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Central Bank Q1 profit surges 78% to Rs 418 cr due to decline in bad loans

State-owned Central Bank of India on Monday reported a 78 per cent rise in net profit at Rs 418 crore for the June quarter due to decline in bad loans and increase in interest income. The Mumbai-based lender had posted a net profit of Rs 235 crore in the year-ago period. Total income during the quarter under review increased to Rs 8,184 crore from Rs 6,357 crore in FY23, Central Bank of India said in a regulatory filing. Interest earned by the bank grew to Rs 7,225 crore over Rs 5,527 crore in the June quarter a year ago. Net Interest Income of the bank increased by 48 per cent to Rs 3,176 crore in Q1 FY24, it said. The bank's asset quality showed improvement as gross Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) declined to 4.95 per cent of gross advances by the end of June 2023, from 14.90 per cent as of June 2022. Similarly, net NPAs or bad loans eased to 1.75 per cent as against 3.93 per cent a year ago. Net Interest Margin (NIM) of the bank improved to 3.62 per cent, registering a growth of

Unsecured loan portfolios growth highest, credit card NPAs shoot up: Report

Credit card non-performing assets rose 0.66 per cent to 2.94 per cent as of March 2023, a credit information company said in a report on Thursday. The report, which comes amid heightened concerns on the riskier unsecured loans portfolios from the regulator, also said that such products like credit cards and personal loans grew the fastest, the report by Transunion Cibil said. On the asset quality front, credit card balances unpaid for over 90 days stood at 2.94 per cent, which is a 0.66 per cent jump over the year-ago period, while the same for personal loans improved by 0.04 per cent to 0.94 per cent, it added. From a loan growth perspective, outstanding balances on credit cards grew 34 per cent in the year to March 2023, and personal loans were up 29 per cent. Loan against property, a product typically used by small businesses for funding needs, was the fastest-growing retail product with a 38 per cent rise, according to the report. Interestingly, home loans considered by many

Risk management: Not the time to drop guard for Indian banking sector

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008, regulators across the world focussed on 'conduct' risks

PSBs should follow transparent NPA recognition norms, pursue risk mgmt: FM

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday asked heads of public sector banks (PSBs) to ensure fair and transparent recognition of bad loans and pursue robust risk management practices so as to maintain the momentum of growth and profitability. PSBs earned a record aggregate net profit of around Rs 1.05 lakh crore in FY2022-23, almost triple from net profits earned in 2013-14. In the review meeting with the top management of PSBs, discussions were held on the positive macro trends, improved business sentiments, Twin balance sheet advantage' and performance of the state-run banks. All the major financial parameters viz., credit deployment, profitability, asset quality, capital adequacy etc. indicate that the performance of PSBs has significantly improved. They're adequately capitalised, resilient, and have sound financial health. It was noted that the asset quality of PSBs has improved significantly with gross NPAs at 4.97 per cent and net NPAs at 1.24 per cent in March 2023, t

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SBI to factor in climate finance risk: Chairman Dinesh Kumar Khara

The gross non-performing assets (GNPA) ratio of green industrial loans, however, has been higher during the same period, especially for PSBs, it said

Bank of Maharashtra emerges as top performer in NPA management during FY23

The Pune-based state-owned lender was followed by HDFC Bank with net NPA falling to 0.27 per cent and Kotak Mahindra Bank clinching the third spot with 0.37 per cent of net advances

Bank of Maharashtra Q4 net profit more than doubles to Rs 840 crore

Bank has announced a dividend of Rs 1.3 per share with a face value of Rs 10

Poonawalla Fincorp registers highest disbursement of Rs 6,370 cr in Q4 FY23

Adar Poonawalla-controlled non-banking finance company Poonawalla Fincorp on Wednesday said its total disbursement grew 151 per cent year-on-year to record Rs 6,370 crore in the March 2023 quarter. Its assets under management (AUM) increased by 37 per cent year-on-year and 16 per cent quarter-on-quarter to about Rs 16,120 crore at March-end 2023, despite a sharp reduction in the discontinued loan book, the company said in a regulatory filing. Discontinued onbook reduced to approximately Rs 625 crore at March-end 2023. "Total disbursements during Q4 FY23 were highest ever at approximately Rs 6,370 crore, up 151 per cent Y-o-Y and 89 per cent Q-o-Q compared to disbursements of Rs 2,539 crore in Q4FY22 and Rs 3,369 crore in Q3FY23," it said. Gross NPA and net NPA are expected to improve further to less than 1.55 per cent and 0.85 per cent, respectively, at the end of the last fiscal. The company said it would strive to maintain the NNPA below 1 per cent in line with its Management Vi

