Q4 preview: Analysts believe earnings momentum is likely to gather pace, with healthy loan growth, stable margins, and improving asset quality trends
Banks are caught in their own narrative: credit growth. Soon, one may see bubbles in certain pockets.
Revival of credit demand faces a triple whammy of unprecedented cost pressure, anemic volume growth, and scale-back in household budgets
During H1, banks were investing in G-secs and are not under stress due to rising yield
Banks and NBFCs stand to gain from the Union Budget as a new growth cycle on the back of the massive capex plan has the potential to crowd-in private investment, say analysts
Banks lent Rs 3.7 trillion in 15 days to December 31, 2021 and outstanding commercial bank credit stood at Rs 116.83 trillion, RBI data showed
Credit growth has turned buoyant in the third quarter of this fiscal by a wide margin at Rs 3.5 trillion as against a steep Rs 2.2 trillion decline in deposits
"An increase in bond yields would impact treasury performance," Motilal Oswal Securities said.
HDFC Bank's retail loans grew by around 13.5 per cent yoy and 4.5 per cent over September 2021 based on its internal business classification.
Commercial banks in India as a group posted 7.3 per cent (Y-o-Y) growth till the middle of December 2021, according to Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data.
The first is an increase in delinquencies in the consumer finance portfolio.
Going forward, as the economy recovers and credit demand rises, banks will need to ensure availability of sufficient capital to support credit growth
Due to the pandemic, credit growth of commercial banks had been subdued in 2020/21 but non-banking finance companies filled up the space, RBI said
Within banks, credit issued to the retail segment, which was up 4 per cent as of October 2021, is expected to log 12-14 per cent growth this fiscal
YoY credit growth of the Metropolitan region, which accounts for over 60% of bank credit, rose from 1.7% this March to 4.6% in September
Their gross interest income shrank for second consecutive quarter in Q2FY22 while their core earnings, or pre-provisioning profit, were down 1.5% YoY
Growth in credit to the services sector decelerated to 0.8 per cent in September 2021 from 9.2 per cent in September 2020
What stands out this time around is that positive growth happened despite a more debilitating impact of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic
Credit penetration or providing credit to a large section of society is very important for economic development of the country, Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) K V Subramanian said on Thursday
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