The bank reported 20 per cent year on year (YoY) credit growth at Rs 76,724 crore for the quarter ended September 2020 (Q2FY21)
Collection efficiency ratio of private lender Bandhan Bank touched 92 per cent as on September 2020, the bank said in a regulatory disclosure on Wednesday
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Having stabilised the ship after some reverses on its flagship micro loans due to demonetisation and the humbling experience with large corporate exposures, Bandhan Bank now wants to focus on the home loan segment, a top executive has said. The housing finance book is targeted to grow five times to Rs 1 lakh crore in the next five years from the present level of nearly Rs 20,000 crore, its chief executive and managing director Chandra Shekhar Ghosh told PTI. Ghosh, who has been heading Bandhan since its days as a microlender, termed the bank's biggest setbacks regulatory wrath for high promoter ownership and also the exposure to failed infra lender IL&FS - as "learnings". He said it is good that the failure on the large exposures happened very early into Bandhan Bank's journey, which helped limit the losses, and affirmed that it will never lend to the large segment again. On the promoter share front, where the RBI had put restrictions including on network expansion and capping ..
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The restrictions were imposed by the RBI in September 2018 as the bank's promoters failed to comply with licensing requirements of reducing their stake in the bank
According to RBI's licensing norms, any bank offering 'universal' services needs to bring down the promoter's stake to 40 per cent in three years from the date of commencement of operations
Bandhan Bank has already disbursed around Rs 3,500 crore in rural locations last month, Ghosh said during a webinar organised by the MCCI
About 71% of Bandhan's banking outlets are located in rural and semi-urban areas
A total of 3.5 million scrips of the private sector lender were sold at an average price of Rs 428.7 apiece, valuing the deal at Rs 150 crore, according to block deal data on the BSE
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Bandhan Bank's shares plunged 10.5 per cent on Monday after the transaction, its biggest loss since March 30. They were up as much as 2 per cent on Tuesday
The first dilution had to be done in three years. We now have five years in hand to reduce to 20 per cent, the MD and CEO tells Business Standard
Bandhan Financial Holdings, the holding company of the bank, sold nearly 337.4 mn shares at a minimum of Rs 311 apiece to raise Rs 10,500 cr
In terms of the guidelines of the licensing of new private lenders issued by RBI, BFHL was required to bring its excess shareholding to 40% of the paid-up voting capital of the bank
Blooomberg had reported recently that Bandhan Bank's main shareholder Bandhan Financial Holdings was looking to sell 337.4 million shares in a block trade today, seeking to raise $1.4 billion
Those shares are offered at a floor price of $4.16 each, according to the terms