PPF and Home Credit announce agreement to sell their Russian banking assets to a group of local investors

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PPF Group is an international investment group founded in the Czech 
Republic in 1991. It has grown to manage operations in 25 countries around the world.

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Home Credit Group B.V. is one of the world’s leading consumer finance providers. It specialises in emerging markets. 

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Home Credit

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Home Credit N.V.

Home Credit International, a.s.

HCNV is a parent company organised into several regional groupings. It holds equity interests in consumer finance companies across multiple markets in Asia and Europe. In over 25 years of operations, the company has developed a diverse range of innovative and affordable financial services and solutions tailored to the cultural, social, and economic nuances of each of the markets where it operates.

The group operates in countries where growth potential is high, GDP growth is above average and the consumer finance penetration rate is low. Towards the end of 2023, Home Credit Group companies were serving approximately 6 million active customers across all their markets and were among the largest and bestranked point-of-sale financing brands.
In a constantly evolving digital world, the group&rsquo;s mission is to provide highly competitive services while maintaining an exceptional level of agility and innovation. Advanced technology and Home Credit&rsquo;s easy-touse mobile apps offer inclusive access to credit services. Home Credit employs an omnichannel approach as a flexible and responsible way to offer underserved and unbanked consumers access to the financial services industry, often for the very first time. The responsible lending decisions crucial to Home Credit&rsquo;s business model are made accurately and swiftly thanks to Home Credit&rsquo;s data-centric operations, which draw on predictive tools and data analysis.
Home Credit offers three categories of unsecured consumer finance products on its markets &ndash; point-of-sale loans, multipurpose or cash loans, and revolving credit products. In addition to loans, Home Credit offers customers complementary products and services such as insurance and third-party insurance distribution. The company&rsquo;s product strategy aims to sustain high customer loyalty with services that respond well to the ever-changing needs and life situations that people face across all age groups.

In 2023, Home Credit&rsquo;s core markets experienced significant growth in volume, largely driven by broader economic recovery. Last year was also notable for the completion of the sales of Home Credit&rsquo;s Indonesian and Philippines business units, both of which were acquired by a consortium of Japanese financial institutions &ndash; Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group &ndash; and affiliates led by Krungsri Bank, a renowned Thai institution, in deals worth approximately EUR 656 million.
Globally, the company continued to accelerate digitalisation, which included the tighter integration of mobile apps to improve the customer experience and interaction in loan repayments, and to simplify the purchase of consumer goods through online retail partners. More than 90% of the company&rsquo;s business is driven by mobile devices, and Home Credit&rsquo;s apps have over 100 million registered users worldwide since they launched.
Home Credit Group continues to be recognised as a top responsible operator in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In 2023, Home Credit ranked first in the People in Need independent assessment published as the Responsible Lending Index. Home Credit also continues to focus on exploring new revenue streams, such as insurance distribution, and on developing new business products.
In February 2024, Home Credit Group signed a conditional framework agreement to sell 100% of its Home Credit Vietnam business to Siam Commercial Bank of Thailand. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval and is expected to be completed in the first half of 2025.

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India

Home Credit N.V. (HCNV) is a leading consumer finance provider focusing on emerging markets. Home Credit&rsquo;s mission is to provide consumer finance responsibly, especially to people with little or no credit history, via a multichannel online and offline distribution model which emphasises digital services and tools.

Home Credit India&rsquo;s &ldquo;Saksham&rdquo; project, run in partnership with IDF, provided fi nancial literacy education to 30,000 marginalised women and girls from July 2022 to March 2023. In Vietnam, Home Credit&rsquo;s &ldquo;Home for Life&rdquo; project, targeting 500 households, provided disadvantaged women with interest- free loans and fi nancial training.
The &ldquo;Home Love&rdquo; initiative distributed gifts and essentials across the country, including a new playground in Bac Lieu and warm clothes for hundreds of children in Ha Giang. Over 1,500 Home Credit employees participated in charitable activities.

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<h3>Other Roles</h3>
Non-Executive Member of the Board of Directors, Home Credit N.V.
<h3>Biography</h3>
A graduate of the University of Chicago (MBA) and the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, where he majored in Commercial Engineering. He was a managing partner at McKinsey Prague between 1999 and 2005, when he assumed leadership of McKinsey CIS and Central Europe, based in Moscow.
He was a PPF Group shareholder from 2010 until 2023. As PPF Group&rsquo;s representative, he held a position of Board member with Polymetal International, also being a Strategy &amp; IR Development Director, member of Supervisory Board, at Russia-based Nomos Bank.
J.-P. Duvieusart was a member of top-management at SOTIO, PPF Group&rsquo;s biotechnology company, with focus on its Chinese and U.S. businesses. He is Non-Executive Member of the Board of Directors of Home Credit N.V. where he served as CEO in 2020-2022. J.-P. Duvieusart was a Director of PPF Real Estate Holding B.V. He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of PPF Financial Holdings a.s. since June 2021.&nbsp;

Jean-Pascal Duvieusart

“The responsible financing of customers’ needs helps to make life better for people, families, and communities.”

Ivan Tyryshkin was instrumental in forming the foundations of Russia&rsquo;s modern financial markets as the CEO of RTS Stock Exchange. Having invested into and scaled a number of prominent fintech companies in Russia, Ivan is one of the founders of SPB Exchange, and now is the Chairman of its board of directors as well as one of its largest shareholders. SPB Exchange is one of the leading publicly traded fintech platforms in the region.
Under the transaction, Kazakhstan&rsquo;s Bank Home Credit, a subsidiary of HCFB, will be sold to shareholders and selected top managers of PPF and Home Credit.
This transaction will be conducted in an orderly and structured manner to ensure continuity for Home Credit employees and customers in Russia and Kazakhstan. HCFB and its subsidiaries operate effectively and in compliance with the current regulatory and legal environment in Russia and Kazakhstan.

PPF and Home Credit announce agreement to sell their Russian banking assets to a group of local investors

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