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10 banks come together to set up Secondary Loan Market Association

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Ten major banks, including State Bank of India (SBI), ICICI Bank, Canara Bank and Standard Chartered Bank (SCB), have come together to set up the Secondary Loan Market Association (SLMA). It is aimed at promoting the growth of the secondary market for loans in India and also create an online platform for this purpose.

SLMA is a self-regulatory body and has been formed as per the recommendation of the Reserve Bank of India’s Task Force on the Development of secondary market for corporate loans.

Wanted: A secondary market for bank loans

The other members of SLMA are Kotak Mahindra Bank, Deutsche Bank, Bank of Baroda, Punjab National Bank, Axis Bank and HDFC Bank.

As per SLMA’s memorandum of association, it will facilitate, promote and set up an online system for the standardisation and simplification of primary loan documentation, and standardisation of documentation for the purchase and sale/assignment documentation and other trading mechanisms for the secondary loan market and its documentation.

Website, logo, launched

SLMA will also develop and promote standard trading, settlement and valuation procedures and practices and rules and timelines for the members for conducting the business and to fix transaction-related charges.

The company’s website and logo were digitally launched on August 11, 2021, by Saurav Sinha, Executive Director, Reserve Bank of India.

Bonding together

Sinha said an active secondary market for loans in India will offer benefits to various stakeholders by way of capital optimisation, liquidity management, risk management, exposure re-balancing and efficient price discovery mechanism.

He observed that since smaller banks are generally constrained for various reasons from participating in large and creditworthy lending exposures at the time of origination, the secondary market can enable them to participate in such exposures at a later stage and the constraints faced under the Large Exposure Framework will be a thing of the past.

Sinha also laid stress on the essential pre-requisites for a vibrant secondary market — an ecosystem of market intermediaries like facility agents, security trustee, arrangers, valuation agencies, etc.

Expanding the spectrum of investors

Ashwini Bhatia, Managing Director, SBI, noted that the conceptualisation and operationalisation of SLMA in a time-bound manner is an appropriate response to the long-felt need for wider participation in the loan market aided by appropriate risk mitigation. It will provide the banks and other participants a window for managing their loan assets portfolio, he added.

Bhatia underscored that presently, the primary and secondary markets are restricted to banks and non-banking finance companies and domestic and foreign investors participate only in distressed debt through Asset Reconstruction Companies.

“As such, there is a felt need to expand the spectrum of investors in the secondary market and Alternative Investment Funds/Mutual funds to invest in the secondary loan market,”he said.

Sanjay Srivastava, Chairman, SLMA, said the secondary market for loans in India will evolve on the strength of a systematic digital loan trading platform, standardisation of documents, active participation by stakeholders and effective price discovery mechanism.

Sunil Mehta, Chief Executive, Indian Banks’ Association (IBA), said currently the IBA is actively working on development of syndicated loan market in India and one of the key success factors for such market will be the parallel development of secondary market for sale of loan.

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Banks report improved NII, lower NPA provisioning in Q1, BFSI News, ET BFSI

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The provision for cumulative non-performing assets (NPA) by banks softened in the June 2021 quarter after a spike in the previous quarter when they resumed accounting for slippages after RBI’s schemes to defer the recognition of actual NPAs ended in December. For a sample of 28 banks, the loan loss or NPA provision fell by 6.8% year-on-year and 43.8% sequentially to Rs 36,805.4 crore in the June quarter.

The aggregate provision by the public sector (PSU) banks fell by 27% year-on-year due to a sharp double digit drop reported by State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank, Canara Bank, and Bank of Baroda. On the other hand, private sector banks reported 51% jump following a sharp increase reported by HDFC Bank, Kotak Bank, Bandhan Bank and RBL Bank. As a result, their share in the total NPAs increased to 42.5% from 26.1% in the year-ago quarter.

The total sample’s net interest income (NII) increased by 4.8% year-on-year to Rs 1.2 lakh crore. A majority of the banks, 20 to be precise, reported higher net interest from the year-ago level. The share of the private banks in the sample’s net interest expanded to 43.8% from 41.7% a year ago.

The sample’s cumulative COVID provisioning increased to Rs 34,641.5 crore in the June quarter from Rs 29,892.8 crore in the previous quarter. Here, the share of PSU banks increased to 34.7% from 26.7% sequentially.

