The Reserve Bank of India in December 2018 put BOI under the prompt corrective action (PCA) framework, allowing it to take decisions to keep the the state-owned lender steady.
The bank's gross non-performing assets stood at 16.66%, while net NPA was at 8.45%
The aim is to conclude the sale before the end of September to get the benefit of reduction in NPAs and better recoveries in the second quarter
Shares of the bank closed 8.75 per cent down at Rs 94.35 apiece on BSE
A rise in bad loans led to a higher amount to be parked for provisioning for bad loans at Rs 22.6 billion
V V Agnihotri and P K Shrivastava, retired GM and DGM respectively, had allegedly granted undue favours to DPIL in granting credit limits
No clarity on stress, weak capital affect earnings visibility
The government-owned entity's net loss was Rs 39.7 billion; it was nearly Rs 10.5 billion in January-March 2017
State Bank of India and IDBI Bank have already appointed advisors for HR revamp
Shares of Bank of India, which are down a third since the fraud at Punjab National Bank was reported (February 14), an event that hit other public sector banks (PSBs) too, surged 15 per cent before closing 7.4 per cent up on Tuesday. Reports of the bank recovering non-performing assets (NPAs) worth Rs 70 billion was the key reason for this surge. "We (BOI) have recovered around Rs 70 billion, which will reflect in January-March 2018 quarter (Q4) performance," the bank's MD and CEO, Dinabandhu Mohapatra, said to a television channel. A mail sent to BOI did not elicit any response. However, Mohapatra said the bank hopes to recover another Rs 20-30 billion of NPAs in a few months. While this is good news for a bank weighed down by bad loans (net NPA at over 10 per cent of advances in Q3) and should reflect positively in Q4, its overall earnings may not improve significantly, say analysts. Firstly, the new NPA rules introduced by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on February 12 will ...
The stock gained 11% to Rs 105 on the BSE in early morning trade on reports of the state-owned bank recovered Rs 70-billion worth Standby Letters of Credit (SLOCs) in the last two months.
The bank expects to be out of RBI's watchlist soon as it has put in place an aggressive bad loan recovery strategy
Downgrading of accounts impacted the profitability as well as non-performing asset (NPA) position of the bank retrospectively
The infusion is in terms of the Ministry of Finance, Department of Financial Services, Government of India
Though gross non-performing assets ratio has been declining in recent quarters, it is still one of the highest among peers
At the end of September, Bank of India's gross NPAs stood at 12.62%
The action would mean the Mumbai-based lender would face restrictions on lending activity
BoI had a net non-performing assets ratio of 6.47% as of end-September
Bank of India said this action will contribute to the overall improvement in risk management, asset quality, profitability, efficiency, etc of the Bank
STCI Finance is one of BoI's non-core investments which it has decided to monetise for raising resources