Wow! sounds amazing! except getting double the profits and generating half as many loans leads to identical numbers, and they have been generating less than half as many new loans as they did yoy compared to 2022, which was a year where china was in LOCKDOWN. their earnings are horrible even after a 30% cut in expenses, firing thousands of employees, and comparing to a brutal year for SMEs.
Wins333 : firing thousands of employees?? are you sure about this? I hope this is a just typo instead of attitude
hgar OP Wins333 : in a past er they've mentioned letting go of salespeople in areas of the country that underperformed as part of their shift to higher quality loans in more economically resilient regions and to cut costs. they had upwards of 90,000 employees in 2021 and 71,000 now
hgar OP Wins333 : the point isn't that reducing employee count is a bad thing, but rather that their earnings have gone down significantly even with aggressive cost-cutting measures by firing thousands of employees, reducing salaries and reducing interest payments by paying off debt early