Jose Antonio Alvarez
Management
Thank for your questions. Growth, very general question. So you note that our business, many areas and dimensions in the medium, long term is supposed to grow because we have the business that we have, and we are in the geographies we have with plenty of growth in front of us. This is by geographies in Latin America. This year, probably, the visibility on this is poor. Yes, the massive depreciation of the currencies in 2020 naturally affects the translation of the growth we have had. You see the numbers in Brazil, you see the numbers in Mexico, and then you see the numbers in Chile, we are growing nicely, even in the middle of the pandemia. Deterioration into euros was not so good. In the consumer side that -- where we do think that we can grow, naturally, with the lockdowns, we are not growing. What we have seen already in March and April, this are rebound on these activities, and we expect -- provided the vaccination goes as expected, we expect to start to show significant growth. We can capture growth on the Digital Consumer Bank. On the auto space, where we are market leader, we were not working in the leasing space. We then start to grow there. And the Digital Consumer Bank offer us opportunities in the nonauto-related consumer space that we are starting to take. So those are -- on top of this, you have PagoNxt. José already elaborate on the growth prospects of PagoNxt that we expect to capture in the coming years. So this is -- with continued remarks, our growth outlook, it's naturally difficult to talk about growth in the middle of an economic meltdown due to the pandemia. But you see our results, the main difference, I should say, compared with what I've seen in the market is that we are growing revenues and controlling costs. And the main difference is our operating income is growing 15%. Our -- the P&L is not made out of the reduction in provisions. Naturally, we have reduction in provisions, but we have top line growth that we expect this to rebound from now onwards due to the improvement in the economic activity. The capital, second question, you said a specific question. We accrue, as you said, in the quarter, our intention is to accrue 40% of the underlying profit to remunerate the shareholders. It can be dividend, it can be buybacks, okay? So this depends. It's up to the Board to take the appropriate decision if we are allowed to do so, naturally, by the regulator. But our intention is to continue with this accrual because we think that this is sustainable. And that's our intention.