16.07.2021

The individual recommendation of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority regarding the distribution of 2020 net profit

Current Report 

Drafted on:

16.07.2021

Current report No

27/2021

Legal basis: 

§ 17 Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 Of The European Parliament And Of The Council of 16 April 2014 on market abuse (market abuse regulation) and repealing Directive 2003/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Directives 2003/124/EC, 2003/125/EC and 2004/72/EC

Contents: 

With reference to the current report No 26/2021 dated July 1, 2021, the Management Board of mBank S.A. ("Bank") informs that on July 15, 2021, the Bank received from the Polish Financial Supervision Authority ("PFSA") a letter dated July 15, 2021, in which the PFSA recommends to mitigate the risk of the Bank’s operations by not paying the dividend from the net profit generated between January 1 and December 31, 2020, as well as refraining from undertaking, without prior consultation with the supervisory authority, other actions, in particular those outside the scope of current business and operating activities, which may result in a reduction of the capital base, including possible dividend payments from retained earnings from previous years (i.e. from 2019 and earlier) and buybacks of own shares.

In its recommendation, the PFSA confirmed that as of March 31, 2021 (Bank’s quarterly data on own funds) and May 31, 2021 (Bank’s monthly data on receivables portfolio), in terms of the basic criteria of the dividend policy of commercial banks, the Bank met the requirements for dividend payment in the amount up to 75% of the net profit generated between January 1 and December 31, 2020. After applying additional criteria related to a significant portfolio of foreign currency housing loans for households held by the Bank, the dividend payout ratio was adjusted by 90 p.p. Consequently, the dividend payout ratio after application of the additional criteria amounts to 0%.

SIGNATURE OF THE PERSONS REPRESENTING THE COMPANY

Director of Compliance Department

Beata Mossakowska 16.07.2021