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Indian banks ‘epitome of resiliance’ amid global crisis: Report

March 20, 2023 by bfsi.economictimes.indiatimes.com Leave a Comment

NEW DELHI: Indian banks are the “epitome of resilience” in terms of global claims, an SBI report has said at a time when a crisis-stricken global banking industry has roiled markets worldwide .

According to State Bank of India ’s economic research report ‘Ecowrap’, foreign claims on India are way less than in countries like UK and US, limiting the country’s exposure to the global uncertainties.

The findings come just days after RBI governor Shaktikanta Das said that India’s banking system continues to be stable and resilient amid the recent turmoil in the sector globally.

It also comes in the backdrop of the high-profile acquisition of Credit Suisse by its rival UBS on Sunday.

The report also carried out an analysis of smaller bank deposits in India and US and found that domestic bank deposits are far better protected compared to the ones at American lenders.

Here are the highlights of the report …

‘India has least foreign claims’

Calling Indian banking system an “epitome of resiliance”, the report said that foreign claims on India are $104.2 billion on immediate counterparty basis and $81.5 billion as guarantor basis.

“When compared with other major countries, India has least foreign claims, both as counterparty basis, and also as guarantor basis,” it said.

Immediate counterparty basis means the methodology whereby positions are allocated to the primary party to a contract whereas guarantor basis meant methodology whereby positions are allocated to a third party that has contracted to assume the debts or obligations of the primary party if that party fails to perform.

According to World Bank, foreign claims are defined as the sum of cross-border claims plus foreign offices’ local claims in all currencies.

US has the highest foreign claims with $4,345 billion on immediate counterparty basis and $4,296.3 billion as guarantor basis. Meanwhile, UK is the second-most foreign exposed country after US with foreign claims of $4,039.3 billion on immediate counterparty basis and $4,032.1 billion as guarantor basis.

It said that India’s ratio of foreign claim to domestic claims is also the least among countries, signifying that its banking and financial system are very disciplined.

It added that no international balance sheet contagion can start from India.

Furthermore, the report said that out of $104.2 billion immediate counterparty foreign claims on India, $26 billion is in local currency.

Out of the remaining $78.1 billions, $59 Billion has to be paid in one year (by September 23), $3.6 billion has maturity of one to two years, and only $14.9 billion has maturity of over two years.

“Maturity wise … international claims on India are the least among major countries,” the report said.

Bank deposits: India vs US

The research by SBI said that US smaller bank deposits are insured in the range of 30-45 per cent only while in contrast, smaller bank deposits in India such as regional rural banks , cooperative banks, and local area banks are better protected at 82.9 per cent, 66.5 per cent, and 76.4 per cent respectively.

An analysis of insured customer deposits across multiple geographies initiated in the wake of bank runs across developed economies revealed US’s top 10 banks deposits are insured in the range of 38.4-66 per cent, according to the report.

Another interesting trend that has been observed in the US is that top banks’ deposits, on an average, have been insured to the tune of around 50-55 per cent, but their smaller Banks deposits are insured in the range of 30-45% only.

In contrast, the smaller banks in India are better protected, it said.

‘ECB rate hike counter-intuitive’

The report noted that the recent rise in policy rate of 50 bps by European Central Bank (ECB) could not have been more counter-intuitive, coming amid the mayhem that sparked a massive sell-off in the pack of banks, including systemically important banks from the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK), eroding $60 billion in a single day on March 15 alone.

The research added, however, if history had any rear-view mirror, the quantum of unsynchronised rate decisions by ECB in the last 25 years pre- and post -the global financial crisis (GFC) is looking grossly mis-timed.

“We feel the fissures of the present shock, after a year of war and three years of the pandemic, may prove to be quite a costly affair for the health of beleaguered European banking system going forward even as ECB continues branding Euro area banking sector as resilient, with strong capital and liquidity positons, as on September 2022, not factoring the rise in borrowing costs and the resultant decline in demand, along with tighter credit standards, all leading to a vortex,” SBI group chief economic adviser Soumya Kanti Ghosh said.

The research also said separately, the short-term borrowing like uninsured deposits by First Republic Bank, of $30 billion from a suite of 11 different US-based banks, for an ultra-short term period of 90 days, is shortsighted if we compare such packages in India in 2008 and 2020 when the consortium of banks or champion banks handheld the ailing banks for a multiyear period.