June ’20 September ’20 December ’20 March ’21 June ’21
Loan loss provision (Rs crore) 39504.8 33896.1 28828.5 65542.2 36805.4
Loan loss provision (YoY % change) -17.0 -11.0 -59.6 19.5 -6.8

Share of PSU banks in quarterly provisioning (%)

June ’20 September ’20 December ’20 March ’21 June ’21
PSU share (%) 73.9 77.5 63.7 66.4 57.5
Non-PSU share (%) 26.1 22.5 36.3 33.6 42.5

Data for a sample of 28 banks. Source: Bank data, ETIG



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As markets soared, PSBs raised a record Rs 58,700 via debt, equity, BFSI News, ET BFSI

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Make hay while the sun shines. As the stock market soared during the pandemic, public sector banks raised a record Rs 58,700 crore from markets in FY2020-21 through a mix of debt and equity to enhance the capital base.

Series of successful QIP reflect the confidence of both domestic and global investors in PSBs and their potential.

The fundraise

This included Rs 4,500 crore raised by Mumbai-based Bank of Baroda from qualified institutional placement (QIP). Punjab National Bank mobilised Rs 3,788 crore through share sale on a private placement basis during the financial year ended March 31, 2021.

At the same time, Bengaluru-based Canara Bank raised Rs 2,000 crore from QIP, as per data collated from regulatory filings.

In addition, 12 PSBs raised funds from Tier I and Tier II bonds taking the total fund mobilisation to Rs 58,697 crore, highest amount garnered in any financial year.

Government reforms

Various reforms undertaken by the government including recognition, resolution and recapitalisation resulted in progressive decline in non-performing assets (NPAs) and subsequent rise in profit.

NPAs of PSBs had declined to Rs 7,39,541 crore as on March 31, 2019, Rs 6,78,317 crore on March 31, 2020 and further to Rs 6,16,616 crore as on March 31, 2021 (provisional data). Provision Coverage Ratio (PCR) at the same time increased sequentially to a high of 84 per cent.

As a result, PSBs in aggregate recorded a profit of Rs 31,816 crore, highest in five years, despite 7.3 per cent contraction in economy in 2020-21 due to COVID-19 pandemic.

The primary reason for PSBs to post such a Rs 57,832-crore turnaround from a loss of Rs 26,015 crore in 2019-20 to a combined profit of Rs 31,816 crore was the end of their legacy bad loan problem.

At the same time, comprehensive steps were taken to control and to effect recovery in NPAs, which enabled PSBs to recover Rs 5,01,479 crore over the last six financial years.

Credit growth

Overall credit growth of Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs) has remained positive for 2020-21 despite a contraction in GDP (-7.3 per cent) due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

As per the RBI data, gross Loans and Advances of SCBs increased from Rs 109.19 lakh crore as of March 31, 2020, to Rs 113.99 lakh crore as of March 31, 2021.

Further, as per RBI data of loans to agriculture and allied activities, micro, small and medium enterprises, housing and vehicles have witnessed a year-on-year growth of 12.3 per cent, 8.5 per cent, 9.1 per cent and 9.5 per cent respectively during the year.



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Canara Bank restructures loans worth Rs 13,000 crore, MSME, retail worst hit, BFSI News, ET BFSI

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Public sector lender Canara Bank has restructured loans of over Rs 13,000 crore as MSME and retail loans took a beating due to the second Covid wave. Fresh slippages came at Rs 4,253 crore which fell sharply on a sequential basis, 19% of the slippages came from the retail segment and 56% came from MSMEs. The bank also restructured loans worth Rs 13,234 crore under the Covid 2.0 recast scheme, out of this Rs 7,610 crore worth of loans were recast from the retail sector while Rs 3,331 crore came from MSMEs. Special mention category loans or which are due beyond 0-90 days stood at Rs 23,985 crore.

“For the retail and MSMEs borrowers who we have assisted with the Covid recast scheme a part of them have started to pre-pay and we are hopeful that as business momentum recovers a large part of these accounts will normalise,” said L.V. Prabhakar, MD, Canara Bank. “As of June 30, our collection efficiency is 91%, which means instalments are coming. There was stress which was duly addressed by giving them recast benefit.”

Profits nearly tripled to Rs 1,177 crore at the end of the June quarter as fee income and treasury gains grew sharply. The lender had reported profits of Rs 406 crore in the corresponding period last year. Though it’s net interest income was flat at Rs 6,147 crore from Rs 6,096 crore in Q1FY21.

