 

 

12.9

%

 

10.6

%

 

8.4

%

 

20.3

%

 

24.1

%


















Income (US$ mm)

 

 

51.3

 

 

40.3

 

 

49.0

 

 

182.8

 

 

182.5

 

Operating expenses (US$ mm)

 

 

46.3

 

 

41.0

 

 

35.5

 

 

105.6

 

 

84.0

 

Operating income (US$ mm)

 

 

5

 

 

(0.7

)

 

13.5

 

 

77.2

 

 

98.5

 

Net Income (US$ mm)

 

 

13.4

 

 

3.5

 

 

13.8

 

 

63.7

 

 

71.0

 




















(1)

Average affiliates 12 months.

(2)

Based on average affiliates.

(3)

Quarter Variation for 1Q2006.

(4)

First Quarter includes a double collecting month.

Prima AFP

In 3Q06, Prima AFP continued to grow while maintaining its high portfolio quality.  The number of affiliates surpassed 125,000.  The contributors’ ratio remained high at 89%.

PRIMA AFP: Main indicators

 

















 

 

 

3Q06

 

 

2Q06

 

 

1Q06

 

 

4Q05

 

 

3Q06/2Q06

 


















Funds under management US$mm

 

 

929

 

 

713

 

 

533

 

 

255

 

 

30.3

%

Affiliates (1)

 

 

125,840

 

 

97,068

 

 

73,794

 

 

51,838

 

 

29.6

%

Contributors (2)

 

 

93,352

 

 

72,152

 

 

49,506

 

 

19,401

 

 

29.4

%

Adjusted contributor-to-affiliate ratio (3)

 

 

89

%

 

89

%

 

90

%

 

84

%

 

—  

 




















(1)

According to Superintendencia de Banca y Seguros, does not include June’s sales.

(2)

Company estimates of affiliates whose commissions were paid in the month.  Does not include contributors that are still in the transfer process from another Pension Fund Manager.

(3)

Takes into account the transfer process.

PRIMA reached these results via the expansion of its sales force to over 1,000, following the trend within the industry.

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PRIMA AFP: Evolution of sales force

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                                 Source: SBS

Prima’s market share in terms of administered funds and income continued to grow.

PRIMA AFP: Administered Fund (US$ mm) and Monthly Revenues (US$ thousands) (1)

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Source: SBS

(1)

There was a non traditional credit in payment on March.

For 3Q06, Prima again reported losses, despite its continued growth in income, better returns on invested reserves and the consolidation of Union Vida’s results into Prima’s results. Prima’s increased commercial expenses related to intense competitive pressure resulting from the acquisition of AFP Union Vida and extensive related pre-merger expenses which included a loss of US$ 2.3 million of Prima’s deferred taxes, made it difficult to break-even. On its Balance Sheet a US$ 112 million increase in capital was recorded, which added to the US$ 29 million in funding from BCP provided to acquire 99.97% of AFP Union Vida shares.  This operation mainly explains the increase in equity, assets and liabilities, though it should be noted that the Company purchased its Headquarters’ building for US$ 7.2 million via a BCP loan.

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Main indicators of Prima’s results are in the following chart:

PRIMA AFP: Main Financial indicators (US$ m) (1)

 

















 

 

 

3Q06

 

 

2Q06

 

 

1Q06

 

 

4Q05

 

 

3Q06/2Q06

 


















Income

 

 

8,587

 

 

4,823

 

 

2,298

 

 

428

 

 

78.0

%

Operating Losses

 

 

(12,310

)

 

(8,314

)

 

(4,314

)

 

(11,086

)

 

48.1

%

Net Losses

 

 

(7,097

)

 

(4,909

)

 

(2,668

)

 

(7,646

)

 

44.6

%


















Current Assets

 

 

1,580

 

 

1,294

 

 

5,324

 

 

6,995

 

 

22.1

%

Total Assets

 

 

173,323

 

 

21,430

 

 

21,807

 

 

18,229

 

 

708.8

%

Total Liabilities

 

 

45,262

 

 

3,181

 

 

3,244

 

 

2,810

 

 

1322.9

%

Net Worth

 

 

128,061

 

 

18,248

 

 

18,563

 

 

15,419

 

 

601.8

%




















(1)

End of period numbers.

New Merger Developments

On August 24, 2006 the payment of 99.97% of the shares of AFP Union Vida was concluded.  The merger is tentatively scheduled to be completed on December 1, 2006.  Among the main advances made during the quarter were the investment policy alignment, communications to affiliates, the reduction of commissions to 1.5%, sales force adjustments, the definition of systems that will be enforced after the merger, as well as the establishment of a smooth communication process and inter-action with UV’s personnel.

Once the merger is completed, the company will achieve a market share between 25% and 29% as observed in the following chart:

 

 

 

 











 

 

 

 

PRIMA

 

Union Vida

 

Total

 











Affiliates

 

 

Number

 

 

125,840

 

 

846,159

 

 

971,999

 

 

 

 

%

 

 

3.30

%

 

22.10

%

 

25.40

%















Contributors

 

 

Number

 

 

93,352

 

 

261,541

 

 

354,893

 

 

 

 

%

 

 

6.70

%

 

18.70

%

 

25.30

%















Income

 

 

US$ mm

 

 

8.59

 

 

30.39

 

 

38.98

 

 

 

 

%

 

 

6.20

%

 

21.80

%

 

28.00

%















FUM

 

 

US$ mm

 

 

929

 

 

2749

 

 

3678

 

 

 

 

%

 

 

7.20

%

 

21.40

%

 

28.60

%















Salaries

 

 

US$ mm

 

 

72.8

 

 

149.5

 

 

222.3

 

 

 

 

%

 

 

9.10

%

 

18.70

%

 

27.80

%

















(1)

Figures as of september 2006.  Salaries are estimated over july and august collection.

 

 

Source: SBS.

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VI. EL PACIFICO PERUANO SUIZA AND SUBSIDIARIES (PPS)

Results obtained by PPS for 3Q06 show a continued recovery from 2005, which was characterized by higher claims and business management problems. This improvement led to better Underwriting Results and Net income, which were above those reported in 2Q06.

VI.1 Net Income

Net consolidated income before minority interest for 3Q06 reached US$ 6.6 million, (US$ 6.1 million in 2Q06), showing an increase of 8% QoQ, and 80% with respect to the US$ 3.7 million reported in 3Q05. However, Credicorp’s contribution for 3Q06 (after consolidated adjustments and minority interest of Credicorp), reached US$ 4.6 million, 68% higher than the US$ 2.7 million obtained in 2Q06 and 91% above the contribution in 3Q05.

These improved results represent the recovery in earnings within the Health (EPS) business, which reached net income of US$ 1.3 million in 3Q06 after reporting a loss of US$ 353 thousand in 3Q05. In addition, there was an important increase of 67% (3Q06 vs. 3Q05) in net income within the Property & Casualty business (PPS) as well as an increase of 12% in net income in the Life Insurance (PV) business.

