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Securitisation of loans by SFBs to cross Rs 10,000 cr in FY2024: ICRA

Fundraising by small finance banks (SFBs) through securitisation is expected to exceed Rs 10,000 crore in FY2024 against Rs 6,400 crore in the previous year, rating agency ICRA said on Tuesday. The third quarter of FY2024 alone witnessed the quarterly record high securitisation volumes of about Rs 4,200 crore, ICRA said in a release. "The market share of SFBs in the securitisation market would accordingly touch a peak of 6 per cent in FY2024 from levels of sub-2 per cent prior to FY2022," it said. In FY2024, ICRA said six SFBs raised funds through this route against four in FY2023 and only two in FY2022. "The increase in the number of SFBs securitising their assets signals a deepening of the domestic securitisation market, as it provides them an alternative route to raise funds to sustain their growth momentum," it said. Abhishek Dafria, Senior Vice President and Group Head - Structured Finance Ratings at ICRA said the securitisation market has traditionally been dominated by ...

RBI may undertake comprehensive review of architecture of payment banks

Governance standards, viability of biz among priorities

Balance sheets of SFBs are larger than those of universal banks: Panel

Participants at a panel discussion at the Business Standard BFSI Insight Summit 2023 say that SFBs need diverse product lines

Non-executive directors' remuneration cap increased to Rs 30 lakh: RBI

The notification further stated that the banks are required to have suitable criteria for granting fixed remuneration to their NEDs, with the approval of their Board before any review of remuneration

NESFB offloads stressed micro-loans over Rs 500 cr to clean up books

To raise fresh capital upto Rs 200 crore

AU Small Finance Bank's advances rise 20% to Rs 67,624 cr in Q3FY24

According to the exchange filing, advances rose by 4 per cent sequentially from Rs 65,029 crore

SFBs can turn into universal banks, say experts at BS BFSI Summit 2023

There is nothing to stop our firm from turning into a Universal Bank, said Ittira Davis, managing director and chief executive officer of Ujjivan Small Finance Bank

BS BFSI Summit: From Sanjay Agarwal to Inderjit Camotra, meet SFBs experts

Small Finance Bank CEOs Panel's theme on October 31: Can SFBs become universal banks?

AU Small Finance Bank Q2 results: Net profit up 17% to Rs 402 crore

AU Small Finance Bank on Saturday reported 17 per cent rise in standalone net profit at Rs 402 crore for September quarter 2023-24 aided by improvement in interest income. The Jaipur-based lender had logged a net profit of Rs 343 crore in the year-ago period. Total income rose to Rs 2,957 crore from Rs 2,240 crore in the same period a year ago, AU Small Finance Bank said in a regulatory filing. Net interest income of the bank improved to Rs 1,249 crore from Rs 1,083 crore in September 2022. Net interest margin stood at 5.5 per cent at the end of September 2023. The bank's gross non-performing assets (NPAs) stood at 1.91 per cent of gross advances at the end of the September quarter 2023 as against 1.90 per cent a year ago. Net NPAs or bad loans rose to 0.60 per cent as against 0.56 per cent in the year-ago period. The Capital Adequacy Ratio of the bank decreased to 22.4 per cent from 23.3 per cent at the end of September 2022.

Top-flight PSB boards needed for resilience

Asset quality of lenders has improved, but financial resilience in a system is best built in good times. It is time for the RBI to press the governance accelerator

Only no objection certificate given for NE SFB-Slice merger proposal: RBI

No change in approach to banking license to fintechs

Riding on high NII and other income, SFBs witness 59% profit growth

Healthy NII and other income boost bottlomline

Utkarsh Small Finance Bank makes solid debut with 60% listing gains

Shares of Utkarsh Small Finance Bank listed at Rs 40, a 60 per cent premium over its issue price of Rs 25 per share on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) on Friday

Utkarsh Small Finance Bank's IPO subscribed 4.2x on day 1 of issue

The company is issuing fresh shares worth Rs 500 crore in the IPO, which will be used for augmenting the bank's tier-1 capital base

Utkarsh Small Finance Bank IPO: Should you subscribe to the lender's offer?

Utkarsh Small Finance IPO: The price band for the issue, which runs between July 12 and July 14, has been fixed as Rs 23-25 per share

Utkarsh Small Finance Bank raises Rs 222 crore from anchor investors

The price band for the issue is Rs 23-25 per share. At the top end, Utkarsh SFB will have a market cap of Rs 2,740 crore post-dilution

Utkarsh SFB sets price band of Rs 23-25 per share for its July 12 IPO

The offering includes a provision to reserve 1% of the total issue size for its employees, equating to Rs. 5 crore shares

ESAF Small Finance Bank refiles IPO paper, lowers issue size to Rs 629 cr

ESAF Small Finance Bank has refiled preliminary papers with capital markets regulator Sebi to raise Rs 629 crore through an initial public offering (IPO). The lender has cut down the issue size, which now comprises fresh issue equity shares aggregating to Rs 486.74 crore and an offer for sale (OFS) of Rs 142.3 crore, according to the draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) available with Sebi on Monday. Those selling shares in the OFS are promoter -- ESAF Financial Holdings Private Ltd and other shareholders -- PNB MetLife India Insurance Company Ltd, Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Company Ltd. At present, ESAF Financial Holdings owns a 62.46 per cent stake in the small finance bank, while PNB MetLife and Bajaj Allianz Life owns 4.75 per cent and 3.89 per cent stake in the lender, respectively. Proceed of the fresh issue will be utilised to augment the bank's Tier 1 capital base. The fresh filling came after ESAF Small Finance Bank's managing director and chief executive K Paul Thomas i

RBI rejects 3 'not suitable' applications for setting small finance banks

The Reserve Bank of India has rejected three applications, including the of West End Housing Finance, for setting up small finance banks. These applications were found not suitable for granting of in-principle approval to set up small finance banks, it said in a statement on Tuesday. RBI had received about a dozen applications to set up banks under the guidelines for 'on tap' Licensing of Universal Banks and Small Finance Banks (SFBs). In May last year, it announced the decisions on six applications. According to RBI, the examination of three more applications for setting up a small finance banks have been completed as per the procedure laid down under extant guidelines. Based on the assessment of the applications, the applicants "not found suitable" for granting of in-principle approval to set up a small finance bank are Akhil Kumar Gupta, Cosmea Financial Holdings Pvt Ltd and West End Housing Finance Ltd, it said. The central bank also said that the remaining applications are u

Securitisation volumes see over 40% YoY uptick in 9-month of FY23: Crisil

The commercial vehicle segment witnessed 31 per cent growth and microfinance segment saw 14 per cent growth in the securitisation market