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Troubled Byju's misses target to amend its $1.2 billion loan terms

The company failed to decide on revisions sought by lenders in the loan's terms, including part repayment and higher interest payment

HDFC Bank overtakes SBI in CRISIL's corporate banking ranking for 2023

For middle market corporates, HDFC Bank again topped the list of 2023 Leaders among local banks, and joined ICICI Bank as the year's joint Greenwich Quality Leaders

Edtech major Byju's, lenders agree to amend terms for $1.2 billion loan

Houlihan Lokey serves as financial advisor to the term loan lender group and Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, and Shearman & Sterling LLP are serving as legal advisors

Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Q1 results: Net profit up 12% to Rs 261 crore

The bank's total income during the period was up by 16 per cent, from Rs 1,142 crore in June 2022-23 to Rs 1,323 crore in the fourth quarter of FY24

IDFC First Bank looks to raise Rs 2,000 crore in second half of FY24

IDFC First Bank has board approval to raise 40 billion rupees. It has already raised close to half that amount through a preferential allotment to IDFC Ltd

Karur Vysya Bank Q1 results: Net profit rises 57% to Rs 359 crore

Private sector lender Karur Vysya Bank on Monday reported 57 per cent rise in net profit at Rs 359 crore for June quarter due to decline in bad loans and increase in interest income. The Tamil Nadu-based lender had posted a net profit of Rs 235 crore in the year-ago period. Total income during the quarter under review increased to Rs 2,216 crore from Rs 1,673 crore in FY23, Karur Vysya Bank said in a regulatory filing. Interest earned by the bank grew to Rs 1,883 crore over Rs 1,474 crore in June quarter a year ago. The bank's asset quality showed improvement as gross Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) declined to 1.99 per cent of gross advances by the end of June 2023, from 5.28 per cent as of June 2022. Similarly, net NPAs or bad loans eased to 0.59 per cent as against 1.93 per cent a year ago. However, Capital Adequacy Ratio of the bank declined 17.67 per cent from 18.98 per cent in the same quarter of FY23.

Indian lenders want RBI to conduct more overnight reverse repo auctions

The Indian central bank has been conducting shorter duration two-day VRRRs through the week, before being prompted by lenders to resort to an overnight auction

For advising on $64 billion HDFC Bank deal, bankers get a 0.0002% fee

HDFC's all-stock merger into HDFC Bank Ltd., which created one of the most valuable banks in the world, has about 18 advisers who got credit for a fee pool of just over $1 million

Banking beyond weather reports: Why lenders need a green business strategy

Indian lenders have yet to train their employees to assess credit risks arising from climate change

Reliance in talks with lenders for $2 billion loan to fuel expansion

Ambani is raising funds as he continues to build out the telecoms and consumer-facing arms of an empire based on a bedrock of crude-oil refining

Warburg Pincus acquires 90% stake in Vistaar Finance for $250 million

Private equity major Warburg Pincus on Monday announced that it has acquired a 90 per cent stake in non-bank lender Vistaar Finance for USD 250 million. The stake in the 13-year-old company has been acquired through a combination of primary and secondary investments, the PE major said in an official statement. The acquisition has been done in partnership with banker Avijit Saha, who joins the company as the chief executive, it said. This is one of the biggest financial sector bets taken by Warburg in the country, adding that Vistaar presently operates in 12 Indian states and has a customer base of 40,000 and over 2,500 employees. The stake has been acquired by Warburg from existing investors and the founders. The company had over Rs 3,150 crore of assets under management as of end-March, and its networth has increased to Rs 1,210 crore after the transactions with the overall capital buffers at 37 per cent, it said. Warburg Pincus' managing director Narendra Ostawal said Vistaar h

Russian firms investing rupee surplus in Indian govt debt: IBA chief

IBA chief Sunil Mehta is the first senior official to confirm that Russian funds in Indian banks were being invested into government securities as it gives them the advantage of easy liquidity