VI.2 Revenue and Operating Expenses

During 3Q06, earnings related to Total Premiums increased 8% compared to 3Q05. Technical Reserves in the Life Insurance business decreased significantly due to a reduction in Life Annuities premiums, leading to a decrease in the technical reserve of US$ 2.7 million. In addition, the Net Earned Loss Ratio (NEL) reached 68.5%, 6.6 pp lower than 3Q05, which led to 86% increase in the underwriting result compared to 3Q05. On the other hand, despite an increase in operating expenses, the ratio of expenses to Net Premiums Earned decreased from 24.5% in 3Q05 to 23% in 3Q06 best explained by an increase of 16% in net premiums earned.

Net Premiums Earned reached US$ 67.4 million, 16% higher than 3Q05. This is the result of an 8% increase in Total Premiums, fueled mostly by an 11% increase in the P&C business (PPS), mainly in Fire, Automotive and Transportation. Also contributing to this growth was the performance of Health (PS) which grew 4.8% as well as Life (PV), which increased 5.6%.

It is important to note that the decrease of 10% in Reserves with respect to 3T05. Though P&C business’s (PPS) grew 11% in total premiums leading to an increase in reserves of US$ 1.3 million, reserves in Life Insurance (PV) decreased by US$ 2.7 million mainly as a result of a drop in Life Annuities due to a market reduction thus resulting in the overall drop.












US$ MM

 

3Q06

 

3Q05

 

Change

 












Total Gross Premium

 

 

95.7

 

 

88.6

 

 

8

%

Retained Premium

 

 

80.2

 

 

72.4

 

 

11

%

Reserve Adjustments

 

 

12.9

 

 

14.4

 

 

-10

%

Net Premiums Earned

 

 

67.4

 

 

58.0

 

 

16

%












Net Earned Loss Ratio (NEL) for 3Q06 was 68.5%, 6.6 percentage points below 3Q05 and 10.0 percentage points below previous 2Q06.  Although NEL for General Insurance fell to 56% in this quarter, 5.0 points below 3Q05, a stronger effect in the general NEL ratio comes from the decrease in the Reserve Adjustments in Pacifico Vida, which decreased the segment’s ratio to 75% compared to 90% in 3Q05.  The Health Segment (EPS) also had a favorable effect in the NEL ratio, decreasing since it drops to 81% compared to 84.5% in 3Q05.

Net Claims reached US$ 46.1 millions, 5.8% higher than 3Q05 and 4.7% higher than 2Q06.  However, the proportionately higher growth of net premiums earned led to improved NEL ratios.

Financial Income for 3Q06 reached US$ 6.6 million, 4.7% above 3Q05.  This improvement is the result of increased returns achieved on investments via PPS and PV due to the expanded investment portfolio for both funds.  Other Income includes earnings on security sales, which was US$ 1.0 million higher than those recorded in 2Q06. In total, other income was 12% higher than the same period in 2005.

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Salaries and Employees Benefits grew 25% QoQ as a result of provisions for the profit sharing annual payment at PPS and PV.

General Expenses and Other Operating Expenses decreased 11.6% QoQ, as expenses in 3Q06 normalized after different write-offs which amounted to US$ 2.0 million in 2Q06, including the depreciation of PPS office building and certain losses from previous exercises.

VI.3 Business Lines

Total contribution to BAP
(In US$, thousands)

 




















 

 

PPS

 

PV
(after
Minority
Interest)

 

EPS

 

Net Income

 

Adjustments
for
Consolidation

 

Total
Contribution
to BAP

 















3Q05

 

 

1,502

 

 

1,554

 

 

(353

)

 

2,703

 

 

(304

)

 

2,399

 

4Q05

 

 

(3,741

)

 

5,732

 

 

(1,283

)

 

708

 

 

197

 

 

905

 

1Q06

 

 

49

 

 

1,459

 

 

1,433

 

 

2,941

 

 

(252

)

 

2,689

 

2Q06

 

 

2,303

 

 

2,231

 

 

204

 

 

4,738

 

 

(2,008

)

 

2,730

 

3Q06

 

 

2,500

 

 

1,740

 

 

1,278

 

 

5,519

 

 

(933

)

 

4,586

 

Change 3Q06/2Q06

 

 

9

%

 

-22

%

 

527

%

 

17

%

 

 

 

 

68

%

Change 3Q06/3Q05

 

 

67

%

 

12

%

 

462

%

 

104

%

 

 

 

 

91

%

Property & Casualty (PPS)

Premiums for this segment dropped 4.5% QoQ, though were still 11% higher YoY.

Underwriting Results were flat QoQ,  which together with a slight reduction in costs and a still low claims ratio, led to Net Earnings for PPS ,of US$ 2.5 million, 8.6% higher QoQ, a significant and consistent improvement.

Life (PV)

Total Premiums increased 4.4% QoQ and 5.6% YoY, with underwriting results significantly better for 3Q06 at US$ 1.4 million, i.e. US$ 1.8 million above 3Q05. Financial income was also better this quarter. However, increased expenses and a US$ 2.5 million expense for profit sharing resulted in a contribution 22% below the previous quarter.

Health (EPS)

Total Premiums at EPS reflected 3.6% QoQ and 4.8% YoY. However, Net Earned Loss ratio improved to 81% vs. 84.5% in 2Q05, leading to Underwriting Result of US$ 2.3 million. Though this underwriting result was lower QoQ, in the absence of the extraordinary costs reported last quarter, earnings contribution was higher at US$ 1.3 million.

VI. 4 Claims

Net Claims continue an improving trend with a 5.8% decrease YoY reaching US$ 46 million. NEL ratio was 68.5% for the Consolidated Insurance business. In General Insurance, the losses were 5% below 3Q05, while Life and Health were 15.0 and 3.5 points lower, respectively.  Lower losses in General Insurance were due to reduced claims in the Fire, Civil Responsibility and Marine Hull businesses.

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On the other hand, claims in the Life segment increased by US$ 1.1 million, basically due to claims in Individual Annuities and Disability and Survivor benefits.

VI.5 Investment Portfolio

Financial Income reached US$ 9.9 million in 3Q06, 4.7% above the results for 3Q05, best explained by a larger administered portfolio.

On the other hand, the PPS portfolio increased 22% as a result of stock valuations and the purchase of commercial paper and bonds, which was in-line with the new investment policy approved by the Board of Directors in August 2006.

The consolidated administered Portfolio of Securities and Real Estate reached US$ 750 million as of September 30, 2006 compared to the US$ 623 million reported as of for September 30, 2005.

VI.6 Market Share

The poor results of PPS in 2005 were also reflected in its market share. Thus, throughout 2005, PPS lost an important participation in the different business segments, which could not yet be reversed.

The combined P&C and Life markets up to September 30, 2006, reached US$ 835 million, reflecting 12.9% higher premiums compared to the previous year. Market share of total premiums for PPS and PV was 27.3% compared to 27.7% in September 2005. Market Share for P&C was 30.2% lower than 30.4% as of September 2005 and for Life was 23.7% as of September 2006.

Health fees in the Health Insurance market grew 10.6% YoY to a total US$ 104.8million as of September 2006. Health fees in Pacifico Salud (EPS) reported a market share of 55%.

