RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – BNDES posted a net profit of 19 billion reais from January to September, 31.4 percent higher than the previous year’s positive result, the development bank said on Monday.
Recurring net profit in the first 9 months of 2024 reached 9.8 billion reais, up 48.5% compared to the same period in 2023.
Loan requests in 9 months amounted to 258.9 billion reais, an increase of 30% compared to the same period in 2023. Disbursements increased by 15%, reaching 87 billion reais.
“The bank is now twice as big as the IDB and with many fewer employees,” BNDES President Aloizio Mercadante told reporters, referring to the Inter-American Development Bank.
“We achieve 19 billion in profits, but we send 25 billion in dividends to the Treasury. Contributing to the surplus, with the balanced budget and debt reduction, is a very big effort. We are committed to the cause,” he added.
Mercadante reminds me that the bank will also pay the Treasury this year at least 9.3 billion reais as an early repayment of resources lent in the past to the bank in a subsidized form.
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