Stocks to Watch: ICICI Lombard General Insurance reported a 39.6 per cent surge in net profit in the January-March quarter (Q4) of FY23
Bank's board of directors has given it the go-ahead to raise up to Rs 6,500 crore in FY24
Strap: The bank will raise Rs 4,500 crore as equity capital and Rs 2,000 crore via bonds
BoI had raised Rs 1,500 crore capital through additional tier-1 bonds in the third quarter of the previous financial year
State-owned Bank of India plans to raise Rs 6,500 crore from various means including share sale to fund business growth in 2023-24. The proposal in this regard would come before the board in its meeting scheduled on April 18, Bank of India said in a regulatory filing. The board would be considering, at their meeting proposed on April 18, the proposal of raising capital for the FY 2023-24 aggregating up to Rs 6,500 crore, it said. The board would decide on the proposal of raising fund by issue of fresh equity capital in the form of qualified institutional placement or rights issue or preferential issue and/or Basel III compliant Additional Tier-1 (AT-1) bonds (domestic and foreign currency) up to an amount of Rs 4,500 crore, it said. Remaining Rs 2,000 crore is planned to be raised by issue of Basel III compliant Tier-2 bonds, it said.
The date of submission of the resolution plans for the company was February 20 after subsequent extensions were granted by the lenders, the company said
In a filing with BSE, BoI said its net interest income (NII) was up 64 per cent YoY in Q3 to Rs 5,596 crore
State-owned lender has since FY21 reported consistent profitability, says agency
The Mumbai based lender is likely to come up with another offering of AT1 bonds before the close of the current financial year (FY23)
Rating agency Acuite Ratings & Research reaffirmed its rating of AA, revising the outlook to positive from stable for the bank's additional tier-1 bonds
In the past one month, the Nifty PSU Bank index has rallied 31 per cent as compared to a 2.8 per cent rise in the Nifty 50 index
State-owned Bank of India on Friday said it will raise up to Rs 2,500 crore by issuing bonds. The board of the lender, at a meeting held on Friday, approved raising of Tier-1 capital by issue of Basel-III compliant additional tier-I (AT-I) bonds of up to Rs 2,500 crore, it said in a regulatory filing. The capital will be raised in one or more tranches, the bank added.
State-owned Bank of India on Thursday reported a nearly 10 per cent decline in net income to Rs 960 crore for the September 2022 quarter on higher provisioning, which more than doubled to Rs 1,912 crore. The bank had made a provision of only Rs 894 crore in the year-ago period, which negated other improvements in the key numbers, such as net interest income rising from Rs 9,523 crore to Rs 11,497 crore and lower taxations at Rs 502 crore in the reporting quarter against Rs 733 crore. Another reason for the fall in the bottom-line is the higher interest outgo, which rose from Rs 6,000 crore to Rs 6,414 crore. The bank has registered a sharp uptick in net interest income to Rs 5,083 crore in the reporting quarter from Rs 3,523 crore in the year-ago period. The NII jumped sharply as the bank booked higher margins from loans as it had passed on the repo rate hike to borrowers. Accordingly, it booked a NIM of 3.04 per cent, up 64 bps from 2.42 per cent in the year-ago period and from Rs
Earnings, asset quality profile improve for public sector lender
Apart from the special deposit scheme, Bank of India has raised interest rate on its existing 555-days fixed deposit scheme to 6.30 per cent
Lender's board to meet on November 4 to consider raising capital in one or more tranches
The hike in lending rates shall be applicable to home loans and consequently, equated monthly instalment payments made by customers.
State-owned Bank of India has acquired over 5.5 per cent stake in Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) for Rs 10 crore, the lender said on Tuesday. On September 27, 2022, the bank invested in the capacity of promoter shareholder of ONDC, an amount of Rs 10 crore in ONDC, under the private placement route, Bank of India said in a regulatory filing. The bank said its shareholding in the company will be 5.56 per cent of the total shareholding in ONDC as on September 27, 2022. In absolute terms, it has acquired 10,00,000 equity shares for Rs 100 each in the to-be operational digital commerce company, incorporated in December 2021. A number of other banks have acquired stakes in ONDC. ONDC is aimed at promoting open networks for all aspects of the exchange of goods and services over digital or electronic networks in the country. The framework is expected to make e-commerce more inclusive and accessible to consumers and sellers.
State-owned Bank of India (BoI) on Friday reported divergence in its asset classification for FY22, resulting in lowering of net profit for the year to Rs 2,221 crore. The lender had reported a net profit of Rs 3,404.70 crore for 2021-22. According to a regulatory filing, there was divergence of Rs 105 crore in bank's gross non-performing assets (NPAs) with the bank reporting it to be at Rs 45,605.40 crore. However, as per Reserve Bank of India (RBI) assessment, it came at a higher value of Rs 45,710.40 crore. On the flip side, in case of the net NPAs the bad loans fell by Rs 87 crore as the RBI assessed it at a lower Rs 9,764.93 crore as against Rs 9,851.93 crore reported by the bank. The divergence in provisioning came in at Rs 1,819 crore. Bank of India said the adjusted net profit of the bank before considering the impact of tax on divergence in provisioning for FY22 was at Rs 1,585.70 crore. However, the net profit was further boosted to Rs 2,221.33 crore for the year ended
State-owned Bank of India expects advances to grow by 10-12 per cent in the current fiscal year with corporate loans yet to pick-up, top official said in an analysts call. The bank's year-to-date (YTD) loan growth stood at about 5 per cent mainly driven by Retail sector advances, Agricultural and MSME loans (RAM). "Advances growth guidance will be in the range of 10 to 12 per cent for the full year. So far up to June, we had YTD growth of about 5 per cent, but that is mostly on the back of good RAM growth. Corporate is yet to pick up. We believe that from this quarter onwards, there could be some movement in the corporate book," A K Das, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer (MD&CEO), told analysts in post Q1FY23 earnings conference call. The bank's gross advances (global and domestic) stood at Rs 4,77,746 crore at end-June 2022. In the first quarter ended in June of the current fiscal year, the lender registered a decline of 22 per cent in net profit at Rs 561 crore as .