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Ujjivan Small Finance Bank on Thursday reported a 71 per cent growth in net profit at Rs 186 crore for the third quarter ended December 31, 2025. The bank reported a net profit of Rs 109 crore in the third quarter of the 2024-25 fiscal year. The bank reported an all-time high net interest income (NII) of Rs 1,000 crore for the third quarter of FY26, up 12.8 per cent year over year. Ujjivan Small Finance Bank MD & CEO Sanjeev Nautiyal said the bank's deposits grew 22.4 per cent on a yearly basis to Rs 42,223 crore, with the credit-deposit ratio at 88 per cent as of December 2025. Gross loan book for the quarter grew 21.6 per cent YoY to Rs 37,057 crore, driven by the highest-ever quarterly disbursements at Rs 8,293 crore. "This was due to all-around performance across unsecured and secured products. Secured portfolios such as housing, MSME, gold, vehicle and agri loans, scaled up in line with our long-term diversification strategy. The secured book share increased to 48 per cent as
Ujjivan Small Finance Bank (SFB) on Wednesday reported a slump of 75 per cent in net profit to Rs 83.39 crore for three months ended March 2025, hurt by higher provisions for bad loans. The bank had posted a net profit of Rs 329.63 crore in the year-ago period. Its total income rose to Rs 1,843 crore in the January-March quarter of the financial year 2024-25 (FY25) from Rs 1,765 crore in the year-ago period, Ujjivan Small Finance Bank said in a regulatory filing. Overall provisions, excluding tax, rose to Rs 264.50 crore in the quarter under review from Rs 79 crore in the same quarter a year ago. Provision Coverage Ratio of the bank stood at 78 per cent at the end of the March 2025 quarter. The bank's total expenditure, excluding provisions, shot up to Rs 1,483 crore from Rs 1,246 crore. On the asset quality front, the bank's gross non-performing assets ratio improved to 2.18 per cent against 2.23 per cent a year ago. However, net NPAs, or bad loans, rose to 0.49 per cent from 0.2
The Reserve Bank on Friday said it has imposed penalties totalling Rs 68.1 lakh on two banks -- Nainital Bank and Ujjivan Small Finance Bank -- for contravention of regulatory norms. A penalty of Rs 61.40 lakh was imposed on Nainital Bank Ltd for non-compliance with certain directions on Interest Rate on Advances' and Customer Service in Banks', RBI said in a statement. Further, RBI imposed a penalty of Rs 6.70 lakh on Ujjivan Small Finance Bank for non-compliance with certain directions issued by RBI on Loans and Advances - Statutory and Other Restrictions'. RBI also levied a penalty of Rs 5.80 lakh on Shriram Finance, a non-banking entity, for non-compliance with certain provisions, including Know Your Customer (KYC ) guidelines and directions on Data Format for Furnishing of Credit Information to Credit Information Companies'. The penalties are based on the deficiencies in regulatory compliance and are not intended to pronounce upon the validity of any transaction or agreement .