The Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram has said that top 30 loan defaulters of public sector banks (PSBs) account for more than one-third of total gross non-performing assets (NPAs) of State-run lenders. The Minister told this to the Rajya Sabha on December 10.
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Tag: Non-Performing Assets
Banks adequately capitalised despite rising bad loans
In its annual report, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said the banking system is adequately capitalised despite the rising trend in the gross non-performing assets (NPA). The gross NPA rose to 4.4 per cent of the total advances by March 2014 from 3.42 per cent a year ago.
Cabinet may consider approval for large projects
Union cabinet may consider approval for several large-sized infrastructure projects, costing at least Rs 1,000 crore, to ensure expeditious clearances. Union finance ministry is learnt to have sought specific comments from the concerned ministries on pending approvals
NPAs of banks rises 31.8% in FY13
RBI Deputy Governor HR Khan informed that the gross non-performing assets of banks rose 31.8 per cent, while restructured standard advances expanded 40 per cent in 2012-13. Speaking at an event in Thiruvananthapuram, Khan attributed the rise in the NPAs to uncertain macroeconomic environment, underlying issues in credit assessment and bad loan management by
Officials discuss issues in stressed loan mkt
Usha Thorat, Director of the Centre for Advanced Financial Research and Learning (Cafral), held discussion with banks, rating agencies and asset reconstruction companies (ARCs) on the issues in the stressed loan market. Typically, banks sell non performing assets (NPAs) to ARCs, which in turn tries to recovers the loan from the borrowers. ARCs acquire stressed assets from banks at a mutually agreed upon price and then recover it fro
Minister raises concern on rising bad loans
Finance Minister P Chidambaram raised concern about the rising non-performing assets (NPAs) in the banking system and asked banks to control it order to prevent adverse impact on profitability. Huge provisioning for NPAs is eating into the profits of state-owned banks, the minister said while addressing the annual general meeting of the Indian BanksÂ’ Association
SBI to take Rs 2 bn hit due to provisioning norms
Pratip Chaudhuri, Chairman of State Bank of India (SBI) informed that the total impact of Reserve Bank of India (RBI)Â’s revised norms on provisioning for non-performing assets (NPAs) and restructured loans would be about Rs 200 crore a year. He said this would be less than 1 per cent on a PBT (profit before tax) basis and hence it may not have a significant impact on SBIÂ’s profitability
NPAs of state-run banks rise in FY13
Owing to high interest rate and slowdown in the economy, non performing assets (NPAs) with the public sector banks (PSBs) rose about 90 basis points year-on-year during 2012-13. However, their peers in the private sector managed to avoid rise in NPAs because of better risk management and low exposure to risky
Allahabad Bank to reduce bad loans
Agency reports indicate that Allahabad Bank intends to bring down its gross non-performing assets (NPAs) to around 3.2 per cent by March 2014 from 3.92 per cent in 2012-13. Shubhalakshmi Panse, Chairman and Managing Director of the bank is quoted as saying that the bank was monitoring bad accounts on a daily basis along with focus on recovery
Number of bank loan recast falls in December quarter
The number of cases admitted to the corporate debt restructuring (CDR) cell by banks declined to 24 cases worth Rs 19,650 crore during October-December 2012 compared to 41 cases worth Rs 20,528 crore in the preceding quarter. Industry insiders attribute the decline in CDR cases to the improving economic outlook. With inflation sho
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