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ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

Economic activity

The Peruvian economy showed a good development during the 3Q06, with growth rates over 9% in July and August, accumulating an advance of 7.25% for the year.  Growth continue to be driven by the construction sector (+15.3%), along with private investment and good perspective regarding public investment.  On the other hand, internal demand generate an advance in other non-primary sectors like commerce (+9.6%) and services (+7.7%), while among primary sectors, mining productions obtained not encouraging results (+1.7% in July and -1.5% in August), mainly due to minor mineral laws that have driven main mining companies to increase their exploration activities in order to find larger reserves and regain higher extraction levels observed in previous periods.   Regarding expense, private investment has accelerated and is pushing demand, surpassing export, which has begun to slow down.

Gross Domestic Product
(annualized percentage variation)

Message

                                 Source: INEI

External Sector

As of August 2006, the trade balance surplus continue growing reaching annualized terms of US$ 7,418 MM, versus US$ 5,260 MM at the end of 2005.  Even though exports show a slight de-acceleration, they are still growing at an annual rate of over 30%, but only in terms of price, since in real terms this growth has stalled, mainly because of the decline in export volume of products such as oil (-9.2% between January and August regarding 2005) and mineral products such as zinc (-11.1%), tin (-7.3%) and copper (-0.8%).  On the other hand, imports have been growing at an annual rate of 20% due to higher internal demand.  The most dynamic component of this growth so far in 2006 are imports of capital assets (+33.5%), specifically the ones destined towards construction (+46.4%) and also for industry (+30.6%) and transport equipment (+40.8%), while import of machinery destined fro agriculture (-21.9%) has declined.  International reserves have continued growing and reached US$ 15,175 MM in September (US$ 14,097 MM at the close of 2005).

Exports and Imports
(annualized percentage variation)

Message

                                 Source: BCRP

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Prices and exchange rate

Accumulated inflation up to 3Q06 was 1.35% due to a rise and negative price variations in the last months, associated to a relative recovery of agriculture production (which has influenced the lower food prices) and to exchange rate stability.  These two factors have helped the annualized terms of inflation reach 1.99%, within the range forecasted by the Central Bank of Peru.  The downwards pressure of the exchange rate upon the conclusion of the presidential elections, have accentuated, so that in July, and specially August, the Central Bank of Peru has increased its intervention in the exchange market, buying foreign currency for an average daily amount of US$ 2,236 MM during the 3Q06, amount which represents 80% of the buying in 2005.

Consumer price index and Exchange rate
(annual percentage variation)

Message

                                        Source: INEI, BCR

Fiscal Aspects

Central Government Déficit 1/
(annualized, expressed in thousands of millions of Nuevos Soles)

Message

                                   1/ Negative indicates surplus
                                   Source: BCR

Central government operations have continued improving, so that since April, surplus levels have been reached (S/. 2,786 MM), situation that will be maintained throughout the year, according to official estimates.  This has been principally due to a heavy increase in current revenues, especially income tax.  This result was not only because of the regularization of taxes due, but because of greater tax revenue in the third category tax, associated to a continued economic growth and favorable international prices for mining companies.  There has been a slight recovery of public expenses, due to approved salary increase and a still slow recovery of capital expenses.  This way, more resources than the foreseen are now available, so the challenge for the new government will be to apply their announced politics of infrastructure and decentralization, but staying in control over the expense rate to avoid a deterioration fo the fiscal results once the expansive phase of the economic cycle is over.

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Banking System

As of September, multiple banking outstanding loans reached US$ 14,628 MM, which represents an increase of 22.5% compared to the same month in 2005, and explained by the higher consumer loans (+35.3%), small companies (+30.4%) and mortgages (+17.3%), even though commercial loans, which increased in 20.4% showed significant dynamism.  Such dynamism showed an important reduction of matured loans, which reached a record level of 1.86% of the gross total.

In the same period, loans in US$ Dollars grew only 11.3%, while loans in Nuevos Soles grew at a greater rate (+54.7%), which translates in the continuing process of de-dollarization of the loan portfolio which has been observed in recent years (with it, US$ Dollar loans represent 74.1% as of September 2005 against 67.3% as of September 2006) presented in a more volatile foreign exchange context (during election period) of relative increase in foreign exchange loans for local currency loans, even long-term loans, such as the “Mi Vivienda” costs of loans.  The loan rate in Soles reached 23.9% on 3Q06 (25.6% on 3Q05), while the loan rate in US$ Dollars remained at 10.6%, a similar level was observed in the past months (10% on 3Q05).

On the other hand, deposits reached in September US$ 17,131 MM, which indicates a growth annual rate of 14.3% compared to September 2005.  In this period, the dollarization of deposits almost maintained its stability, reducing from 64.8% to 64.4%, which reflects the preference for dollars as saving instrument.  The deposit rate in Soles increased from 2.6% on September 2005 to 3.3% on September 2006, while deposit rate in US$ Dollars, for the same period, increased from 1.6% to 2.1%.

Main Financial Indicators



























 

 

2005

 

2006

 

 

 


 


 

 

 

 

1Q

 

 

2Q

 

 

3Q

 

 

4Q

 

 

Year

 

 

1Q

 

 

2Q

 

 

Year (F)

 



























GDP (US$ MM)

 

 

18,208

 

 

21,363

 

 

19,475

 

 

20,314

 

 

79,360

 

 

20,288

 

 

24,193

 

 

90,921

 

Real GDP (var. %)

 

 

5.9

 

 

5.9

 

 

6.3

 

 

7.7

 

 

6.4

 

 

7.3

 

 

6.0

 

 

6.1

 

GDP per-cápita (US$)

 

 

2,610

 

 

2,724

 

 

2,809

 

 

2,871

 

 

2,871

 

 

2,947

 

 

3,049

 

 

3,290

 

Domestic demand (var. %)

 

 

4.1

 

 

4.6

 

 

6.1

 

 

7.1

 

 

5.5

 

 

10.3

 

 

7.2

 

 

8

 

Consumption (var. %)

 

 

4.0

 

 

4.4

 

 

4.5

 

 

4.7

 

 

4.4

 

 

5.3

 

 

5.4

 

 

4.8

 

Private Investment (var. %)

 

 

6.3

 

 

12.3

 

 

14.7

 

 

19.8

 

 

13.6

 

 

22.6

 

 

15.8

 

 

10

 

CPI (annual change, %)

 

 

1.9

 

 

1.5

 

 

1.1

 

 

1.5

 

 

1.5

 

 

2.5

 

 

1.8

 

 

2.5

 

Exchange rate, eop (S/. per US$)

 

 

3.26

 

 

3.25

 

 

3.34

 

 

3.43

 

 

3.43

 

 

3.36

 

 

3.26

 

 

3.23

 

Devaluation (annual change, %)

 

 

-5.8

 

 

-6.3

 

 

0.1

 

 

4.5

 

 

4.5

 

 

2.9

 

 

0.2

 

 

-5.8

 

Exchange rate, average (S/. per US$)

 

 

3.26

 

 

3.26

 

 

3.27

 

 

3.39

 

 

3.3

 

 

3.34

 

 

3.29

 

 

3.27

 

Non-Financial Public Sector (% of GDP)

 

 

2.3

 

 

2.7

 

 

-0.6

 

 

-5.3

 

 

-0.3

 

 

3.9

 

 

5.6

 

 

