Grupo Supervielle S.A. Announces Organizational Changes to Streamline its Consumer Finance Business

Aimed at enhancing customer focus, achieve cost synergies and accelerate cross selling opportunities

Grupo Supervielle S.A. SUPV SUPV, ("Supervielle" or the "Company") a universal financial services group headquartered in Argentina with a nationwide presence, announced today organizational changes to streamline its consumer finance business and align it to the new macro environment in Argentina. With these changes, the Company aims to accelerate the offering of a wide range of consumer products tailored to each target segment, enhance customer experience through digital transformation, and increase cross selling to drive higher efficiency and profitability.

Effective August 24, 2018, the consumer finance units of Grupo Supervielle, which include: Cordial Compañía Financiera S.A., Espacio Cordial de Servicios S.A., Tarjeta Automática S.A., and the recently acquired car lending business Micro Lending S.A., will now all be managed under the leadership of Mr. Juan Martin Monteverdi, current CEO of Espacio Cordial de Servicios S.A. He will report to Supervielle's Chief Executive Officer.

Consequently, Mr. Carlos Depalo will step down from his role of CEO of Cordial Compañía Financiera S.A. and Tarjeta Automática S.A. and leave the Company.

"With close to two decades of experience at Supervielle, Juan Martin has a solid track record in consumer lending and in managing our branch network. His experience in successfully developing and expanding our online cross selling platform, makes him ideally suited to lead this new phase of our consumer finance businesses. What Juan Martin has already accomplished at Espacio Cordial de Servicios S.A. we need to do across all our consumer businesses, specifically, ensure we are an agile customer centric operation, accelerate digitalization and cross selling to service the needs of this formal, but underbanked segment in Argentina," noted Mr. Patricio Supervielle, Grupo Supervielle's Chairman and CEO. "By combining the four companies under a unified leadership, we seek to drive increased operational efficiency, accelerate the offering of a wide range of consumer products, enhance customer experience, and increase cross selling"

Mr. Monteverdi has over 25 years financial industry experience having spent more than half his career at Supervielle. He has been CEO of non-financial services subsidiary Espacio Cordial de Servicios S.A. since 2014. Prior to that, he was Branch Network Manager at Banco Supervielle and before he was Territorial Manager for Retail Banking. Earlier, he held several managerial positions at Banco Supervielle. He began his banking career as Branch Manager at Banco Sudameris. Mr. Monteverdi studied Business Management at the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes and took courses in Management, Leadership and Sales at IAE Business School and Universidad Austral.

About Grupo Supervielle S.A. SUPVSUPV))

Grupo Supervielle S.A. ("Supervielle") is a holding company with a long-standing presence in the Argentine financial system and a competitive leadership position in certain attractive market segments. It was founded by the Supervielle family, which took its first steps in the banking sector in 1887 and is now controlled by Patricio Supervielle. Its shares are listed in BYMA and NYSE since May 2016. Grupo Supervielle has developed a multi-brand business model to differentiate financial products and services offered to a broad spectrum of individuals, small and medium-sized enterprises and large companies in Argentina. To date, it is made up of Banco Supervielle, Cordial Compañía Financiera, Tarjeta Automática, Supervielle Seguros, Espacio Cordial de Servicios, Supervielle Asset Management, Mila, Invertir Online and Sofital.

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