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Union Bank to raise $164 mln to bolster capital buffers

by Cynthia Charles
April 7, 2017
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Union Bank plans to raise 50 billion naira ($164 million) by the end of the second quarter via a rights issue to boost its capital adequacy and tap opportunities to lend to agribusinesses, its chief executive said.

Emeka Emuwa said on Thursday that the bank targeted a capital ratio higher than 18 percent after the fund raising, compared to 13.4 percent as of the third quarter of 2016.

“We are en route to a capital raising,” Emuwa told an analysts’ call. “We see opportunities to leverage our capital not just to be in regulatory compliance but to be able to tap opportunities that we see in the medium term.”

Emuwa said the total value of Union Bank’s loans rose 40 percent last year, but that was largely due to Nigeria’s currency devaluation which affected dollar loans to the upstream oil and gas sector. Without the devaluation loans grew 13 percent, he said.

Nigerian banks have had to change their business models to survive after previously lucrative loans to oil companies turned sour following the slump in crude prices, which pushed Africa’s biggest economy into recession.

Union Bank, which was acquired from the government by a consortium of private equity investors in 2011, is looking for opportunities as Nigeria tries to foster new industries and cut down on imports it can no longer afford.

“We see opportunities in agro-business, food processing, fast-moving consumer goods,” Emuwa told the call. “Anything that is aligned with how the economy is evolving, manufacturing of consumer goods, manufacturing of goods by replacing what is previously being imported are areas where we see opportunities.”

The bank will pursue opportunities as they present themselves, he said.

The government has been touting agriculture and solid minerals as ways to diversify the economy’s overreliance on oil and broaden tax collection to help insulate it from future shocks. However, the shift will not happen overnight, analysts say.

Union Bank reported a pretax profit of 16 billion naira for 2016 last week, down from 18.5 billion naira a year earlier, sending its shares lower.

Emuwa said the bank has 3.9 billion naira exposure to Etisalat Nigeria, the local arm of Abu Dhabi-listed telecoms firm Etisalat which has been discussing with 13 local lenders about renegotiating the terms of a $1.2 billion loan.

Union Bank’s shares, which have fallen 25 percent since the start of last year, were down 0.19 percent at 4.80 naira on Thursday.

Nigeria’s central bank said in a report on Thursday that it expects credit default by borrowers to be a major economic risk this year after bad loans soared to a more than six-year high as economic recession hurt consumers.

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