0.8

 

Central government current revenues (% of GDP)

 

 

15.8

 

 

16.2

 

 

15.4

 

 

15.4

 

 

15.7

 

 

17.8

 

 

18.3

 

 

16.9

 

Tax Income (% of GDP)

 

 

13.9

 

 

14.2

 

 

13.1

 

 

13.2

 

 

13.6

 

 

15.2

 

 

16.4

 

 

14.7

 

Non Tax Income (% of GDP)

 

 

1.9

 

 

2.0

 

 

2.2

 

 

2.2

 

 

2.1

 

 

2.6

 

 

1.9

 

 

2.2

 

Current expenditures (% of GDP)

 

 

12.0

 

 

11.0

 

 

13.3

 

 

15.0

 

 

12.8

 

 

11.8

 

 

10.7

 

 

12.8

 

Capital expenditures (% of GDP)

 

 

0.8

 

 

1.2

 

 

2.0

 

 

3.4

 

 

1.9

 

 

0.8

 

 

1.3

 

 

2.2

 

Trade Balance (US$ MM)

 

 

1,089

 

 

1,059

 

 

1,386

 

 

1,726

 

 

5,260

 

 

1,247

 

 

2,147

 

 

8,175

 

Exports (US$ MM)

 

 

3,749

 

 

4,063

 

 

4,544

 

 

4,980

 

 

17,336

 

 

4,627

 

 

5,769

 

 

23,098

 

Imports (US$ MM)

 

 

2,660

 

 

3,004

 

 

3,158

 

 

3,254

 

 

12,076

 

 

3,380

 

 

3,622

 

 

14,923

 

Current Account Balance (US$ MM)

 

 

143

 

 

142

 

 

380

 

 

440

 

 

1,105

 

 

-83

 

 

596

 

 

1,442

 

Current Account Balance (% of GDP)

 

 

0.8

 

 

0.7

 

 

2.0

 

 

2.2

 

 

1.4

 

 

-0.4

 

 

2.5

 

 

1.6

 



























Source: BCR, INEI, Estimations: BCP

Company Description:

Credicorp Ltd. (NYSE: BAP) is the leading financial services holding company in Peru. It primarily operates via its four principal Subsidiaries: Banco de Credito del Peru (BCP), Atlantic Security Holding Corporation (ASHC), El Pacífico-Peruano Suiza Compañía de Seguros y Reaseguros (PPS) and Grupo Credito.  Credicorp is engaged principally in commercial banking (including trade finance, corporate finance and leasing services), insurance (including commercial property, transportation and marine hull, automobile, life, health and pension fund underwriting insurance) and investment banking (including brokerage services, asset management, trust, custody and securitization services, trading and investment).  BCP is the Company’s primary subsidiary.

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Safe Harbor for forward-looking statements

This material includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.  All statement other than statements of historical information provided herein are forward-looking and may contain information about financial results, economic conditions, trends and known uncertainties. 

The Company cautions readers that actual results could differ materially from those expected by the Company, depending on the outcome of certain factors, including, without limitation: (1) adverse changes in the Peruvian economy with respect to the rates of inflation, economic growth, currency devaluation, and other factors, (2) adverse changes in the Peruvian political situation, including, without limitation, the reversal of market-oriented reforms and economic recovery measures, or the failure of such measures and reforms to achieve their goals, and (3) adverse changes in the markets in which the Company operates, including increased competition, decreased demand for financial services, and other factors.  Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof.

The Company undertakes no obligation to release publicly the result of any revisions to these forward-looking statements which may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof, including, without limitation, changes in the Company’s business strategy or planned capital expenditures, or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.

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CREDICORP LTD. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(In US$  thousands, IFRS)


















 

 

 

Sept. 2006

 

 

As of
June 2006

 

 

Sept. 2005

 

 

Sept. 06/
Sept. 05

 

 

Sept 06/
June 06

 


















Assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash and due from banks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Non-interest bearing

 

 

447,091

 

 

411,860

 

 

308,701

 

 

44.8

%

 

8.6

%

Interest bearing

 

 

2,248,202

 

 

2,845,909

 

 

1,453,372

 

 

54.7

%

 

-21.0

%

 

 



 



 



 



 



 

Total cash and due from banks

 

 

2,695,293

 

 

3,257,769

 

 

1,762,073

 

 

53.0

%

 

-17.3

%

Marketable securities, net

 

 

70,534

 

 

52,463

 

 

88,829

 

 

-20.6

%

 

34.4

%

Loans

 

 

5,592,231

 

 

5,501,004

 

 

4,651,259

 

 

20.2

%

 

1.7

%

 

 



 



 



 



 



 

Current

 

 

5,504,991

 

 

5,408,449

 

 

4,533,513

 

 

21.4

%

 

1.8

%

Past Due

 

 

87,240

 

 

92,555

 

 

117,746

 

 

-25.9

%

 

-5.7

%

Less - Reserve for possible loan losses

 

 

(188,198

)

 

(198,228

)

 

(202,985

)

 

-7.3

%

 

-5.1

%

 

 



 



 



 



 



 

Loans, net

 

 

5,404,033

 

 

5,302,777

 

 

4,448,274

 

 

21.5

%

 

1.9

%

Investments securities available for sale

 

 

2,803,636

 

 

2,418,583

 

 

2,761,967

 

 

1.5

%

 

15.9

%

Reinsurance assets

 

 

37,880

 

 

43,044

 

 

27,989

 

 

35.3

%

 

-12.0

%

Premiums and other policyholder receivables

 

 

69,835

 

 

62,580

 

 

59,235

 

 

17.9

%

 

11.6

%

Property, plant and equipment, net

 

 

239,705

 

 

241,642

 

 

238,511

 

 

0.5

%

 

-0.8

%

Due from customers on acceptances

 

 

50,761

 

 

36,173

 

 

50,756

 

 

0.0

%

 

40.3

%

Other assets

 

 

486,987

 

 

315,856

 

 

363,567

 

 

33.9

%

 

54.2

%

Total Assets

 

 

11,858,664

 

 

11,730,887

 

 

9,801,202

 

 

21.0

%

 

1.1

%

Liabilities and shareholders’ equity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deposits and Obligations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Non-interest bearing

 

 

1,721,411

 

 

1,788,809

 

 

1,440,388

 

 

19.5

%

 

-3.8

%

Interest bearing

 

 

6,253,175

 

 

6,133,399

 

 

5,285,108

 

 

18.3

%

 

2.0

%

 

 



 



 



 



 



 

Total deposits and Obligations

 

 

7,974,586

 

 

7,922,208

 

 

6,725,496

 

 

18.6

%

 

0.7

%

Due to banks and correspondents

 

 

924,499

 

 

1,116,907

 

 

463,054

 

 

99.7

%

 

-17.2

%

Acceptances outstanding

 

 

50,761

 

 

36,173

 

 

50,756

 

 

0.0

%

 

40.3

%

Reserves for property and casualty claims

 

 

528,258

 

 

515,016

 

 

448,234

 

 

17.9

%

 

2.6

%

Reserve for unearned premiums

 

 

90,029

 

 

91,226

 

 

72,418

 

 

24.3

%

 

-1.3

%

Reinsurance payable

 

