Bad Loans

Equitas Small Finance Bank looking to offload ₹352 bad loans to ARCs

The bank plans to sell ₹308 crore of stressed loans comprising 9,194 accounts on a cash or cash-and-security-receipts basis

Bad loans in unsecured retail credit to peak in FY26, says S&P Global

S&P Global Ratings expects unsecured retail loan stress to crest in FY26 as controls tighten, even as global uncertainty and delayed private capex may weigh on India's loan growth

NBFC-MFIs' bad loans seen falling to 3.6% by March 2026: CareEdge

The decline in bad loans will be driven by write-offs and tighter lending norms, though credit costs are expected to remain elevated in FY26, says CareEdge Ratings

IFCI looks to sell ACCIL's bad loans worth ₹869 cr via Swiss auction

IFCI invites counter-bids for Rs 869 crore of bad loans from ACCIL after receiving an anchor bid of Rs 50 crore, translating into a recovery of just 5.75%

The good and worrying about the bad loan problem of state-owned banks

Lenders are improving asset quality but they are struggling to recover money

India moves to deepen junk debt market by allowing bad loan securitisation

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said last week it would now permit market-determined securitisation of stressed assets, besides those loans where repayments were on track

Banks wrote off bad loans worth Rs 16.35 trillion in last 10 years: Govt

Banks have written off non-performing assets (NPAs) or bad loans worth about Rs 16.35 lakh crore in last 10 financial years, Parliament was informed on Monday. Highest amount of Rs 2,36,265 crore was written off during financial year 2018-19 while NPAs worth Rs 58,786 crore were written off in 2014-15, the lowest in the last 10 years. During 2023-24, banks wrote off bad loans of Rs 1,70,270 crore, lower than Rs 2,16,324 crore done in the previous financial year. Banks write off non-performing assets (NPAs), including those in respect of which full provisioning has been made on completion of four years, as per the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) guidelines and policy approved by banks' boards, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in a reply in the Lok Sabha. Such write-offs do not result in waiver of liabilities of borrowers and therefore, it does not benefit the borrower, she said. Banks continue pursuing their recovery actions initiated against borrowers under the various recover

HDFC Bank plans to sell Rs 1,028 cr bad loans via Swiss challenge auction

Of the Rs 478 crore, Rs 329 crore comes from 1,973 mortgage and home loan accounts, Rs 77 crore from 3,232 commercial vehicle loan accounts, and Rs 72 crore from 2,074 agriculture loan accounts

Banks' Apr-Dec performance robust, impaired loan ratio near trough: Fitch

Fitch Ratings on Monday said Indian banks have performed robustly in the first nine months of the current financial year with the sector's impaired loan ratio close to the trough. In its commentary, Fitch said improvements in key performance metrics of Indian banks in the past few years will provide strong support for their Viability Ratings (VRs). The global rating agency also said that Indian banks' risk appetites have been more calibrated since 2018, with efforts to diversify loans and improve the quality of corporate exposures contributing to lower bad loan formation. Lower legacy bad loans drove improvement in banks' gross impaired loan ratios and earnings, Fitch said. However, these risk enhancements have yet to be fully tested, and banks have tended to vary risk appetite through cycles, such as growth in unsecured personal loans in recent years until regulatory measures discouraged this behaviour, Fitch noted. "Indian banks performed robustly in the first nine months of the

ARCs acquire Rs 1.14 trillion worth of dues in April-December 2024

Recoveries to touch Rs 38,000 crore

Bank of India Q3 profit rises 35% to Rs 2,517 cr, bad loans decline

State-owned Bank of India (BoI) on Friday posted a 35 per cent jump in net profit to Rs 2,517 crore for the December quarter on account of a decline in bad loans. The Mumbai-headquartered bank had earned a net profit of Rs 1,870 crore in the year-ago period. The lenders' total income increased to Rs 19,957 crore during the third quarter of the ongoing fiscal against Rs 16,411 crore a year ago, BoI said in a regulatory filing. The interest income of the bank rose to Rs 18,210 crore against Rs 15,218 crore in the third quarter of the preceding year. Its net interest income (NII) increased to Rs 6,070 crore against Rs 5,463 crore for Q3 FY24. The company's operating profit rose to Rs 3,703 crore from Rs 3,004 crore in the year-ago quarter. On the asset quality front, the bank's gross non-performing assets (NPAs) declined to 3.69 per cent of the gross loans by the end of December 2024 from 5.35 per cent a year ago. Similarly, its net NPAs, or bad loans, came down to 0.85 per cent fr