Non-Interest Income which includes fees and treasury gains was up by 67.47% to Rs 4,438 crore in the June quarter versus Rs 2,650 crore a year ago.

The bank reported improvement in asset quality metrics. It’s GNPA ratio came at 8.50% for the quarter under review from 8.84% a year ago. Net NPA ratio was at 3.46%.

Total provisions rose nearly 18% to Rs 4574 crore at the end of the June quarter versus Rs 3880 crore a year ago. This included a one time income tax provision of Rs 845 crores. The bank also holds Covid related provisions of Rs 842 crore.

It’s total loans grew by 5.94% to Rs 6.6 lakh crore, out of which retail loans grew at 9.57% while agriculture loans rose 17.03%. The bank said it is targeting an annual credit growth rate of 7-8%.

Net Interest Margin for the reporting quarter fell to 2.71 per cent for Q1FY22 as against 2.84 per cent for Q1FY21.

The bank’s asset quality profile improved with gross non-performing assets down to 8.5 per cent in June 2021 from 8.84 percent during Q1FY21. The net NPA also dipped to 3.46 per cent during the quarter from 3.95 per cent in June 2020.



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Canara Bank reports 190% net profit jump in Q1

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Canara Bank reported a 190 per cent jump in first quarter net profit at ₹1,177 crore on the back of a robust non-interest income and decline in loan loss provisions.

The Bengaluru-headquartered public sector bank had reported a net profit of ₹406 crore in the year ago period.

Net interest income (the difference between interest earned and interest expended) was a tad higher at ₹6,147 crore ( ₹6,096 crore in the year ago quarter) as the decline in interest expenses was much more than the reduction in interest earned.

Non-interest income, comprising fee-based income, trading income and recovery in written-off accounts rose 67 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y) to ₹4,438 crore ( ₹2,650 crore).

Fee-based income was boosted due to the sale of 1,20 lakh units under Priority Sector Lending Certificates (PSLCs), and earned the bank a commission income of ₹699 crore. Recovery in written-off accounts soared 132 per cent y-o-y to ₹600 crore ( ₹259 crore).

Fresh slippages in the reporting quarter were higher at ₹4,253 crore against ₹1,422 crore in the year ago quarter. However, slippages were lower vis-a-vis January-March 2021 quarter at ₹14,495 crore.

Net interest margin (net interest income/ average interest earning assets) was lower at 2.71 per cent as at June-end 2021 against 2.84 per cent as at June-end 2020.

Gross non-performing assets (GNPA) position improved to 8.50 per cent of gross advances against 8.84 per cent. Net NPA level also improved to 3.46 per cent of net advances against 3.95 per cent.

As at June-end 2021, global deposits increased by about 12 per cent y-o-y to ₹10,21,837 crore. Global advances were up 5 per cent y-o-y to ₹6,84,585 crore, with domestic advances growing but overseas advances shrinking.

For FY22, the bank has given a guidance of 8.20 per cent growth in global deposits and 7.50 per cent growth in global advances. It has guided for a GNPA (global) of 7.90 per cent, net NPA (global) of 2.80 per cent and NIM of 2.75 per cent.

The bank expects to raise ₹9,000 crore via qualified institutions placement ( ₹2,500 crore), Additional Tier-I Bonds ( ₹4,000 crore) and Tier-II Bonds ( ₹2,500 crore).

Canara Bank’s shares closed at ₹148.80 apiece, up 1.47 per cent over the previous close on BSE.

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Canara Bank Q1 profit rises nearly three-fold to Rs 1,177 cr, BFSI News, ET BFSI

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New Delhi, Jul 27 () Canara Bank on Tuesday reported nearly three-fold jump in standalone net profit at Rs 1,177.47 crore for the quarter ended June 30, helped by reduction in bad loans. The public sector lender had logged a net profit of Rs 406.24 crore in the same quarter of the previous financial year.

During the June quarter last year, Canara Bank had amalgamated Syndicate Bank into itself with effect from April 1, 2020.

Total income in the April-June increased marginally to Rs 21,210.06 crore, from Rs 20,685.91 crore in the year-ago period, Canara Bank said in a regulatory filing.

The bank’s gross non-performing assets (NPAs) declined slightly at 8.50 per cent of the gross advances as on June 30, 2021 as against 8.84 per cent at June-end last year.

