The existing ratings factor is in the sovereign support
The financial institution that became a bank has a history that would have made it awkward for the government to sell stake to a non-government entity
IDBI Bank is grappling with mounting toxic loans with gross non-performing assets rising to a staggering Rs 556 bn
Reports stated that LIC has finalised the deal with IDBI Bank, which will eventually pave way for the infusion of Rs 130 billion in the NPA-mired state-run bank
This clarification came following news reports saying that insurance regulator Irdai may approve LIC's proposal to pick up a substantial stake in IDBI Bank
IDBI Bank had underperformed the market by falling 41% from its recent high of Rs 84 on March 5, 2018, as compared to 3.8% rise in the S&P BSE Sensex till Thursday.
It's hard to see how the transaction could bolster the reputation of any of India's three financial regulators
The insurance regulator may take up the matter during its June 29 board meeting
India has been trying since at least two years to sell IDBI Bank
Shares in insurance venture likely to be offloaded by September
According to a finance ministry official, decision in this regard will be taken in the next few months, and the government has already started the transformation process of the bank.
Government-owned IDBI Bank's net loss widened to Rs 56.6 billion in the March quarter, on a sizable Rs 107.8 bn provision for bad loans.The quarterly loss, the sixth in a row, was deeper than the Rs 31.9 bn in the same period last year. For the full year ended March 2018, the net loss is Rs 82.4 bn, against one of Rs 51.6 bn in 2016-17.However, operating profit for the quarter (fourth or Q4 of 2017-18) more than doubled to Rs 23.6 bn, from Rs 10.4 bn in Q4 of 2016-17.Its gross non-performing assets (NPAs) stood at 27.95 per cent of total advances. The latter proportion is second highest in the history of Indian banking, next only to its own GNPA of 30 per cent in the quarter ended December 2003. In fact, that gross NPA figure is far lower than the Reserve Bank's (RBI's) calculation, of Rs 550.3 bn, as against the bank's assessment of Rs 447.5 bn.IDBI is already under RBI's 'prompt corrective action' framework. Its provisioning for NPAs rose to Rs 107.7 bn, from Rs 60.5 bn in the same .
IDBI Bank's gross NPA soared to 27.95 per cent of its loans at March 2018-end compared to 21.25 per cent at the end of March 2017
Ninad Karpe and S Ravi, were named in the FIR filed by the CBI in connection with a Rs 6 bn loan given by the bank to former Aircel promoter C Sivasankaran, his son and companies controlled by him
The bank had initiated recovery actions to recover dues from the borrower in August 2016, it said
Strategies have been drawn to ensure that the NPAs are reduced in a structured manner by taking help of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) and other means
The buyback activity would be spread over quarters and would be done in small tranches for reasons of absorption
Recently, the lender sold a commercial building for Rs 9 billion, taking the total non-core asset sales to over Rs 41 billion in FY18
According to a BSE filing by IDBI Bank, the RBI imposed a Rs 30 million penalty on it for non-compliance of IRAC norms
It has been trying to offload non-core assets and investments, to raise money for meeting the Basel-III norms on capital adequacy