Thirty-five foreign banks reported a 50 per cent growth in their aggregate net profit during fiscal 2002.
The net profit of these banks touched Rs 1,568.37 crore during the year compared with Rs 1,042 crore in 2000-01.
Interest income, however, moved up marginally by 2.95 per cent to Rs 9,609.11 crore, while the interest expenditure rose by 5.54 per cent to Rs 5,968.11 crore.
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The main driving factor behind the net profit was other income which zoomed by 30.3 per cent to Rs 3,236.15 crore. Tax and other provisions witnessed a 5.37 per cent fall at Rs 1,936.53 crore.
Standard Chartered Bank recorded the highest net profit of Rs 410.07 crore in value terms during the year. In percentage terms, its net profit looked up by nearly 121 per cent to Rs 410.07 crore (Rs 185.48 crore).
Only five public sector banks were ahead of Standard Chartered Bank -- State Bank of India with a net profit of Rs 2,431.62 crore, Canara Bank (Rs 741.40 crore), Punjab National Bank (Rs 562.39 crore), Bank of Baroda (Rs 545.93 crore) and Bank of India (Rs 508.83 crore).
Other income of Standard Chartered Bank witnessed a 71.9 per cent growth at Rs 516.56 crore. Interest income showed a growth of 46.7 per cent at Rs 1,644.78 crore.
The net profit margin of the bank improved from 16.5 per cent to 24.9 per cent. The banks' share in the aggregate net profit of the 35 foreign banks rose to 26.2 per cent from last year's 17.8 per cent.
Citibank, which was last year's topper with a net profit of Rs 285.23 crore, has slumped to the second position with a Rs 325.45 crore net profit. It witnessed a net profit growth of 14.1 per cent.
In percentage terms, Standard Chartered Grindlays topped the list with a 193 per cent rise in net profit at Rs 257.64 crore. In fiscal 2000-01, it had posted a net profit of Rs 87.99 crore. The bank had a negative provision of Rs 3.79 crore against last year's Rs 243.34 crore.
Among the foreign banks, Deutsche Bank witnessed a net profit growth of 30.6 per cent at Rs 122.98 crore, Bank of America up 25.4 per cent at Rs 86.63 crore, Bank of Nova Scotia up 23.4 per cent at Rs 29.07 crore and ABN Amro up 17.9 per cent at Rs 127.78 crore.
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi's net profit dropped by 26.9 per cent to Rs 52.39 crore, while that of HSBC was down 17.1 per cent at Rs 166.59 crore (Rs 200.89 crore).
The American Express Bank posted a net profit of Rs 9.50 crore against last year's net loss of Rs 22.55 crore, while BNP Paribas reported a net loss of Rs 34.90 crore against a net profit of Rs 8.93 crore in the previous year.
Both ING Bank and Dresdner Bank AG have reduced their net losses from Rs 13.43 crore to Rs 2.39 crore and from Rs 53.82 crore to Rs 8.89 crore, respectively.