Re­pub­lic Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Ltd (RFHL) has record­ed a 5.8 per cent in­crease in net prof­it at­trib­ut­able to eq­ui­ty hold­ers to $2.3 bil­lion for the fi­nan­cial year end­ed Sep­tem­ber 30, 2026, while to­tal as­sets climbed to $135.5 bil­lion.

The re­gion­al fi­nan­cial group al­so in­creased its to­tal div­i­dend for the year by five per cent to $6.30 per share, up from $6 in 2025, re­flect­ing stronger earn­ings across its bank­ing, in­sur­ance and in­vest­ment op­er­a­tions.

In a re­lease, RFHL chair­man Yash­mid Kara­math re­port­ed that earn­ings per share in­creased to $14.22 from $13.44 in the pre­vi­ous fi­nan­cial year.

The board de­clared a fi­nal div­i­dend of $4.15 per share, bring­ing the to­tal dis­tri­b­u­tion for the year to $6.30. The fi­nal div­i­dend will be paid on De­cem­ber 4 to share­hold­ers on record as of No­vem­ber 20.

Based on the clos­ing share price of $113.03, the div­i­dend rep­re­sents a yield of 5.57 per cent, com­pared with 5.63 per cent in the pre­vi­ous year.

Kara­math at­trib­uted the group’s per­for­mance to growth in core bank­ing rev­enues, con­tri­bu­tions from its in­sur­ance and in­vest­ment busi­ness­es, and con­tin­ued ef­forts to im­prove op­er­a­tional ef­fi­cien­cy.

Dur­ing the fi­nan­cial year, RFHL con­tin­ued in­vest­ing in dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion, process im­prove­ments and cus­tomer-fo­cused ser­vices across its re­gion­al mar­kets.

The group al­so main­tained what it de­scribed as strong cap­i­tal and liq­uid­i­ty po­si­tions, with healthy cap­i­tal ad­e­qua­cy ra­tios across its coun­tries of op­er­a­tion and at the con­sol­i­dat­ed lev­el.

Kara­math re­port­ed that pru­dent risk man­age­ment and cor­po­rate gov­er­nance re­mained cen­tral to the group’s op­er­a­tions, par­tic­u­lar­ly as fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions nav­i­gate an evolv­ing eco­nom­ic and reg­u­la­to­ry en­vi­ron­ment.

Look­ing ahead, RFHL is bank­ing on its re­gion­al pres­ence, di­ver­si­fied earn­ings base and in­vest­ments in tech­nol­o­gy to sup­port fur­ther growth.

The chair­man iden­ti­fied the group’s bal­ance sheet strength, es­tab­lished brand and range of fi­nan­cial ser­vices as im­por­tant fac­tors in pur­su­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties across its mar­kets while adapt­ing to changes in the fi­nan­cial ser­vices sec­tor.

He al­so ac­knowl­edged the con­tri­bu­tion of cus­tomers, em­ploy­ees, man­age­ment, reg­u­la­tors and share­hold­ers to the group’s per­for­mance.