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India state-run banks’ gross NPA eases to 5.53%; earn profit of Rs 70,167 cr in Apr-Dec FY23

March 20, 2023 by bfsi.economictimes.indiatimes.com Leave a Comment

The government has taken various reforms following which asset quality of public sector banks has improved significantly with gross NPA ratio declining from the peak of 14.6 per cent in March 2018 to 5.53 per cent in December 2022, Parliament was informed on Monday.

All PSBs are in profit with aggregate profit being Rs 66,543 crore in 2021-22, and that further increased to Rs 70,167 crore in first nine months of current financial year, Minister of State for Finance Bhagwat K Karad said in a written reply to Lok Sabha.

At the same time, resilience has increased with provision coverage ratio of PSBs rising from 46 per cent to 89.9 per cent in December 2022, he said, adding capital adequacy ratio of PSBs improved significantly from 11.5 per cent in March 2015 to 14.5 per cent in December 2022.

Total market cap of PSBs (excluding IDBI Bank , which was categorised as private sector bank in January 2019) increased from Rs 4.52 lakh crore in March 2018 to Rs 10.63 lakh crore in December 2022, he said.

Karad also said banks, earlier placed under Prompt Corrective Action (PCA) framework by RBI , have made significant improvement.

Talking about various measures taken to improve the financial health of PSBs, Karad said, the government implemented a comprehensive 4R strategy of Recognising NPAs transparently, Resolution and recovery, Recapitalising PSBs, and Reforms in the financial ecosystem.

Major banking reforms undertaken by the government over the last eight years addressed credit discipline, responsible lending and improved governance, besides adoption of technology, amalgamation of banks, and maintaining general confidence of bankers, he said.

In reply to another question, Karad said, as per the information provided by Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH), the total estimated vehicle fleet is 30.48 crore (excluding data from Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Lakshadweep), of which 16.54 crore vehicles are uninsured.

Replying to another question, Karad said the government since 2016 has given ‘in-principle’ approval for strategic disinvestment of 36 cases of public sector enterprises (PSEs) and/or subsidiaries/ units/ joint ventures of PSEs/ banks.

Of the 36 cases, 33 are being handled by Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) and 3 cases are being handled by the respective Administrative Ministry/Department, he said.

“Out of the 33 cases being handled by DIPAM, strategic disinvestment transactions have been completed in 10 cases; 5 PSEs are under consideration for closure; 1 case is held up due to litigation, 1 case is under Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) in NCLT and 2 transactions are under review for feasibility,” he said, adding, remaining 14 transactions are at various stages.

In other PSEs, where the government continues to retain control, disinvestment through minority stake sale is carried out through various SEBI-approved methods such as initial public offer (IPO), offer for sale (OFS), buyback of shares etc. from time to time based on prevailing market conditions and investor interest, he said.

The modernisation and capacity expansion of PSEs are taken up by the respective boards of PSEs under the administrative control of different ministries, he added.

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Bank crisis survivors remember how fast the dominoes can fall

March 20, 2023 by economictimes.indiatimes.com Leave a Comment

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For the current class of investing professionals who seem largely unperturbed by recent events — desensitized perhaps by the years of false warnings — there are important messages to be gleaned from the first-hand accounts of veterans, like Chiavarone.

Steve Chiavarone doesn’t want to scare anyone, but what he remembers most from the last banking crisis was how sure most people were that it wouldn’t happen.

At his New York office in early 2008, Wall Street’s best and brightest — “strategist after strategist after strategist after strategist,” recalls Chiavarone, now senior portfolio manager at Federated Hermes — paraded through to say that even if a recession hit, it’d be shallow and short.

That’s not, of course, how things played out. A few months later, “you’d go to your office every day and something that you never thought would happen would happen,” he said.

All sorts of crises have been predicted by financial Cassandras in the aftermath of 2008. In reality, they’re exceedingly rare in markets. And yet, with three US banks down, a fourth teetering and the government-brokered acquisition of a fifth — and much larger — institution in Europe, the comparisons to that episode have become a little harder to ignore.

Not that this episode will match the magnitude of that one. While odds of a recession are way up, authorities are better equipped today to deal with stress in the financial system, and the largest banks are stronger than they were then.

