State-owned Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) on Friday
reported narrowing of its net loss to Rs 487.26 crore in the second quarter
ended September 2018 on lower provisioning.
The bank had
registered a net loss of Rs 1,222.50 crore in the year-ago period. Sequentially
also, its net loss narrowed from Rs 919.44 crore in the first quarter ended
June of the current fiscal.
"Net loss
is due to provisions on bad debts and investment and not due to
operations," the bank said in a release. Total income fell to Rs 5,348.35
crore during July-September 2018-19 from Rs 5,610.35 crore in same period a
year ago, IOB said in a regulatory filing.
Bank's asset quality
deteriorated with the gross non-performing assets (NPAs) rising to 24.73
percent of gross loans by the end of the second quarter as against 22.73
percent as on end-September 2017. Though it was down when compared sequentially
from 25.64 percent at end-June.
Net NPAs also rose
year-on-year to 14.34 percent from 13.86 percent, sequentially down from 15.10
percent.In absolute terms, gross NPAs were Rs 37,109.96 crore as on September
30, 2019 from Rs 34,708.59 crore by September 2017. Net NPAs or bad loans were
Rs 18,876.05 crore as against Rs 18,949.55 crore.
Provisions for bad
loans and contingencies came down to Rs 2,016.60 crore for the reported quarter
from Rs 2,238.09 crore.IOB said it received
government capital infusion of Rs 2,157 crore on July 23 against preferential
allotment of equity shares and has added the same as tier I equity capital. The provision coverage
ratio of the bank as on September 30 stood at 61.97 percent. Deposits as on
September 30, 2018 stood at Rs 2.23 lakh crore and advances were Rs 1.50 lakh
crore.
Total business
registered an increase of 3.12 percent and stood at Rs 3.73 lakh crore by the
end of September 2018 against Rs 3.62 lakh crore as on June 30, 2018. IOB said its total
recovery registered an increase of 12.53 percent to Rs 4,462 crore for quarter ended
September as against the recovery of Rs 3,965 crore a year ago.
The total fresh
slippage for quarter ended stood at Rs 884 crore from slippage of Rs 2,693
crore a year ago. "Recovery
achieved is substantially higher than slippages during the quarter mainly due
to focused efforts towards recovery and containment of NPAs (fresh slippage and
other debits in existing NPA accounts)," it said.
Further,
the bank has recovered Rs 247 crore in six NCLT accounts during the September
quarter and expects further recovery aggregating Rs 802 crore in the third
quarter in two NCLT accounts where resolution is at an advanced stage.
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