[ecis2016.org] Banks’ provisions for bad loans is likely to remain high till FY 2020, with stress building up in loans to the non-corporate segment, according to India Ratings’ mid-year outlook on banks
Banks are witnessing a spurt in asset quality stress in the non-corporate segment and the overall loan loss provisions for lenders, are expected to stay elevated till fiscal year 2019-20, a report said.
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The outlook on private sector banks, along with SBI and Bank of Baroda among the state-run ones is stable, while all the other state-run banks carry a negative outlook, India Ratings said in its mid-year outlook on banks, on September 17, 2018.
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Banks will continue with credit costs or provisions of up to three per cent for both, the ongoing fiscal, as well as the one after, according to the rating agency. It attributed the higher credit costs to the ageing of NPAs (non-performing assets) recognised earlier since the asset quality review of FY16, accelerated provisioning and slippages, especially from non-corporate accounts.
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In what can be a worrying sign, the agency said it has observed a spurt in asset quality stress building up in the non-corporate loans, even as the same in the corporate segment had plateaued. It said there has been an increase in the share of smaller corporates and small and medium-sized enterprises and personal/retail loans, in the special mention accounts (SMAs) pool in FY18 over FY17.
The share of loans under Rs five crores in SMA1 accounts, or those cases where there has been no loan repayment for 31-60 days, had increased to 40 per cent at the end of FY18 from 29 per cent the year-ago, the report said, while the same for SMA2 where loans have not been serviced for 61-90 days had risen to 68 per cent as against 12 per cent earlier.
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Even as the asset quality troubles continue, there are rising headwinds for credit availability, according to India Ratings. “The prevailing stressed financial conditions could intensify credit tightening, unless liquidity of financing channels is at least partially reinvigorated,” it said.
The agency said adverse interest rate conditions, increasing risk aversion by state-run banks, which leaves 35 per cent of the banking system unable to serve the lower rated borrowers, volatile external environment and lack of alternatives for financing, are ‘critical’ to corporate credit quality in FY19. Bank exposures of nearly Rs four lakh crores can be impacted, by the absence of favourable liquidity/market conditions and refinancing pressures, which will give the large, non-bank players and private banks to up their market share, it said.
With the tightening in rates, some of the financing done by corporates, through the bond markets, can shift back to the banks, which will help increase corporate books for well-capitalised banks and also jack-up their earnings, it added. On the stress from corporate loans, it said the total corporate assets under stress had stayed between 20 per cent and 21 per cent of the overall bank credit, for the two years to FY18.
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