Government-owned IDBI Bank's net loss widened to Rs 56.6 billion in the March quarter, on a sizable Rs 107.8 bn provision for bad loans.The quarterly loss, the sixth in a row, was deeper than the Rs 31.9 bn in the same period last year. For the full year ended March 2018, the net loss is Rs 82.4 bn, against one of Rs 51.6 bn in 2016-17.However, operating profit for the quarter (fourth or Q4 of 2017-18) more than doubled to Rs 23.6 bn, from Rs 10.4 bn in Q4 of 2016-17.Its gross non-performing assets (NPAs) stood at 27.95 per cent of total advances. The latter proportion is second highest in the history of Indian banking, next only to its own GNPA of 30 per cent in the quarter ended December 2003. In fact, that gross NPA figure is far lower than the Reserve Bank's (RBI's) calculation, of Rs 550.3 bn, as against the bank's assessment of Rs 447.5 bn.IDBI is already under RBI's 'prompt corrective action' framework. Its provisioning for NPAs rose to Rs 107.7 bn, from Rs 60.5 bn in the same .
IDBI Bank's gross NPA soared to 27.95 per cent of its loans at March 2018-end compared to 21.25 per cent at the end of March 2017
Ninad Karpe and S Ravi, were named in the FIR filed by the CBI in connection with a Rs 6 bn loan given by the bank to former Aircel promoter C Sivasankaran, his son and companies controlled by him
The bank had initiated recovery actions to recover dues from the borrower in August 2016, it said
Strategies have been drawn to ensure that the NPAs are reduced in a structured manner by taking help of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) and other means
The buyback activity would be spread over quarters and would be done in small tranches for reasons of absorption
Recently, the lender sold a commercial building for Rs 9 billion, taking the total non-core asset sales to over Rs 41 billion in FY18
According to a BSE filing by IDBI Bank, the RBI imposed a Rs 30 million penalty on it for non-compliance of IRAC norms
It has been trying to offload non-core assets and investments, to raise money for meeting the Basel-III norms on capital adequacy
There are a total of 41 others accused in these three separate FIRs, says CBI
For this purpose, the bank has appointed an external expert who was very much associated with the audit reforms in the PSBs
IDBI Bank has been selling non-core investments through 2017-18
The stock surged 14% to Rs 91.50, hit a fresh 52-week high on the NSE in intra-day trade on back of heavy volumes
Much of IDBI Bank's special status was stripped off a few years ago when govt said the rank of the IDBI MD and CEO would be same as those of other banks
The stock surged 8% to Rs 80.75 with combined 63.61 million equity shares changed hands on the BSE and NSE.
Expects improvement in capital position and stable asset quality
Avenue Supermarts, Britannia Industries, Hindustan Zinc, Mindtree, Venky's India and Sunflag Iron & Steel Company were hit their respective record highs.
The stock rallied 6% to Rs 74.60 on BSE, its highest level since May 18, 2017, on back of heavy volumes.
The bank had raised about Rs 21 billion through auction of non-core assets between April and December 2017
IDBI Bank had said that the intention to sell stake was to mobilise funds by existing non-core business