Alior Banks's net profit down 7.1 % y/y

Alior Bank reported PLN 81.66 million net profit in Q2 2016 compared to PLN 87.81 million last year. The bank assets rose to PLN 47.04 billion at the end of Q2, rising from  PLN 40 billion in 2015. The net profit in H1 was PLN 161.9 million, down 9.6 percent y/y, "mostly because of the banking tax", says the raport reads. The tax burden amounted to PLN 52.9 million in H1. At the end of July the bank had 3.2 million clients. Alior Bank was created in 2008, and is listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange since 2012. It has 804 outposts and hires 6,687 employees.