Even after seven years of operations, Bandhan's concentration on micro loans remains high
Stress in small business loans triggers action
The RBI's decision will help Bandhan Bank in contributing to nation-building, its MD and CEO Chandra Sekhar Ghosh said
A reversal in stress in microfinance and housing loan segments is crucial to improve sentiment
The bank reported a loss net of Rs 3,009 crore in Q2FY22 on huge provisions of over Rs 4,600 crore for the bad loans and restructured advances
Lender had posted a net profit of Rs 920 crore in the second quarter ended September 2020
Shares of Bandhan Bank closed 2.36 per cent down at Rs 291.50 apiece on BSE.
The stock was quoting lower for the fifth straight day, down 1.6 per cent at Rs 262.60 on the BSE in intra-day trade on Tuesday
Speaking at the sixth foundation day programme of the bank, Ghosh said the bank will also leverage machine learning and artificial intelligence.
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Bandhan Bank has been trading in a steady downtrend and is facing selling pressure on every rise
The mid- and small-cap indices meanwhile, outperformed and ended over 0.4 per cent higher each
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Brokerage firm ICICI Securities opines that this is positive for micro lenders and especially Bandhan Bank as recoveries are now assured by the state
Among individual stocks, a total of 140 of the BSE500 stocks have given negative return so far in CY2021
The stock was trading at its lowest level since October 30, 2020, having corrected 34 per cent from its 52-week high level of Rs 430.25
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Bandhan Bank MD & CEO Chandra Shekhar Ghosh is hopeful that the economy will rebound by the third and fourth quarters of the current fiscal, enabling the lender to meet its targets. He said the bank had exercised caution amid the COVID-19 pandemic and made additional provisioning in the last quarter of 2020-21. "We remain cautiously optimistic for the current fiscal as we have made additional provisioning as safeguard. The second wave of Covid pain is expected to subside in the next two-three months, and this time people are better geared than the first wave that took everyone by surprise. "The worst seems to be over, and the economy will rebound by the time major lending business happens in Q3 and Q4, to meet our targets," Ghosh told PTI. On NPAs, he said the numbers will come down with time as borrowers are aware about missing repayments amid the pandemic scenario. "I recently went to an area where NPAs are high, and people acknowledged Bandhan's role in developmen