YES Bank has been struggling to raise capital for months. It also had to postpone its December 2019 quarter results as the fundraising process consumed most of its top management's time.
Yes Bank has been put under moratorium and may have to take a government-planned bailout.
Macquarie Capital Securities also said if State Bank of India (SBI) decided to buy stake in the bank, they should buy it at Rs 1 per share as the net worth is hugely impaired
Banking stocks took a beating on Friday following developments around YES Bank. The private lender's board was superseded by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
Forcing bondholders to take 100 per cent haircut on the bank's AT-1 bonds would lead to losses to the tune of Rs 10,800 crore, estimates Acuite Ratings
Soon after the RBI announced the moratorium, global bank JP Morgan pegged YES Bank shares at Rs 1 a share.
RBI's draft reconstruction scheme for YES Bank suggested a permanent write-down of these bonds outstanding as of March 5.
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One relevant clause is that if minimum Tier-1 capital falls below 6%, there is scope for the write-off of AT-1 bonds as these bonds are supposed to provide an additional cushion to capital adequacy
During the period of moratorium, the Yes Bank Ltd will not, without the permission in writing of the RBI, make payment to a depositor of a sum exceeding Rs 50,000 lying to his credit in any savings
Market participants will keenly watch the YES Bank developments especially after the Enforcement Directorate on Sunday arrested the bank's co-founder Rana Kapoor under money laundering charges
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Congress alleged the loans given by YES Bank rose 100 per cent in just two years after demonetisation from Rs 98,210 crore in March 2016 to Rs 2,03,534 crore in March 2018
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Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day talk YES Bank's fallout, Data Protection Bill among other issues.
He said that it is a wrong method to assess a lender's health based on the ratio of deposit to m-cap (market capitalisation)
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Weak compliance, poor governance and greed led to the bank's failure as it lent to borrowers who did not have the ability to repay