Going forward, the board will decide the best way to raise money, be it through rights issues or other routes, Sabharwal said.
The business update shared by CSB Bank on January 1 showed that the total deposits grew by 22.17% on year to Rs 33,406 crore, and advances against gold and gold jewellery rose by 36.28% YoY to Rs 13,018 crore.
For years, banks and NBFCs were engaged in an intense rivalry to grow their loan books, perhaps forgetting the cardinal rule of lending—assessing a borrower's creditworthiness. Probably, they are having to pay a price for it now
Apollo, one of the world’s largest alternative asset managers, is among other investors looking to buy pieces of Silicon Valley Bank, according to people familiar with the matter.
The bank said advances are up 22 per cent from Rs 14,514 crore as of September 2021 on the back of sustained growth in disbursement which grew by 56 per cent year on year to Rs 4,867 crore.
The non-banking financial company said enabling credit access to rural and semi-urban population helped it reach the Rs 100-crore loan book by way of deployment of core lending solutions aided with mobility.
Loan growth for the company has always been regulated, well-planned and not aggressive, said Sanjaya Gupta, MD, PNB Housing Finance .
Capital First expects to grow by 25 percent over the next 4-5 years and promoters are not looking to offload their stake in the company as they believe in the long-term story, says V Vaidyanathan, Executive Chairman of Capital First.
Cetrum Home Finance, the Centrum group's housing finance arm that was launched last month, plans to have a loan book of Rs 250 crore by the end of the first year of operations.
Recoveries of non-performing assets (NPAs) have not been as fast as in October, post demonetisation, said Kamakodi. Net interest margins also could be impacted, said N Kamakodi, MD & CEO, City Union Bank.
The bank is well diversified in its portfolio, which has helped mitigate risks, said Vishwavir Ahuja, MD & CEO of RBL. Alongwith that the bank has tried avoiding lending to risker assets like infrastructure in last 3-4 years.
Rao says Bharat Financial will disburse an additional Rs 8,200 crore in the second half of current fiscal.
Microfinance company Ujjivan Financial Services reported a 102.51 per cent jump in net profit at Rs 71.37 crore for the June quarter, driven by growing business and reduction in cost of finance.
Company plans to grow the loan book in FY17 to around Rs 5000 crore from the current Rs 3270 crore, said HP Singh, CMD, Satin Credit.
No negative surprises from the results and the loan book to grow by 15-16 percent in FY17, Deven Choksey, MD at KRChoksey.
During the quarter, its NII or difference between interest earned and interest expended grew 24 percent at Rs 7453.3 crore from Rs 6013.2 crore in year-ago period.
According to Nomura, LIC Housing Finance may face earnings cut by the street due to slowdown in core mortgage portfolio. It adds that slowdown in mortgage book is driven both by slower disbursement growth and higher prepayment rates continuing in the past.
The growth momentum of the bank will continue to be supported by stable asset quality and branch expansions, said Murali M Natrajan, MD & CEO, DCB Bank, in an interview to CNBC-TV18.
ED Rajiv Sabharwal told reporters in a concall that the bank has always been serving the tier 2 and 3 towns, but there have been concerted efforts on these markets in the past three years which has paid off so well for the lender that smaller centres now account for 30% of the home loan book
In Apocalypse Now, a report by Macquarie Research, the brokerage firm says that several potentially non-performing accounts are being hidden behind the screen of statutory debt restructuring (SDR) and 5/25 refinancing.
The net interest margin has been maintained at an average range of 3.4-3.6 percent for nearly the past decade, and the bank will focus on maintaining it, says N Kamakodi, CMD & CEO at City Union Bank.
The new bank plans to start operations with an initial loan book of around Rs 55,000 crore and with 20 branches.
SBI, MD - corporate banking, P Pradeep Kumar says, it has been continuously reviewing base rates and lowering deposit rates since August or September last year. "A further cut will depend on SBI's cost of funds, composition of asset portfolio, etc."
From the management commentary, Vaibhav Agrawal, VP-Research-Banking, Angel Broking expects a broader outlook in terms of growth and performance of loan book.
R Varadarajan, MD, Repco Home Finance expects his loan book to grow above the current rate of 25-30 percent. 80 percent of the company‘s loan book is under affordable housing.