Private banks stay in profit, PSBs return to losses
Deccan ChronicleMumbai: Banks reported better-than-expected earnings for the September quarter, with many showing an improvement in operational performance and marginal deterioration in asset quality. While the asset quality of the public sector banks showed improvement, they recorded a net loss during Q2FY20 after having recorded a net profit in the first quarter of FY20. The net profit of the private banks decl-ined 1.7 per cent sequentially in Q2FY20 and stood at Rs 7,076 crore against a contraction of -33 per cent recorded in Q2FY19. The gross non-performing assets of PSBs contracted by -10 per cent sequentially and stood at Rs 727,296 crore for Q2FY20 as compared with Rs 807,937 crore in Q2FY19. Both the PSBs and PVBs recorded a steady rise in their net interest income at 12.9 per cent and 20.4 percent, respectively, during the September 2019 quarter.