Why Ridham Desai of Morgan Stanley likes banking stocks
5 years, 1 month ago

Why Ridham Desai of Morgan Stanley likes banking stocks

Live Mint  

India’s banking sector may witness a turnaround, after recent rule changes put banks in a better position to get their money back from insolvent companies, according to Ridham Desai, managing director at Morgan Stanley India Co. A Supreme Court ruling last week not only paved the way for ArcelorMittal’s purchase of Essar Steel India Ltd., an Indian steel mill, but also allowed banks to set the terms of the distribution of sale proceeds among creditors. The move to empower banks “has settled several disputes” around India’s bankruptcy law introduced in 2016, Desai said at a conference in Singapore on Thursday. “Last week’s judgment may well prove to be an inflection point for the sector,” Desai said, adding that banks previously were not well-placed to recover loans. Furthermore, the government’s planned capital injection into public sector banks, which account for 65% of the industry, is “the biggest cyclical fix” that will support the sector, according to Desai.

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Gross bad assets of government banks fell from 14.58% in Mar 2018 to 3.12% in Sep 2024: Finance ministry
4 weeks ago

Gross bad assets of government banks fell from 14.58% in Mar 2018 to 3.12% in Sep 2024: Finance ministry

Live Mint  

The government said on Thursday that policy reforms in the financial sector have restored the health of the banking sector, with the gross non-performing asset ratio of public sector banks falling to 3.12% in September 2024 from a peak of 14.58% in March 2018 and 4.97% in March 2015. The marked improvement also saw PSBs record their highest-ever aggregate net …

Economic Survey 2023-24: Displaying stellar show banking, financial sectors must brace for likely vulnerabilities
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Economic Survey 2023-24: Displaying stellar show banking, financial sectors must brace for likely vulnerabilities

The Hindu  

With India’s banking and financial sectors displaying a stellar performance in FY24 and as India’s financial sector undergoes critical transformation, it must brace for likely vulnerabilities originating globally or locally, the Economic Survey 2023-24 has cautioned. Economic Survey 2023-24 LIVE updates In FY24 bank credit witnessed double digit and broad-based growth and asset quality improved dramatically with gross and net …

Indian banks well placed to ride on economic growth: Moody’s
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Indian banks well placed to ride on economic growth: Moody’s

The Hindu  

Indian banks and non-bank finance firms are well placed to seize opportunities from India’s strong economic prospects through lending growth in sectors like infrastructure, energy transition, manufacturing, small businesses and retail, Moody’s Ratings said on Wednesday. Moody’s said credit quality of India’s financial system has strengthened over the past 3-4 years due to record-high profitability, low delinquencies and stable domestic …

Credit growth trajectory likely to slow down to 12-14% YoY over FY25-27, says Emkay Global
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Credit growth trajectory likely to slow down to 12-14% YoY over FY25-27, says Emkay Global

Live Mint  

India’s banking sector is expected to face a slowdown in credit growth and with banks exhausting strategies to sustain margins, the imperative for mobilizing deposits emerges, analysts said. The credit growth trajectory is expected to slow down to 12-14% year-on-year over FY25-27E from the current 16.5% YoY, according to Emkay Global Financial Services. The overall deposit growth and more so …

The Economist praises Modi govt for revitalising Indian banking sector
1 year, 7 months ago

The Economist praises Modi govt for revitalising Indian banking sector

Op India  

On Thursday, the British weekly newspaper The Economist praised the Modi government for reviving the banking sector in India and turning around its profitability. In a development few, if any, predicted, Indian banks are among the world’s most profitable.” The Economist noted that the bankruptcy reforms introduced by the Narendra Modi government in 2016 helped in the rapid liquidation of …

Inside Bank of Baroda’s silent transformation
1 year, 9 months ago

Inside Bank of Baroda’s silent transformation

Live Mint  

In the last week of September 2021, Mukund Rajan, the former chief ethics officer at the Tata Group, showed a bunch of Bank of Baroda executives a video clip from the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai. Led by Sanjiv Chadha, the bank’s current managing director and chief executive officer, the lender is on a mission to reinvent itself by adding …

ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES | Is a reversal of bank nationalisation on the cards?
1 year, 11 months ago

ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES | Is a reversal of bank nationalisation on the cards?