Reasons for Wariness
But for the current class of investing professionals who seem largely unperturbed by recent events — desensitized perhaps by the years of false warnings — there are important messages to be gleaned from the first-hand accounts of veterans, like Chiavarone, of that crisis. His biggest: Things can unfold in ways that seemed inconceivable just weeks earlier. “It’s one of the reasons I’ve been as cautious as I have,” he said.

And given the pace at which events are unfolding, and how there are new potential problem areas that didn’t exist back then — high inflation, for instance, and the boom in the opaque world of private credit — telling the difference between investor courage and complacency has become a more urgent matter.

“The equity market has largely treated the recent events as a surgical strike on a specific cohort of stocks,” Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s head of hedge fund coverage Tony Pasquariello wrote in a trading note Thursday. “I find that a bit remarkable.”

On Sunday, UBS Group AG agreed to buy Credit Suisse Group AG for $3.2 billion in a government-brokered deal aimed at containing a crisis of confidence. The Swiss National Bank has agreed to offer a liquidity line of 100 billion francs ($108 billion) to UBS as part of the deal, while the government is granting a 9 billion-franc guarantee for potential losses from assets UBS is taking over.

In markets, bets on crisis that have been busting bears for years are in scant evidence today. The Nasdaq 100 just had its best week since November, credit spreads are about a third of their level in 2008 and the dollar is falling. And while Treasury volatility is the highest since 2008, crushing quants and other big managers, it wasn’t enough to keep hedge funds from snapping up single stocks last week at the fastest pace since January 2021, according to a trading note from Morgan Stanley.

That’s all consistent with a belief stress in finance will be contained. Unnervingly, it’s not totally inconsistent with the outlook that prevailed before 2008’s storm, which ended up knocking American stocks down by more than half. One of the signature properties of bank stress is the speed with which dominoes fall when faith breaks, said Adam Crisafulli, the founder of Vital Knowledge in New York.

Built on Confidence
“You want banks to be as boring, as stodgy as possible,” said Crisafulli, who was working at Bear Stearns when it had to be bailed out by JPMorgan Chase & Co. in 2008. “The entire business model is predicated on confidence. So even if you are very, very comfortable with the financials, if the market has lost confidence in a financial institution, it’s very difficult for a financial institution to rebut or refute that loss of confidence.”

Francesco Filia, chief investment officer at Fasanara Capital in London, was working in cross-asset derivatives at Merrill Lynch when it was sold in a bailout months after the Bear Stearns collapse. When the 2008 catastrophe broke out, he says, its full dimension was hard to see.

“From the inside, you don’t capture the full scale of the crisis,” Filia said. “You’re always too far from the decision power. We were looking at our own CDS widening and wondering what might have happened, but not knowing what was being discussed in terms of rescue packages.”

A difference between 2008 and now is inflation, which threatens to complicate the Federal Reserve’s response should things mushroom. While bond traders wasted little time pricing out future interest rate hikes in the aftermath of Silicon Valley Bank ’s collapse, consumer costs continue to rise at more than twice the pace central banks have targeted. For investors, there’s a no-win aspect to it all — either inflation remains high or is finally arrested by a recession spurred by stressed-out banks reining in credit.

“There’s never just one issue,” said Steve Sosnick, chief strategist at Interactive Brokers, who was helping co-manage Timber Hill’s $3 billion to $4 billion market-making book in 2008. Back then, “every time you thought it was going to get better, it didn’t. Every time you think it’s all done, something else is hiding out. It was inevitable that hiking rates now would break something, just as it was inevitable then that hiking rates and cracking down on crappy mortgages would break something.”

Kris Sidial is a professional short, running tail-risk strategies for hedge fund Ambrus Group, so it’s no surprise he’s pessimistic. He plans to hold on to bearish bank options that he has already ridden to a 40-fold profit over the last month.

“When the Credit Suisse thing popped up, it was a sign that there’s another body,” he said in a telephone interview Saturday. “It’s very binary. There’s really no in-between situation here where this drags out,” he said. “This is either going to get fixed — there’s going to be government intervention and this gets fixed — or it’s going to be a nightmare.”

Sidial said he’s already worrying about finding prime brokers who won’t collapse in unison should contagion spread. “Forget US equity markets, the whole world is connected to the banking system. If that hits, everything’s going with it. You can destroy tech, you can destroy everything else, but banking is the one thing where if that goes down, there’s massive repercussions.”