Net NPA ratio too fell to 3.46 per cent, from 3.95 per cent in the same quarter a year ago.

As a result, provisions and contingencies for the first quarter came down to Rs 3,728.52 crore as compared to Rs 3,826.34 crore in the year-ago period.

Of this, provisions for NPAs significantly reduced to Rs 2,334.88 crore, as against Rs 3,549.99 crore a year ago.

The Provision Coverage Ratio (PCR) improved to 81.18 per cent as at June 2021, from 78.95 per cent as at June 2020, the bank said in a statement.

Capital adequacy ratio of the bank stood at 13.36 per cent as at June 2021. Out of which Tier-I is 10.34 per cent and Tier-II is 3.02 per cent, it said.

The bank said it plans to raise Rs 9,000 crore through a mix of debt and equity to enhance capital base to fund its business growth during the current fiscal. DP DRR DRR



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Private banks too want the bad bank pie, BFSI News, ET BFSI

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With public sector banks queueing up to buy a bad bank stake, private lenders are also looking to invest in it.

Some private banks are seeking approvals to buy into National Asset Reconstruction Company Ltd (NARCL) or bad bank, though their stake will be lower than the PSBs.

Having secured a licence from the Registrar of Companies, the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) will soon move an application to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to set up a Rs 6,000-crore National Asset Reconstruction Company Ltd (NARCL) or bad bank.

The process

With the registration of the company, the process for putting an initial capital of Rs 100 crore is on as per the guidelines, the sources said adding that the next step will be audit and then move an application to the RBI seeking a licence for the asset reconstruction company.

The RBI in 2017 raised the capital requirement to Rs 100 crore from the earlier level of Rs 2 crore keeping in mind the higher amount of cash required to buy bad loans.

Legal consultant AZB & Partners has been engaged for seeking various regulatory approvals and fulfilling other legal formalities.

The initial capital would come from eight banks who have committed, and the NARCL would expand the capital base to Rs 6,000 crore subsequently after the RBI’s nod.

Other equity partners would join after the RBI’s licence and even the board would be expanded.

SBI veteran to steer

IBA, entrusted with the task of setting up a bad bank, has put a preliminary board for NARCL in place. The company has hired P M Nair, a stressed assets expert from the State Bank of India (SBI), as the managing director. The other directors on the board are IBA Chief Executive Sunil Mehta, SBI Deputy Managing Director S S Nair and Canara Bank‘s Chief General Manager Ajit Krishnan Nair.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Budget 2021-22 announced that the high level of provisioning by public sector banks of their stressed assets calls for measures to clean up the bank books.

Several banks are moving to divest their stake from Asset Reconstruction Companies (ARCs) to free up capital in preparation to launch the bad bank.

Three public sector banks—Union Bank of India, Indian Bank, and Bank of India—said they jointly intend to sell up to 88.4 million shares, constituting up to 90.31 per cent of the total equity share capital of ASREC India Ltd, a Mumbai based ARC.



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IBA to soon move application to RBI for setting up Rs 6,000-cr bad bank, BFSI News, ET BFSI

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Having secured licence from the Registrar of Companies, the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) will soon move an application to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to set up a Rs 6,000-crore National Asset Reconstruction Company Ltd (NARCL) or bad bank, according to sources.

With registration of the company, the process for putting an initial capital of Rs 100 crore is on as per the guidelines, the sources said adding that the next step will be audit and then move application to the RBI seeking licence for the asset reconstruction company.

The RBI in 2017 raised capital requirement to Rs 100 crore from the earlier level of Rs 2 crore keeping in mind higher amount of cash required to buy bad loans.

Legal consultant AZB & Partners has been engaged for seeking various regulatory approvals and fulfilling other legal formalities.

The initial capital would come from eight banks who have committed, and the NARCL would expand the capital base to Rs 6,000 crore subsequently after the RBI’s nod, the sources said.

Other equity partners would join after the RBI’s licence and even the board would be expanded, the sources added.

IBA, entrusted with the task of setting up a bad bank, has put a preliminary board for NARCL in place. The company has hired P M Nair, a stressed assets expert from State Bank of India (SBI), as the managing director. The other directors on the board are IBA Chief Executive Sunil Mehta, SBI Deputy Managing Director S S Nair and Canara Bank‘s Chief General Manager Ajit Krishnan Nair.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Budget 2021-22 announced that the high level of provisioning by public sector banks of their stressed assets calls for measures to clean up the bank books.