HDFC Bank, Hindustan Unilever squeeze amidst middle class struggles

HDFC Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank are expected to report increases in bad loans, which should lead to higher provisions and weigh on quarterly profit

FinMin to hold meeting with MFI players on Wed amid rising bad loans

Finance Ministry will hold a meeting with microfinance institutions (MFIs) on Wednesday amid rising bad loans and delinquencies across all types of lenders in the sector. According to sources, the Department of Financial Services Secretary is likely to chair the meeting with senior officials of MFIs here. The meeting assumes significance as it comes with the sector showing signs of stress and rising delinquencies. Credit to the microfinance sector by banks (including SFBs), NBFC-MFIs and other NBFCs has decelerated during the current financial year so far after witnessing rapid growth during the last three years, according to a latest report of the Reserve Bank. "The microfinance sector is showing signs of stress, with rising delinquencies across all types of lenders and ticket sizes. During H1:2024-25, share of stressed assets increased, with 31-180 days past due (dpd) rising from 2.15 per cent in March 2024 to 4.30 per cent in September 2024," said the RBI's Financial Stability .

Banks' gross bad loan ratio seen worsening by March 2026: RBI report

This key measure could rise to 3 per cent by the end of March 2026 from a 12-year low of 2.6 per cent in September 2024 for 46 banks under the so-called baseline scenario

SBI looks to sell Rs 2,732 cr of bad loans in ARSS Infrastructure Projects

Bank has invited expressions of interest from entities interested in submitting counter bids for the asset on full cash basis

Indian banks write off Rs 1.7 trillion in loans in FY24, shows govt data

Loan write-offs by banks in FY24 are the lowest in the last five years

Punjab & Sind Bank seeks bids to sell Rs 403 cr bad loans in 9 accounts

Out of the nine accounts put up for sale by the lender, two accounts - Diksha Greens and Star Bazar Group - have been classified as "fraud" accounts, and only ARCs can bid for these accounts

India's shadow lenders retreat as bad loans increase amid crackdown

Bajaj Finance, one of the largest unsecured lenders, is cutting the number of clients with multiple loans, according to a presentation

SBI Card Q2 results: PAT drops 33% to Rs 404 cr as bad loan provisions rise

SBI Card, backed by India's largest lender State Bank of India, said that write-offs and provisions for bad loans jumped 63 per cent to Rs 1,212 crore for the quarter

Bank of Maharashtra Q4 profit jumps 45% to Rs 1,218 cr, bad loans decline

State-owned Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) on Friday reported a 45 per cent jump in its net profit to Rs 1,218 crore for the March quarter, helped by a decline in bad loans and a rise in interest income. The Pune-based lender had earned a net profit of Rs 840 crore in the year-ago period. During the quarter, the bank's total income increased to Rs 6,488 crore as against Rs 5,317 crore a year ago, BoM said in a regulatory filing. Interest income grew to Rs 5,467 crore during the period under review, from Rs 4,495 crore in the corresponding quarter a year ago. The bank's board has recommended a dividend of Rs 1.40 per share or 14 per cent of Rs 10 face value out of the net profits for the year ended March 31, 2024. On the asset quality side, the bank's Gross Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) were reduced to 1.88 per cent of gross advances as of March 31, 2024, from 2.47 per cent by the end of March 2023. Net NPAs also came down to 0.20 per cent of the advances from 0.25 per cent at the end o