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Private sector DCB Bank on Saturday reported a 52 per cent jump in its profit to Rs 114 crore for the December 2022 quarter, mainly due to a decline in bad loans. The bank's net profit stood at Rs 75 crore in the same quarter of the preceding financial year. The total income increased to Rs 541 crore in the latest December quarter from Rs 463 crore in the year-ago period, the bank said in a regulatory filing. At the same time, net interest income rose to Rs 446 crore against Rs 345 crore a year ago. On the asset quality front, the bank recorded an improvement, with gross NPAs (Non-Performing Assets) declining to 3.62 per cent compared to 4.78 per cent at the end of the third quarter of the previous fiscal. Net NPAs too eased to 1.37 per cent compared to 2.55 per cent in the year-ago period. The capital adequacy ratio stood at 16.26 per cent in the December quarter.
Private sector DCB Bank on Saturday posted a 73 per cent jump in net profit at Rs 112 crore for the quarter ended September 2022 on the back of reduction in bad loans. The bank had reported a profit of Rs 63 crore in the year-ago period. Total income of the lender during the July-September quarter of FY23 rose to Rs 510 crore against Rs 421 crore in the corresponding period of FY22, DCB Bank said in a statement. Net interest income increased to Rs 411 crore as against Rs 323 crore in the same period of the previous fiscal. The bank's gross non-performing assets (NPAs) declined to 3.89 per cent of the gross advances at the end of September 2022, from 4.73 per cent at September-end 2021. Net NPAs also came down to 1.54 per cent from 2.66 per cent. The Provision Coverage Ratio (PCR) as on September 30, 2022 was at 72.83 per cent. PCR without considering gold loan NPAs stood at 74.21 per cent, it said. Capital adequacy continues to be strong, it added. As on September 30, 2022, the
Private sector DCB Bank has revised upwards the marginal cost of funds-based lending rate by 27 basis points across tenors. The revised rates will come to effect from November 5, 2022, DCB Bank said in a regulatory filing on Friday. The benchmark one-year MCLR rate will be priced at 10.23 per cent from Saturday against the existing rate of 9.96 per cent. The one-year tenor MCLR is used to price most of the consumer loans, such as housing, auto and personal. The one, three and six-month tenor MCLRs will be 9.63 per cent, 9.79 per cent and 10.02 per cent, respectively. While the overnight tenor MCLR will be 9.58 per cent.
Private sector lender DCB Bank on Thursday said it is seeing a good business prospects from rural areas and wants to focus on "encouraging" tractor loans demand from the farming community. The bank is offering customised loans in Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha and Rajasthan, which saw a growth in demand last year. The bank is positive about rural prospects, as evident from sales in Q2 FY21, and is expecting incremental growth in business, DCB Bank said in a release on Thursday. Citing a recent Crisil report that tractor sales were up by 12 per cent in first half of FY21, the lender said good monsoon and higher crop production generally support farm incomes and this in turn provides a fillip to tractor demand. Typically, fortunes of the tractor loan business depend on the vagaries of the weather and the harvest season among other macro and micro variables, it said. "The sale of tractors shows a heartening trend, it has posted