PKO BANK POLSKI S.A. Legal basis:
Art. 56 section 1 point 1 of the Act of 29 July 2005 on the Public Offering, the Conditions Governing the Introduction of Financial Instruments to Organised Trading, and on Public Companies in connection with Article 154 of the Act on Trading in Financial Instruments of 29 July 2005
Content of the report:
The Management Board of Powszechna Kasa Oszczędności Bank Polski Spółka Akcyjna ('PKO Bank Polski' or the 'Bank') hereby informs that on 22 March 2016 the Bank's Management Board adopted the new 'Principles for managing the capital adequacy and the internal capital in PKO Bank Polski SA and in the PKO Bank Polski Capital Group' ('Principles'), including among others the dividend policy.
The general assumption of the Bank's dividend policy is to maintain a stable level of dividend payments in the long term, in compliance with the principle of prudent management of the Bank's and the Bank's Capital Group and with consideration of the financial capacity of the Bank and the Bank's Capital Group as determined on the basis of the adopted criteria. The aim of the dividend policy is an optimization of the own funds of the Bank and the Bank's Capital Group, taking into account the return on capital and its cost, capital needs for development, while ensuring an appropriate level of capital adequacy ratios. The dividend policy assumes the possibility of the Bank's net profit distribution to shareholders in the long-term perspective in the amount of the surplus of capital above minimal capital adequacy ratios considering the additional capital buffer. The dividend policy takes into account factors related to the operations of the Bank and the Bank's Capital Group companies, in particular, the requirements and supervisory recommendations concerning capital adequacy.
The principles have been changed in connection with the issuance by the Polish Financial Supervision Authority on 15 December 2015 of the position on the dividend policy of banks in 2016 for the year 2015, recommending higher minimum levels of capital adequacy measures enabling the dividend payment and introducing a new condition for the dividend payment - the level of leverage.
Therefore, in accordance with the Principles, the capital adequacy ratios specifying the dividend criteria are as follows:
- total capital ratio above 14.01% and
- common equity Tier 1 ratio above 13.82%,
- leverage ratio above 5%.
The Principles were approved by the Bank's Supervisory Board.
PKO Bank Polski SA issued this content on 22 March 2016 and is solely responsible for the information contained herein. Distributed by Public, unedited and unaltered, on 22 March 2016 17:19:58 UTC
Original Document: http://www.pkobp.pl/pkobppl-en/investor-relations/current-reports/current-report-no-212016-the-change-in-pko-bank-polski-sa-dividend-policy/
