**Summary of AIB Group PLC 2025 Annual Financial Report**
AIB Group PLC reported strong financial results for 2025, with a profit after tax of **โฌ2.1 billion** and total distributions of **โฌ2.25 billion**. Key highlights include
### **Financial Performance**
**Profit After Tax**โฌ2.1 billion, with a **25% return on tangible equity (RoTE)**.
**Customer Deposits**Increased by **7%** to โฌ117.2 billion.
**Gross Loans**Reached โฌ72.3 billion, with **new lending** of โฌ14.7 billion (43% of which was green).
**Total Distributions**โฌ2.25 billion, including a **60% increase** in the full-year cash dividend and a **โฌ1 billion share buyback**.
**CET1 Ratio**16.2%, well <mark style="background-color:yellow">above</mark> regulatory requirements.
### **Strategic Highlights**
1. **Customer First**Improved Net Promoter Scores (NPS) across key customer journeys, with the AI-powered digital assistant **Abi** handling 5,208 calls per day.
2. **Greening the Business**Deployed **โฌ22.9 billion** (76% of the โฌ30 billion Climate Action target) since 2019, with **โฌ6.3 billion** in green and transition lending in 2025.
3. **Operational Efficiency**Reduced legal entities by **40%**, decommissioned **12 legacy applications**, and achieved **>99.99% IT service availability**.
### **Key Metrics**
**Net Interest Income (NII)**โฌ3.748 billion, down **9%** due to lower interest rates.
**Operating Costs**Increased **1%** to โฌ1.992 billion, with a cost-income ratio (CIR) of **44%**.
**Credit Impairment Charge**โฌ172 million, representing a **24bps cost of risk**.
**Non-Performing Exposures (NPEs)**Reduced by **20%** to โฌ1.6 billion (2.2% of gross loans).
### **Sustainability**
Supported **9,000 first-time homebuyers** in 2025, progressing towards the **โฌ6 billion target** by 2026.
**42% of management roles** held by women, maintaining gender balance.
### **Outlook for 2026**
**NII**Expected to be **c. โฌ3.8 billion**.
**Customer Loans**Expected to grow by **c. 5%**.
**Customer Deposits**Expected to grow by **2-3%**.
**RoTE**Expected to be **> 20%**.
### **Medium-Term Targets (2024-2026)**
**RoTE**15%.
**CET1 Ratio**> 14% with a buffer of at least **250bps** over MDA.
**Absolute Costs**< โฌ2 billion with a CIR of < 50%.
AIB remains focused on executing its strategy, supported by a resilient Irish economy and accelerating technological change, while delivering sustainable returns to shareholders.
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2. **Change**: Calculated as the percentage change between 2024 and 2025 where applicable.
3. **ECL Charge**: Expected Credit Loss Charge.
4. **NPEs**: Non-Performing Exposures.
5. **LDR**: Loan-to-Deposit Ratio. This table provides a concise comparison of key financial and debt metrics year-on-year for AIB Group PLC.