The Hindu  

Published : Jan 26, 2023 10:25 IST The semi-annual Financial Stability Report from the Reserve Bank of India signals that the country’s banking system, especially the public banking system, has put behind it the stress from disturbingly high non-performing or bad loans on its books. The asset quality review resulted in an increase in the volume of recorded gross NPAs …

IDBI Bank sell-off can set the stage for selling public-sector banks
1 year, 11 months ago

IDBI Bank sell-off can set the stage for selling public-sector banks

Live Mint  

Tuhin Kanta Pandey, secretary of the department of investment and public asset management, while speaking to Business Standard, recently said that the Indian government intended to exit IDBI Bank completely, as it was not in the business of commercial banking. The stock market doesn’t give a valuation to government-owned or public sector banks that’s close to what it gives large …

Banking data bodes well for the economy
2 years ago

Banking data bodes well for the economy

Hindustan Times  

The Reserve Bank of India ’s Report on Trend and Progress of Banking in India 2021-22, released on December 27, underlines the trend of continuous improvement in the health of India’s banking sector. The credit goes to RBI’s nimble-footed approach during the pandemic’s disruption and its sustained efforts to clean bank balance sheets in India. To be sure, the story …

Banking regulation and the law of unintended consequences
3 years, 2 months ago

Banking regulation and the law of unintended consequences

Live Mint  

Many well-intentioned steps taken by regulators in the past are creating headaches on multiple fronts due to the unintended consequences of specific measures. The RRA could suggest better digital information sharing and monitoring mechanisms among banks to enforce credit discipline, even if businesses are allowed to operate multiple current accounts. Being obliged to lend ₹40 of every ₹100 to lower …

Budget 2021: Govt to set up bad bank for record levels of soured debt
3 years, 11 months ago

Budget 2021: Govt to set up bad bank for record levels of soured debt

Live Mint  

India will set up a company to manage banks’ bad loans, which are expected to reach record levels this year and threaten the financial stability of the world’s second-most populous nation. Indian banks' soured debt ratio is set to rise to 13.5% by September 2021 The Reserve Bank of India expects non-performing assets will rise to 13.5% of total advances …

Economic Survey 2021: Under-Capitalisation of Banks Will Hamper Economic Growth in Long Run
3 years, 11 months ago

Economic Survey 2021: Under-Capitalisation of Banks Will Hamper Economic Growth in Long Run

News 18  

The Economic Survey 2021, released on January 29 ahead of the Union Budget 2021, has called for adequate capitalisation of public sector banks flagging fears of lenders resorting to risk-shifting, which will, in turn, impact the economy which has just begun its upward rise months after the crippling impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Public sector banks account for 60 per …

New NPA Cycle, Privatisation Among Ailments in Banking that Union Budget 2021 is Expected to Address
3 years, 11 months ago

New NPA Cycle, Privatisation Among Ailments in Banking that Union Budget 2021 is Expected to Address

News 18  

With the Union Budget less than a week away, stakeholders in the banking sector expect the Centre to go beyond recapitalisation of bonds to infuse capital in public sector banks. The RBI’s stress test recently revealed that bank NPAs could jump from 7.5 per cent in September last year to 13.5 per cent by September this year. The gross non-performing …

Data | Why did bad loans in banks reduce despite COVID-19 and economic downturn?
4 years ago

Data | Why did bad loans in banks reduce despite COVID-19 and economic downturn?

The Hindu  

The ratio of Gross Non-Performing Assets in Indian banks decreased in FY20 and FY21 despite the impact of COVID-19 and the economic downturn that preceded it. This was mostly due to three factors: 1) Banks wroteoff relatively more NPAs in FY20 to clean their balance sheets; 2) Some large NPA accounts got resolved through debt-recovery channels; and 3) It is …

Policy roll-back may dent banks’ health, says RBI
4 years ago

Policy roll-back may dent banks’ health, says RBI

The Hindu  

In 2020-21, as policy support is rolled back, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic may dent the health of the banks and non-banks, the Reserve Bank of India said in its Report on Trend and Progress of Banking in India 2019-20. This is a statutory publication in compliance with Section 36 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 and this Report …

Rajan, Acharya may be off mark: PSU banks need strategy and focus to survive, not privatisation as remedy
4 years, 3 months ago

