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Palestine Investment Bank PIBC achieves a pretax income of $2.54 million; down by 16.0% in 2012

2013-02-14

The Palestine Exchange (PEX) received consolidated unaudited year-end preliminary financial statements from Palestine Investment Bank Company ( PIBC). PEX disclosure rules give all PEX listed companies 45 days to report their preliminary annual financial statements as reviewed by the company’s internal auditor. In addition to this press release, this disclosure was published on the PEX website (www.pex.ps) and emailed to PEX member securities firms.

The disclosed information includes:          

1) A copy of the year-end preliminary financial statements. The disclosed information includes: The Balance Sheet, the Income Statement, the Statement of Comprehensive Income, Changes in Equity Ownership, the Statement of Cash Flows. Notes to the financial statements were not included.

2) The company attached with the disclosure “the summary of year-end preliminary financial statements” form for PEX, and it include: basic information about the company, the date for the convening of the annual ordinary General Assembly meeting, the date of publication of the annual report, the distribution plan for the annual report, in addition to a summary of preliminary results for the year 2012 compared with the audited results of 2011.

3) The company also provided its interim financial statements via the approved electronic form of disclosure applicable to the Banking & Financial Services Sector.

4) A copy of this disclosure was sent to the Palestinian Capital Market Authority (PCMA) simultaneously.

According to company data for year-end preliminary financial statements for year 2012, net profit before taxes reached 2,540,588 USD, compared with a net profit before taxes of 3,026,263 USD in the audited data for 2011, a net decrease of 16.0%. Total assets of the company reached 258,689,765 USD as of December 31st, 2012, compared to total assets of 243,475,131 USD as of December 31^st, 2011, a net increase of 6.2%. Total liabilities of the company reached 192,755,238 USD as of December 31st, 2012, compared to total liabilities of 179,070,102 USD as of December 31^st, 2011, a net increase of 7.6%. Net ownership equity of the company reached 65,934,527 USD as of December 31st, 2012, compared with a net ownership equity of 64,405,029 USD as of December 31^st, 2011, a net increase of 2.4%.