 

33,502

 

 

14,168

 

 

27,350

 

 

22.5

%

 

136.5

%

Bonds and subordinated debt

 

 

406,734

 

 

409,563

 

 

406,832

 

 

0.0

%

 

-0.7

%

Other liabilities

 

 

445,090

 

 

317,336

 

 

331,739

 

 

34.2

%

 

40.3

%

Minority interest

 

 

108,288

 

 

92,306

 

 

104,815

 

 

3.3

%

 

17.3

%

 

 



 



 



 



 



 

Total liabilities

 

 

10,561,747

 

 

10,514,903

 

 

8,630,694

 

 

22.4

%

 

0.4

%

Net Shareholder’s equity

 

 

1,296,917

 

 

1,215,984

 

 

1,170,508

 

 

10.8

%

 

6.7

%

Total liabilities and net shareholder’s equity

 

 

11,858,664

 

 

11,730,887

 

 

9,801,202

 

 

21.0

%

 

1.1

%

Contingent Credits

 

 

3,567,370

 

 

3,218,616

 

 

3,101,817

 

 

15.0

%

 

10.8

%


















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CREDICORP LTD. AND SUBSIDIARIES
QUARTERLY INCOME STATEMENT
(In US$ thousands, IFRS)



























 

 

Quarter

 

Change

 

Nine months ended

 

Change

 

 

 









 

 

3Q06

 

2Q06

 

3Q05

 

3Q06/3Q05

 

3Q06/2Q06

 

Sept.06

 

Sept.05

 

Sept.06/Sept.05

 



























Interest income and expense

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest and dividend income

 

 

197,173

 

 

199,779

 

 

157,064

 

 

25.5

%

 

-1.3

%

 

571,199

 

 

447,150

 

 

27.7

%

Interest expense

 

 

(76,506

)

 

(69,769

)

 

(43,384

)

 

76.3

%

 

9.7

%

 

(205,545

)

 

(125,250

)

 

64.1

%

 

 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 

Net interest and dividend income

 

 

120,667

 

 

130,010

 

 

113,679

 

 

6.1

%

 

-7.2

%

 

365,653

 

 

321,900

 

 

13.6

%

 

 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 

Provision for loan losses

 

 

9,795

 

 

(251

)

 

4,886

 

 

100.5

%

 

-3999.7

%

 

5,997

 

 

10,086

 

 

-40.5

%

Non financial income

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fee income

 

 

63,935

 

 

54,734

 

 

51,246

 

 

24.8

%

 

16.8

%

 

174,218

 

 

151,102

 

 

15.3

%

Net gain on foreign exchange transactions

 

 

9,515

 

 

11,393

 

 

7,585

 

 

25.4

%

 

-16.5

%

 

31,095

 

 

21,053

 

 

47.7

%

Net gain on sales of securities

 

 

6,616

 

 

664

 

 

7,241

 

 

-8.6

%

 

895.8

%

 

12,857

 

 

8,703

 

 

47.7

%

Other

 

 

5,220

 

 

5,720

 

 

6,541

 

 

-20.2

%

 

-8.7

%

 

18,254

 

 

16,962

 

 

7.6

%

 

 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 

Total non financial income, net

 

 

85,286

 

 

72,513

 

 

72,614

 

 

17.5

%

 

17.6

%

 

236,424

 

 

197,819

 

 

20.7

%

Insurance premiums and claims

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net premiums earned

 

 

65,521

 

 

62,269

 

 

57,176

 

 

14.6

%

 

5.2

%

 

186,521

 

 

163,703

 

 

13.9

%

Net claims incurred

 

 

(9,553

)

 

(9,215

)

 

(9,042

)

 

5.7

%

 

3.7

%

 

(32,429

)

 

(31,201

)

 

3.9

%

Increase in cost for life and health policies

 

 

(36,585

)

 

(34,834

)

 

(34,549

)

 

5.9

%

 

5.0

%

 

(105,692

)

 

(97,763

)

 

8.1

%

 

 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 

Total other operating income, net

 

 

19,383

 

 

18,220

 

 

13,584

 

 

42.7

%

 

6.4

%

 

48,400

 

 

34,739

 

 

39.3

%

Operating expenses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Salaries and employees benefits

 

 

(61,676

)

 

(57,024

)

 

(49,557

)

 

24.5

%

 

24.5

%

 

(172,532

)

 

(146,882

)

 

17.5

%

Administrative, general and tax expenses

 

 

(41,739

)

 

(38,503

)

 

(36,546

)

 

14.2

%

 

8.4

%

 

(116,961

)

 

(102,692

)

 

13.9

%

Depreciation and amortization

 

 

(10,115

)

 

(11,116

)

 

(9,743

)

 

3.8

%

 

-9.0

%

 

(32,549

)

 

(29,415

)

 

10.7

%

Merger Expenses

 

 

(271

)

 

—  

 

 

—  

 

 

100.0

%

 

100.0

%

 

(271

)

 

—  

 

 

—  

 

Other

 

 

(35,504

)

 

(23,461

)

 

(32,350

)

 

9.8

%

 

51.3

%

 

(81,345

)

 

(75,131

)

 

8.3

%

 

 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 

Total operating expenses

 

 

(149,305

)

 

(130,104

)

 

(128,195

)

 

16.5

%

 

14.8

%

 

(403,658

)

 

(354,119

)

 

14.0

%

Income before translation results,workers’ profit sharing and income taxes

 

 

85,827

 

 

90,387

 

 

76,569

 

 

12.1

%

 

-5.0

%

 

252,817

 

 

210,424

 

 

20.1

%

Translation result

 

 

832

 

 

3,448

 

 

(5,702

)

 

-114.6

%

 

-75.9

%

 

9,501

 

 

(3,668

)

 

-359.0

%

Workers’ profit sharing

 

 

(3,669

)

 

(3,372

)

 

(3,588

)

 

2.3

%

 

8.8

%

 

(9,731

)

 

(8,182

)

 

18.9

%

Income taxes

 

 

(27,671

)

 

(21,924

)

 

(16,723

)

 

65.5

%

 

26.2

%

 

(74,134

)

 

(53,185

)

 

39.4

%

Net income

 

 

55,319

 

 

68,539

 

 

50,556

 

 

9.4

%

 

-19.3

%

 

178,453

 

 

145,389

 

 

22.7

%

Minority interest

 

 

3,997

 

 

4,105

 

 

2,990

 

 

33.7

%

 

-2.6

%

 

11,513

 

 

7,844

 

 

46.8

%

 

 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 

Net income attributed to Credicorp

 

 

51,321

 

 

64,434

 

 

47,566

 

 

7.9

%

 

-20.4

%

 

166,940

 

 

137,545

 

 

21.4

%



























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CREDICORP LTD. AND SUBSISIARIES
SELECTED FINANCIAL INDICATORS

 

 





 

 

Quarter

 

Nine months ended

 

 

 





 

 

3Q06

 

2Q06

 

3Q05

 

September 06

 

September 05

 


















Profitability

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income per common share (US$ per share)(1)

 

 

0.64

 

 

0.81

 

 

0.60

 

 

2.09

 

 

1.72

 

Net interest margin on interest earning assets (2)