Rajan, Acharya may be off mark: PSU banks need strategy and focus to survive, not privatisation as remedy

Firstpost  

The PSU banks’ problem is often linked to India’s burgeoning fiscal deficit that needs control because pumping taxpayer money into state-run banks is fraught with risks. It is interesting that two of India’s biggest brand-name economists, former Reserve Bank governor Raghuram Rajan and former deputy governor Viral Acharya, have spoken for the “re-privatisation” of public sector banks even as the …

'Privatise Select PSU Banks, Dilute Role of DFS': Raghuram Rajan Calls for Reforms
4 years, 3 months ago

'Privatise Select PSU Banks, Dilute Role of DFS': Raghuram Rajan Calls for Reforms

News 18  

Former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan on Monday suggested the government to privatise select public sector banks, set up a bad bank to deal with NPAs and dilute the role of Department of Financial Services. “Winding down Department of Financial Services in the Ministry of Finance is essential, both as an affirmative signal of the intent to grant bank boards and …

Moody's Revises Indian Banking System Outlook To Negative: Here's Why
4 years, 9 months ago

Moody's Revises Indian Banking System Outlook To Negative: Here's Why

ABP News  

New Delhi: Indian banking system has already seen upheavals recently, and Covid 19 outbreak has further proved to be a dent in maintaining a stable outlook. Rating agency Moody’s on Thursday revised its outlook for the Indian banking system to negative from stable, citing an ensuing decline in asset quality and the prevailing Covid 19 outbreak. While funding and liquidity …

COVID-19 impact: Moody's changes outlook on Indian banks to negative from stable; move triggered by disruption in economic activity
4 years, 9 months ago

COVID-19 impact: Moody's changes outlook on Indian banks to negative from stable; move triggered by disruption in economic activity

Firstpost  

Moody’s said Banks’ asset quality will deteriorate across the corporate, small and medium enterprises and retail segments, leading to pressure on profitability and capital. Moody’s Investors Service on Thursday changed the outlook for Indian banking system to negative from stable, as it expects deterioration in banks’ asset quality due to disruption in economic activity from the coronavirus outbreak. On Thursday, …

A battered IndusInd Bank lays bare RBI’s financial stability challenge
4 years, 9 months ago

A battered IndusInd Bank lays bare RBI’s financial stability challenge

Live Mint  

India’s private sector banks are facing their toughest test yet with a virus outbreak putting their earnings at risk, even as the collapse of a peer bank raises questions on deposits. The bank’s stock dropped 15% on Tuesday after the lender revealed in an investor call that it has lost 10-11% of its deposits since Yes Bank Ltd crumbled earlier …

Yes Bank crisis: Best practices needed as benchmark to govern banks; govt should consult with veteran bankers for solutions
4 years, 10 months ago

Yes Bank crisis: Best practices needed as benchmark to govern banks; govt should consult with veteran bankers for solutions

Firstpost  

Recent days have seen RBI governor Shaktikanta Das pulling up public sector banks for poor credit growth even as Kapoor’s Yes Bank shenanigans were simmering in the backdrop. The current crisis in Yes Bank makes for great headlines, with a high-profile founder lending huge amounts to tainted and/or serial borrowers, allegations of political corruption and a general state of injustice …

Banking on bailouts: The Hindu Editorial on Yes Bank crisis
4 years, 10 months ago

Banking on bailouts: The Hindu Editorial on Yes Bank crisis

The Hindu  

Just one day after it placed the financially troubled Yes Bank under a moratorium, the Reserve Bank of India announced a draft ‘Scheme of Reconstruction’ that entails the State Bank of India investing capital to acquire a 49% stake in the restructured private lender. The alacrity with which the bailout has been proposed is commendable, given that Yes Bank’s stock …

In 2020, muted credit growth, not bad loans, will be banks’ main concern; a lot will depend on early economic rebound
5 years ago

In 2020, muted credit growth, not bad loans, will be banks’ main concern; a lot will depend on early economic rebound

Firstpost  

In the first seven months of the current financial year, the credit growth to large industries contracted by 3.4 percent as against a growth of 0.2 percent in the year-ago period. The gross NPA ratio of banks, which stood at 9.3 percent of the total loans in March 2019 could rise to close to 10 percent in September 2020, according …

