On an year-on-year (YoY) basis, non-food bank credit growth was at 6.7 per cent in June 2020
Bank credit growth (year-on-year) continued to decelerate across all population groups and stood at 6.3 per cent in March 2020.
In the fortnight ended June 21, 2019, bank credit had stood at Rs 96.48 trillion and deposits at Rs 124.92 trillion
In the fortnight ended June 7, 2019, bank loans had stood at Rs 96.51 trillion and deposits at Rs 125.40 trillion
Prior to the disruption caused by covid-19, bank credit was already slower than normal in FY20 due to subdued economic activity and risk averseness of the lenders
Banks had surplus liquidity of Rs 4.5 trn in the period
Loans sanctioned by public sector banks (PSBs) at the end of May 8 stood at Rs 5.95 trillion
Deposit accretion activity also moderated in FY20 to 7.9 per cent from 10 per cent in FY19, according to Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data.
Bank advances growth in FY20 was the slowest since the fiscal ended March 1962, when loans had grown by 5.38 per cent
Bank credit growth declined to 8.5 per cent in January from 13.5 per cent in the year-ago period
Growth in advances to the services sector decelerated to 8.9 per cent from 23.9 per cent in January 2019
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Non-food bank credit growth decelerated to 7 per cent in December 2019 from 12.8 per cent in December 2018
Bankers said that with private investment practically coming to a halt, there was little demand for corporate credit.
According to ICRA, even in a high-growth scenario, wherein the second half of FY20 sees the incremental bank credit rise to Rs 6.5-7 trillion, there will still be a 40-45% year-on-year (YoY) decline
For the last three PSBs, the govt should run these under a public-private partnership model, said a senior banker.
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As per the report, in September, the jump in retail credit at Rs 51,900 crore was nearly double that of August, of which housing loans jumped by 2.6 times.
The recent changes in mutual funds regulations are likely to result in a decline in the volume of commercial paper outstanding by March 2020
In the first fortnight of the fiscal ending April 12, the credit demand grew 14.19 percent after closing the previous fiscal at 13.24 percent