Guaranty Trust Holding Company Plc (GTCO) faced the worst credit and financial asset losses in years in the 2023 financial year so far with total asset impairments hitting N148.6 billion by the end of the third quarter. The figure is already about one and half times the N100 billion total net impairments on loans and other financial assets for the bank for the past six years.
However, the upsurge in cost is counter balanced by a big boost in revenue led by a foreign exchange revaluation gain of N334.4 billion at the end of the third quarter. The inflow enabled the bank to throw off the asset losses from earnings and yet permit an exceptional growth of 182 percent in the bottom line to N367.4 billion at the end of nine months of operations. The numbers are contained in the bank’s unaudited financial report for the third quarter ended September 2023, which shows that the financial asset losses comprise net loan impairment charges of N89.5 billion and net impairment charge on other financial assets of N59.1 billion. The credit charges surged all the way from only N
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