The bank is also expanding digital offerings, growing its credit card base, and re-entering the West Asian market with plans to reopen its Dubai office, said Ashok Chandra
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PNB MD & CEO Ashok Chandra says the bank is investing heavily in technology upgrades, digital safety systems, and customer experience modernisation this fiscal
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In a bid to shore up recovery, the country's second-largest public sector lender Punjab National Bank (PNB) has identified about 100 non-performing asset (NPA) accounts for sale to asset reconstruction companies (ARCs) during the current financial year. "More than 100 accounts we have identified...the book size will be somewhere around Rs 4,000-5,000 crore. That is the outstanding book (for sale to ARCs)," PNB MD and CEO Ashok Chandra told PTI in an interview. Asked about the amount the bank can realise from the sale, he said, "We expect to recover something in the range of 40-50 per cent minimum. Through that route also, we are expecting a good recovery should happen this financial year". There may be an account where 100 per cent recovery is also going to take place because you have good security now, but in some cases it could be low, he said, adding that "we are anticipating that average recovery should be 40-50 per cent minimum". Chandra also said the bank has devised the righ
Punjab National Bank (PNB) is well poised to touch the milestone of Rs 30 lakh crore total business by the end of the current financial year and the country's second biggest lender has the right strategy in place to achieve it, the bank's MD and CEO Ashok Chandra said. Total business of PNB rose by 11.6 per cent to Rs 27.19 crore at the end of the first quarter of the current financial year. PNB is closely followed by Bank of Baroda with total business of Rs 26.43 lakh crore while Canara Bank at Rs 25.64 lakh crore at the end of June 30, 2025. "We have a target of Rs 29.56 lakh crore for the current financial year. We may do better than our target and can touch Rs 30 lakh crore by March next year but let me add that we are very mindful that whatever the top line we are going to build, it should add profit to my bank," he told PTI. In an interview, Chandra emphasised that PNB is very conscious of the operating profit and even in the first quarter itself the bank has recorded the ...
Our domestic NIM currently stands at 2.84 per cent. Including our overseas portfolio of Rs 55,000 crore, the global NIM is around 2.70 per cent, says Chandra
PNB's share price was trading 2 per cent lower at ₹105.9 per share after the bank posted its June 2025 quarter results
Apart from project financing, the bank will also target sectors such as real estate, rental discounting and data centres for lending opportunities, Chandra said
PNB's profit dips due to switch to new tax regime; operating metrics improve with better asset quality, strong retail credit growth and healthy capital adequacy
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Punjab National Bank shares fell 3 per cent even after its provisional global business rose 11.6 per cent year-on-year
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A Mumbai court has allowed the release of Nirav Modi and Purvi Modi's assets worth ₹66.33 crore, attached by the ED in the PNB fraud case, to help recover losses