 

 

4.88

%

 

5.28

%

 

5.76

%

 

5.00

%

 

5.54

%

Return on average total assets (2)(3)

 

 

1.74

%

 

2.21

%

 

1.98

%

 

1.44

%

 

1.46

%

Return on average shareholders’ equity (2)(3)

 

 

16.34

%

 

21.68

%

 

16.80

%

 

18.35

%

 

16.86

%

No. of outstanding shares (millions)(4)

 

 

79.76

 

 

79.76

 

 

79.76

 

 

79.76

 

 

79.76

 

Quality of loan portfolio

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Past due loans as a percentage of total loans

 

 

1.56

%

 

1.68

%

 

2.53

%

 

1.56

%

 

2.53

%

Reserves for loan losses as a percentage of total past due loans

 

 

215.72

%

 

214.17

%

 

172.39

%

 

215.72

%

 

172.39

%

Reserves for loan losses as a percentage of total loans

 

 

3.37

%

 

3.65

%

 

4.36

%

 

3.37

%

 

4.36

%

Operating efficiency

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oper. expense as a percent. of total income (5)

 

 

43.73

%

 

41.27

%

 

41.73

%

 

42.51

%

 

42.42

%

Oper. expense as a percent. of av. tot. assets(2)(3)(5)

 

 

3.85

%

 

3.65

%

 

3.98

%

 

3.70

%

 

3.95

%

Average balances (millions of US$) (3)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest earning assets

 

 

9,893.05

 

 

9,856.15

 

 

7,896.56

 

 

9,741.93

 

 

7,750.66

 

Total Assets

 

 

11,794.78

 

 

11,677.23

 

 

9,630.98

 

 

11,602.91

 

 

9,427.53

 

Net equity

 

 

1,256.45

 

 

1,188.62

 

 

1,132.37

 

 

1,206.97

 

 

1,086.86

 




















(1)

Based on Net Income attributed to BAP. Number of shares outstanding of 79.8 million in all periods.

(2)

Ratios are annualized.

(3)

Averages are determined as the average of period-beginning and period-ending balances.

(4)

Net of treasury shares. The total number of shares was of 94.38 million.

(5)

Total income includes net interest income, fee income, net gain on foreign exchange transactions and net premiums earned.

 

Operating expense does not include  Other expenses.

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BANCO DE CREDITO DEL PERU AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET
(In US$ thousands, IFRS)

 

 





 

 

As of

 

Change

 

 

 





 

 

Sept. 06

 

Jun. 06

 

Sept.05

 

Sept. 06/
 Sept. 05

 

Sept. 06/
 Jun.06

 


















ASSETS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash and due from banks

 

 

2,452,360

 

 

2,947,296

 

 

1,666,248

 

 

47.2

%

 

-16.8

%

 

 



 



 



 



 



 

Cash and BCRP

 

 

1,994,080

 

 

2,545,326

 

 

1,375,020

 

 

45.0

%

 

-21.7

%

Deposits in other Banks

 

 

454,960

 

 

397,164

 

 

287,597

 

 

58.2

%

 

14.6

%

Interbanks

 

 

206

 

 

1,918

 

 

1,495

 

 

-86.2

%

 

-89.3

%

Accrued interest on cash and due from banks

 

 

3,114

 

 

2,888

 

 

2,136

 

 

45.8

%

 

7.8

%

Marketable securities, net

 

 

67,817

 

 

41,897

 

 

63,796

 

 

6.3

%

 

61.9

%

Loans

 

 

5,514,218

 

 

5,385,246

 

 

4,514,320

 

 

22.1

%

 

2.4

%

 

 



 



 



 



 



 

Current

 

 

5,430,468

 

 

5,296,554

 

 

4,400,155

 

 

23.4

%

 

2.5

%

Past Due

 

 

83,750

 

 

88,692

 

 

114,165

 

 

-26.6

%

 

-5.6

%

Less - Reserve for possible loan losses

 

 

(185,608

)

 

(194,570

)

 

(200,068

)

 

-7.2

%

 

-4.6

%

 

 



 



 



 



 



 

Loans, net

 

 

5,328,609

 

 

5,190,676

 

 

4,314,251

 

 

23.5

%

 

2.7

%

Investment securities available for sale & permanent

 

 

1,357,617

 

 

1,074,966

 

 

1,601,828

 

 

-15.2

%

 

26.3

%

Property, plant and equipment, net

 

 

187,808

 

 

194,392

 

 

202,410

 

 

-7.2

%

 

-3.4

%

Due from customers acceptances

 

 

50,761

 

 

36,173

 

 

50,714

 

 

0.1

%

 

40.3

%

Other assets

 

 

272,564

 

 

233,991

 

 

284,443

 

 

-4.2

%

 

16.5

%

Total Assets

 

 

9,717,537

 

 

9,719,390

 

 

8,183,691

 

 

18.7

%

 

0.0

%

LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deposits and obligations

 

 

7,455,066

 

 

7,412,227

 

 

6,191,786

 

 

20.4

%

 

0.6

%

 

 



 



 



 



 



 

Demand deposits

 

 

2,361,330

 

 

2,277,666

 

 

2,011,845

 

 

17.4

%

 

3.7

%

Saving deposits

 

 

1,768,181

 

 

1,726,641

 

 

1,587,334

 

 

11.4

%

 

2.4

%

Time deposits

 

 

2,608,251

 

 

2,664,939

 

 

1,990,998

 

 

31.0

%

 

-2.1

%

Severance indemnity deposits (CTS)

 

 

684,988

 

 

714,963

 

 

578,442

 

 

18.4

%

 

-4.2

%

Interest payable

 

 

32,317

 

 

28,018

 

 

23,168

 

 

39.5

%

 

15.3

%

Due to banks and correspondents

 

 

507,526

 

 

732,961

 

 

380,935

 

 

33.2

%

 

-30.8

%

Bonds and subordinated debt

 

 

432,114

 

 

426,330

 

 

428,551

 

 

0.8

%

 

1.4

%

Acceptances outstanding

 

 

50,761

 

 

36,173

 

 

50,714

 

 

0.1

%

 

40.3

%

Other liabilities

 

 

381,648

 

 

281,440

 

 

292,133

 

 

30.6

%

 

35.6

%

Total liabilities

 

 

8,827,115

 

 

8,889,131

 

 

7,344,118

 

 

20.2

%

 

-0.7

%

NET SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

 

 

890,422

 

 

830,259

 

 

839,573

 

 

6.1

%

 

7.2

%

 

 



 



 



 



 



 

Capital stock

 

 

364,706

 

 

364,706

 

 

364,706

 

 

0.0

%

 

0.0

%

Reserves

 

 

242,889

 

 

242,889

 

 

210,928

 

 

15.2

%

 

0.0

%

Unrealized Gains and Losses

 

 

46,428

 

 

39,102

 

 

47,149

 

 

-1.5

%

 

18.7

%

Retained Earnings

 

 

56,337

 

 

56,337

 

 

80,427

 

 

-30.0

%

 

0.0

%

Income for the year

 

 

180,062

 

 

127,225

 

 

136,363

 

 

32.0

%

 

41.5

%

TOTAL LIABILITIES and NET SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

 

