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ICICI Bank Q1: COVID-19 caution dominates yet another quarter; future uncertain
Moratorium loans decline to 17.5 percent in June, provisions jump, mood cautious.
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RBI Financial Stability Report | Moratorium impact on NBFCs, HFCs may be substantial
The RBI launched TLTRO and TLTRO 2.0 to help NBFCs get liquidity support. However, the scheme benefited only top-rated, big NBFCs since banks remained risk-averse.
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RBI Financial Stability Report: Indian banks’ gross NPAs could rise to 14.7% by March 2021
In a base case scenario, the GNPAs could rise to 12.5 per cent by March next year, the RBI said.
BUSINESS
Urjit Patel highlights issue of 'creeping banking sector fiscalisation' in his new book
As successive governments have found their capacity for further fiscal expansion becoming constrained, it has used the banks that it owns to fire up and pump-prime the economy; hence the term banking sector-fiscalization.
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RBI neglected to take away the ‘punch bowl’ from the credit-binge ‘party’, says Urjit Patel in new book
In his book, Patel has elaborated on how excessive government ownership has weakened the government banks in the country
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Do not reward wrongdoers by bestowing awards; do some background checks: Urjit Patel’s memo to financial media
The context here is the annual awards given by financial media houses to banks. The recipients, sometimes, include even those banks who have been fined by the RBI and other regulators, sometimes more than once, for rule violations.
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Urjit Patel cautions on rising bank frauds, wants boards, managements to act
A look at the latest data of large banks shows a spike in the number of frauds and the money involved over the previous year. Subsequently, there is a corresponding rise in provisions made.
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Auto loan controversy in HDFC Bank could haunt Aditya Puri’s successor
‘GPS for vehicle loan’ episode has damaged HDFC Bank’s speckless reputation just when the private lender is preparing to hand over the reins to a new boss.
BUSINESS
IBA, Bank unions agree on 15% wage hike
A 15 per cent hike in wage cost will mean a yearly burden of Rs 7900 crore for the banking industry.
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Wilful defaulters owe Rs 1.5 lakh crore to public sector banks: How big is the mess?
A wilful defaulter is a borrower who has the ability to repay the bank but wouldn’t so deliberately. Here, the intent to pay back the money to the lender is absent.
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Axis Bank Q1: High caution visible, fall in moratorium book in line with industry
In the fourth quarter of the last fiscal, Axis Bank had said that about a quarter of its loan book was under moratorium (25-28 percent). From there, the value of moratorium loans has substantially declined and extra caution against future uncertainties is visible.
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Smuggling racket thrusts Kerala’s insatiable love for gold back into spotlight
The unraveling of a smuggling racket originating from the Gulf once again underscores the state’s ungodly penchant for the yellow metal.
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Analysis| Bajaj Finance remains steady, cautious in COVID times
Extra caution and decline in moratorium book are good news to Bajaj Finance investors in uncertain times. That is despite a 19 percent fall in net profit to Rs 962 crore in Q1 from Rs1195 crore in the year ago quarter.
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Banking Central | 51 years of bank nationalisation: Indira Gandhi’s ‘drama’ or India’s biggest banking reform?
Bank nationalisation took root in 1969 and altered the Indian banking industry landscape forever. A look at the effects of the epochal action through the years.
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Analysis | Urjit Patel’s scathing attack on RBI, UPA for the NPA mess: 3 critical insights
Reasons for India’s NPA crisis are well known. However, this is probably the first time a former RBI governor has launched such a scathing attack on the central bank criticising the inefficiency and laxity to monitor the build-up of bad loans in the system.
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Analysis| HDFC Bank prepares for COVID-19 shock
The bank has admitted that the COVID-19 pandemic has already taken a toll on the retail loan book.
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Bad loan write-offs by state-run banks accelerated in past 6 years to hit nearly Rs 5.5 lakh crore, show data
The write-offs illustrate the recurring — and unbridled — problem of the mountain of bad loans, or non-performing assets, that banks are saddled with as borrowers struggle to pay off debt in a slowing economy.
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Analysis | Raghuram Rajan’s latest warning on bank NPAs is an understatement of the real problem
Banks have sensed the danger already which is why they are on a capital raising spree. A number of private banks -- including ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Axis Bank and Yes Bank -- have announced plans to raise capital even though they have adequate capital levels
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Fund-starved small, medium NBFCs say govt, RBI liquidity measures didn’t help; write again to FM seeking relief
The RBI announced targeted long term repo operations (TLTRO) while the government, as part of the economic package, announced partial credit guarantee scheme and special liquidity schemes to help NBFCs But, these measures have largely benefited only the big NBFCs while smaller once are starving for funds, said the FIDC letter.
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Analysis| Bandhan Bank Q1: With 64% book in micro loans, lender walks a cautious path; Collections pick up but COVID holds the key
The message here is clear: the management expects pain on the asset quality going ahead and doesn’t want to lower the guard
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Exclusive | Bandhan Bank may look at merger with holding company to cut promoter stake; awaits clarity on RBI rules
Bandhan Bank's holding company Bandhan Financial Holdings owns 60.95 percent stake in the bank, even after five years of inception.
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Bank fraud cases see a major spike in 2019-20: How prepared is the RBI?
A look at the latest data of large banks shows a spike in number of fraud cases and the money involved over the previous year. Subsequently,there is a corresponding rise in provisions made.
BUSINESS
SBI hopes to save Rs 1,000 crore through Work From Anywhere plan roll out
Kumar’s logic was that 'work from anywhere' would reduce commute time, and, hence, ensure better services and better work-life balance.
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Yes Bank denies its executives mis-sold AT-I perpetual bonds
Yes Bank says investors were aware about the risks involved. Tells court in counter-affidavit that none of the bank officials might have met the petitioner as he bought the bonds from the secondary market.
