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State-owned Jammu & Kashmir Bank on Tuesday reported a more than two-fold rise in its net profit at Rs 174.81 crore for the quarter ended December 2021 on the back of a significant drop in its provisioning requirement. The bank had posted net profit of Rs 66.37 crore in the same quarter a year ago, and Rs 111.60 crore in the preceding quarter ended September 2021. Total income during Q3 FY22, however, was down at Rs 2,178.57 crore as against Rs 2,349.81 crore in Q3FY21, J&K Bank said in a regulatory filing. It also fell sequentially from Rs 2,203.36 crore in the September quarter of this fiscal. Interest income during the quarter fell to Rs 2,019.77 crore as against Rs 2,076.37 crore. The lender's provisioning for bad loans and contingencies for the quarter came down significantly to Rs 8.22 crore, as against Rs 457.61 crore it had put aside in the year-ago period. As of December 31, 2021, the government of Jammu & Kashmir held 70.12 per cent stake in the bank. Provision ..
Loans and advances of foreign banks operating in India rose about 13 per cent to nearly Rs 3.97 trillion in 2018-19.This was slightly ahead of the 11 per cent growth in this regard at scheduled commercial banks in general, comprising private, government-owned, foreign and small finance banks (SFBs). The loan book of private banks grew at a much higher rate, of 25 per cent. Public sector banks expanded theirs' by only 4 per cent. SFBs, a group of recent origin, showed 70.5 per cent growth in loans. Deposits at foreign banks rose 17 per cent in FY19, to Rs 5.8 trillion, from Rs 4.95 trn the previous year. Their capital base increased to Rs 77,809 crore, from Rs 67,883 crore, a 15 per cent increase, according to the Reserve Bank's (RBI's) report on 'Trends and Progress of Banking in India 2018-19'. Foreign banks' borrowings increased to Rs 1.51 trillion in FY19, from nearly Rs 1.3 trn, an 18 per cent spike. Other assets rose by 67 per cent over the year, to Rs 1.47 trn.The number of ..