NLB Group Delivers Robust Business Results in the First Half of 2022

“Among others, we have continued firmly on our path of sustainable business decisions and practices by joining the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, and have committed ourselves to aligning our lending and investment portfolios with net-zero emissions by or before 2050. This is so especially in the light of current events in our immediate vicinity, sustainability is gaining an even more important place in our strategic plans – as does the stability of economies in the region where our banks operate. We therefore continue to provide knowledge, support, financing, and services, thereby ensuring that this region continues to prosper; all of this while remaining true to the commitment of creating added value to our stakeholders and to a dividend payout of EUR 100 million in 2022, with the first tranche in the amount of EUR 50 million already having been paid in June,” explained NLB’s CEO Blaž Brodnjak.

“It is important to note that the Supervisory Board is satisfied not only with Group’s strong business performance, but also with its’ ability to quickly adapt to ever more complex business challenges and opportunities within the financing industry landscape. In this sense, another important milestone the Group achieved in H1 for example, was founding the NLB DigIT company in Belgrade – a company dedicated to finding and designing IT solutions for the entire Group, to leverage the accumulated know-how and deploy the underlying common tech solutions across the Group’s markets. The need for IT specialists, data scientists, data analysts, information systems analysts, software and process developers, and experts who know how to optimise user experience, etc. has been growing globally. NLB Group, which is far more than just a banking group, but more and more an IT company, is no exception. The Group has therefore recognised this gap and decided to address it proactively,” emphasized Primož Karpe, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of NLB d.d. upon the publication of the results.