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State-owned Bank of India (BoI) on Friday reported a 7.6 per cent rise in net profit to Rs 2,554 crore in the September quarter of FY26. The bank posted a net profit of Rs 2,374 crore in the July-September quarter a year ago. Total income rose to Rs 20,626 crore during the September quarter of FY26, from Rs 19,872 crore in the year-ago period. Gross non-performing assets (NPA) of BoI improved to 2.54 per cent of advances in Q2 compared to 4.41 per cent in Q2 of FY25. Provisioning for non-performing assets during the quarter under review was Rs 472 crore as against Rs 1,427 crore in Q2 of FY25. Shares of BoI settled at Rs 123.3 apiece, down 1.67 per cent over the previous close on the BSE.
After the State Bank of India, Bank of India has classified the loan account of insolvent Reliance Communications as fraudulent and named its former director, tycoon Anil Ambani, citing alleged fund diversion in 2016, according to a regulatory filing. State-owned Bank of India granted a Rs 700 crore loan in August 2016 to Reliance Communications for its ongoing capital and operational expenditure and repayment of existing liabilities. Half of the sanctioned amount disbursed in October 2016 was invested in a fixed deposit, which was not permitted as per the sanction letter, according to the bank's letter that RCom disclosed in a stock exchange filing. RCom said that it has on August 22 received a letter from Bank of India dated August 8 stating the bank's decision "to classify the loan accounts of the company, Anil Dhirajlal Ambani (promoter and erstwhile director of the company), and Manjari Ashok Kacker (erstwhile director of the company), as Fraud". Previously, State Bank of India
Bank of India and UCO Bank have announced 25 basis points reduction lending rate within hours of RBI's decision to slash its policy rate on Wednesday, a move which will help existing and new borrowers. Other banks are also are expected to make similar announcements soon. Both public sector banks, in separate regulatory filings, said the rate revision has been done following the RBI's reduction in the short-term lending rate (repo rate) earlier in the day. Bank of India's new Repo Based Lending Rate (RBLR) stands at 8.85 per cent compared to 9.10 per cent earlier. The new rate would be effective from Wednesday, Bank of India said in a regulatory filing. UCO Bank said it has brought down repo linked rate to 8.8 per cent, effective Thursday.