The gross NPA ratio of the bank is around 12 per cent, and the regulator aims to bring it down to 8 per cent through sustained recovery efforts
If you're finding it difficult to secure a personal loan or credit card, be prepared to offer some collateral
High credit offtake; lower credit costs boost bottom line
Sees no concern on NPA front; macros in mint condition
Banker-borrower collusion has led to a surge in IBC cases, with pre-planned fraud that results in minimal realisable value
The public sector lender's exposure, including government-guaranteed emergency credit to the ailing airline, amounts to about Rs 2,000 crore
The asset quality of the companies, due to their increasing loan exposure to state power distribution companies (DISCOMs), is expected to remain stable
RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das on Monday said the central bank is "not comfortable" with the gross non-performing assets ratio of 8.7 per cent in urban cooperative banks (UCBs) and asked them to work towards improving the same. Addressing directors of UCBs in the financial capital at an RBI-organised conference, Das urged that such lenders should improve the governance standards, avoid related-party transactions and focus on credit risks, among others. It can be noted that the UCB sector has been fraught with multiple challenges and also witnessed difficult times in the recent past, like the implosion of the city-headquartered Punjab and Maharashtra Bank. Das reminded the directors of the UCBs that banks run on depositors and added that protection of the hard-earned money pooled in from the middle class, poor and retirees is far more sacred than going to a temple or a gurdwara. While the overall picture at an aggregate level looks nice, the situation on GNPAs and capital adequacy is
So far this calendar year, the stock has rallied 56 per cent, as against a 6 per cent rise in the S&P BSE Sensex
Lenders are cautious on providing loans to the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) segment, despite high demand, availability of analytical data and lower delinquencies, a report said on Thursday. Demand for loans from MSMEs grew 33 per cent in the January-March period of the previous fiscal (Q4, FY23) compared to the year-ago period, but the supply of credit was up by only 11 per cent during the quarter, the report by credit information company Transunion Cibil, in association with Sidbi, said. "Credit flow to the MSME sector is slower compared to the increasing demand as lenders follow a cautious approach on commercial lending," the report said. The reluctance of banks is despite the availability of analytical data, which gives more comfort to a lender while taking a decision, and a sharp improvement in asset quality in the segment. The report said unpaid loans between 90 and 720 days improved to 2.4 per cent in Q4 FY23 as against 2.9 per cent in the year-ago ...
The closing stock of write-off pool stood at Rs 7.5 trillion at the end of March 2023, up from Rs 6.8 trillion a year ago
Net profits of the Public Sector Banks (PSBs) have almost tripled, increasing from Rs 36,270 crore in FY2014 to Rs 1.04 lakh crore in FY 2022-23, she informed
Board recommends final dividend of Rs 5 per equity share, in addition to interim of Rs 5 per share paid before
At the moment, banks give an opportunity of hearing to wilful defaulters but not fraudsters
Performance was aided by healthy rise in net interest income, drop in provisions and contingencies
Last week, Canara Bank said that is planning to sell its stake in Russian joint venture Commercial Indo Bank LLC (CIBL) to State Bank of India (SBI) for about Rs 114 crore
Going beyond corporate loans, SBI is getting into vendor financing as well as supply chain and cluster financing, the buzzwords of banking these days
Only NIIF has so far stayed the course as a viable infrastructure financing institution, using sovereign support
The government on Tuesday claimed in the Rajya Sabha that it has saved Indian banks from Rs 3 lakh crore of NPAs by helping clear pending road projects in the country since 2014. Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari informed the Rajya Sabha that there are 415 road projects where 95 per cent of work is complete but have been categorised in the delayed projects category. He said the government would soon carry out state-wise monitoring of all such pending or delayed projects and help clear them at the earliest. "There are 415 projects where 95 per cent of work is complete and are termed as delayed projects. When our government came in 2014, there were projects worth Rs 3.85 lakh projects which were shut for various reasons," he told the house during Question hour. The minister was replying to a question about whether the government has any plan to restart the delayed or stalled road projects in the country and if a further action plan is being prepared after ascertainin
The Congress on Tuesday alleged that NPAs have risen by 365 percent under the Modi government and questioned why "unbridled powers" were being given to PSU banks to "sell off assets at throwaway prices". Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate said 38 wilful defaulters have fled the country after swindling banks and asked the government on its plans to bring them back. She claimed that the BJP does not contest elections on issues or its report card but on the face of the prime minister, and said it must answer questions on the rise in non performing assets (NPAs) and loans being written off. "The BJP or the prime minister never contests polls on issues and seeks votes on its report card as they never work. Every election is being contested on the personal background of the prime minister. But, who will answer as to why big haircuts are being given by banks," she told reporters at a press conference. The Congress leader said 61 percent of the fiscal deficit can be funded by this writ