 

9,717,537

 

 

9,719,390

 

 

8,183,691

 

 

18.7

%

 

0.0

%

CONTINGENT CREDITS

 

 

3,234,918

 

 

2,973,700

 

 

2,817,670

 

 

14.8

%

 

8.8

%


















33



Message

BANCO DE CREDITO DEL PERU AND SUBSIDIARIES
QUARTERLY INCOME STATEMENT
(In US$ thousands, IFRS)

 

 









 

 

Quarter ended

 

Change

 

Nine months ended

 

Change

 

 

 









 

 

3Q06

 

2Q06

 

3Q05

 

3Q06/
3Q05

 

3Q06/
2Q06

 

Sept. 06

 

Sept. 05

 

Sept. 06/
Sept. 05

 



























Interest income and expense

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest and dividend income

 

 

174,830

 

 

174,360

 

 

139,099

 

 

25.7

%

 

0.3

%

 

506,475

 

 

394,864

 

 

28.3

%

Interest expense

 

 

(67,767

)

 

(60,213

)

 

(38,558

)

 

75.8

%

 

12.5

%

 

(180,464

)

 

(111,646

)

 

61.6

%

 

 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 

Net interest income

 

 

107,063

 

 

114,148

 

 

100,541

 

 

6.5

%

 

-6.2

%

 

326,011

 

 

283,218

 

 

15.1

%

Provision for loan losses, net of recoveries

 

 

7,392

 

 

(1,312

)

 

2,976

 

 

148.3

%

 

-663.3

%

 

1,241

 

 

5,189

 

 

-76.1

%

Non financial income

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Banking services commissions

 

 

59,441

 

 

55,399

 

 

53,048

 

 

12.1

%

 

7.3

%

 

170,148

 

 

154,746

 

 

10.0

%

Net gain on foreign exchange transactions

 

 

9,674

 

 

11,010

 

 

7,636

 

 

26.7

%

 

-12.1

%

 

31,152

 

 

20,979

 

 

48.5

%

Net gain on sales of securities

 

 

3,112

 

 

1,056

 

 

4,796

 

 

-35.1

%

 

194.7

%

 

3,513

 

 

6,056

 

 

-42.0

%

Other

 

 

1,950

 

 

3,522

 

 

4,639

 

 

-58.0

%

 

-44.6

%

 

8,809

 

 

9,429

 

 

-6.6

%

 

 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 

Total non financial income

 

 

74,176

 

 

70,987

 

 

70,119

 

 

5.8

%

 

4.5

%

 

213,622

 

 

191,209

 

 

11.7

%

Operating expenses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Salaries and employees benefits

 

 

(46,370

)

 

(44,284

)

 

(37,907

)

 

22.3

%

 

4.7

%

 

(131,743

)

 

(116,500

)

 

13.1

%

Administrative expenses

 

 

(36,756

)

 

(34,575

)

 

(33,073

)

 

11.1

%

 

6.3

%

 

(103,963

)

 

(95,014

)

 

9.4

%

Depreciation and amortization

 

 

(8,533

)

 

(8,877

)

 

(8,778

)

 

-2.8

%

 

-3.9

%

 

(26,476

)

 

(26,713

)

 

-0.9

%

Other

 

 

(21,007

)

 

(11,942

)

 

(19,418

)

 

8.2

%

 

75.9

%

 

(43,301

)

 

(43,790

)

 

-1.1

%

 

 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 

Total operating expenses

 

 

(112,666

)

 

(99,678

)

 

(99,175

)

 

13.6

%

 

13.0

%

 

(305,482

)

 

(282,017

)

 

8.3

%

Income before translation results,workers’ profit sharing and income taxes

 

 

75,964

 

 

84,145

 

 

74,461

 

 

2.0

%

 

-9.7

%

 

235,391

 

 

197,599

 

 

19.1

%

Translation result

 

 

705

 

 

2,985

 

 

(5,155

)

 

-113.7

%

 

-76.4

%

 

8,422

 

 

(4,417

)

 

-290.7

%

Workers’ profit sharing

 

 

(3,708

)

 

(2,636

)

 

(3,603

)

 

2.9

%

 

40.7

%

 

(9,213

)

 

(8,197

)

 

12.4

%

Income taxes

 

 

(20,123

)

 

(17,150

)

 

(19,057

)

 

5.6

%

 

17.3

%

 

(54,538

)

 

(48,623

)

 

12.2

%

 

 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 



 

Net income

 

 

52,837

 

 

67,344

 

 

46,646

 

 

13.3

%

 

-21.5

%

 

180,062

 

 

136,363

 

 

32.0

%



























34



Message

BANCO DE CREDITO DEL PERU AND SUBSIDIARIES
SELECTED FINANCIAL INDICATORS

 

 





 

 

Quarter ended

 

Nine months ended

 

 

 





 

 

3Q06

 

2Q06

 

3Q05

 

September 06

 

September 05

 


















Profitability

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net income per common share (US$ per share)(1)

 

 

0.041

 

 

0.052

 

 

0.036

 

 

0.140

 

 

0.106

 

Net interest margin on interest earning assets (2)

 

 

5.01

%

 

5.34

%

 

5.85

%

 

5.17

%

 

5.66

%

Return on average total assets (2)(3)

 

 

2.17

%

 

2.78

%

 

2.31

%

 

2.50

%

 

2.33

%

Return on average shareholders’ equity (2)(3)

 

 

24.57

%

 

33.77

%

 

23.08

%

 

28.56

%

 

23.75

%

No. of outstanding shares (millions)

 

 

1,287

 

 

1,287

 

 

1,287

 

 

1,287

 

 

1,287

 

Quality of loan portfolio

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Past due loans as a percentage of total loans

 

 

1.52

%

 

1.65

%

 

2.53

%

 

1.52

%

 

2.53

%

Reserves for loan losses as a percentage of total past due loans

 

 

221.62

%

 

219.38

%

 

175.25

%

 

219.38

%

 

181.69

%

Reserves for loan losses as a percentage of total loans

 

 

3.37

%

 

3.61

%

 

4.43

%

 

3.61

%

 

4.85

%

Operating efficiency

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oper. expense as a percent. of total income (4)

 

 

52.03

%

 

48.59

%

 

49.47

%

 

49.72

%

 

51.91

%

Oper. expense as a percent. of av. tot. assets(2)(3)(4)

 

 

3.77

%

 

3.62

%

 

3.95

%

 

3.64

%

 

4.06

%

Capital adequacy (5)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Regulatory Capital (US$ Mn)

 

 

608.2

 

 

600.7

 

 

557.4

 

 

608.2

 

 

557.4

 

Risk-weighted assets  (US$ Mn) (6)

 

 

5,828

 

 

5,626

 

 

4,484

 

 

5,828

 

 

4,484

 

Regulatory capital / risk-weighted assets (6)

 

 

10.4

%

 

10.7

%

 

12.4

%

 

10.4

%

 

12.4

%

Average balances (millions of US$) (3)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest earning assets

 

 

8,544

 

 

8,558

 

 

6,872

 

 

8,411

 

 

6,675

 

Total Assets

 

 

9,718

 

 

9,690

 

 

8,076

 

 

9,603

 

 

7,817

 

Net equity

 

 

860

 

 

798

 

 

808

 

 

841

 

 

765

 




















(1)

Shares outstanding of 1,287 million is used for all periods since shares have been issued only for capitalization of profits and inflation adjustment.

