A report from Standard & Poor’s (S&P) warned that the declining asset quality of banks in India would affect their performance adversely. Recently, the global credit rating agency released the report titled “Slack Economic Growth Dents Recovery Prospects for Indian Bank. In the next 18-24 months, the Indian banking sector may not recover because of sluggish economic activity and
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S&P expects banks’ performance to be under stress
A report from Standard & Poor’s (S&P) warned that the declining asset quality of banks in India would affect their performance adversely. Recently, the global credit rating agency released the report titled “Slack Economic Growth Dents Recovery Prospects for Indian Bank. In the next 18-24 months, the Indian banking sector may not recover because of sluggish economic activity and
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Tighter provisioning norms may hit banks’ margins
Following the tightening of norms on provisioning for restructured loans by Reserve Bank of India (RBI), banks might have to set aside Rs 1,500-2,500 crore as provisions in 2013-14 for their existing recast loan book. Ratings agency Icra said this in a report. Recently, the central bank said banks have to raise provisioning for the existing stock of restructured assets to 5 per cent in a phased manner over three years from the
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Additional provisioning may hit PSBs
The earnings of public sector banks (PSBs) may take a beating in Oct-Dec 2012 quarter because of an additional provisioning of 0.75 per cent, as directed by the Reserve bank of India (RBI), analysts feel. Analysts expect private sector banks to post better earnings results during the quarter as compared to their public
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Restructured loan ratio rises in banking system
Data from Reserve Bank of India (RBI) suggests that the ratio of restructured to gross advances is at a five-year post-Lehman high of 5 per cent for the banking system as a whole. It may be recalled that in 2008-09, RBI allowed the “one-time” dispensation to restructure sub-standard asse