Bank NPAs

The anchor bid for the asset put up for sale would translate into a recovery of around 54.5 per cent for the lender

Makes Rs 586.5 crore provision for AIF investments

Provisions more than double on asset quality pressures

RBI's curbs on fresh gold loan biz hits performance

Prescribes one-time measure for smoother transition to new regime

The bank's net interest income during the third quarter of this fiscal stood at Rs 383 crore, with an increase of 9 per cent over Rs 350 crore in Q3 of FY23

State-owned Punjab National Bank (PNB) on Thursday posted an over three-fold increase in its profit to Rs 2,223 crore for the third quarter ended December 2023. The bank had earned a net profit of Rs 629 crore in the same quarter a year ago. Its total income increased to Rs 29,962 crore during the quarter under review against Rs 25,722 crore in the same period last year, PNB said in a regulatory filing. The bank's interest income rose to Rs 27,289 crore compared to Rs 22,384 crore in the third quarter of the previous fiscal. Its gross non-performing assets (NPAs) declined to 6.24 per cent of the gross loans at the end of December 2023 from 9.76 per cent a year ago. Similarly, net NPAs or bad loans came down to 0.96 per cent from 3.30 per cent at the end of the third quarter of the previous fiscal.

PSBs say this is the reason for slow progress of NPA sale

Recoveries via IBC were back to over 40% in FY23 after two lackluster years

The board of private lender Bandhan Bank has approved a proposal to transfer the housing finance NPAs to an asset reconstruction company. In a regulatory filing on Thursday, the bank said the housing finance NPAs will have days past due (DPD) of more than 180 days. The outstanding amount that will be transferred to the company is Rs 775.62 crore as on September 30, 2023. The lender had received a binding bid of Rs 280.39 crore for the NPA portfolio on outright cash consideration basis, it said. It will go for bidding as per the Swiss Challenge Method, and the decision of the sale will be taken based on extant guidelines governing the bidding process and the relevant policy of the bank, the filing said. Meanwhile, Bandhan Bank also said it has signed an MoU with the Assam government, securing the mandate to collect revenue on the accounting portal of the state called GRAS. Under the agreement, consumers can pay all kinds of utility taxes of the Assam government as well as examinat

The report noted the healthy balance sheets of banks and companies were brightening the prospects for the Indian economy

Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das on Thursday said cooperative lenders will soon be able to do technical write-offs and execute compromise settlements with defaulting borrowers. RBI has decided to widen the scope of the framework for resolution of stressed assets, under which all the regulated entities including cooperative lenders will now be able to execute "compromise settlements and technical write-offs" to resolve non-performing assets, Das said. Till now, this avenue for dud asset resolutions was available only with scheduled commercial banks and select non-bank finance companies, Das said, adding that comprehensive guidelines on the same will be released soon. It can be noted that the cooperative lending sector frequently makes headlines for lack of governance practices and conflicts of interest. Das also said that it is proposed to rationalise the extant prudential norms on restructuring of borrower accounts affected by natural calamities. The Governor also acknowledge

The framework mandates that banks report fraud to the RBI CRILC within a week of the joint lenders' forum (JLF) declaring an account fraudulent

In the Union Budget for FY22, no funds were earmarked for recapitalising state-run banks. This was a decadal first, and will temper their eagerness to lend

Stress test show banks capable of absorbing shocks without capital infusion

Topline growth should outweigh any pressure on margins

Gross NPA slips to 5%; regulator flags slippages from recast accounts

In a Q&A, Baldev Prakash dwells on the lender's plan to bring down NPAs and raise Rs 500 cr in equity by the end of FY23

Write-offs remained elevated at 2.1 per cent for NBFCs and 0.5 per cent for HFCs in H1FY23

Over the last couple of weeks, banks have made a beeline to raise funds by issuing debt instruments