The lender, which was founded in 2011 and went public last year, said underlying pre-tax profit rose to 80.1 million pounds for the year ended Dec. 31, from 49.1 million pounds in the previous year.

The bank's loan book grew 44 percent to 3.36 billion pounds.

(Reporting by Noor Zainab Hussain in Bengaluru; Editing by Gopakumar Warrier)