Bank NPAs to improve to decadal low of 3.8% by FY24-end, says Crisil

Banks' gross non-performing assets (NPAs) will reduce further to a decadal low of 3.8 per cent by end of FY2023-24, credit rating agency Crisil said on Monday. The agency estimates NPAs to reduce to 4.2 per cent by end of the just concluded FY23 as against 5.9 per cent in the year-ago period. It had earlier estimated NPAs to come at 4 per cent by end of FY24. Crisil said a major factor influencing the bank NPAs is the improvement in the high-value corporate loanbooks, where the gross NPAs are slated to come below 2 per cent. Corporates have been reducing their leverage through a string of measures, including prepayment of loans as well. Additionally, strengthened risk management and underwriting is also helping the lenders towards lowering the NPAs, the agency said. When asked about the growing trend of writing unsecured loans in the retail segment, the agency's deputy chief rating officer Krishnan Sitaraman said they occupy a very small proportion of the overall loans. He said 26

MSME loan delinquencies dip to 3% by September, shows CIBIL data

The highest drop was in the private bank segment, from 2.8 per cent in Q2FY22 to 1.5 per cent in FY23-Q2

Small business NPAs decline in Q2FY23 despite high credit growth: Report

The Non-performing assets (NPAs) from the small businesses segment have witnessed a decline in the September quarter of this fiscal despite high credit growth, a report said on Thursday. The micro, small and medium enterprises' (MSME) NPAs declined to 12.5 per cent as of September 2022, as against 13.9 per cent in September 2021, after the devastating second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, the report by Transunion Cibil said. The overall disbursements, which excludes loan renewals, grew 24 per cent during the quarter, led by an over 54 per cent in the micro industries segment which have a credit exposure of up to Rs 1 crore, the credit information company said. The average loan size for the micro segment increased by 34 per cent, and to the small segment by 4 per cent, Cibil said, adding that the same was down 1 per cent in the case of businesses classified as medium primarily because of the emergency credit-linked guarantee scheme loans made during the pandemic. When it comes to ..

PSU banks' gross NPA declines from 14.6% in Mar 2018 to 5.53% in Dec 2022

The government has taken various reforms following which asset quality of public sector banks has improved significantly with gross NPA ratio declining from the peak of 14.6 per cent in March 2018 to 5.53 per cent in December 2022, Parliament was informed on Monday. All PSBs are in profit with aggregate profit being Rs 66,543 crore in 2021-22, and that further increased to Rs 70,167 crore in first nine months of current financial year, Minister of State for Finance Bhagwat K Karad said in a written reply to Lok Sabha. At the same time, resilience has increased with provision coverage ratio of PSBs rising from 46 per cent to 89.9 per cent in December 2022, he said, adding capital adequacy ratio of PSBs improved significantly from 11.5 per cent in March 2015 to 14.5 per cent in December 2022. Total market cap of PSBs (excluding IDBI Bank, which was categorised as private sector bank in January 2019) increased from Rs 4.52 lakh crore in March 2018 to Rs 10.63 lakh crore in December ..

Indian banks' gross NPAs may touch decadal low of sub-4% by FY24: Study

Bad loans of Indian banks are expected to decline 90 basis points to less than five per cent in FY23 and hit a decadal low of sub-four per cent by March 31, 2024, said an Assocham-Crisil Rating study unveiled on Thursday. The study attributed the decline in gross Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) to the post-Covid economic recovery and higher credit growth. It said the biggest improvement would be in the corporate loan segment, where gross NPAs are seen falling below two per cent in the next fiscal from a peak of about 16 per cent as on March 31, 2018. "This follows significant clean-up of books by banks in recent years, as well as strengthened risk management and underwriting, which has led to higher preference for borrowers with better credit profiles. The steady improvement in corporate asset quality is clearly manifested in key indicators such as the credit quality of bank exposures," Assocham Secretary General Deepak Sood said. He observed that the twin balance sheet problem has ..

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Nifty PSU Bank index m-cap crosses Rs 10 trillion in intra-day trade

The index hit an intra-day high of 4,145.45 before ending at 4,049, up 0.05%; m-cap at close was Rs 9.9 trillion

Will the dream run continue for banks?

As the war for deposits escalates, the cost of money will rise and banks' NIM will be under pressure. Also, a few banks may invite trouble by aggressively growing their retail books without necessary

PNB Housing Finance's Q2 net profit rises 12% on improving margins

Its net interest income (NII) expanded by 29 per cent YoY to Rs 649 crore in the reporting quarter.