“Asset Reconstruction Company Limited and Asset Management Company would be set up to consolidate and take over the existing stressed debt,” she had said in the Budget Speech. It will manage and dispose the assets to alternative investment funds and other potential investors for eventual value realisation, she had said.

Last year, IBA made a proposal for the creation of a bad bank for swift resolution of non-performing assets. The government accepted the proposal and decided to go for an asset reconstruction company and asset management company model in this regard.

Meanwhile, state-owned Canara Bank has expressed its intent to be the lead sponsor of NARCL with a 12 per cent stake.

The proposed NARCL would be 51 per cent owned by PSBs and the remaining by private sector lenders.

NARCL will take over identified bad loans of lenders. The lead bank with an offer in hand of NARCL will go for a ‘Swiss Challenge‘, wherein other asset reconstruction players will be invited to better the offer made by a chosen bidder for finding higher valuation of a non-performing asset on sale.

The company has picked up those assets that are 100 per cent provided for by the lenders. Banks have identified around 22 bad loans worth Rs 89,000 crore to be transferred to NARCL in the initial phase.



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Lenders set up bad bank for loans in default, BFSI News, ET BFSI

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Mumbai: Public sector lenders led by Canara Bank have officially formed the bad bank — the National Asset Reconstruction Company (NARC). Their next step now is to obtain approval from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to function as an ARC.

In May, banks decided to appoint Padmakumar M Nair, chief general manager in charge of stressed assets in SBI, as the MD of the NARC. According to RBI norms, an ARC should have minimum net owned funds of not less than 15% of the total financial assets that it plans to acquire on an aggregate basis or Rs 100 crore.

According to industry sources, lenders have identified 22 asset loan accounts worth Rs 82,496 crore. Assuming a book value of half the loan amount, the ARC would have to pay out around Rs 6,000 crore to purchase the assets. This is because the RBI norms require that 15% of the value of the asset has to be paid in cash, while the rest can be paid for by issuing security receipts (SRs). These SRs entitle the holder to a share of the recovery effected by the ARC.

To make the SRs more attractive to buyers, the government will guarantee recovery of up to Rs 31,000 crore. Lenders said that the objective of the guarantee was to provide comfort to investors and the average recovery is usually higher than the guaranteed amount provided. The notification in respect of the guarantee is likely after NARC obtains a registration from the RBI.

The loans that have been approved for transfer to the ARC include Videocon Oil Ventures (Rs 22,532 crore), Amtek Auto (Rs 9,014 crore), Reliance Naval (Rs 8,934 crore), Jaypee Infratech (Rs 7,950 crore), and Castex Technologies (Rs 6,337 crore).



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CDSL becomes the first depository to open 4- crore active Demat accounts, BFSI News, ET BFSI

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Central Depository Services (India) Limited (CDSL), India’s leading and only listed depository, has announced the first depository to open Four crores plus (40 million) active Demat accounts.

CDSL is currently the largest depository in the country in terms of active Demat accounts.

CDSL facilitates holding and transacting in securities in the electronic form and facilitates settlement of trades on stock exchanges.

CDSL has an objective of delivering quality services and innovative products. Since the financial services industry has become increasingly IT-reliant, CDSL is adopting technology as a part of its strategic vision. Major shareholders of CDSL include BSE, Canara Bank, HDFC Bank, LIC and Standard Chartered Bank.

Nehal Vora, CEO of CDSL said “I will firstly congratulate SEBI – the capital market regulator for being the visionary leader that guided us to this digital growth and safe ecosystem. It is their foresight that transited the long Demat account opening procedure into an easy digital experience without compromising on the necessary controls. Our milestones are a result of the hard work and coordination of all the market infrastructure institutions and the market intermediaries. I wish to thank the investors for choosing CDSL to be their depository. I would like to thank all the participants of the capital market for their contribution in accelerating the digital and financial growth of India.”

This journey of financial inclusion has to enhance to engage with a higher number of persons to foray into the securities market to achieve the objective to make India a capital market hub that is highly focused on corporate governance, technology, investor protection, transparency, and sustainability.

Further, CDSL will continue to provide services for the progress of the securities markets, for the valued investors in line with our vision of “Empowering the Atma-nirbhar Niveshak” through our digital services.”



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