Credit growth may ease to 9.7-10.3 per cent in FY26, weighed down by the persisting high CD ratio and implementation of the proposed changes in the liquidity coverage ratio (LCR) framework, ICRA said in a report. ICRA has revised its credit growth estimate downwards to 10.5-11 per cent for FY25 from its earlier estimate of 11.6-12.5 per cent. In its recent report, ICRA highlighted that with the banks focusing on reducing their credit-to-deposit (CD) ratio and reducing their exposures to unsecured retail and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), the overall credit growth has moderated in the past few months, it said. Consequently, credit and deposit growth has almost aligned with each other and ICRA expects the trend to continue, the rating agency said in the report. The persisting high interest rates and the slowdown in credit growth, especially towards high-yielding advances will impact the margins of the banking sector, it said. The capital ratios of several banks remain ...
Credit growth in the fortnight ended November 15 slowed to 11.15 per cent year-on-year (YoY), while deposit growth reached 11.21 per cent
Resource mobilisation challenge, regulatory nudge to weigh on growth
State-owned Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) on Friday said it has posted a credit growth of 16.31 per cent at Rs 2.03 lakh crore for the March quarter. The outstanding credit was Rs 1.75 lakh crore at the end of March 31, 2023, BoM said in a regulatory filing. The Pune-headquartered lender reported 15.63 per cent increase in total deposits to Rs 2.70 lakh crore as against Rs 2.34 lakh crore at the end of the fourth quarter of the previous financial year. During the quarter, it said, Current Account and Savings Account (CASA) declined to 52.73 per cent of the total deposits as against 53.39 per cent. The Credit Deposit (CD) ratio increased to 75.23 per cent at the end of March 31, 2024 as against 74.87 per cent in the year-ago period.
Private lenders with high loan-to-deposit ratio more vulnerable, says S&P
Bank deposits have gone up by 6.6 per cent to reach Rs 149.2 trillion during the April-August 2023 period, whereas the credit growth for the same period was 9.1 per cent
The share of their net profit in India's GVA hit a record high of 1%
The share of such loans declined between September 2020 and March 2022 in private banks and NBFCs but rose for public sector banks
Banks face pressure to raise deposits; weighted average call rate highest in 3 years
Among individual shares, Bank of Baroda, Canara Bank, State Bank of India, Indian Bank, and Union Bank of India soared between 21 per cent and 34 per cent during the period
Bankers said the rise in credit offtake now is partly driven by expansion in economic activity
Public sector and private banks have sanctioned over 193,000 loans via 924 camps in 405 districts from October 16-20, FM Nirmala Sitharaman says in Tweet
Markets do not view banks with low capital favourably and offer funds at a higher rate, says study done independently.
However, this is against the sanction of Rs 1.10 trillion under the 100 per cent ECLGS for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) till July 1.
With the financial year ending on March 31, small- and mid-sized companies are likely to default en masse, while rating agencies will have to mark them in the 'default' grade
Growth in advances to the services sector decelerated to 8.9% from 23.9% in January 2019
The country has recorded high double-digit credit growth in the past and is capable of achieving similar growth now as well, they added
Non-food bank credit growth decelerated to 7 per cent in December 2019 from 12.8 per cent in December 2018
Last Friday, the government had unveiled a mega plan to merge as many as 10 public sector banks into four to help create stronger global-sized banks
The share of net credit of housing finance companies (HFCs) in the total flow of credit nearly doubled from 6.2 per cent in FY14 to 11.7 per cent in FY18