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Bandhan Bank slips 10% to hit lowest level this year on weak Q2FY23

Analysts believe that though balance sheet restructuring in progress, the operationally weak performance and uncertainty on stressed pool remains an overhang

Bandhan Bank reports net profit of Rs 209 cr in FY23 Sept quarter

Private sector lender Bandhan Bank on Friday reported a net profit of Rs 209.30 crore in the quarter ended in September 2022 on the back of a fall in bad loans. The Kolkata-headquartered bank had posted a net loss of Rs 3,008.60 crore in the same quarter a year ago. The bank's total income during the July-September period of 2022-23 grew by 8.5 per cent at Rs 2,669.4 crore as against Rs 2,459.9 crore in the same period of 2021-22, Bandhan Bank said in a regulatory filing. The lender said its housing finance division achieved its best-ever growth of 32 per cent year-on-year and the retail division grew 112 per cent from a year ago. Commercial banking division grew 96 per cent yearly. Among other key parameters, the net interest income, interest earned minus interest expended, rose by 13.3 per cent in Q2FY23 at Rs 2,193 crore, as against Rs 1,935.4 crore in Q2FY22, the bank said. However, the non-interest income fell by 9.2 per cent during the quarter to Rs 476.4 crore from Rs 524.5

Bandhan Bank plans to hike exposure of secured loans to 70% by 2025

Currently, 39 per cent of the asset book is secured

Bandhan Bank to raise exposure of secured loans to 70% by 2025

Private lender Bandhan Bank on Thursday said it will diversify its asset base by increasing exposure to secured loans to 70 per cent by 2025. The bank will also diversify its geographical presence, MD & CEO of Bandhan Bank Chandra Sekhar Ghosh said. Ghosh said that percentage of the bank's secured loans at present is 39 per cent. Ten per cent of its exposure will be on retail channels - automobiles including two-wheelers, gold and personal loans. As per the initial disclosures of the bank, loans and advances of the lender at the end of the second quarter stood at Rs 99,374 crore, reflecting a 22 per cent rise year-on-year. "The bank will diversify the asset base and exposure to secured loans will grow to 70 per cent by 2025," he told reporters here. Bandhan Bank announced on Thursday it has appointed former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly as its brand ambassador. Ghosh said, "The bank will focus on housing loans which are witnessing a good demand growth. MSME will be the ..

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CLOSING BELL: IT, select auto and banking stocks aided the market recovery on Monday. TCS gained nearly 2 per cent ahead of its Q2 result.

Stocks to watch: TCS, HUL, GCPL, Ambuja Cements, Tata Power, Bandhan Bank

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Bandhan Bank loans, deposits rise over 20% to Rs 99,374 cr in Q2FY23

Bandhan Bank on Saturday reported a 22 per cent jump in loans and advances at Rs 99,374 crore at end of September quarter 2022. The Bank's loans and advances were Rs 81,661 crore in the year-ago period. Total deposits of the private sector lender rose by 21 per cent to Rs 99,365 crore at end of September quarter 2022, as against Rs 81,898 crore a year ago. Of this, retail deposits were of Rs 73,660 crore, which was higher by 7 per cent from the year ago's Rs 68,787 crore. The retail deposit includes current account and savings account (CASA) of Rs 40,509 crore, up by 11 per cent from a year earlier. CASA ratio was at 40.8 per cent as of September 30, 2022. Bank's retail deposit formed 74 per cent of the total deposits. Bandhan Bank said its pan India collection efficiency, excluding non-performing assets and including restructured customers, was 97 per cent, up from 96 per cent at end of June 2022 quarter. The lender said the numbers mentioned as on September 30, 2022 are provi

Trading Strategies in Bandhan Bank, Eris Lifesciences by Mehul Kothari

According to the technical analyst from Anand Rathi, Bandhan Bank can be shorted for a price target of Rs 272, while Eris Lifesciences can be bought for a target of Rs 800.

Bandhan Bank stock weighed down by weak sentiment; worst may be priced in

The guidance is for overall 20 per cent growth in 2022-23

25% micro credit customers graduated to SMEs since Covid: Bandhan Bank MD

Ghosh says bank is looking to increase branch count to 8,000 nationally from the current 5,640

ICICI Bank, Bandhan Bank, Karnataka Bank increase MCLR across tenors

Loan rates going up after central bank's rate-setting committee hiked benchmark policy rate by 50 basis points

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Bandhan Bank to open 551 branches in FY'23: MD Chandra Sekhar Ghosh

Bandhan Bank will open 551 more branches in the 2022-23 fiscal, as a part of the lender's focus to make its distribution stronger in other parts of India outside the eastern region, MD & CEO Chandra Sekhar Ghosh said. With the latest addition, the Kolkata-headquartered bank's branch count will exceed 6,000, he said. "India is a huge country and just one Bandhan Bank of the scale at which we are right now is not enough. So, we have to scale up even further and even faster. "Majority of these (new branches) will be outside of east India, where we are already very strong in penetration. Bolstering our distribution in other parts of the country is a key focus for us," Ghosh said here at the seventh anniversary celebrations of Bandhan Bank on Monday night. He said the bank's push for digital and tech transformation has been a great success, with 92 per cent of the total transactions taking place through the digital route. Ghosh also said Bandhan Bank will continue to expand its product

Bandhan Bank opens its first currency chest in Patna's Deedargunj

The bank plans to open more than 530 new bank branches across the country in this financial year

Asset quality worries weigh on Bandhan Bank's stock as NPAs spike

Analysts have 'neutral' to 'buy' recommendation on the share with target price ranging between Rs 320 and Rs 440, it closed at Rs 273 on Monday

Bandhan Bank Q1 net profit doubles to Rs 887 cr due to decline in bad loans

Total income increased to Rs 2,844.1 crore from Rs 2,731 crore. Interest income of the lender jumped to Rs 2,514.4 crore from Rs 2,114.1 crore, Bandhan Bank said in a regulatory filing.

Private bank shares under pressure; AU SFB, Bandhan, RBL Bank tank up to 9%

As of 10:09 am, the S&P BSE Private Bank and Nifty Private Bank index were down 1 per cent each, as compared to 0.6 per cent decline on the benchmarks, S&P BSE Sensex and Nifty50 index.

Customer trusts the physical bank branch, says Bandhan Bank MD & CEO

'When we started the bank seven years back, 98 per cent of the loan book was micro and group loans; now it is 47 per cent'

Bandhan Bank to increase exposure to secured loans to MSME: MD & CEO

Bandhan Bank will gradually increase its exposure to secured loans by enhancing advances to the housing and MSME sectors, its Managing Director and CEO Chandra Shekhar Ghosh said.

Bandhan Bank to increase exposure to secured loans, says MD & CEO

Private lender Bandhan Bank will gradually increase its exposure to secured loans by enhancing advances to the housing and MSME sectors, an official said. Presently, the bank's exposure to MFI loans, which are unsecured, is 47 per cent, and the share of its advances to the housing segment is at 24 per cent, retail at two per cent and the micro, small and medium enterprises sector at 27 per cent. Bandhan Bank MD and CEO Chandra Shekhar Ghosh told PTI that "the lender will increase its exposure to secured loans and has set a target to increase disbursements to housing and medium-size MSME loans. Advances to MFIs and small-ticket MSME loans are unsecured". He said that 25 per cent of its MFI loans will be converted to formal MSME advances as the interest rates in the segment are similar to micro-credit or the loans given to self-help groups (SHGs). There will be "no impact on the profitability" of the bank as there is no difference in the interest rates, he said. In the last quarter