PR Banking Industry Report - January to September 2012

As we have commented in previous reports, the Puerto Rico banking industry maintains its slow but solid recovery with its pre-tax ROE in 2012 (Jan.-Sep.) at 4%, approximately 14 percentage points above the 2009 and 2010 levels. Furthermore, the Q3 2012 pre-tax ROE reached 6.7%, the highest profitability level since Q2 2011.