Some banks make record provisions against bad loans

PCR is the ratio of provisioning to gross non-performing assets and indicates the extent of funds a bank has kept aside to cover loan losses. Some banks make record provisions against bad loans.Banks clean up books as NPA additions slow over the past year.

RBI to hold ‘structured meetings’ with bank auditors to deal with divergences

On May 1 We have posted an article “RBI cracks the whip on auditors, wants them to keep eye on five key areas” wherein its was mentioned that The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has asked bank auditors to keep a close watch on five key parameters and is to reassign its senior supervisory authority…

NPA recovery: ‘Banks’ internal processes not in sync with external environment’

Internal processes in banks have still not caught up with the changes in the external environment relating to the recovery of non-performing loans

Bank loans worth ₹5-lakh cr turned into NPAs in FY18: Crisil

MUMBAI, JUNE 5

As much as ₹5-lakh crore of bank loans deteriorated into the non-performing asset (NPA) category in fiscal 2018, according to credit rating agency Crisil.

But the tide seems to be turning, given the sharp reduction in SMA (special mention account)-2 cases and better NPA recovery prospects, it added. An SMA-2 account is a stressed account where the principal or interest payment or any other amount, wholly or partly, is overdue between 61 and 90 days.

Crisil said the total slippages in the past three fiscals amounted to ₹13.6-lakh crore.

It assessed that about a fifth of the slippages last fiscal (FY2018) was due to the withdrawal of various structuring schemes by the RBI in February 2018 after the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) process came into force.
As a result, gross NPAs increased to about ₹10.3-lakh crore, or about 11.2 per cent of advances, as on March 31, 2018, compared with ₹8-lakh crore, or about 9.5 per cent of advances, as on March 31, 2017.

Wilful defaulters form 14% of PSB bad loans

Around 14% of the bad loans in public sector banks (PSBs) are due to wilful defaulters. The total gross non-performing assets (NPAs) of 21 PSBs stood at Rs 7.33 lakh crore as on September 30, 2017. Of this, Rs 1.01 lakh crore of loans were termed as those in wilful default.

Defaulters use minor kin to evade scrutiny and recovery by lenders

Some borrowers with no intention of paying back their loans are using their children to conceal their assets from banks during insolvency proceedings, forensic experts told ET.

Rising NPAs in education loan add to banks’ stress

The government is already struggling to deal with the problem of mounting NPA in the public sector banks and has drawn a mega recapitalisation plan to strengthen them.

Centre to introduce first tranche of Bank Recap bonds

The recapitalisation bonds will not be inflationary and will be cash neutral, says Department of Financial Services (DFS) Secretary Rajiv Kumar

Gross NPAs of banks cross Rs 8.50 lakh crore in first half: MoS

NEW DELHI: Gross Non-performing Assets (NPAs) of banks crossed Rs 8.50 lakh crore at the end of September 2017, Minister of State for Finance Shiv Pratap Shukla informed the Lok Sabha.

Banks set to crack down on defaulters in RBI’s second list

A majority of companies on RBI’s second list of loan defaulters, including Monnet Power and Visa Steel, will be referred to NCLT for bankruptcy proceedings
The assets of some of the 40 top defaulters (12 in the first list and 28 in the second) are likely to be sold over the next few months as RBI and the government push lenders to speed up the resolution of Rs10 trillion of soured loans.