Financial system stable despite weakening economic growth; reviving consumption, investment a major challenge: RBI
5 years ago

Financial system stable despite weakening economic growth; reviving consumption, investment a major challenge: RBI

Firstpost  

The PSBs need to build stronger buffers to absorb any disproportionate operational losses, while private lenders need to focus on corporate governance, the RBI said. Mumbai: India’s financial system remains stable even after economic growth plummeted to a six-year low, the Reserve Bank of India said on Friday. “Reviving the twin engines of consumption and investment while being vigilant about …

India's financial system stable despite weakening economic growth, says RBI
5 years ago

India's financial system stable despite weakening economic growth, says RBI

India Today  

India's financial system remains stable even after economic growth plummeted to a six-year low, the Reserve Bank of India said on Friday. "Reviving the twin engines of consumption and investment while being vigilant about spillovers from global financial markets remains a critical challenge going forward," the central bank said in its bi-annual Financial Stability Report released on Dec. 27. State-owned …

Can tech solve for all things wrong in Indian banking sector?
5 years, 2 months ago

Can tech solve for all things wrong in Indian banking sector?

Live Mint  

“In future, banks will become technology companies with a banking licence” proclaimed Ravneet Gill, chief executive of Yes Bank, amid news that the private sector lender is close to securing fresh capital from investors, including a technology company – a non-conventional investor in banking space. In his statement, Gill, hinted at the popular trend of 'future of banking’, with banks …

Opinion | Bank mergers are no silver bullet for India
5 years, 4 months ago

Opinion | Bank mergers are no silver bullet for India

Live Mint  

With every passing day, India’s economic indicators are turning a little bleaker. Thus, one of the few areas where there’s new investment may be affected, especially with a sharp rise in debt levels of the government agency that gives out the contracts. State Bank of India, the largest lender, will require ₹15,000 crore in the current fiscal year, according to …

PSB recapitalisation: Why Narendra Modi govt must look at outright privatisation of state-run banks rather than experimenting with taxpayers' money
5 years, 6 months ago

PSB recapitalisation: Why Narendra Modi govt must look at outright privatisation of state-run banks rather than experimenting with taxpayers' money

Firstpost  

There are reports indicating that the Union Government is contemplating recapitalising the public sector banks with a capital of Rs 30,000 crores. Thus, to a layman, this situation should give rise to the question as to why then is the government continuously infusing taxpayers hard-earned money into the banking system. The government controls more than two-thirds of the banking assets …

Resolving India’s banking crisis
5 years, 7 months ago

Resolving India’s banking crisis

The Hindu  

The government that assumes office after the general election will have to crack a serious and unresolved problem: India’s banking sector. Public sector banks accounted for ₹8.9 trillion, or 86%, of the total NPAs. In 2018, the State Bank of India’s gross NPA/gross advances ratio was 10.9%. Second, the government must infuse at one go whatever additional capital is needed …

’India is a very self-correcting country’: Rashesh Shah
5 years, 9 months ago

’India is a very self-correcting country’: Rashesh Shah

Live Mint  

Mumbai: From a small office in downtown Mumbai to an imposing steel-and-glass building overlooking the city’s Bandra-Kurla Complex financial hub, Rashesh Shah, 55, has come a long way. Shah, armed with an MBA from India’s top business school and expertise gleaned from his time at one of the nation’s largest banks, partnered with a colleague in 1995 to set up …

Opinion: The next shadow-banking crisis in India
5 years, 11 months ago

Opinion: The next shadow-banking crisis in India

Live Mint  

Just a year ago, India’s third-largest mortgage lender was bragging about how it had shrunk its financing costs by replacing bank loans with market borrowings. Now, Dewan Housing Finance Corp. is confronting the fallout of that seemingly clever strategy, one that many of its peers face as well: a dangerously high exposure to India’s struggling developers. Like other Indian shadow …

Some better performing banks likely to be out of PCA framework in next few months: Financial services secretary
5 years, 11 months ago

Some better performing banks likely to be out of PCA framework in next few months: Financial services secretary

Firstpost  

Eleven out of the total 21 public sector banks are under the central bank’s PCA framework New Delhi: Some of the public sector banks are likely to come out of the Prompt Corrective Action framework in next few months on the back of improvement in various parameters, a top finance ministry official said. Eleven out of the total 21 public …

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