At the same time, upheaval often leads to opportunity in the market, says Paul Nolte, a senior wealth manager at Murphy & Sylvest Wealth Management, who was an adviser at a boutique investment firm in 2008.

“We’ve seen this play out more than a few times. When the Fed panics, that’s usually a pretty good time for investors to start nibbling in the financial markets. This past week was a perfect example,” he said. His firm has been adding to its position in Comerica Inc., a regional bank, and adding exposure to broad benchmarks like the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite.

Rich Steinberg, chief market strategist at Colony Group, survived 2008 even after Lehman Brothers went bankrupt on his birthday, which left him “under my desk sucking my thumb.” His wife walked in with a job application for a bakery noting: “You’re up early, you could always go and like make bread before you come into the office.” The application is still on his desk.

There’s a lesson in his survival. “Don’t confuse a great brand with not having risk. The second thing is don’t panic in great franchises.” Also: “Try not to outsmart the market when you really see names under a lot of pricing pressure. The psychodynamics in these really turbulent times can really bring valuations and or pricing swings way greater than you think.”

These days, “I walk down the hall to the other portfolio managers and I’m just looking for validation,” Steinberg said. “I’m pretty panicked about having even a 5% exposure to the financials. What do you think? And everybody collectively said just hold tight. Like, don’t make the mistake of blowing out.”

In 2008, banks were more leveraged while regulators had much less experience dealing with systemic stress, said Arthur Tetyevsky, a financials strategist at Seaport Global Holdings who worked in a similar role but at HSBC Holdings Plc during the financial crisis. At the same time, because the market is now dominated by passive funds, it’s not as easy to get out of big positions.

“The most important lesson that was learned back then is that a problem requires a quick response. You know, backing of the regulators, backing up of supervisors,” he said. “I’m seeing a response rate that’s much, much quicker today compared to 2008.”

How inflation affects that response remains a wild card. “You had a very benign inflationary environment back in 2008,” said Crisafulli of Vital Knowledge. “And that essentially meant that central banks were only limited by their imagination. That’s now obviously not the case.”

–With assistance from Emily Graffeo, Lu Wang and Denitsa Tsekova.

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Highest RD (recurring deposit) interest rates: SBI vs Yes Bank vs PNB vs HDFC Bank vs ICICI Bank vs Post Office RD

March 20, 2023 by economictimes.indiatimes.com Leave a Comment

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The principal amount and interest will be refunded when an RD matures. This amount can be used to cover a range of short-term expenses, such as trips, the annual cost of raising children, wedding expenses, and further education expenses.

For those who are salaried, investing in RDs is a viable option because they do not require a big investment. Recurring deposits will help individuals to invest regularly and build a large corpus over time.

Upon an RD’s maturity, the principal sum and interest will be returned. This sum can be applied to a variety of short-term financial needs, including vacations, children’s yearly tuition, wedding costs, and higher education costs.

Just like fixed deposit, recurring deposit interest rates will vary with deposit tenure and the bank. Here is a quick comparison of RD interest rates of top banks such as SBI , ICICI Bank , HDFC Bank , PNB , Yes Bank .

Also read: FD premature withdrawal charges: SBI vs HDFC Bank vs ICICI Bank vs PNB vs Yes Bank

SBI RD

The minimum RD Period in SBI Bank is 12 months and maximum is 120 months with minimum deposit amount Rs. 100/- per month (thereafter in multiples of Rs. 10/-). Interest rate offered is same as applicable on term deposits for public and Senior Citizens. The bank offers interest rate between 6.80% to 7% for regular citizens and 7.30% to 7.50% for senior citizens. The rates are effective from February 15, 2023.

Kotak Mahindra Bank RD rates

The minimum tenure for RD in Kotak Mahindra Bank is 6 months and interest rate starts from 6% to 7.20% for regular citizens and 6.50% to 7.70% for senior citizens. The rates are effective from March 20, 2023.

ICICI Bank RD rates

ICICI Bank offers interest rate between 4.75% to 7.10% for regular citizens and 5.25% to 7.50% for senior citizens. The rates are effective from February 24, 2023. According to the ICICI Bank website, “Recurring Deposits will be available for a minimum tenure of 6 months (and in multiples of 3 months thereafter) up to a maximum tenure of 10 years.”

