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Bad loan ratio of banks likely to fall to 5-5.5% by March 2024: S&P Global

S&P Global Ratings on Thursday said non-performing loans of banks are expected to decline to 5-5.5 per cent of the total advances by March 2024. As per the latest Financial Stability Report published by the RBI, the gross non-performing assets (GNPA) declined to a six-year low of 5.9 per cent in March 2022. "We project the banking sector's weak loans will decline to 5-5.5 per cent of gross loans by March 31, 2024. Likewise, we forecast the credit costs to stabilise at 1.5 per cent for fiscal 2023 and further normalise to 1.3 per cent, making credit costs comparable to those of other emerging markets and India's 15-year average," the rating agency said in a report. The small and midsize enterprise sector and low-income households are vulnerable to rising interest rates and high inflation, but it expects these risks to be limited, the agency added. With an economic pick-up, residual stress for these segments should start abating, it said, adding that NPL recoveries are likely to ...

CSB Bank profit nearly doubles to Rs 115 cr in Q1; asset quality improves

Private lender CSB Bank on Thursday reported 88 per cent growth in its net profit at Rs 115 crore in the first quarter of FY23 on the back of decline in bad loans.

Wilful loan defaults grow 10 times since 2012 to Rs 2.4 trn: Report

These defaulters have the capacity to repay their loans but choose not to do so, says a report

'Govt, RBI moves help banks recover Rs 8.6-trn bad loans in last 8 fiscals'

Minister of State for Finance Bhagwat Karad in a written reply to the Lok Sabha said the occurrence of non-performing assets (NPAs) is normal, although an undesirable, corollary to business of banking

YES Bank, JC Flowers in pact for ARC in bid to seal largest ever NPA deal

This is being termed the single-largest bad loan deal

YES Bank's stressed loan portfolio: Understanding what went wrong at lender

The bank, in August, 2021 invited applications for setting up an ARC, planning to hold a 20 per cent stake in it. On the RBI's objection, it agreed to hold a minority stake in the ARC

Only 12-13% of loans given to street vendors turned bad loans: Puri

Union housing and urban affairs minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Thursday said that only 12-13 per cent of loans disbursed to street vendors turned out to be bad loans

Large borrowers' loan accounts and bad loans decline for SCBs: RBI

According to RBI's Financial Stability Report, June 22, share of large borrowers, those having aggregate fund and non-fund based exposure of Rs 5 crore and above, has been declining in recent years

FinMin asks PSBs to expedite NPA resolution; focus on credit growth

According to sources, banks were asked to sanction loans for productive sectors to accelerate the revival of the economy facing headwinds, including from the Russia-Ukraine war.

IIFCL profit surges to 80% to Rs 514 cr in Q4 due to reduction in bad loans

With regard to asset quality, IIFCL has brought down gross non-performing assets (NPAs) to 9.22 per cent from 13.9 per cent a year ago.

State Bank of India looks to offload retail, SME NPAs via portfolio sale

The realisation expected for non-NARCL sales is 35-40 per cent, a senior SBI executive said.

Expect slippages, credit cost to come down further: Bank of Baroda MD & CEO

Sanjiv Chadha, in an interview with Manojit Saha, says it was a conscious decision not to chase corporate loans and focused on segments offering higher margins

Edelweiss ARC plans to deploy Rs 1,200 crore to acquire bad loans

With improving business environment, it has pegged recoveries to between Rs 5,000 crore and Rs 6,000 crore in FY23. Its assets under management (AUM) stood at Rs 40,251 crore at the end of March 2022

Decline in bad loans to improve profitability of banks: Report

Capital ratios at Public Sector Banks (PSBs) have improved in the past year, helped by capital infusions from the government, it said

Bad loans to decline to 5.6-5.7% level by March 2023, says ICRA

The credit and other provisions are estimated to dip to 1.3-1.4 per cent of advances in FY23 as against an estimated 1.7-1.8 per cent in FY22

Future Retail CEO Sadashiv Nayak quits; group entities default on payments

Future Retail is locked in legal battles with US retail major Amazon and has already become a non-performing asset NPA in the current quarter

NBFCs may see asset quality improve by up to 200 bps going forward: Crisil

RBI postponement of timeline for adhering to new NPA norms, greater economic activity likely to act as tailwinds, says rating agency

New prudential norms: NBFCs get some leeway on bad loans classification

The Reserve Bank allowed some relaxation in the stricter prudential norms announced for all lenders, including shadow banks

SBI expects to recover Rs 8,000 cr from written-off accounts in FY22

Bank's net profit during the quarter surged by 62.27 per cent to Rs 8,432 crore.

Banks' bottom line gets a booster shot as bad loans continue to fall

Gross NPA ratio has come down to 6.9 per cent as of end September 2021, according to Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data