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Jammu and Kashmir Bank has set a long-term goal of achieving Rs 4,00,000 crore business in the next five years with annual profit of Rs 4,000 crore, a top company official has said. J&K Bank MD & CEO Baldev Prakash said the long-term objectives are backed by well thought out strategies and monitorable execution plans that would be periodically reviewed to ensure achievement of all interim milestones. Prakash said the bank is also working on short-term goals like fixing monthly targets for each business line. "In the longer term, we have set out a target for ourselves to achieve business of Rs 4 lakh crore in the next five years with an annual profit of Rs 4,000 crore. We are aiming to bring our gross NPA to below 4 per cent with a net NPA figure to one per cent level. The long-term target for our Return on Assets (RoA) is above 1 per cent," he said. Prakash further said that, "the broader objective would be to improve Bank's market share from 0.63 per cent to 0.75 per cent in .
Union Bank of India on Thursday said it will allot Basel III compliant bonds next week on a private placement basis, for which it has accepted bids worth Rs 2,000 crore. The bank has considered the issuance of Basel III compliant debt instruments in the nature of debentures of Rs 500 crore, with green shoe option up to Rs 1,500 crore (maximum Rs 2,000 crore) on private placement basis, the bank said in a regulatory filing. The bonds are eligible for inclusion in additional tier I capital, it said. The bonds, with face value of Rs 1 crore each, are perpetual in nature and bear coupon of 8.70 per cent per annum. Perpetual bonds carry no maturity date, so they may be treated as equity, not as debt. The deemed date of allotment of bonds is November 22, 2021, the state-owned lender said. The bonds are rated 'AA'/stable by India Ratings & Research and Crisil.