Post Office RD

India Post offers interest rate of 5.8 % per annum on a 5-Year Post Office Recurring Deposit Account. RD account can be closed prematurely after 3 years from the date of account opening. Note that interest rate will be revised every quarter by government.

Yes Bank RD rates

For regular residents, YES Bank offers recurring deposit interest rates ranging from 6% to 7.50% with terms ranging from six months to ten years. For senior citizens, the bank offers interest rate between 6.50% to 8%. These rates are effective from February 21, 2023.

PNB RD rates

PNB offers interest rates ranging between 5.5% and 7.25% on recurring deposits maturing between six months and 10 years to regular citizens and 6% to 7.50% to senior citizens. These rates are effective from February 20, 2023.

How does an RD Account work?

According to the IDFC FIRST Bank website, “Unlike a regular fixed deposit, wherein you invest a lumpsum amount at one go for a predetermined tenure, a recurring deposit account lets you invest a specified amount each month until the end of the tenure. The monthly amount generally remains unaltered during the tenure. One of the benefits of such an investment is that you can invest a sum that doesn’t hamper your monthly expenditure; instead, it can help increase your future funds.”

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Bank crisis abroad won’t hit India’s macro stability: DEA Secy Ajay Seth

March 20, 2023 by economictimes.indiatimes.com Leave a Comment

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The government is in regular talks with key regulators such as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Securities and Exchange Board of India on all relevant financial sector matters, including potential spillover risks from this crisis, he said.

New Delhi: The collapse of two American lenders and the crisis at Credit Suisse are unlikely to impact India’s banking system or its broader macroeconomic stability, said economic affairs secretary Ajay Seth .

But in the event of the crisis getting more pronounced, global capital flows may get adversely affected, Seth told ET.

The government is in regular talks with key regulators such as the Reserve Bank of India ( RBI ) and Securities and Exchange Board of India on all relevant financial sector matters, including potential spillover risks from this crisis, he said.

However, the situation has not reached “anywhere near” the level of the 2008 global financial crisis, he said.

“India’s macroeconomic fundamentals remain strong and the country is on a sound footing to absorb any such external shock,” said Seth.

The economic affairs secretary said India’s economic growth is likely to be 6-6.5% in 2023-24 despite external headwinds, against an estimated 7% in this financial year. The latest Economic Survey pegged the country’s growth at 6-6.8% for 2023-24 with a baseline projection of 6.5%, whereas the International Monetary Fund has forecast it at 6.1%.

Retail inflation is likely to drop below 6%, the upper band of the RBI’s tolerance limit, from the next quarter onwards, said Seth.

“The wholesale price inflation is coming down and we have seen that fuel prices are also softening. These will have a benign impact on retail inflation, maybe with a bit of time lag,” he said.

Wholesale price inflation hit a 25-month trough of 3.85% in February. Retail inflation, however, barely eased to 6.44% in February, against 6.52% in January, having remained below the 6% mark in the previous two months.

Allaying concerns over risks to the Indian banking system from the crisis abroad, Seth said domestic banks are well capitalised and well regulated.

‘In Good Shape’
“They are in good shape and don’t face the kind of issues that some of the US banks are reportedly facing,” he said.

Seth said the central banks in the US and Switzerland have come out strongly to support banks. Analysts have said authorities there are seeking to contain the fallout of the crisis from spreading far and wide.

On Friday, RBI governor Shaktikanta Das asserted that the Indian banking system continues to be stable and resilient. Nevertheless, the central bank is doing a “deep dive” into the business models of banks to gauge any potential risk build-up, he said.

Analysts said a number of scandals over many years, multi-billion dollar losses and failure to firm up a credible revival strategy precipitated the crisis at Credit Suisse, while the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in the US came out of the blue. A third US bank, First Republic Bank, is being rescued by large American lenders with a $30 billion capital infusion.

Banking stocks globally have been hammered since Silicon Valley Bank in the US went belly up earlier this month due to bond-related losses. It raised concerns about the health of wider American banking system.

The Swiss central bank on Thursday threw a $54-billion lifeline to Credit Suisse to bolster its liquidity but the bank is still struggling to win investor confidence.

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