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Post tax profit of private lender Bandhan Bank has decreased to Rs 112 crore during the second quarter of the current financial as compared to Rs 937 crore in the similar previous period. Operating profit of the bank also decreased to Rs 1310 crore in the current second quarter, as against Rs 1855 crore in the similar previous quarter. MD&CEO of Bandhan Bank Partha Pratim Sengupta told reporters here that the second quarter results were transitional and the lender's profitability will improve in the coming months. "The repo rate cut has had an impact on the profitability of the bank. There has been a repricing of deposits of the bank. The focus of the bank is on CASA (current account, savings account) growth. The results of the second quarter are below internal expectations," Sengupta said. He said that the growth of the microfinance portfolio remained subdued during the second quarter. "For the bank, share of secured advances continued to rise. There has been decline in bulk ...
The Reserve Bank of India has imposed a penalty of Rs 44.7 lakh on Bandhan Bank for deficiencies in certain statutory and regulatory compliance. In a statement on Friday, the RBI said that a statutory inspection for supervisory evaluation of the bank was conducted with reference to its financial position as on March 31, 2024. Based on supervisory findings of non-compliance with RBI directions and related correspondence in that regard, a notice was issued to the bank advising it to show cause as to why a penalty should not be imposed on it for its failure to comply with the said RBI directions. RBI said the bank paid remuneration in the form of commission to certain employees. Also, Bandhan Bank had carried out manual intervention through the back-end in respect of data of certain accounts and had not captured the audit trails/ logs of access with specific user details in the system. RBI, however, said the penalty is based on deficiencies in statutory and regulatory compliance and
Bandhan Bank on Wednesday reported a more than five-fold increase in its net profit for the quarter ended March 31, 2025, at Rs 318 crore, compared to Rs 55 crore in the year-ago period, driven by lower provisions despite a decline in net interest income. The lender's net revenue in Q4 FY25 stood at Rs 3,456 crore, marginally lower than Rs 3,560 crore in the corresponding quarter of the previous year. Net interest income (NII) dropped 4 per cent YoY to Rs 2,756 crore, while the net interest margin (NIM) contracted to 6.7 per cent, down 4 per cent. For the full financial year FY25, the bank's profit after tax rose 23 per cent to Rs 2,745 crore from Rs 2,230 crore in FY24. For FY25, Bandhan Bank's net revenue grew 16 per cent YoY to Rs 14,458 crore, while NII rose 11 per cent to Rs 11,491 crore. Operating profit was up 11 per cent at Rs 7,389 crore.