(2)

Ratios are annualized.

(3)

Averages are determined as the average of period-beginning and period-ending balances.

(4)

Total income includes net interest income, fee income and net gain on foreign exchange transactions.

 

Operating expense includes personnel expenses, administrative expenses and depreciation and amortization

(5)

Capital adequacy is calculated under peruvian GAAP’s.

(6)

Risk-weighted assets include market risk assets

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Message

EL PACIFICO-PERUANO SUIZA AND SUBSIDIARIES
SELECTED FINANCIAL INDICATORS
(In US$ thousands, IFRS)

 

 








 

 

 

Quarter ended

 

Change

 

Nine months ended

 

Change

 

 

 








 

 

 

3Q06

 

2Q06

 

3Q05

 

3Q06/3Q05

 

3Q06/2Q06

 

Sept. 06

 

Sept. 05

 

Sept.06/05

 



























Results

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total gross Premiums

 

 

95,748

 

 

96,059

 

 

88,561

 

 

8.1

%

 

-0.3

%

 

285,038

 

 

261,628

 

 

8.9

%

Net Premiums Earned

 

 

67,373

 

 

64,069

 

 

58,021

 

 

16.1

%

 

5.2

%

 

192,235

 

 

166,497

 

 

15.5

%

Net claims

 

 

46,138

 

 

44,049

 

 

43,591

 

 

5.8

%

 

4.7

%

 

138,121

 

 

128,964

 

 

7.1

%

Underwriting Results

 

 

11,912

 

 

11,819

 

 

6,393

 

 

86.3

%

 

0.8

%

 

27,740

 

 

15,625

 

 

77.5

%

Financial Income

 

 

9,889

 

 

12,188

 

 

9,442

 

 

4.7

%

 

-18.9

%

 

33,885

 

 

28,406

 

 

19.3

%

Other Income

 

 

3,742

 

 

3,473

 

 

3,338

 

 

12.1

%

 

7.7

%

 

11,604

 

 

9,076

 

 

27.8

%

Salaries and employees benefits

 

 

9,570

 

 

7,662

 

 

7,653

 

 

25.0

%

 

24.9

%

 

24,430

 

 

20,091

 

 

21.6

%

General Expenses

 

 

4,634

 

 

4,947

 

 

4,918

 

 

-5.8

%

 

-6.3

%

 

14,939

 

 

14,062

 

 

6.2

%

Other Operating Expenses

 

 

11,682

 

 

13,503

 

 

11,448

 

 

2.0

%

 

-13.5

%

 

38,321

 

 

31,103

 

 

23.2

%

Translation Results

 

 

109

 

 

414

 

 

-336

 

 

-132.4

%

 

-73.7

%

 

866

 

 

590

 

 

46.9

%

Income Tax

 

 

2,504

 

 

3,877

 

 

-801

 

 

-412.7

%

 

-35.4

%

 

6,251

 

 

1,455

 

 

329.5

%

Net Income before minority interest

 

 

6,586

 

 

6,106

 

 

3,656

 

 

80.2

%

 

7.9

%

 

16,527

 

 

8,895

 

 

85.8

%

Net Income after minority interest

 

 

5,520

 

 

4,738

 

 

2,703

 

 

104.2

%

 

16.5

%

 

13,198

 

 

6,310

 

 

109.2

%

Balance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Assets

 

 

946,283

 

 

865,933

 

 

802,786

 

 

17.9

%

 

9.3

%

 

946,283

 

 

802,786

 

 

17.9

%

Investment on Securities and real State

 

 

750,125

 

 

693,431

 

 

623,191

 

 

20.4

%

 

8.2

%

 

750,125

 

 

623,191

 

 

20.4

%

Technical Reserves

 

 

618,776

 

 

606,242

 

 

520,652

 

 

18.8

%

 

2.1

%

 

618,776

 

 

520,652

 

 

18.8

%

Net Equity

 

 

209,923

 

 

178,340

 

 

195,823

 

 

7.2

%

 

17.7

%

 

209,923

 

 

195,823

 

 

7.2

%

Ratios

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net underwriting results

 

 

12.4

%

 

12.3

%

 

7.2

%

 

—  

 

 

—  

 

 

9.7

%

 

6.0

%

 

—  

 

Net earned loss ratio

 

 

68.5

%

 

68.8

%

 

75.1

%

 

—  

 

 

—  

 

 

71.9

%

 

77.5

%

 

—  

 

Return on average equity (1)(2)

 

 

11.9

%

 

11.1

%

 

6.0

%

 

—  

 

 

—  

 

 

8.9

%

 

5.0

%

 

—  

 

Return on total premiums

 

 

5.8

%

 

4.9

%

 

3.1

%

 

—  

 

 

—  

 

 

4.6

%

 

2.4

%

 

—  

 

Net equity / Total assets

 

 

22.2

%

 

20.6

%

 

24.4

%

 

—  

 

 

—  

 

 

22.2

%

 

24.4

%

 

—  

 

Increase in Technical reserves

 

 

16.0

%

 

20.4

%

 

19.8

%

 

—  

 

 

—  

 

 

16.0

%

 

24.1

%

 

—  

 

Expenses / Net premiums earned

 

 

23.0

%

 

23.0

%

 

24.5

%

 

—  

 

 

—  

 

 

22.5

%

 

22.7

%

 

—  

 

Expenses / average assets (1)(2)

 

 

7.0

%

 

7.1

%

 

7.5

%

 

—  

 

 

—  

 

 

6.5

%

 

6.9

%

 

—  

 

Combined Ratio PPS + PS

 

 

99.5

%

 

100.4

%

 

101.6

%

 

—  

 

 

—  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

- Claims / Net premiums earned

 

 

66.0

%

 

64.9

%

 

70.9

%

 

—  

 

 

—  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

- Expenses and commissions / Net premiums earned

 

 

33.5

%

 

35.6

%

 

30.6

%

 

—  

 

 

—  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





























(1)

Average are determined as the average of period-beginning and period-ending balances

(2)

Annualized

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SIGNATURE

          Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

Date: November 17, 2006

 

CREDICORP LTD.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/S/ Guillermo Castillo

 

 


 

 

Guillermo Castillo

 

 

Authorized Representative

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FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This press release may contain forward-looking statements. These statements are statements that are not historical facts, and are based on management’s current view and estimates of future economic circumstances, industry conditions, company performance and financial results. The words “anticipates”, “believes”, “estimates”, “expects”, “plans” and similar expressions, as they relate to the company, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Statements regarding the declaration or payment of dividends, the implementation of principal operating and financing strategies and capital expenditure plans, the direction of future operations and the factors or trends affecting financial condition, liquidity or results of operations are examples of forward-looking statements. Such statements reflect the current views of management and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. There is no guarantee that the expected events, trends or results will actually occur. The statements are based on many assumptions and factors, including general economic and market conditions, industry conditions, and operating factors. Any changes in such assumptions or factors could cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations.

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