Swedish bank SEB profit beats forecast, maintains cost outlook
SEB Q2 net profit 9.42 bln SEK vs consensus 8.74 bln
Easing interest income offset by other revenue
Often volatile net financial income helps drive profit beat
Interest income 11.61 bln SEK, just above forecast
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By Niklas Pollard
STOCKHOLM, July 16 (Reuters) -Swedish banking group SEB SEBa.ST reported a better-than-forecast quarterly net profit on Tuesday, and maintained its full-year cost outlook, as other revenue streams helped offset pressure from an easing interest income momentum.
The bank said its second-quarter net profit dipped to 9.42 billion crowns ($887.7 million) from a year-earlier 9.77 billion crowns, but beat the 8.74 billion crowns forecast in a poll of estimates collected by LSEG.
Like other banks across the region, SEB had also benefited from surging interest income as central banks jacked up rates to curb inflation in recent years while loan losses remained largely marginal despite an economic slump.
But with Sweden's Riksbank and the European Central Bank embarking on easing cycles this year, the interest income - which includes revenue from mortgages - is seen facing headwinds, although Norway's DNB DNB.OL beat expectations last week while Finnish Nordea NDAFI.HE undershot estimates.
SEB said increased net flows into its asset management business, stronger investment banking activity and signs of improving credit demand helped eclipse some of the sting from slowing interest income.
SEB, which competes with Swedbank SWEDa.ST and Handelsbanken SHBa.ST, reported an interest income of 11.61 billion crowns, compared with 11.88 billion a year prior, just above the mean analysts' estimate of 11.56 billion.
"Our results remained solid in the second quarter and asset quality was robust," CEO Johan Torgeby said in a statement.
"While the interest rate cuts during the quarter resulted in a decrease in net interest income, we saw improved momentum in other parts of our business," he added.
Net financial income, a typically harder-to-predict revenue stream often seen as a less robust by analysts, was one of the key drivers for profit beat.
Net financial income, which includes trading gains, totalled 2.75 billion crowns, compared with 2.61 billion a year ago while commission income rose to 5.94 billion crowns versus a year-prior 5.64 billion and market expectations at 5.84 billion.
SEB reported net expected credit losses of 44 million crowns, compared with 43 million crowns a year earlier and well below the 330 million seen by analysts.
The bank affirmed its target for costs to be at or below 29 billion crowns for the full year.
($1 = 10.6114 Swedish crowns)
Reporting by Niklas Pollard; Editing by Essi Lehto and Sherry Jacob-Phillips
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