Give banks an oversight over lending practices of NBFC borrowers: SBI MD

SBI's managing director C S Setty on Friday pitched for banks to have an oversight on lending practices of borrowers from the non-bank lenders' segment. Speaking at a conference organised by industry lobby grouping IMC, he said non-bank lenders should follow the same risk underwriting and credit monitoring principles as done by larger banks from whom they borrow money. He said a good proportion of banks' lending comprises lending to Non Banking Finance Companies (NBFCs) or Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs), and while the bank books may look clean from the outside, it may not be a proper representation of the incipient stress if any. "...the lending practices of these institutions which are borrowing from us, I think the banks have to have oversight on that," Setty told reporters, adding that the issue is "not serious". Banks which have access to low-cost deposits often get into on-lending arrangements with smaller entities like NBFCs who have a better reach, wherein the NBFCs execu

Canara Bank consolidated net profit jumps 74% to Rs 3,337 cr in March qtr

State-owned Canara Bank on Monday reported a 74 per cent jump in March quarter consolidated net profit to Rs 3,336.51 crore, helped by higher core income and lower provisions. The Bengaluru-based lender had reported a net profit of Rs 1,918.80 crore in the year-ago period. For FY23, its post tax profit grew to Rs 11,254.75 crore from Rs 6,124.83 crore in FY22. In the latest March quarter, the lender's core net interest income grew 23 per cent to Rs 8,617 crore. This was due to a 17 per cent growth in advances and a 0.14 per cent expansion in the net interest margin to 3.07 per cent. Its other income grew 7 per cent to Rs 4,776 crore but was also hit by a 72 per cent decline in the treasury income. Canara Bank's managing director and chief executive K Satyanarayana Raju said the bank will aim to grow its overall loan book in double-digit in FY24, and denied it being a moderation, saying the lender believes in over-delivering. Raju said the bank registered a corporate loan book ...

CSB Bank net profit rises 19% to Rs 156 crore as bad loans decline

Private sector lender CSB Bank on Friday reported 19 per cent rise in net profit at Rs 156 crore for March quarter 2022-23 as bad loans declined. The bank had earned a net profit of Rs 131 crore in the same quarter of previous year. During the quarter, the bank's total income increased to Rs 762.81 crore from Rs 583.17 crore a year ago, CSB Bank said in a regulatory filing. Interest income grew to Rs 636.49 crore during the period under review from Rs 519.56 crore in the corresponding quarter a year ago. Gross non-performing assets (NPAs) were reduced to 1.26 per cent of gross advances as of March 31, 2023, from 1.81 per cent by the end of March 2022. Net NPAs also came down to 0.35 per cent of the advances from 0.68 per cent at the end of 2022. The Kerala-based bank recorded a net profit of Rs 547 crore for the year ended March 2023 as against Rs 458 crore in the previous year, logging a 19 per cent increase. The bank continues with the policy to maintain accelerated provisioni

Open to negotiate after auction, lenders tell Reliance Cap bidders

They decided that they reserve the right to negotiate with the bidders even after the second auction is over

Reliance Capital lenders meeting today to address bidders concerns

The two bidders, Torrent Investment and IIHL, have raised multiple issues with the lenders and they want these issues to be settled

Banks likely to post robust Q4 numbers; profit may hit record high in FY23

The banking sector is likely to post good numbers in the fourth quarter ended March 2023, and the total profit of public sector banks (PSBs) is expected to touch a record high of Rs 1 lakh crore in FY23, aided by the decline in bad loans and healthy loan growth. According to a senior bank official, the country's biggest lender State Bank of India (SBI) expected to earn a profit above Rs 40,000 crore in the financial year ended March 2023. In the first nine months of the previous financial year, the bank's bottomline stood at Rs 33,538 crore, higher than Rs 31,675.98 crore recorded in FY22. Similarly, other public sector lenders are also likely to report encouraging numbers, helped by a decline in non-performing assets (NPAs), moderation in slippages, double-digit credit growth and rising interest rate. For the first nine months of 2022-23, all 12 PSBs have earned a cumulative profit of Rs 70,166 crore compared to Rs 48,983 crore in the year-ago period, an increase of 43 per cent. "

Lenders to miss March-end deadline to resolve key insolvency cases

Once an account is settled with the highest bidder paying their bid amount, then it frees part of bank's locked fund in an account which could be used for lending purposes

Indian lenders expect pick up in retail deposits as interest rates rise

Currently, most large lenders offer deposit rates between 6.75% and 7.30% for 1-2 year deposits and between 5.75% and 7.25% for longer-term deposits