Bad Loans

Of the Rs 478 crore, Rs 329 crore comes from 1,973 mortgage and home loan accounts, Rs 77 crore from 3,232 commercial vehicle loan accounts, and Rs 72 crore from 2,074 agriculture loan accounts

Fitch Ratings on Monday said Indian banks have performed robustly in the first nine months of the current financial year with the sector's impaired loan ratio close to the trough. In its commentary, Fitch said improvements in key performance metrics of Indian banks in the past few years will provide strong support for their Viability Ratings (VRs). The global rating agency also said that Indian banks' risk appetites have been more calibrated since 2018, with efforts to diversify loans and improve the quality of corporate exposures contributing to lower bad loan formation. Lower legacy bad loans drove improvement in banks' gross impaired loan ratios and earnings, Fitch said. However, these risk enhancements have yet to be fully tested, and banks have tended to vary risk appetite through cycles, such as growth in unsecured personal loans in recent years until regulatory measures discouraged this behaviour, Fitch noted. "Indian banks performed robustly in the first nine months of the

Recoveries to touch Rs 38,000 crore

State-owned Bank of India (BoI) on Friday posted a 35 per cent jump in net profit to Rs 2,517 crore for the December quarter on account of a decline in bad loans. The Mumbai-headquartered bank had earned a net profit of Rs 1,870 crore in the year-ago period. The lenders' total income increased to Rs 19,957 crore during the third quarter of the ongoing fiscal against Rs 16,411 crore a year ago, BoI said in a regulatory filing. The interest income of the bank rose to Rs 18,210 crore against Rs 15,218 crore in the third quarter of the preceding year. Its net interest income (NII) increased to Rs 6,070 crore against Rs 5,463 crore for Q3 FY24. The company's operating profit rose to Rs 3,703 crore from Rs 3,004 crore in the year-ago quarter. On the asset quality front, the bank's gross non-performing assets (NPAs) declined to 3.69 per cent of the gross loans by the end of December 2024 from 5.35 per cent a year ago. Similarly, its net NPAs, or bad loans, came down to 0.85 per cent fr

HDFC Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank are expected to report increases in bad loans, which should lead to higher provisions and weigh on quarterly profit

Finance Ministry will hold a meeting with microfinance institutions (MFIs) on Wednesday amid rising bad loans and delinquencies across all types of lenders in the sector. According to sources, the Department of Financial Services Secretary is likely to chair the meeting with senior officials of MFIs here. The meeting assumes significance as it comes with the sector showing signs of stress and rising delinquencies. Credit to the microfinance sector by banks (including SFBs), NBFC-MFIs and other NBFCs has decelerated during the current financial year so far after witnessing rapid growth during the last three years, according to a latest report of the Reserve Bank. "The microfinance sector is showing signs of stress, with rising delinquencies across all types of lenders and ticket sizes. During H1:2024-25, share of stressed assets increased, with 31-180 days past due (dpd) rising from 2.15 per cent in March 2024 to 4.30 per cent in September 2024," said the RBI's Financial Stability .

This key measure could rise to 3 per cent by the end of March 2026 from a 12-year low of 2.6 per cent in September 2024 for 46 banks under the so-called baseline scenario

Bank has invited expressions of interest from entities interested in submitting counter bids for the asset on full cash basis

Loan write-offs by banks in FY24 are the lowest in the last five years

Out of the nine accounts put up for sale by the lender, two accounts - Diksha Greens and Star Bazar Group - have been classified as "fraud" accounts, and only ARCs can bid for these accounts

Bajaj Finance, one of the largest unsecured lenders, is cutting the number of clients with multiple loans, according to a presentation

SBI Card, backed by India's largest lender State Bank of India, said that write-offs and provisions for bad loans jumped 63 per cent to Rs 1,212 crore for the quarter

State-owned Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) on Friday reported a 45 per cent jump in its net profit to Rs 1,218 crore for the March quarter, helped by a decline in bad loans and a rise in interest income. The Pune-based lender had earned a net profit of Rs 840 crore in the year-ago period. During the quarter, the bank's total income increased to Rs 6,488 crore as against Rs 5,317 crore a year ago, BoM said in a regulatory filing. Interest income grew to Rs 5,467 crore during the period under review, from Rs 4,495 crore in the corresponding quarter a year ago. The bank's board has recommended a dividend of Rs 1.40 per share or 14 per cent of Rs 10 face value out of the net profits for the year ended March 31, 2024. On the asset quality side, the bank's Gross Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) were reduced to 1.88 per cent of gross advances as of March 31, 2024, from 2.47 per cent by the end of March 2023. Net NPAs also came down to 0.20 per cent of the advances from 0.25 per cent at the end o

The report said the growth in the future would largely be driven by higher acquisitions, though capped by quicker resolutions expected in retail assets

The Central Economic Intelligence Bureau (CEIB) on Friday launched a portal for antecedent verification of prospective borrowers and bad loans to streamline intelligence clearance process for banks for loan disbursement. The portal was launched earlier this week by CEIB Director General Amit Mohan Govil and SBI Chairman Dinesh Khara in a meeting with all public sector banks in Mumbai. It aims at equipping banks with quick access to information for taking timely decisions with regard to credit sanction, Indian Banks' Association said in a statement. As per 'Framework for timely detection, reporting, investigation etc. relating to large value bank frauds' dated May 13, 2015 and November 6, 2019 issued by the Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, all Public Sector Banks (PSBs) seeks report from CEIB before the sanction of loan exceeding Rs 50 crore and above in case of new borrowers and if the existing borrower's accounts turn into a NPA. In August-2022, at the reques

There has been a rise in unsecured lending. The RBI has expressed concerns over lending practices

Private credit funds fall under the broad category of AIFs for the purpose of regulations in India

Karad also informed the Lok Sabha that the Centre has written off loans worth over Rs 10 trillion, in the last five years

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Every defaulter is not a wilful defaulter who has the capability of paying back and is yet not servicing the bank loan